Co-hosts Joshua Proto and Ryan Jones take a look at a case study about Realtor.com®.

Show Notes:

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PROBLEMS FACED:

The company’s customers needed to change their ad campaigns in real-time and not have to wait for days or weeks. This required realtor.com to evolve from batch processing to real-time processing.

In this episode hosts Ryan Jones and Joshua Proto look into iRobot's use of Serverless to help run their first internet-connected Roomba vacuum.

If you’re a fan of video games then you won’t want to miss this episode as hosts, Ryan Jones and Joshua Proto, take a look into Square Enix's decision to use serverless in their efforts to better run their Dragon Quest X phone app. Square Enix is a Japanese based video game company with flagship games such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Quest to just name a few. They have been innovators in their field for decades but what does the introduction of serverless have in store for them?

Alameda County discovered it had some limitations with its election-reporter viewer. In 2014 disaster struck for the County when it was discovered that the on-premises servers that were built using GIS crashed when it was uploading the first set of results during that year's election cycle.

They knew they couldn’t have the same thing happen for 2016, but the estimates for updating the GIS powered application was estimated to be around $20,000 plus the cost of managing and purchasing new server infrastructure. Serverless was their solution, but was it the right one? Take a dive into this case study with our hosts Ryan Jones, and Joshua Proto, and see what Alameda County did right, wrong, and what kind of lasting impacts their experiment with Serverless could have in the future. 

“We were an on-premises software company for a long time, and it sometimes took years to create and deliver solutions to our customers,” says Joshua Prismon, vice president of product development at FICO.

Josh Proto and Ryan Jones share how FICO was able to start making valuable software updates in a matter of days instead of weeks using serverless and AWS.

In Summary:

- FICO delivers software solutions to 95% of the US's largest financial institutions

- Initially an on-premesis software company, it sometimes took years for FICO to develop and launch new features for its software

- In order to meet their market's need for a better product and customer's demand for relevant features, FICO switched to AWS for its software architecture

- AWS was chosen because of it's commitment to security and compliance for the financial service industry

- FICO is now able to develop and troubleshoot new features in a measure of months or weeks, not years

After maintaining on-premises hardware and custom publishing software for nearly two decades, The Seattle Times sought to migrate its website publishing to a contemporary content management platform, though the initial vendor they chose started to increase costs and decrease the flexibility they could improve their service.

Josh Proto and Ryan Jones get into the details about how The Seattle Times made the switch to serverless and what that transition meant for their business.

In 2014, Alameda County experienced a state's worst nightmare, 

Their election reporting crashed shortly after uploading their first set of results. They knew they couldn't let the same thing happen in 2016. 

In this episode, Josh Proto and Ryan Jones delve into Alameda County's process for creating a serverless based election reporting system for only $25 of infrastructure costs.