Moving clouds without downtime

How we keep costs down by jumping to the cloud with the best…

The cost of cloud

How buying into clouds features are actually less cost effective in the long run

Application and database tuning

A postmortem in the outage that occurred and how we rectified these…

The Silph Town Map - rev 1

Improvements to our basemap and tileserver to improve user experience

Serving our own slice of earth

How we took destiny into our own hands to save the Nest Atlas

Data driven decisions with Datadog

Using data to know where to apply efforts

Saving user sessions (and our disks)

How we leverage REDIS as an in-memory key/value store to persist…

Scaling out, not up

Joining The Silph Road meant a shift in architecture. The platform’s hosted on Amazon’s Cloud where the application, the Apache web server, and MySQL lived on a single machine. This isn’t a bad design, by any means, and is quite common for “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). There is, however…

CDN, CDN, CDN!

AWS EBS isn’t up to the task of serving all our content, time to push content out…

Reusing operational knowledge

Creating repeatable deployments by reusing operations from the open source community

The first thing after joining was to start encapsulating the deployment of Silph Road as repeatable code. To…