Presentation by Meshach Jackson given at Ignite Zurich conference by Day Software. - 09/2009

2. CMS Smackdown
Selecting Newsweekʼs Future

3. Our Mission
➡ The First Place for the Last Word
➡ First Wave
➡ Deeply Connected
➡ Highly Organic

4. Current Landscape
➡ Unpredictable Traffic
➡ Horrible Editorial Workflow
➡ Inflexible Development Environment

5. Case Studies

6. Case Studies

7. Case Studies

8. Case Studies

9. Why CQ5?
➡ Rapid Application Development
➡ Seamless 3rd Party Integration
➡ Cloud-Friendly Architecture

10. Why CQ5?
➡ Cloud-Friendly Architecture
Price
Performance

11. Why CQ5?
Price
Amazon Cloud
> $15k / mo + > $5k setup
Data Center
< $20k / mo + $300k setup

12. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx

13. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
➡ Ruby on Rails
➡ HAProxy LB
➡ 1 MySQL db
➡ AWS “Small” Instances

14. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
➡ Ruby on Rails
➡ HAProxy LB
➡ 1 MySQL db
➡ AWS “Small” Instances
...x 29

15. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
➡ CQ5
➡ Ruby on Rails ➡ AWS ELB
➡ HAProxy LB ➡ “Medium” Instances -
➡ 1 MySQL db
Dispatcher
➡ AWS “Small” Instances ➡ “XL” Instances - CQ5/
...x 29 CRX

16. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
➡ CQ5
➡ Ruby on Rails ➡ AWS ELB
➡ HAProxy LB ➡ “Medium” Instances - x 4
➡ 1 MySQL db
Dispatcher
➡ AWS “Small” Instances ➡ “XL” Instances - CQ5/ x 2
...x 29 CRX

17. Why CQ5?
Performance
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
➡ CQ5
➡ Ruby on Rails ➡ AWS ELB
➡ HAProxy LB ➡ “Medium” Instances - x 4
➡ 1 MySQL db
Dispatcher
➡ AWS “Small” Instances ➡ “XL” Instances - CQ5/ x 2
...x 29 CRX

18. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 1:
Goal - 10k users in 1 hr
Duration - 20 min

19. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 1:
Goal - 10k users in 1 hr
Duration - 20 min
Result:
2,500 users
31k errors
5.6 sec response times

20. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 1:
Goal - 10k users in 1 hr
Duration - 20 min
Result:
2,500 users
31k errors
5.6 sec response times
FAIL

21. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 2:
Goal - 100 users in 5 min
Duration - 30 min
Result:
100 users
138 errors
1.1 sec response time

22. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 2:
Goal - 100 users in 5 min
Duration - 30 min
Result:
100 users
138 errors
1.1 sec response time
FAIL

23. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 3:
Result:
2,500 users
51 errors
331 ms response time

24. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 3:
Result:
2,500 users
51 errors
331 ms response time
eh...

25. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 1: (w/ ELB)
Goal - 5k users in 15 min
Duration - 6 min
Result:
ELB Failure

26. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 2: (w/o ELB)
Goal - 2.5k users in 15 min
Duration - 18 min
Result:
2,500 users
< 20 ms response time
288k HTTP requests / min
3MM total HTTP requests

27. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 2: (w/o ELB)
Goal - 2.5k users in 15 min
Duration - 18 min
Result:
2,500 users
< 20 ms response time
288k HTTP requests / min
3MM total HTTP requests
0 errors

28. Load Test - RESULTS
Quiz App vs. Geometrixx
Test 3: (w/o ELB)
Goal - break it.
(10k users in 15 min)
Duration - 17 min
Result:
3,333 users
350k HTTP requests / min
10k users = 1 sec response
time
498 ms avg response time
5MM total HTTP requests

29. Whatʼs Next?
On-Publish Semantic Processing
On-Publish Social Distribution
Organic Social Evolution
Editorial Workflow Authoring
Single Sign On Authentication
Premium Content Provider
Citizen Journalism
Awesome Web Apps
Semantic Comment Processing