WebOps

The term “monitoring” needs clarification.

September 26, 2007

WebOps-related mailing lists have always had a problem with this vague term, and I suspect that commercial vendors exploit this confusion. Wikipedia gives a pretty vague definition: “…is the process of testing or tracking (monitoring) how end-users interact with a website or web application.” People use the term to describe lots of things that pertain [...]

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Procurement is good!

September 23, 2007

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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Going to OSCON 2007

July 19, 2007

I think I’m the only person from flickr going this year, and I’ll be there just for Wednesday’s sessions. Looking forward to Theo‘s session, “Advanced Production Troubleshooting“, the session on Puppet, Doug Cutting’s talk on Hadoop, and maybe some others. Who wants to drink some beer and shoot the breeze about things like what a [...]

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Y!Photos and the Migrations to Flickr

June 15, 2007

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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Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference

January 30, 2007

Looks like I’ll be talking about capacity planning. See you there!

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