5 tips to prepare for a transportation crisis
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Five Tips To Prepare For a Transportation
Crisis
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Kevin Hu
Appnovation
Drupal Developer
&
Jessica Richmond
Acquia
Sr. Director, North America Delivery
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What Can Go Wrong?
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$68 Billion
USD
286 Deaths
City Shuts Down
Citizens Stranded &
Confused 8.4M People
Can’t Get to Work
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Lack of Workers
Trains
out of
Service
Media is
Calling
Site Traffic is
Increasing
370,000+
People Can’t
Get to Work
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What do Citizens Need?
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What do Citizens Need?
Access to Information
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What do Citizens Need?
What Should Transportation Authorities be
Thinking of?
Access to Information
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What do Citizens Need?
What Should Transportation Authorities be
Thinking of?
Access to Information
Providing InformationNot Worrying About their Website
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How Can You Prepare for a
Transportation Crisis?
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Five Tips to Prepare for a
Transportation Crisis
1. Scalability
2. Multi-Region Availability & Failover
3. Time to Market
4. User Friendly Design
5. Continuous Integration
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1: Scalability
• Caching
• Hardware
• Optimization
• Test Performance Early & Often
Always Assume You Will Need to Grow
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2: Multi-Region HA & Failover
• Codebase Synchronization
• Cross-Region Database Replication
• Drupal Filesystem
Be Prepared to Move Out of the Storm
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3: Time to Market
• Core/Contributed Modules
• APIs
• Acquia Cloud
Your Audience Can’t Engage If You Aren’t Live
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4: User Friendly Design
• Content Types
• Fieldable Entities
• Views
Communicate in Ways Your Users Understand
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5: Continuous Integration
• Integration
• Automated Testing
• Jenkins
Your Message is too Critical for Human Error
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When Preparation Is Done Right
Case Studies
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30KConcurrent visitors per second during Hurricane Sandy with 100% uptime, serving 5.1M customers in metro NYC
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10x Surge
Maintained 100% uptime during
extreme traffic surges just days
after relaunching BART.gov in
Drupal
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Questions?
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thank you!
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Jessica Richmond
Acquia
Sr. Director, North America Delivery
Kevin Hu
Appnovation
Drupal Developer