Skynet taking over SlideShare infrastructure

Skynet, a project that I am working on since 2 years is a set of tools designed to monitor, scale and maintain a system in the Cloud. Put more simply, it’s a system that is aware about what’s happening on every single machine so it can also know about how the cluster is doing as a whole. In our case at SlideShare, Skynet is taking care of our EC2 infrastructure that is running document conversion, which is about 300 servers.

We also designed very neat features into Skynet, giving it the auto-healing and self-learning powers. If you want to learn more about it I invite you to read the related blog post on our engineering blog where I go more in depth about how Skynet is working.