RavenDB and the Black Friday Surge!

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imageNext week is Black Friday, which has reached a global phenomenon status. It is a fun day for shoppers, and a nervous wreck for IT admins everywhere. It is not uncommon to see traffic doubles or triples and the actual load (processing more heavyweight requests) can go up an order of magnitude. Preparing for Black Friday can be a harrowing issue since you have a narrow window of opportunity and it is hard to know exactly where the stress points are.

This year, I decided to make your life easier, and RavenDB is offering a Black Friday Surge to all our customers. No, we aren’t offering you 50% off and everything must go. What we do instead is try to be of help.

This Black Friday (and Cyber Monday as well), we are offering all our customers double what they paid for. When running RavenDB on premise, if you purchased a RavenDB license for a 12 cores cluster (running on 3 nodes of 4 cores each), we’ll offer you 30 days of double the core count. In other words, you can scale your system to be twice as powerful, and it won’t cost you a cent.

On the cloud, as well, we will provide users with credits to upgrade their clusters to the next level up (doubling their power) for a full week during the next 30 days. Again, there is no extra cost here.

You can register for the Surge here to request the upgrade and you’ll get twice as much power to handle the increased load.

Enjoy the power up!