Surfing into the future with Varnish High Availability
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Surfline specializes in providing live and predicted ocean weather information, editorial content, and consulting services to businesses, governments, and consumers worldwide. They have the largest live HD streaming surf camera network with over 200 locations globally and an expert team of meteorologists, oceanographers, and scientists forecasting weather. They experienced traffic spikes of up to 185% during weather events that their legacy application could not handle, but implementing Varnish helped them cache full pages, APIs, data, and imagery, allowing them to handle over 200 requests per second.
Surfing into the future with Varnish High Availability
- 2. Specializing in providing live and predicted ocean weather information, editorial content, and consulting services to consumers, businesses, and government agencies worldwide. The premiere surf forecasting and news resource in the world
- 3. Largest LIVE HD streaming surf camera network with 200+ locations worldwide Ocean Beach, San Francisco Camera
- 4. Professional Forecasting Team Unmatched team of experts in the fields of meteorology, oceanography, science, and surfing. 18 Full & Part-time Meteorologists 6 Full & Part-time Data Scientists 8 Masters Degrees 4 PhD’s
- 5. Surfline Network iOS Apps Android Apps Connected TV Apps
- 7. Legacy Monolithic Application = tough to scale Multiple Layers
- 8. What Generates Traffic Spikes
- 9. Weather Driven Events What Generates Traffic Spikes • Hurricanes • Tropical Storms • Big Swells • Tsunamis
- 10. 185% Increase over average daily visits
- 11. Before Varnish
- 12. With Varnish
- 13. How Surfline Uses Varnish • Full-page & partial page caching • API management & caching • Data Syndication • Weather data delivery • Weather imagery delivery
- 14. How Surfline Uses Varnish 200-250 reqs/sec and growing • Full-page & partial page caching • API management & caching • Data Syndication • Weather data delivery • Weather imagery delivery
- 15. Surfline + Varnish Future High Availability Custom Statistics Administration Console Enhanced Cache Validation Testing Live Video Stream Caching Varnish Plus