In 2014-2017 and for some years thereafter, we were responsible for the design, development, and management of all Galore’s digital products and websites.
Aaron personally designed, developed and maintained several digital products and their underlying infrastructure, including Galore’s social-influencer agency & management system [KittenAgency.com], our mobile-first original video browser/player web app [TV.GaloreMag.com], our online editorial publishing system [GaloreMag.com], and all Galore’s digital newsletter campaigns and some specialty micro-sites. At any given point we have 2-5 engineers switching between code, dev-ops/sysadmin, design & UX, strategy, and content management.
The most common software stack used for Galore’s properties uses NodeJS, React, MongoDB, LESS, Docker, Github, and AWS.
Some of our web properties also use MeteorJS, WordPress/LAMP, Ghost.org, and even a custom NodeJS webapp using the WP-API. All of Galore’s software stacks are described in full detail on https://StackShare.io, and follows 12-step design patterns.
Galore has an audience of over 60MM followers across its networks, publishing hundreds of new written, video, and social content pieces each week.
During issue launches or large press events, our sites often garner major media attention and occasionally receive over 100,000 unique visitors to one of our properties in one day. There were around a dozen times where we had to defend Galore properties from DoS (denial of service) attacks and/or keep the site online during major press events which often cause infrastructure performance/availability issues.
There were often armies of foreign IP addresses requesting static resources thousands of times per second, freezing/locking our servers requiring our engineers to manually manage our IP tables and firewalls to blacklist the attackers’ range of IP addresses. We’ve also setup and managed auto-scaling groups of resources responding to usage limits and traffic volume.
