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We’re hiring web ops engineers at Etsy.  Here’s the gist of it…. Responsibilities Building and maintaining Etsy’s infrastructure, from installed iron to production Taking part in a 24×7 on-call rotation Tightly cooperating and collaborating with development, product, community and customer care Requirements Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, etc.) Experience in [...]

Yesterday I was on a podcast with Andrew Shafer and Michael Coté, and we talked about development and operations cooperation. I rambled a bit, like I tend to do. Andrew brought up something that’s disturbing, and I’ve seen elsewhere, which is that after seeing our presentation last year at Velocity, some folks decided that we [...]

Dev/Ops is what some people are calling the renewed cross-interest in development and operations collaboration. Hammond and I spoke about it, and there was even a conference in Europe dedicated to it. While I do think that there’s still a lot more that is to be discussed around this idea of cooperation and mixing of [...]

Last week I gave 2 month’s notice – I’ll be leaving Flickr in January. When Stew and Cat asked me to join Flickr in January of 2005, I felt like it was time to go and do something different, so I said yes. Five years (and four billion photos) later, it’s again time to go [...]