Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, together with Live in the Sky, supported the Immortal Regiment

2020: Ensuring resource availability during Victory Day celebrations

On May 14, 2020, it became known that Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, in collaboration with Live in the Sky, helped the largest online service for storing the annals and stories of the Great Patriotic War generation to ensure accessibility of the site during the celebration of Victory Day.

According to May 2020, the online resource "Immortal Regiment" contains more than 600 thousand records about participants in the Second World War. During peak loads, the moypolk.ru site is visited by up to 100 thousand users per day on average. However, in 2020, in connection with the pandemic, the number of visitors even before the May holidays tripled. Between 9 and 11 May, the number of visits reached more than 1 million.

Previously, up to 10 additional computers had to be connected to support the resource. However, in the face of a multiple increase in workload, this approach has become ineffective. The "immortal regiment" needed not only to quantify the capacity, but also to optimize the operation of server the equipment. Own resources to administer the growing infrastructures moypolk.ru were not enough and experts from Live in the Sky joined in solving the problem.

In a few days, IT specialists have vertically scaled capacity on the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform and optimized the server infrastructure using system software configuration. The bandwidth of the site reached the necessary indicators, and requests began to be worked out faster. In addition, the number of virtual machines was reduced from 10 to 4, thereby reducing infrastructure costs.

To correctly distribute the power load during the project, code startup administration was implemented. Combined with a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) methodology, this will help moypolk developers reduce manual operations and accelerate code deployment and testing across the entire infrastructure. In addition, load metrics monitoring allows you to receive notifications of potential problems and respond to them before it becomes noticeable to the user.

"The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform has provided us with a robust and flexible infrastructure that helps us cope with the workload at the right time. Specialists of the company "Live in the Sky" provide constant assistance and support in setting up systems. We are pleased that the partnership has helped us optimize the consumption of IT resources and direct the efforts of our developers to more important tasks, " noted' Sergey Kolotovkin co-chair of the Immortal Regiment movement '

"It is very symbolic that our company" Live in the Sky "helps such a socially significant project as the" Immortal Regiment. " We are glad that thanks to the efforts of our specialists and partners, the memory of the heroes and their exploits will forever remain in the digital space, " emphasized' Sergey Zhitinsky, CEO of Live in the Sky.'

"The cloud infrastructure based on MCS technologies provided online service with the necessary capacity and flexibility, and our partners helped maintain performance, despite the high load," noted Ilya Letunov, head of the platform Mail.ru Cloud Solutions