Hosting Facebook apps on AWS

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Hosting Facebook Apps on AWS Joyce Park CTO, Renkoo
- Not a widget company
- No rackspace, no servers, no budget
- One dev, no in-house ops
- Modest expectations for app
Unpromising beginnings
Quick stats
- 2.5 million installed
- 14 million users
- 69 million drinks sent
- 3 million drinks/day
- Started with 5 AWS instances, up to 20
Original architecture (10mm users, $90/day) Text
Jumping off Facebook
- Not everyone uses Facebook
- Export everywhere
- Branded drink icons -- age 21+
- FB messaging system limitations
Current architecture
Next steps
- Better living through SQL
- Move image servers to S3
- Simple Queue Service
- Mechanical Turk