Urbanesia & MicrosoftTechnologies

SQL on PHP @ MicrosoftBatista Harahap

@tista / bango29.com7 July 2012

DESIRED AIMSWhat Urbanesia wants

RELEVANCY&

CONTEXT

TECHNICAL OVERVIEWWhere do we come from and

where we want to be in the future

Single application/database Server

Technologies

• CentOS Linux• MySQL• Sphinx Search• CodeIgniter (PHP)• Memcache

Caveats

• 20+ Seconds Queries in warm boots• Low concurrency• MySQL Query Performance• Horizontal scalability (Expensive)• Memory, CPU & Disk hungry• No separation of frontend & backend apps

What to do?

Application & Database Server Separation

What we did

• Recoded 60% of Urbanesia• Initial process took ~1 month• Query hunting to optimize MySQL queries• Slimmed down to 18 controllers & 800 lines of

core controller• Separated database & application• Built a comprehensive API for our backend

What we got

• Increased concurrency• Insignificant warm boot time• 1 month turned to 1 year to 2 years to …• A codebase that is difficult to maintain• Slow learning curves for new recruits• Lack of focus infrastructure wise

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIESWhat changed our perspectivetowards technology platforms

Challenges

• Urbanesia have no prior Microsoft experience• Design Patterns• Best Practices• Choosing which technology• TCO and other expenses

Microsoft Open

• Open Source technologies on top of Microsoft platform

• Hands on consultation with trusted advisor from Infinys Cloud with Dondy Bappedyanto

• Introduced to .NET and SQL Server

Solution

• Complete backend redesign & development using .NET 4.0 with WebAPI

• Abstract layers within the design to support potential migration to SQL Server

• Instead of CRUD cache invalidations, we implemented monitors

Solution

BENEFITSWhat do we get from this?

Benefits

• 33% productivity increase translating to only 2 months development time for our backend

• More time to focus on the product itself• Implementing best practices from day 0• More structured approach to finally build BI

solutions• Invest more in memories, way cheaper than

servers

CLOSING REMARKSOur experiences combining

the best of both worlds

Closing Remarks

• Microsoft’s backend technology is unmatched, especially the IDE (Visual Studio) is really powerful

• Open Source’s frontend technology is unmatched in terms of new tech adoption, developer awareness and community support

• Both combines into happy developers, product focus and business as usual