Holiday Extras AWS use case

Case Study of Holiday Extras and how we use AWS. Presented at AWS Sofia Conference 2018.

http://www.techhuddle.com/aws-sofia-2018

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1. Holiday Extras AWS use case Simon Wood @hpoom
2. Build a great end to end trip experience
3. Understand our customers, their trips and their needs
6. 120 strong technology team Add team shot
7. Growing a team in Sofia
8. Been on AWS for 7 years
9. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/holiday-extras/
10. Come a long way since then
11. https://tech.holidayextras.com/performant-a-b-split-testing-with-lambda-edge-99673a492139 Lambda Edge • Can use Cloudfront • No page blink • No client side logic • Can write Javascript • No need for Nginx
12. 'use strict'; exports.invoke = (event, context, callback) => { const request = event.Records[0].cf.request const headers = request.headers const experimentA = 'loadCriticalCSSFirstTest=Control' const experimentB = 'loadCriticalCSSFirstTest=Variant' const experimentActionA = '/index.html' const experimentActionB = '/jira123.index.html' let experimentUri if (headers.cookie) { for (let i = 0; i < headers.cookie.length; i++) { if (headers.cookie[i].value.indexOf(experimentA) >= 0) { experimentUri = experimentActionA break } else if (headers.cookie[i].value.indexOf(experimentB) >= 0) { experimentUri = pathExperimentB break } } } if (!experimentUri) { if (Math.random() < 0.5) { experimentUri = experimentActionA } else { experimentUri = experimentActionB } } request.uri = experimentUri callback(null, request) }
14. Microservices Mission
15. “We want to empower developers to repeatedly deploy fast and often at scale. Removing the need for IT Infrastructure setup to get code into production” Andy Britcliffe
18. From idea to production in under 5minutes
20. Node Toolkit • Authorisation • Caching • Context • Database • Data Platform • Debugging • Fixturing • Health Checking • Logging • Metrics • PubSub • Routing • RPC • Streaming to Storage
22. API First
24. AWS Hack Day
25. We are building the future of travel
26. We are hiring in Sofia
27. Thank You Questions? @hpoom