Clouds Against the Floods

Clouds against the Floodsor how Ruby On Rails saved the day in AustraliaLeonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

What do I do?• Write code for ThoughtWorks in Sydney, Australia• Contribute to open-source projects, on occasion - Rails - JRuby - rcov_plugin - Savon• Blog, rant and cause trouble online - www.leonardoborges.com - @leonardo_borges• Get shy in presentations like this one Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

What?Leonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

What?• 75% of Queensland under water Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

What?• 75% of Queensland under water• Government to run a telethon on Channel 9 Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

What?• 75% of Queensland under water• Government to run a telethon on Channel 9• SSQ’s donation app misbehaved Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

What?• 75% of Queensland under water• Government to run a telethon on Channel 9• SSQ’s donation app misbehaved• backup plan? Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

We can help!• ThoughtWorks offered to give a hand• we were at the beach• and were pulled in 2 days before the telethon Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

How?Leonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

How?• Rails, of course Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

How?• Rails, of course• Deployment options Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

How?• Rails, of course• Deployment options - Amazon EC2 Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

How?• Rails, of course• Deployment options - Amazon EC2 - Heroku Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

How?• Rails, of course• Deployment options - Amazon EC2 - Heroku•An awesome team Ben Barnard, me and Phillip Calçado Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

The donation app• form for donor details• payment gateway integration• background jobs - sending emails Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

The donation app• form for donor details• payment gateway integration• background jobs - sending emails - delayed_job gem - SMTP capable of sending thousands of emails Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &CachingLeonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelicLeonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly• Apache AB Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly• Apache AB - Finding the bottlenecks Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly• Apache AB - Finding the bottlenecks• Varnish Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Monitoring,Benchmarking &Caching• NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly• Apache AB - Finding the bottlenecks• Varnish - Aggressive caching Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Winning over the skepticismLeonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

Winning over the skepticism• When we ﬁrst offered help... - Ruby? You can’t do nothing serious with Ruby - The schedule is too tight! - How are you gonna deploy this thing? Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Winning over the skepticism• When we ﬁrst offered help... - Ruby? You can’t do nothing serious with Ruby - The schedule is too tight! - How are you gonna deploy this thing?• What happened... - Their app went down at the start of the telethon - Remember the backup plan? Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Winning over the skepticism• When we ﬁrst offered help... • We developed and deployed an app that... - Ruby? You can’t do nothing serious with Ruby - was built Ruby on Rails - The schedule is too tight! - scales - How are you gonna deploy this thing? - integrates with a few external services - handled the load comfortably - 15 req/sec during the telethon• What happened... - AUD$ 2 million generated in two hours - Their app went down at the start of the telethon - received over AUD$ 30 million in donations thus far - Remember the backup plan? - has been the main app since then Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Winning over the skepticism• When we ﬁrst offered help... • We developed and deployed an app that... - Ruby? You can’t do nothing serious with Ruby - was built Ruby on Rails - The schedule is too tight! - scales - How are you gonna deploy this thing? - integrates with a few external services - handled the load comfortably - 15 req/sec during the telethon• What happened... - AUD$ 2 million generated in two hours - Their app went down at the start of the telethon - received over AUD$ 30 million in donations thus far - Remember the backup plan? - has been the main app since then ... in a little over 48 hours Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

Resources• rubyonrails.org• fragmental.tw - Phillip Calçado• heroku.com• sendgrid.com• newrelic.com• httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html• github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com

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Thank you!Leonardo Borgeswww.leonardoborges.com

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