Mendeley uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its research collaboration platform. It stores over 16 terabytes of research papers and citations uploaded by over 1 million researchers on AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). It uses AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, and Elastic MapReduce to process and render previews of papers, serve search queries across multiple AWS resources, and perform machine learning recommendations at scale. The AWS architecture allows Mendeley to focus on its core product instead of managing infrastructure, while scaling elastically to support over 17 million papers and growing usage from researchers worldwide.
Introduce myself\nAsk who knows about Mendeley\nMendeley are a start-up aiming to improve the world of research\n
One of our two core products, Mendeley Desktop\nResearch can put research papers they read, annotate their thoughts and ideas\nUse them as citations inside Word, Openoffice, Latex\n
Sync to Mendeley Web, where you can share notes and collaborate with other\nAlso allows us to produce statistics and trends on research speeding up the usual delay researchers get with feed back to their publications.\n
A few numbers... we’ve got over 1 million research using the platform. They’ve uploaded over 130 million documents, which we’ve found around 40 million are unique. Of these 40 million we’ve got 17 million pdf articles users have uploaded, giving around 16TH of documents in total.\n\nSo quite a scaling and growth challenge!\n