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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

In 2012, FanDuel moved the architecture toward SOA, introducing message queues to decouple services. FanDuel started to use Puppet to help with configuration management, and they started evaluating the use of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) to help with scaling. Where is FanDuel’s application now?

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Liveblog: Scaling to Your First 10 Million Users

Scott Lowe

One offering in particular that Williams calls out is Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible offering that has automatic storage scaling, read replicas, continuous incremental backups to S3, and 6-way replication across availability zones. SOA—or, dare I say, microservices—is the next step on scaling the application.