Scalable Payment Systems

Challenge

• Giving events produce spikes in usage
• Nonprofit foundations depend on the revenue produced
• Competitor technologies had failed under load, leaving money on the table

Approach

• Flatten and pre-process giving site as static HTML
• Make usage of end-user CPU cycles through JavaScript
• Compress and GZip JavaScript payload
• Profile and prune code to eliminate bottlenecks and resource over-usage
• Conducted adversarial testing over many archaic browsers

Roles

• Concentrated on optimizing client-side technologies
• Lent guidance to team members performing a back-end upgrade
• Led QA activities and assisted professional services team

Results

• New Business: GiveMN avoids another crash by switching to this scalable platform
• Largest single-day crowdfunding event on record
• Delighted clients