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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

This includes MapReduce, Spark, and Presto, and is a managed service that allows customers to pull data from S3, HDFS, or MapR to do analysis without having to worry about the details of managing and optimizing a cluster. In 2012, FanDuel moved the architecture toward SOA, introducing message queues to decouple services.

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Liveblog: Scaling to Your First 10 Million Users

Scott Lowe

The next step is to add an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and distributing the application across two availability zones—this means 2 web instances and 2 instances of RDS (one active and one standby). SOA—or, dare I say, microservices—is the next step on scaling the application. Use automation tools in your infrastructure.