HipChat – stats and platform

This is a really good article where they talk about REDIS and ElasticSearch.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/6/how-hipchat-stores-and-indexes-billions-of-messages-using-el.html

Stats

  • 60 messages per second.

  • 1.2 Billion documents stored

  • 4TB of EBS Raid

  • 8 ElasticSearch servers on AWS

  • 26 front end proxy serves. Double that in backend app servers.

  • 18 people

  • .5 terabytes of search data.

Platform

  • Hosting: AWS EC2 East with 75 Instance currently all Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  • Database: CouchDB currently for Chat History, transitioning to ElasticSearch.  MySQL-RDS for everything else

  • Caching: Redis

  • Search: ElasticSearch

  • Queue/Workers server: Gearman (queue) and Curler, (worker)

  • Language: Twisted Python (XMPP Server) and PHP (Web front end)

  • System Configure: Open Source Chef + Fabric

  • Code Deployment: Capistrano

  • Monitoring: Sensu and monit pumping alerts to Pagerduty

  • Graphing: statsd + Graphite

    Read more at: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/6/how-hipchat-stores-and-indexes-billions-of-messages-using-el.html

 

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