You'll Never Believe Which Web Framework Powers Upworthy
summary
Upworthy is powered by Ruby on Rails after starting as a Padrino/Sinatra app, migrating into a Rails monolith and then splitting into services; traffic hits 190 million page views and peaks at 130,000 concurrent visitors so a Redis-backed publisher, memcache action caches, S3/CloudFront assets and a Fastly reverse proxy CDN sit in front on Heroku dynos; the CDN eliminates downtime, mobile latency drops, and the service-oriented split reduces CMS instability while increasing deploy complexity.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 4:5824 Hour Traffic Graph
- 9:09What is Padrino?
- 12:58Padrino: The Good Parts
- 13:53Padrino: Architecture
- 16:52Padrino Pain Points
- 20:32Rails: Architecture
- 24:37Monorail Pain Points
- 27:17Monorail Services
- 27:56Service-Oriented Architecture
- 28:14SOA Benefits
- 29:16SOA Drawbacks
- 30:06Future Work
- 30:48Lessons Learned
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