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A new place for Web Ops to talk the talk and walk the walk

  • 15. Nov
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  • Talks, WebOps
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There’s a new conference in town, and it looks to have the really good schmitz. Good work Jesse and Steve, I’m really looking forward to this....
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Datacenters can suck. Communication can be great.

  • 13. Nov
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  • Capacity Planning, WebOps
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If you consider that you and your users are in some sort of a ‘relationship’, then good communication is pretty important. The Rackspace datacenter outage reminds me yet again that we’re lucky to have a handful of servers in more than one datacenter that can communicate to users in the case where we’ve lost one...
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