About this talk
This talk covers the challenges of developing a highly scalable web application designed to support over one hundred thousand users with extreme performance requirements. The speaker, Ezequiel Vázquez, shares insights from his experience as a DevOps engineer on a project utilizing a multi-site Drupal installation, aiming for 99.9% availability and a 500% improvement in server response times. The session highlights the infrastructure design, detailing the use of technologies such as Nginx, Docker, Ansible, MongoDB, Node.js, Apache Mesos, and Amazon Web Services, while also discussing the implementation challenges and solutions encountered throughout the process. Vázquez's expertise in web engineering and IT security enhances the understanding of maintaining complex systems in a high-demand environment.
