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Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost
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Summary
Stefan Norberg presents Unibet.com’s architecture, the challenges faced and the solutions adopted in order to sustain live and offline betting over an entire continent. They started with a monolithic database and moved towards a finely tuned front-end architecture - XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, YUI, caching, compression, image spriting, CDN striping – plus using multiple replicas for scaling out.
Bio
Stefan Norberg is Head of Architecture at Unibet, one of Europe's online betting providers. Before that, Norberg was part of the team that built one of world's first Internet banks in the mid-90s and worked for Logica and HP. He also wrote an O'Reilly book on how to secure Windows servers.
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Mar 25, 2010