Combining the best of both worlds into Urbanesia's infrastructure :)

1. Urbanesia & Microsoft
Technologies
SQL on PHP @ Microsoft
Batista Harahap
@tista / bango29.com
7 July 2012

7. DESIRED AIMS
What Urbanesia wants

8. RELEVANCY
&
CONTEXT

9. TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
Where do we come from and
where we want to be in the future

10. Single application/database Server

11. Technologies
• CentOS Linux
• MySQL
• Sphinx Search
• CodeIgniter (PHP)
• Memcache

12. Caveats
• 20+ Seconds Queries in warm boots
• Low concurrency
• MySQL Query Performance
• Horizontal scalability (Expensive)
• Memory, CPU & Disk hungry
• No separation of frontend & backend apps

13. What to do?

14. Application & Database Server Separation

15. What we did
• Recoded 60% of Urbanesia
• Initial process took ~1 month
• Query hunting to optimize MySQL queries
• Slimmed down to 18 controllers & 800 lines of
core controller
• Separated database & application
• Built a comprehensive API for our backend

16. What we got
• Increased concurrency
• Insignificant warm boot time
• 1 month turned to 1 year to 2 years to …
• A codebase that is difficult to maintain
• Slow learning curves for new recruits
• Lack of focus infrastructure wise

17. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES
What changed our perspective
towards technology platforms

18. Challenges
• Urbanesia have no prior Microsoft experience
• Design Patterns
• Best Practices
• Choosing which technology
• TCO and other expenses

19. Microsoft Open
• Open Source technologies on top of Microsoft
platform
• Hands on consultation with trusted advisor
from Infinys Cloud with Dondy Bappedyanto
• Introduced to .NET and SQL Server

20. Solution
• Complete backend redesign & development
using .NET 4.0 with WebAPI
• Abstract layers within the design to support
potential migration to SQL Server
• Instead of CRUD cache invalidations, we
implemented monitors

21. Solution

22. BENEFITS
What do we get from this?

23. Benefits
• 33% productivity increase translating to only 2
months development time for our backend
• More time to focus on the product itself
• Implementing best practices from day 0
• More structured approach to finally build BI
solutions
• Invest more in memories, way cheaper than
servers

24. CLOSING REMARKS
Our experiences combining
the best of both worlds

25. Closing Remarks
• Microsoft’s backend technology is unmatched,
especially the IDE (Visual Studio) is really
powerful
• Open Source’s frontend technology is
unmatched in terms of new tech adoption,
developer awareness and community support
• Both combines into happy developers,
product focus and business as usual