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Slides for Velocity Talk 2009

  • 23. Jun
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  • Culture, Slides, Talks, Tools, WebOps
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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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  • Tools, velocity conference, Web Ops

Web Ops Visualizations Group on Flickr

  • 16. Dec
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  • Flickr, Tools
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Like lots of operations people, we’re quite addicted to data pr0n here at Flickr. We’ve got graphs for pretty much everything, and add graphs all of the time. We’ve blogged about some of how and why we do it. One thing we’re in the habit of is screenshotting these graphs when things go wrong, right,...
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  • Web Ops

Four chapters of the new book on RoughCuts…

  • 13. Jun
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  • Books, Capacity Planning, Random
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So now there’s chapters 1-4 on Safari RoughCuts. Which means if you don’t mind shelling out the dough, you can take a look at what I’ve been getting up early for every day for the past few months. The working title is “The Art of Capacity Planning” and it’s meant to be a no-nonsense description...
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  • Books, Capacity Planning, Web Ops