Shorte.st
Shorte.st is an advertising network based on links with real-time fraud detection system and real-time bidding platform (RTB). Shorte.st serves more than 200M ad impressions a month and has 0.5B links shared over the web.
Key Challenges
Traceroute42 designed a made-to-measure Multi DC physical + cloud architecture for Shorte.st, provides managed services and 24/7 monitoring, and intensively supports the Shorte.st DevTeam. With almost 1M registered users and 200M ad impressions a month, keeping the real-time platform highly available is the central, ongoing challenge.
Made-to-measure multi-DC architecture
Traceroute42 designed a made-to-measure Multi DC architecture that combines physical hardware with cloud infrastructure to support a high-traffic, real-time advertising network.
Managed services and 24/7 monitoring
TraceRoute42 provides managed services and round-the-clock (24h/7) monitoring, and intensively supports the Shorte.st DevTeam so the platform stays highly available at scale.
Supporting two real-time products
Shorte.st offers two services — Shorte.st Miner, which lets users generate passive income from idle CPU and GPU, and Shorte.st Links, which lets users earn by shortening and sharing links — both dependent on the reliable infrastructure TR42 maintains.
Features realised
Multi-DC physical + cloud infrastructure
A multi-data-center architecture combining physical hardware and AWS cloud, engineered for the high-availability demands of a real-time bidding platform serving 200M+ ad impressions a month.
Scalable data layer
Percona XtraDB Cluster, Cassandra and Redis provide a resilient, horizontally scalable data layer for user accounts, link data and real-time computing systems.
Observability with the Elastic Stack
Centralised logging and monitoring via the Elastic Stack give engineers full visibility into the platform, backed by 24/7 monitoring from the TR42 team.
DDoS protection and network hardening
Juniper networking and dedicated DDoS protection defend the platform against attacks and keep the fraud-detection and RTB systems online.
“With almost 1M registered users, 200M ad impressions a month, half a billion links shared over the web and real-time computing systems, our top priority is to provide high-availability of our service. Traceroute42 is a great support in terms of infrastructure and application design, maintenance and monitoring. Engineers from Traceroute42 team up with our developers and help in creating new functionalities and applying new solutions.”
Kornel Szwaja, CEO, Shorte.st