Can Your Mobile Infrastructure Survive 1 Million Concurrent Users?
You’re building the next killer mobile app. How do you ensure that your app is both stable and capable of near-instant data updates? Build a backend! But there’s more to building a backend than standing up a SQL server in your datacenter and calling it a day. Since different types of apps demand different backend services, how do you know what sort of backend you need? And, more importantly, how can you ensure that your backend will scale so you can survive an explosion of users that comes from events like being featured in the app store? Siva Katir and Melissa Benua will discuss the common scenarios facing mobile app developers who are looking to expand beyond just the device and will share best practices learned while building the PlayFab and other companies’ backends. Join Siva and Melissa to learn how you can ensure that your app can scale safely and affordably into the millions of concurrent users (CCU) and across multiple platforms.
Senior backend engineer for PlayFab Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—engineer, test, DevOps, and program management—in her career. Melissa has created and run high-availability, high-quality services at Boeing and Microsoft on Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One. She discovered her love of massively-scaled systems while working on the Bing backend, honing the art of keeping highly-available complex systems up while undergoing massive code churn. Whether working with classic or cutting-edge testing models, Melissa isn’t afraid to mix traditional approaches with bold new ideas to make her products better, faster, and more reliable. She is passionate about about sharing best practices with colleagues and the tech world.
Siva Katir has more than a decade of experience developing across cloud systems, and desktop and mobile environments. Siva has designed and developed high-availability infrastructures—from synchronizing order and inventory data between multiple companies to managing work permits, worker statuses, and their physical locations across multiple BP oil refineries. His varied work experience includes deploying CI pipelines, managing servers, and running his own software company for six years. Siva is passionate about programming and sharing his knowledge with other programmers through his blog.