Paul Phillips is the CTO of CurrencyFair, which has exchanged over 3 billion euros for customers across 300 corridors over 6 years. In his talk, he discusses how CurrencyFair addressed challenges of scaling its architecture commercially across growing teams and regions by following AWS reference architectures using automatable and replicable units across multiple availability zones and regions, allowing them to deploy to two regions across five availability zones in nine days with over 99.99% uptime and the ability to process over 1 billion euros.

1. PAUL PHILLIPS
CTO
CurrencyFair

3. 6 YEARS
100 PEOPLE
3BN EXCHANGED
300 CORRIDORS
1 PRODUCT
200M SAVED

4. CHALLENGES
COMMERCIALLY
SCALING
EVOLVING
ARCHITECTURE
GROWING TEAM
CONSTRAINED DC
RESOURCES
TIME CRITICAL

5. HOW
REFERENCE
ARCHITECTURE
REPLICABLE UNITS
AUTOMATION
MULTI-AZ
MULTI-REGION

6. OUTCOME
2 REGIONS
5 AZ
9 DAYS BUILD
>99.99% UPTIME
5 DEPLOY / DAY
>1BN EURO

7. WHY AWS
SPEED
FLEXIBILITY
PLATFORM

8. NEXT STEPS
SME FOCUS
PERFORMANCE
AUTOMATION
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