[PPT] - Evolution of the @lasssim Runtastic Backend @lister @lasssim PowerPoint Presentation

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Evolution of the Runtastic Backend

Velocity Europe 2018

Lead System Architect

Simon Lasselsberger

@lister @lasssim @lasssim

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We are Founders

8

We are Years Old

20

We were profitable after just Months

235

We are Employees

38+

We come from Countries

3

We have Offices in Linz, Vienna And Salzburg

15

Our products are available in Languages

1

We are Team with a single vision

RUNTASTIC BY THE NUMBERS

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Our 2017 Priority Markets

Dedicated in-house marketing & communication resources for Central & Southern Europe (GER, FRA, ESP, ITA, AUT, SUI), UK, United States, Japan, China & Brazil.

TOP MARKETS ADDITIONAL MARKETS

Dedicated communication resources for Holland, Turkey, Russia, Poland, India, Korea, South & Central America, Canada and Australia.

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EACH DAY WE HAVE

150,000

NEW DOWNLOADS

WE BOAST OVER

230 MILLION

TOTAL APP DOWNLOADS

WE HAVE MORE THAN

3,472,757

FANS AND FOLLOWERS

WE HAVE MORE THAN

120 MILLION

REGISTERED USERS

24h

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2010

Mobile Gateway Web Page

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Environment

Hosting

4 Servers

○ Ali, Senna, Lauda, Agassi

Desktop hardware

○ 4GB RAM, 2 CPUs ○ dolby surround sound

Cheap and uncomplicated
Helped us to grow in the early days
Mixed responsibilities
Manual setup of machines

Team

2-3 people for backend and operations

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyQcpXDci4

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2010

Mobile Gateway Web Page

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2011

Mobile Gateway Web Page

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2011

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Mobile Gateway Web Page

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2011

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Mobile Gateway Web Page

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2010

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Mobile Gateway Web Page

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2011 - 2014

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

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Environment

Hosting

Switch from Hetzner to T-Systems

○ Not stable enough ○ Couldn’t offer the hardware we needed ○ Cassandra cluster migration (6 months)

Own hardware

○ Virtualization OpenNebula ○ Dedicated machines for DBs ○ 2 Cells in Data Center Team

Dedicated Backend Team (9 People)
Dedicated Infrastructure Team (2 People)

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2015 - 2016

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

Other Services

Hub

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2015 - 2016

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

~15 other Services

Hub

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Hexagonal Architecture

Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases. Alistair Cockburn

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Business Logic

API Repository R e a l Routing

Authentication

API Repository F a k e R e a l

Hub

Samples

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Technologies

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

~15 other Services

Hub Hub

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2015 - 2017

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

~15 other Services

Hub

Push Service

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Environment

Hosting

Switch from T-Systems to Linz AG

○ Not enough space ○ 2 Cell strategy doesn’t fit quorum technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra) ○ Network bottleneck

Room to grow
More standardized setup
More automation

○ Software defined network (Cisco ACI) ○ Software defined storage (Ceph) Team

Agile Transition (Backend and Client)
Dedicated Infrastructure Team (6 People)

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Agile Setup

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Team assignment

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

~15 other Services

Hub

Backend Core Squad 1 Squad 2 Other Squads Infrastructure Team

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Future Plans

Mobile Gateway

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment

Web Page

~15 other Services

Hub ?

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Future Plans

Restore Routes KPI Appendix Gamification Users Live Tracking Samples Abilities Products Payment ~15 other Services

Hub

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Deployment

Current state

7 different setups
Initial developer machine setup is a pain
Chef not consistent over environments
All-in-one machines need to be huge
Manual deployments

Development Jenkins Experimental Jenkins Staging Pre-Production RENO Production

All-in-one Machine

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Deployment

Future plans

Provide one way to deploy services in any

environment

More flexibility and responsibilities for squads
Better fit for Agile process
Less maintenance overhead
Proper automation
CI/CD

Development Jenkins Experimental Jenkins Staging Pre-Production RENO Production

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Future Plans

1 1 1 1 Development Jenkins Staging Production 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 N N N N

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Future Plans

Orchestration Service 1 1 1 1

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