Relatore: Gabriele Tazzari

2. THE LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED
The Cloud landscape has changed, from simple infrastructure solution to platform as a
service, abstracting many layers of complexity within a reliable framework. Cloud
services are the best choice to
• Focus on design challenges
• Experiment continuously
• Innovate at speed
• Test Learn Adapt
• Measure everything
• Affordable
• Immediately available
• Provide sufficient abstraction
• Flexible / Scalable
• Accessible / based on standards

3. EMBRACE THE CLOUD
• Team DevOps mindset
• Discovery / Experiment approach
• Operate on full software stack
• Immediate deploy Æ changes measured in minutes
• Speed up the Development Pipeline

4. THE PIPELINE
Development
Tools/IDE
Cloud9
Codeanywhere
IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studio
Notepad / VI
SCM
Github
Bitbucket
AWS CodeCommit
VisualSVN Server
Git / Mercurial on
premise
CI / Deployment
Travis-CI
AWS Code Deploy
AppVeyor
TeamCity
Jenkins
Production
environments
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
Heroku
AppHarbor
InHouse servers

6. MACHINE LEARNING IN CLOUD
Requirements
• 0 provisioning time
• Low/No effort in infrastructure management
• Optimized infrastructure uptime
• One-click scaling out
Results
• 1 TB logs
• 25 min processing time

7. PARALLEL PROCESSING: BACKGROUND Æ #FFFFFF
• 6 nodes EC2
• 100 processes per node
• 37 million files processed
• Exec time 3,5 hours
• no manually-handled errors
• Logs and stats
EC2 instances
RDS DB
Instance
Amazon S3
• Input files
• Output files
• Code repository
Amazon SQS
• Job repository
Challenge: change the background of all the product images in yoox.com from
grey to white

8. PARTICLE PHOTON OVERVIEW
THE BEGINNING…

9. PARTICLE PHOTON DEMO