Formula 1 and DevOps are both about maximizing the throughput of your systems through relentless focus on improving performance and reliability.| constructolution
it would take 12 years of uninterrupted service to be able to take a 1 hour outage and still be at five nines.| constructolution
I wanted to put up some simple webapps. In the past, I’ve always had an Internet-connected server handy for such a purpose – either in a spare room in my house or a cheap VPS (I miss you unixshell!) But I don’t anymore. So where to put these webapps? Even a t2.nano is $40 a […]| constructolution
People have asked me, “Are we doing DevOps, or are we doing SRE?” I’ve also heard (and this is worse): “We’re an SRE team – we don’t do DevOps.” These distinctions don’t make sense, because SRE and DevOps aren’t actually different things. SRE is DevOps. To be more precise, SRE is a specific implementation of […]| constructolution
I just finished reading Theo Schlossnagle’s Scalable Internet Architectures. This book is seven years old, but the concepts in it are still as current and useful as they were when the book was published. If your job is to design, build, run, or manage systems at scale, this book is worth reading. Now, scale ain’t […]| constructolution
Wearing the pager. It’s a fact of life for many of us ops folks. I’ve taken part in many a discussion from a management perspective about how oncall duty should be compensated. When the people doing the talking are pointy-haired-manager types who haven’t done oncall themselves, their starting position is often similar to the “per […]| constructolution
Earlier this month I walked into Cloudscaling’s offices for the last time as an employee, almost two and a half years after I started. I loved my job. I think Cloudscaling’s future is super bright. While there, I learned a ton, I got to work with fantastic people, and I got to work on cool […]| constructolution
Sheryl Sandberg called the Netflix Culture Deck possibly “the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.” For my part, I dig it, and I think it’s a powerful draw to potential employees. So when Adrian Cockroft was tweeting about #netflixculture with gems from the deck, I sent him a tongue-in-cheek DM saying “Hey! If you keep […]| constructolution
Netflix has once again set the bar. Not with their technology this time – but with their organizing. I just got back from the first meetup of the NetflixOSS group – and it was spectacular. Let me walk you through it. The intro was given by Ruslan Meshenberg, and contained a wonderful story about the email exchange that […]| constructolution
When HP announced their cloud was going GA, lots of the coverage said that the cloud came with a 99.95% SLA. While that is technically accurate, it is also very misleading. People may assume (and e…| constructolution
