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Kevin Day, August 15th, 2008As of July 2nd, I am no longer employed by General Electric. Also, I am also no longer a mechanical engineer.
What have I been doing with myself?
I have been voraciously developing the best fantasy football software website on the internet.
Fantasy Football Calculator is now hosting 1,500 live mock drafts every day. I’ve also launched three new products within the past two months: the Lineup Calculator, Draft Calculator, and Draft Simulator.
To keep up with the high traffic volume during the NFL pre-season, I’ve had to scale the site from one server to four. That process wasn’t fun, but the site is now running smoothly even during peak hours.
I’ve also started a blog on that site, which is another reason I’ve been neglecting this one. I’m going to start posting here again because I do have non-fantasy football related thoughts now and then.
nice!
Didn’t you say you were switching to Amazon’s EC2 ~ I thought provisioning new machines is not a big deal there?
- Jeff Schuler, August 15th, 2008, 6:55 pmYeah, adding a new server is easy with EC2. Most of the difficult part was getting from 1 to 2 servers. I had to modify a lot of code because I didn’t set it up as a traditional load balancer + app servers + database. I have one main server plus additional draft servers that do nothing but run the live program. I’m not sure which approach is better, but this is working for me now.
- Kevin Day, August 15th, 2008, 7:24 pmI’d love a demo sometime…
- Jeff Schuler, August 15th, 2008, 9:40 pmSure, anytime.
- Kevin Day, August 17th, 2008, 3:57 pmLeave a Reply
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