Why Diversity Matters: Musings on Tapjoy's First Year on OpenStack
summary
Tapjoy builds a private OpenStack cloud called Tapjoy1 private OpenStack cloud as a hybrid with AWS, launched June 2014 after ~12 months of work and running with zero downtime. It serves heavy data science workloads and a platform with 450M monthly users and 1T annual requests. The deployment uses 348 all‑purpose nodes (4×1TB drives, E3‑1265 v3 4c/8t 2.5GHz, 32GB RAM), 12 management nodes (E5‑2650 v2, 128GB, SSDs), three racks at ~17 kVA, Metacloud OpenStack variant and Equinix colo, and open source tools slugforge and chore.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Tapjoy
- 0:53Scaling on AWS
- 2:51Transitioning to OpenStack
- 5:52Hardware and Infrastructure
- 8:00Open source tools
- 8:35The vision for OpenStack
- 12:11Lessons and future outlook
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