SRE Stile Education-Scaling Our Build-up & Our Bill Down During COVID-19 - Shaun O'Keefe Matt Borden
Channel: Meetup Madness
Date: 2021-06-01

!Scaling Our Build-up & Our Bill Down During COVID-19
With the move to remote education, our edutech company faced the challenge of scaling up our stack to accommodate tens of thousands of new concurrent users. While the quickest road to success was in rapidly increasing the size and number of our AWS resources, we still faced a number of challenges in finding where the new bottlenecks in our stack would be. And even then, once the dust settled we needed to find a way to make sure that our new-found success wasn't undermined by a company bankrupting AWS bill.

In this talk, Shaun and Matt talk about how we used synthetic traffic and load testing to predict bottle-necks before all our traffic arrived on the first day of school. How we prepared for failure by implementing load shedding. And lastly, how we used Athena combined with Looker to understand and reign in our costs once our usage had settled to its new normal levels.

SPEAKERS: Shaun O’Keefe and Matt Borden