FilterBlade is now cloudbased - 100% AWS serverless architecture
Added 2021-03-12 10:10:59 +0000 UTCThis bit of news might not be super exciting, but it's a really big thing for the future of the filter and stability of the site.
All components of filterblade: frontend, backend, filter generation, storage - are now AWS hosted.
Switching from OVH to AWS has several benefits:
- It's much easier to scale. This will likely eliminate the problems, instabilities and queues we had during league launches. It's likely that even in case of a several thousand people spike (which is common, due to the pre-release stream), the site will stabilize within max 5 minutes.
- It's so much more elegant. C#-based serverless backend architecture is just way easier to develop and maintain than a PHP server
- Quicker functions and cleaner deployments. While this was rarely the case so far: it means we can react to problems quicker.
- Last week the OVH servers (previous host) had one of their datacenters burn down. The disaster was larger than GGG's public reception of their harvest changes. So yeah. Good timing.
The new architecture is fairly costly though. AWS is not cheap in general, so the server costs will likely be ~2x higher. Still: worth it.
Thank you guys once again for your generous support!
Next post will be about the upcoming filter changes, that relies on some of the innovations and improvements based on the new architecture.
PS: Oh and I'm starting the development-streams this weekend again. Come say hi, if you wanna chat or see the progress on the new filter system.
