Decide

In the cloud, your website always needs to be open for business.
Decide helps consumers make more informed purchasing decisions by predicting when to buy consumer electronics and appliances. To do so, they entrusted their infrastructure to Opscode Hosted Chef™.

The Challenge

Decide, a pioneering price prediction service that uses terabytes of product data to predict if prices will drop or newer models will be available. With no dedicated IT operations staff and nearly all if its infrastructure based on Amazon EC2, Decide needed an intelligent infrastructure automation solution capable of managing its cloud infrastructure to minimize resource management, ensure maximum uptime for its website, and add capacity as load increases.

The Solution

Decide deployed Opscode's Hosted Chef™ across its cloud infrastructure to ensure website availability and streamline resource management. With Hosted Chef, the e-commerce innovator now has a robust infrastructure automation engine that makes it easy for Decide's development team to manage its complex IT environment and enable the rapid delivery of new applications. By deploying Hosted Chef, Decide manages everything from server configuration to environment creation with a few, simple clicks, resulting in 99.999% website availability and significantly reduced overhead.

The Results

  • Ensure 99.999% website availability to enable always-on business model.
  • Automate cloud-based IT with a few simple clicks, enabling the development team to manage and scale infrastructure without dedicated operations staff.
  • Enabling rapid time to market by creating an automated platform for continuous application delivery.
"We knew automation would be key to maintaining near-100% uptime, making Hosted Chef the clear choice for automating our infrastructure. Today, we run just about everything we do with our infrastructure through Chef, ensuring we're always up and available." Kate Matsudaira, VP Engineering, Decide

Decide is a service dedicated to helping consumers buy electronics with no regrets. The company has raised $8.5M in venture capital from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, and angel investors. Decide was co-founded by Internet search pioneer Oren Etzioni and has gained support from consumer Internet and ecommerce veterans.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.