Over ￡75,000,000, 3 PCFs, 2 IaaSs, 1 Night - The Comic Relief Story
summary
A multi‑cloud donation platform handles a televised seven‑hour peak by running three PCFs across two IaaS providers with Google’s global load balancer, zero‑to‑million RPS instant scaling, and event‑sourced back‑ends. The rebuilt system uses 28 microservices, redundant payment providers, continuous delivery with ~30‑minute pipelines per environment, and live load testing; it processes peaks of 500 donations a second and successfully collects £77m collected on the night.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:44The challenge of scale
- 6:35Transitioning to cloud
- 10:22Platform design and strategy
- 13:38Adopting PCF
- 16:02Operator and IaaS perspective
- 18:59Operational success
- 22:00Audience Q&A
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