In part 2 of the materials from today's AWS RoadShow in Dublin SkillPages CTO Mike McCarthy discusses SkillPage's efforts to redefine the labour market and explains how AWS has enabled SkillPages to address their challenges in creating a robust, flexible and cost effective infrastructure

1. Redefining the Labour Market
Mike McCarthy, CTO
SkillPages
AWS Roadshow Dublin

2. One Place to Find Skilled People
Find Skilled People!
!
for anything you need done
Get Found!
by people who need your skills
Collaborate!
with skilled people globally

3. Challenges
Focus on building the best product for our users
avoid overhead of building out core infrastructure
ScalabilityFunction Resources Time

4. ElastiCache
Redshift
Data warehouse
Amazon
RDS
DynamoDB
Counters & Flags
EC2
Servers, Hive,
Hadoop
Elastic Beanstalk
Load based Scaling
SWF
Workflow
Engines
EMR
Big Data Processing
CloudWatch
Monitoring &
Performance Mgt
SNS
Push Notifications
CloudFront
Content Delivery
Mechanical Turk
Crowd sourced
Moderation Tasks
SQS
Message Queue
S3
Storage
ElastiCache
Memecache/
Redis

5. SkillPages serves over
23,000,000
registered users

6. Presenting over
400,000 people
with new work opportunities daily

7. Scaled to support over
665% growth
over 2 last years

8. Platform processes over
2,500,000,000
network data points daily

9. Typically handle
150,000,000
messages per month

10. Built and supported by just
20 Engineers

11. Benefits Realised
ü Robust Infrastructure
ü Flexibility
ü Cost Effective
ü Expanding Service Offering
ü Excellent support & engagement

12. Visit us at
www.skillpages.com
Try a €139 business job posting for free
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