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Clouds Against the Floods
In response to severe flooding in Queensland, ThoughtWorks, led by Leonardo Borges and his team, developed a Ruby on Rails donation app within 48 hours to support a government telethon. The app successfully processed over AUD 30 million in donations, demonstrating its capability to handle high traffic loads during the event. Despite initial skepticism about using Ruby for serious applications, the project was a significant success, generating AUD 2 million in just two hours.
Clouds Against the Floods
- 1. Clouds against theFloodsor how Ruby On Rails saved the day in Australia Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 2. What do Ido? • 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
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- 4. What? • 75% ofQueensland under water Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 5. What? • 75% ofQueensland under water • Government to run a telethon on Channel 9 Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 6. What? • 75% ofQueensland under water • Government to run a telethon on Channel 9 • SSQ’s donation app misbehaved Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 7. What? • 75% ofQueensland under water • Government to run a telethon on Channel 9 • SSQ’s donation app misbehaved • backup plan? Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 8. 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
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- 10. How? • Rails, ofcourse Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 11. How? • Rails, ofcourse • Deployment options Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 12. How? • Rails, ofcourse • Deployment options - Amazon EC2 Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 13. How? • Rails, ofcourse • Deployment options - Amazon EC2 - Heroku Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 14. How? • Rails, ofcourse • Deployment options - Amazon EC2 - Heroku Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 15. How? • Rails, ofcourse • Deployment options - Amazon EC2 - Heroku •An awesome team Ben Barnard, me and Phillip Calçado Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 16. The donation app •form for donor details • payment gateway integration • background jobs - sending emails Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 17. 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
- 18. 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
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- 20. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic LeonardoBorges www.leonardoborges.com
- 21. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic - Identifying errors early Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 22. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 23. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly • Apache AB Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 24. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly • Apache AB - Finding the bottlenecks Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 25. Monitoring, Benchmarking & Caching • NewRelic - Identifying errors early - Measuring server load and scaling accordingly • Apache AB - Finding the bottlenecks • Varnish Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 26. 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
- 27. 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
- 28. Winning over theskepticism Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com
- 29. Winning over theskepticism • 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
- 30. Winning over theskepticism • 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
- 31. Winning over theskepticism • 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
- 32. Winning over theskepticism • 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
- 33. Winning over theskepticism • 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
- 34. 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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