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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“Do you know when your database layer will fall over and die ? At how many QPS (queries per second) will your application fall prey to slowness, corruption, replication issues, or other sorts of badness ?” I asked that question of the audience when giving a talk on capacity planning at the MySQL conference last...
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No matter what sort of capacity planning tricks you think you have up your sleeve, if it doesn’t involve the procurement process, then you can’t call it planning. Procurement is the part that happens after you know what kind and how much capacity you need. It’s the part where you, someone in some other group...
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Now that the news of this is out and it’s happening, I can say that planning for it was pretty damn cool. Not just from the capacity and operations standpoint, but watching my codehead coworkers deal with all of the API/background/migration stuff as well. Excellent....
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