Beneath the covers of every great startup is a scalable infrastructure. It has to be resilient, flexible, and fast—but few founders think about architecture until they're in the middle of an emergency, when it's too late. In this interactive, no-holds-barred workshop, Phil Jackson, Hardcore Technologist at SoftLayer—one of the biggest cloud platforms on the planet—dives into the design of good infrastructure.

1. Demystifying Scale
Phil Jackson
Development Community Advocate
@underscorephil

2. 100k servers
24k customers
23million domains

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6. http://www.hdwallpapersplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kangaroo1.jpg

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8. Overly Complex

9. Simplicity

10. A system can be so simple that there are
obviously no bugs, or it can be so complex that
there are no obvious bugs…

12. Bottlenecks

13. Common User Interface and APIs
x86 Pod Infrastructure x86 Pod Infrastructure x86 Pod Infrastructure
Private CloudsPublic Cloud ServersDedicated Servers
Proprietary Infrastructure Management System facilitates automation & orchestration
Private network allows seamless communication across distributed environments
TRTFTJ
The Right Tool For The Job

14. Scale: Horizontal & Vertical

15. Scale: PODs
• Portable Organizational Deployment
POD A POD B POD C

16. Disaster Recovery
Highly Available
Planning to Fail

17. http://apex-2013-avia.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-do-you-get-when-you-cross-kangaroo.html

18. Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate
pjackson@softlayer.com
@underscorephil
@SoftLayerDevs