Join Josh Koenig, Co-Founder and Head of Product at Pantheon, as he discusses how to prepare for a major project and ensure that momentum carries into your project. Whether you plan, design, build, or manage sites for clients or internal projects, you will come away from this webinar with tools to crush your next mega client project.

1. Architecting for Growth
Million Dollar Project Architecture
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2. “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”
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3. Source: Pantheon Platform analysis; Builtwith.com

4. Really big projects can be great
for an agency. They can anchor
your cashflow, let you expand
your team. Or they can pull you
underwater.
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Huge Traffic Transactions
CMS as a
Platform
Decoupled
Implementations
Your Lightning + Our Thunder

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I want you to be the
architects of heroic
infrastructure.

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#1 Huge traffic

8. The key to
withstanding internet
scale surges is to not
use your CMS.
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9. Testing before you release is key.
As is a bulletproof release process.
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10. Pantheon.io
Millions of Daily Uniques? No Problem
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11. Pantheon.io
Pantheon Architecture
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“Computer,
enhance!”

12. Pantheon.io
Pantheon Architecture: Global CDN
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13. Pantheon.io
Pantheon Architecture: Global CDN
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14. Pantheon.io
Pantheon Architecture: Global CDN
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#2 Transactions

16. E-commerce
Good marketing
Harnessed virality
Causes
Campaigns
News cycles
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17. Caching will not save you here, friends.
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18. Pantheon.io
Customer Example: ACLU
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“The A.C.L.U. has raised more than $24
million in online donations since Saturday,
the first full day of the immigration ban,
said Stephen Smith, a spokesman for the
group. That is nearly seven times as
much raised online in 2015, roughly $3.5
million, he added.”

19. Pantheon.io
Here’s what that actually looks like...
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Transaction rate
approaching 35x over
baseline (3500/min).

20. Pantheon.io
Here’s what that actually looks like...
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“TFW when your payment
gateway has an Enterprise
CDN (who will remain
nameless) which decides
you’re a DoS attack for a
minute...”

21. Pantheon.io
Horizontal Scale
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22. Pantheon.io
Horizontal Scale
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#3 CMS as a Platform

24. The biggest projects
are not about one
particular site.
They’re about a
portfolio of sites.
CMS as a platform.
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25. Pantheon.io
Some Examples From our Customer Base
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Don’t get frozen in carbonite!
The chance that you build the
perfect “Product” out of the
gate is low.
Build one before you build a
hundred.

27. We make it simple to
manage sites at scale.
Why not just have
separate installs, even if
most will be cookie
cutter?
Less risk. More options.
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You know for certain
that none will deviate?
Or your team is immune
to human error?
Or maybe the client has
GoDaddy prices in
mind?

29. Pantheon.io
Upstreams Architecture
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30. Pantheon.io
Upstreams Architecture
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#4 Decoupled Implementations

32. Our first two
iterations of the
Pantheon
dashboard were a
decoupled.
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33. Service oriented
architecture is liberating
for development.
It provides structure for
parallel tracking teams.
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34. But that means you
need a real deployment
process, for all the
pieces. Everyone’s QA
environments need to
talk, otherwise they’re
useless.
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35. When decoupling
content, you need a tool
like our Global CDN to
deliver an awesome
experience.
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In Conclusion

37. Our Lightning,
Your Thunder.
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38. We are selling the
ability to deliver on
crucial business value.
We want you to be a
part of that.
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39. Present a solution that
an internal IT can’t
reasonably match up
with.
Be the evolution.
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Questions?