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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

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.