# 10x: Architecture at Clay.io

DevFeed: [10x: Architecture at Clay.io](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/10x-architecture-at-clay-io-35611.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zolmeister.com/2014/10/10x-architecture-at-clay-io.html>)

Author: Zoli Kahan

Published: 2014-10-01T05:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Zolmeister](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zolmeister.md>)

Topics: [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Amazon VPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-vpc.md>), [Dockerfile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dockerfile.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>)

Tags: [amazon-ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-ec2.md>), [amazon-s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-s3.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [ddos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddos.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [vpc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpc.md>)

## AI overview

A first-person account of Clay.io's architecture for operating at scale with a small team. It describes the use of Cloudflare for DNS, caching, DDoS protection, and SSL; Amazon EC2 and VPC for servers and private networking; Amazon S3 for static content; HAProxy for traffic routing; Docker for application and staging servers; and a MySQL master-slave cluster for data.

## Source excerpt

10x: Architecture at Clay.io This is the first post in my new series , where I share my experiences and how we do things at Clay.io to develop at scale with a small team. Update: The Cloud CloudFlare CloudFlare handles all of our DNS, and acts as a distributed caching proxy with some additional DDOS protection features. It also handles SSL. Amazon EC2 + VPC + NAT server Almost all of our servers live on Amazon EC2, most are either medium or large instances.