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+title: Changing the way the world reads at Scribd
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+- aws
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+
+This week we launched the
+[Scribd tech blog](https://tech.scribd.com), on which I published today's
+article: [We're building the largest library in
+history](https://tech.scribd.com/blog/2019/building-the-library.html). I
+frequently have to remind myself that I have been here less than a year, and we
+have undergone incredible positive change, with more coming in 2020.
+
+The [post](https://tech.scribd.com/blog/2019/building-the-library.html)
+portends a high-level idea of what is to come for technology at Scribd in the
+coming year or two, related to our [announcement
+today](https://blog.scribd.com/home/scribd-announces-58-million-strategic-investment-led-by-spectrum-equity)
+of a major round of funding:
+
+> Today we are excited to announce Scribd has closed $58 million in equity
+> financing led by Spectrum Equity. The investment will be used to support
+> growth and product innovation, enhance operations, and further the company's
+> mission to change the way the world reads. 
+
+The most important detail I was able to share in the blog post is in the
+Infrastructure section:
+
+> The future of our infrastructure, and our applications, is **entirely in the
+> cloud**. The migration [to AWS] requires shifting workloads between
+> datacenters with a tiny error and downtime budget. At our size, that’s many
+> terabytes of data and thousands of requests per second, which dictates
+> serious upfront planning, automation, testing, and monitoring of every facet
+> of our environment.
+
+
+Hiding behind this paragraph has been a tremendous amount of my time from these
+past few months. Arriving at Scribd in January, there were no plans in the
+roadmap to adopt a cloud provider for our infrastructure. I must have
+been the straw that broke the camel's back. "We need to move into the cloud"
+was met with "We agree! What's your plan?" And then it became one of the many
+plates I have kept spinning.
+
+We already have migrated a few services, including a major production service
+which Core Platform moved over without any issues; I'm very proud of that one!
+
+Unlike many "datacenter to cloud" migrations, I believe ours is unique in that
+we have:
+
+* A very limited error and downtime budget.
+* The green-light to share the process as we go along.
+
+
+I'm looking forward to sharing more on
+[tech.scribd.com](https://tech.scribd.com)
+([RSS](https://tech.scribd.com/feed.xml)) as we move to AWS, I hope you'll tune
+in!