AWS Architecture Blog
Category: HAQM ElastiCache
Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active
In my first blog post of this series, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore, pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. In this post, you’ll learn how to implement an active/active strategy to run your workload and serve requests in two […]
Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #2 – Maximizing System Throughput
In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). This application connects with HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS). The company recently experienced a […]
Dream11: Scaling a Fantasy Sports Platform with 5M Daily Active Users
Founded in 2008, Dream11 is India’s leading sports-tech startup with a growing base of more than 45 million users playing multiple sports such as fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, and basketball. Dream11 uses HAQM Aurora with HAQM ElastiCache to serve 1 million concurrent users within 50ms response time, serving at an average 3 million requests per […]
Serving Billions of Ads in Just 100 ms Using HAQM Elasticache (Redis OSS)
This post was co-written with Lucas Ceballos, CTO of Smadex Introduction Showing ads may seem to be a simple task, but it’s not. Showing the right ad to the right user is an incredibly complex challenge that involves multiple disciplines such as artificial intelligence, data science, and software engineering. Doing it one million times per […]
re:Invent 2019: Introducing the HAQM Builders’ Library (Part I)
This week I’m telling you about a new site we launched at re:Invent, the HAQM Builders’ Library, a collection of living articles covering topics across architecture, software delivery, and operations. You get to peek under the hood of how HAQM architects, releases, and operates the software underpinning HAQM.com and AWS. Want to know how HAQM.com does what it does? […]