Presentation: Building a Large Scale SaaS Application

Posted by Dave West on May 25, 2009

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In this QCon London 2008 presentation, Dan Hanley of Magus, discusses the design principles, architectures and infrastructure of three SaaS frameworks used by Magus to rapidly develop and deploy large-scale, web-based, applications that deliver specific services to clients. The three application areas discussed involve: Active Standards, Remote Search and Crucial Information.

Externally, Magus appears to be a hosted service provider, delivering:

• ActiveStandardsthat help a company with numerous and far ranging Web sites establish standards, track implementations, and assure compliance
• RemoteSearch providing multi-site integrated search for corporate Web sites.
• CrucialInformation a "control panel" or reporting face for strategic intelligence gathered from the Web and syndicated services.

Internally the company sees itself as a software development firm using a common infrastructure that supports the three frameworks; using a defined, process and methodology to rapidly develop custom applications for their clients. Fault tolerance and scaling issues confronted and resolved are also covered in Dan's discussion.

Watch Building a Large Scale SaaS Application for details and examples.

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