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Vistaprint today at a glance

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Revenue of > $1 Billion last year, ~20 million orders 3 Production DCs; primary DC hosts 50 wwws, 1 DB server >2 PB of total storage, mostly customer uploads .Net primarily (overwhelmingly C#) MS-SQL (YeSQL J) Downside: Lots of hand-coded, home-grown infrastructure

Zero downtime release process, DB wrappers, CPU affinity, page/request routing, syslog-based telemetry, build/deploy Not an intentional strategy, but covering for operational gaps

Migrating towards COTS packages in select cases

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Vistaprint at a glance

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50* Lots of hand-coded, home-grown infrastructure Zero downtime release process, DB wrappers, caching, CPU affinity, page/request routing, syslog-based telemetry, build/deploy/monitor >>

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Vistaprint Future

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•  Continuing to grow quickly in multiple dimensions

•  Substantial investment in architecture over coming years 100 person-years of effort going into arch over 5 years

•  Moving towards a component/services-based approach

Know how to change engines on an airplane while flying? •  All hosting is on-premises today; 2013 will have substantial

use of cloud computing in a hybrid model (on-premise/cloud)

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