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Entries from October 2008

Code Swarm for Config Management

October 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Gil Raphaelli, one of the guys on our Flickr Ops team, put together a Code Swarm animation for the configuration/deployment management tool we use at Flickr to manage our infrastructure. Myles Grant did this for our bug reporting system as well. Check it out:

Our automated config management system is called Gemstone, but conceptually you can [...]

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Tags: tools · webops

I wrote a book about common sense.

October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Whew. That took longer than I thought.
Todd Hoff over at the High Scalability blog has an email interview with me about a book that I wrote, called “The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources“.  I’m still just happy that I got it done at all, seeing how it was due the same week that [...]

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Tags: "capacity planning" · book