Thomas Witt (Infopark AG) talked about cloud and Rails based web architecture at the CloudDevCamp in Düsseldorf, July 13th 2013.

1. Cloud Developer Camp 2013
Thomas Witt <thomas.witt@infopark.de>
Web Architecture with
Infopark‘s Cloud Platform

2. Infopark powers great web-sites.

3. What makes web-sites great?
How we married Ruby and the Cloud
• And what did we learn about AWS
• Examples for different processes
How can YOU do it?
Q&A
What are we going to cover today …

4. What makes
websites great?

7. Easy to use

8. Feature-Rich

9. Fast to develop

10. Never down

11. Easy to maintain

12. What makes websites great?
Easy to use
Feature-Rich
Fast to develop
Never down
Easy to maintain

13. Always
start at
Square One?

14. Common Features

15. Common Features
Updating / Editing / Staging
Generating Content
Avoid Broken Links
Handling Text, Images, Links,
Videos, Pdf, Flash, ...
Layout
Navigation
Search
Contact Forms
Sitemap
Personalization:
including Login, Registration,
Profile edit, …
Newsletters, Mailings
Blog
Language Switch
Social Sharing
Comments
Web Tracking
Geolocation

16. Basic
Building Blocks

17. Basic Building Blocks
Content Management System
Content Objects
Media Files
Links, Hierarchy, Categories
Retrieval and Search
Customer Relationship
Management
People, Organizations
Requests, Registrations
Mailings

18. Websites
are applications
Developed using a web application framework

19. Web Application Framework
Powerful
Open
Agile
Fun

21. Problem solved?

22. With great Power comes a lot of....
Infrastructure!

24. „Early Cloud“

25. The software
has to be designed
for the cloud

26. How to do it
in the cloud

27. Infopark‘s Cloud Platform
CMS, CRM
Web Applications
Scalability &
Availability Built-In
Cloud Service
•No Installation
•No Maintenance

28. Architecture Overview
Web Requests
manages
Web Site Visitor
Rails Web
Application
Search
WebCRM
CMS
Infopark Console
console.infopark.net
Content, User Data

29. Rails Web Application
Rails Web Application
Model
Connector
View
Controllers
Template Template
Other
Models
CMS & CRM
Models
CMS
CRM
REST
API

30. Behind the scenes
CMS / CRM
Elasticache
S3
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Elastic
Loadbalancing
Rails Web
Application
Availability
Zone 1a
EC2
Availability
Zone 1b
EC2
Availability
Zone 1c
EC2
CloudFront
CloudWatch
CloudFront
Simple E-Mail
Managed by
OpsWorks

31. Cloud Advantages
Development &
Deployment

32. Development
Developer
Rails Web App
Search
WebCRM
CMS
Developer
Rails Web App
Staging/Testing
Rails Web App
GitHub Code
Repository

33. Deployment
manages
Elastic
Loadbalancing
Infopark Console
console.infopark.net
Availability Zone 1b
EC2
Availability Zone 1a
EC2

34. Cloud Advantages
Handling Media
Files

35. Handling Media Files
Browser
Application
Server
S3
HTML
Media
Files
Search
WebCRM
CMS

36. Cloud Advantages
Inline Editing

37. Example Website

38. In-Place-Editing

39. In-Place-Editing
Browser
Web Application
HTML
Page
Proxy
Controllers
Javascript
In-Place-
Editing CMS
CRM
Update
Content
Update
Content
Read
Content
Templates

40. Summary

41. Cloud CMS & CRM
… for developing web-sites using Ruby on Rails

42. You focus on developing.
We‘ll do the rest!
One-Stop-Shop solution
No installation
No maintenance
Pay as you go – predictable costs
• Free Edition available
Infopark: Cloud CMS and CRM - for Rails

43. Infopark Components: CMS
Backend for both
websites and mobile apps
Dynamic page generation
Personalization
Inplace editing
Unlimited websites
Powerful search

44. Infopark Components: WebCRM
Customer Database
Personalization and
marketing automation
Mailing management
Ticket system
Event management
Analytics and statistics

45. Infopark Components: Platform
Dedicated EC2-Servers
Zero administration
Securely provisioned via Chef
Auto scaling
Console for easy deployment
No AWS know-how required

46. Infopark Components: SDKs
Open Source SDKs for Ruby
Interface to our APIs
Free code libraries/examples
On GitHub & RubyGems
We love pull requests

47. What makes websites great?
Easy to use
Feature-Rich
Fast to develop
Never down
Easy to maintain

48. Thank you!
Try it
infopark.com/signup
Need help?
dev.infopark.net
`gem install infopark_kickstarter`