Kitchen Soap

Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations.

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Entries from January 2008

Flickr’s hiring a dba.

January 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

(Only hardworking supernerds should apply)
We’re looking for an experienced and motivated MySQL DBA to help make things go at Flickr.
Stuff you’ll do:
• Work with engineers on performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning.
• Monitor databases for problems and to diagnose where those problems are.
• Work with developers and operations to maintain a scalable, reliable, and robust [...]

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Tags: flickr · webops

Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo 2008

January 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’m gonna give a talk in capacity planning for web operations at the Web 2.0 Expo in April. Wondering if I should submit the same sort of talk for the Velocity conference in June. Don’t want to be redundant or anything.

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Tags: "capacity planning" · talks · webops