Running Your Own Rendering Infrastructure

In addition to hosting the popular OSM-base Toner, Watercolor, and Terrain tile sets, Stamen incorporates custom cartography into much of our client work. This is a behind-the-scenes walkthrough covering the evolution of our rendering infrastructure and the peripheral services that help to make our work unique.

1. Running Your Own Rendering Infrastructure Seth Fitzsimmons Stamen Design http://flic.kr/p/8sJotc
2. Golden Gate National Parks Conservatory
3. Lessons Learned • Easy deployment is key to effective design iteration • Shield what’s likely to break • Repeat
4. services vs. a Service
5. Goals • minimal administrative overhead • straightforward to update data and styles • cost-effective • performant • flexible • can be handed over to clients with minimal technical capacity • horizontally scalable
6. Concerns, Separated Ephemeral Caching Cache Seeding Persistent Caching Rendering + Post-Processing Data
7. The Cloud? http://flic.kr/p/yqcg
8. Concerns, Separated Ephemeral Caching Cache Seeding Persistent Caching Rendering + Post-Processing Data
9. Ephemeral Caching http://flic.kr/p/5RjK9i
10. Cache Seeding http://flic.kr/p/PV6hG
11. Persistent Caching http://flic.kr/p/joAi8B
12. Rendering + Post-Processing http://flic.kr/p/6yqYZv
13. Data http://flic.kr/p/4CL7a7
14. tl;dpa • Easy deployment is key to effective design iteration • Shield what’s likely to break • Repeat • Fastly • AWS / Heroku • github.com/mojodna/tessera • github.com/mojodna/tp
15. Thank you! ! github.com/mojodna github.com/stamen github.com/parks-conservancy ! seth@stamen.com