Talks

MTTR is more important than MTBF (for most types of F)

November 7, 2010

This week I gave a talk at QCon SF about development and operations cooperation at Etsy and Flickr. It’s a refresh of talks I’ve given in the past, with more detail about how it’s going at Etsy. (It’s going excellently ) There’s a bunch of topics in the presentation slides, all centered around roles, responsibilities, [...]

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Go or No-Go: Operability and Contingency Planning (Surge)

November 3, 2010

Last month I had the honor of speaking at the Surge Conference in Baltimore, put together by OmniTI. It was a most excellent conference, and the expertise levels were ridiculously high. I count myself lucky to be considered the same league as the rest of the presenters. I did give a Keynote talk, and I [...]

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Slides for Velocity Talk 2009

June 23, 2009

UPDATE: blip.tv has the video of the talk as well, below. Jeez I have some major bed-head. That was a blast! I had never done a ‘duet’ talk before. Here are the slides: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr …and the video of it is here:

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Slides from Web2.0 Expo 2009. (and somethin else interestin’)

April 3, 2009

That was a pretty good time. Saw lots of good and wicked smaht people, and I got a lot of great questions after my talk. The slides are up on slideshare, and here are the PDF slides. Operational Efficiency Hacks Web20 Expo2009 View more presentations from John Allspaw. UPDATE: Gil Raphaelli has posted his python [...]

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Speaking at Web2.0 Expo 2009

February 19, 2009

Looks like I’m gonna talk about even more nerdy things at the Web2.0 Expo in April. You don’t have to wait for a recession to tighten up your operations. Squeezing more oomph out of your servers (or instances!) is always a good thing, and streamlining how you handle site issues is too. We’ll will talk [...]

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2009 Velocity Conference submissions are open!

November 20, 2008

The CFP for next year’s Velocity Conference is up now, so all you ops and performance ninjas submit your ideas for talks. I’m lucky enough to be on the program committee this year, and I think the conference is a huge opportunity to spread the ops love on all kinds of topics. There’s a list [...]

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Slides from Velocity

June 25, 2008

Here are the slides from my talk at the Velocity Conference.

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Slides from Web 2.0 Expo2008

April 29, 2008

Here they are.

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Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo 2008

January 3, 2008

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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