Slides from Web 2.0 Expo2008
Here they are.
Author: allspaw
Tool update: WTF is inside filesystem cache ?
Awhile back, I said I’d love to have a tool that would allow me to peek inside filesystem cache and tell me what files (or pages of files) are inside. Well Peter Zaitsev points to the fincore tool, which comes pretty damn close: you give it a file, and it will tell you which pages […]
WebOps Communication Tools
After seeing Jesse’s great post on Radar (never knew about FreeConferenceCall, very cool!) about the quick and easy webops event communications, I thought I might put a post together on some of what we’re using at Flickr to keep track of things ops-related. Production Changes/Immediate Issues We have our configuration management schemes wrapped up in […]
Too big to use utility computing ?
Dear users of S3, EC2, and other ‘utility’ computing stuffs: Here’s a crude and completely oversimplified evolution of infrastructure needs of a growing website, with an assumption: Have you ‘outgrown’ your original use of utility computing, for whatever reason ? If so, what was the reason? Financial? Technical? Why I’m asking: I’m in the process […]
Datacenter Operating Systems
I’m probably late in getting to this, but seeing the article in the WSJ about the RAD project made me stop to take a look. It appears to be a collection of different projects, all relating to infrastructure deployment/management and various research topics surrounding it. Looks cool so far.
Loving Dashboard Spy.
I’m probably very late to this party, but I just discovered Dashboard Spy. Given the amount of “data porn” that folks in webops look at on a daily basis, this sort of stuff is pretty damn interesting. I’m especially loving the current trend of developing ‘business’ dashboards, since it can fit in quite nicely with […]
Flickr’s hiring a dba.
(Only hardworking supernerds should apply) We’re looking for an experienced and motivated MySQL DBA to help make things go at Flickr. Stuff you’ll do: – Work with engineers on performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning. – Monitor databases for problems and to diagnose where those problems are. – Work with developers and operations to maintain […]
Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo 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.
A new place for Web Ops to talk the talk and walk the walk
There’s a new conference in town, and it looks to have the really good schmitz. Good work Jesse and Steve, I’m really looking forward to this.
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Datacenters can suck. Communication can be great.
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 […]