"Hosted Chef has given us the ability to focus on deriving even more strategic value out of our infrastructure to ensure that we are able to efficiently deliver the most up-to-date information to our customers without breaking the bank on IT resources."
Devang Kothari, Co-Founder
The Challenge
GoTime is a Seattle-based technology company that has created city guides focused on finding the best local food and drink specials. With detailed information on more than 300,000 places across the U.S., GoTime has assembled one of the largest and most dynamic bar and restaurant indexes in the world. The company has experienced tremendous growth, expanding its coverage from 10 to 100 cities, significantly challenging its conventionally managed infrastructures. GoTime wanted to move away from a hosting provider and towards a more dynamic and cost-effective infrastructure using public cloud services. In addition, they wanted to achieve a fully-automated infrastructure, with the flexibility to run (and be rebuilt) anywhere without hiring additional engineers.
The Solution
In order to meet the growth and demand on their infrastructure, GoTime evaluated several options including open source alternatives, platform as-a-service offerings and building their own solution. GoTime selected Hosted Chef because of the ability to scale, expert support, as well as the potential cost and resource savings from not having to manage their own configuration server. Opscode helped the company build out the required cookbooks necessary to get them up to speed on Hosted Chef, taking the company from 10 servers to 50 in just over two years.
The Results
- Rebuilt their entire production infrastructure from scratch in one hour with nothing but the metadata in their cookbooks, their customer data and the application code itself.
- Able to meet peak demand and begin an indexing period by bringing up a set of 10 worker servers and getting them in production in less than 10 minutes.
- Automated infrastructure saving time and money, while allowing the company to focus on innovating with their application and the strategic elements of its architecture.
About GoTime
GoTime is a Seattle-based technology company that has created city guides focused on finding the best local food and drink specials. With detailed information on more than 300,000 places across the U.S., GoTime has assembled one of the largest and most dynamic bar and restaurant indexes in the world.
The company also maintains the nation's most comprehensive happy hour guide, providing information on more than 30,000 happy hours in more than 100 major cities across the country.
Learn more about GoTimeAbout Opscode
Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. We help companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, and save developers and systems engineers time and money.
Our team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world's largest websites and cloud computing platforms. Opscode is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
