…people's lives, they share many of the same complexity characteristics. Dev and Ops can learn an abundance from how the feedback loops between these aviation systems are designed and how these systems are operated.
In this talk Lindsay will cover what happened on the flight, why the mainstream explanation doesn't add up, how design assumptions can impact people's ability to respond to rapidly developing situations, and how to improve your operational effectiveness when dealing …
- danieltenner.com: Dealing with impossible crises
- Signal vs. Noise: Seeing the world, on the clock
- Tammer Saleh: Tools that make my life easier.
- Cameron Yule: The Best Music Of 2007
- Global Nerdy: Looking For a Job at Shopify? Come to Ruby Job Fair 2012 and Talk to Me!
- Orlando Ruby Users Group: jQuery Air 2 - Beta Test
Over the next several weeks Opscode Engineering and Ops teams will be upgrading a number of systems in Hosted Chef. These upgrades are the result of months of behind the scenes hard work. We've been quiet, not because we don't care, but because upgrading large complex systems like Hosted Chef requires lots of planning to get it right. On the contrary, we care deeply about our users and their experiences using all the many flavors of Chef. I'd like to share some details …
- Opscode Blog: Hosted Chef Upgrades Addendum
- Opscode Blog: Open The Bifrost!
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 067: Cooking up a Cloud (with Chef & EC2)
- paperplanes: Conference Talks You Should Be Watching
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Incentivising automated changes
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
…Transaction Traces feature to dig deeper into the root of a problem. "The Ops team has New Relic up and running all day long," says MacConnell. " Transaction Traces is a great precision tool for our engineers, because they can sit down and say, ‘ OK, we're making 81 different calls to Memcache, and this one page load is bringing us down.' So let's focus on that and fix it."
And it also gives Manheim's entire Development group unprecedented …
…indexing war stories if you're joining us !
Another great thing about indexing topic is this is something both MySQL Developers and MySQL DBAs and Ops people need to know about so nobody will be bored.
The post Speaking at MySQL Meetups in Atlanta,GA and Charlotte,NC appeared first on MySQL Performance Blog .
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- occasionally useful: ACID Cloud databases to keep an eye on
- Jason Seifer: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion
- Signal vs. Noise: How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence)
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- a timocracy of one: The unbearable flexibility of schemalesness
Just like Ops, but in Bytes instead of transaction counts. I have seen production clusters having performance issues where I noticed that the Ops and Bytes went to Zeros on all the nodes for a few seconds, and then a massive 90M+ replication transaction came through. Using the Up and Dn columns, I could easily see which node was the originator of the transaction.
Flow
Flow gives some information about Flow Control events. Galera has some sophisticated ways of metering …
- Giles Bowkett: My Plan For Uncollapse: Drums
- processi: lunch with Keith Swenson
- Positive Incline: Book review: "Kanban", by David J Anderson
- Lessons Learned: Amazing lean startup resources
* Adrian Cockcroft defines Netflix's Ops, DevOps and NoOps strategies.
* Our friends at Heroku produce another great case study , this time on mutual customer Rapportive.
* EMC announces their acquisition of Pivotal Labs.
* The development team at OMGPOP share more tips for using New Relic, Redis and Resque.
* InfoWold explains why enterprises are embracing the Joomla open source content management system.
- Ruby Inside: New Relic RPM Officially Supports Rack and Sinatra - Finally!
- Hackido: Quick Tip: Page caching and POST in Rails
- RailsLab: State of the Stack: A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report - 05 October 2010
- RailsBridge News: Do One Thing for Rails 3 on January 16th and 17th
- Rails Inside: Seed: A New Rails Powered Open Source CMS With In-Page Admin Interface
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona Server with XtraDB Case Study, Behind the Scenes
You've Got Questions We've Got HighScalability:
1 trillion bits per second : IBM's Holey Optochip; Scale of the Universe : 2; Infinite wireless : Vortex radio waves; 105,000 Servers : Akamai.
Quotable quotes:
@ CodingFabian : IaaS = Ops without Hardware; PaaS = Devs without Ops; SaaS = Business without Devs
@ dthume : "Fault tolerance implies scalability" - Joe Armstrong,
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 319 - Twelve factor
In Resolved: Widespread Application Outage , Heroku tells their story of how they dealt with the Amazon outage . While taking 100% responsibility for the downtime, they also shared a number of the strategies they used to bring their service back to full working order.
One of Heroku's most interesting strategies wasn't a technical hack at all, but how they consciously went about deploying their Ops personnel in response to the emergency. An outline of their strategy is:
- Heroku: Post-mortem on April 21 Outage
- RubyLearning Blog: Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby by Chang Sau Sheong
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Heroku - Gold Sponsor
- Trevor Turk: Caching assets in a Rails 3 app on Heroku
- blog.mhartl | Michael Hartl's tech blog: Deploying to Heroku with Rails 3.0.0.rc
- Ruby Inside: The Heroku & IndexTank "Build A Search-Based Webapp" Holiday Challenge
…Engine Yard University is much more than just this first course. We're working on a full curriculum for enterprise teams covering everything from Agile to Scaling, and for every member of the team from Ops to Management.
We'll also be bringing the show to your door. Let us know if you're interested in a custom, in-house workshop for your team.
Reserve your seat for Zero to Rails 3 now!
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Announcing Engine Yard University: Zero to Rails 3
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing EncryptedCookieStore plugin for Rails 2.3
- SKORKS: Using Ruby On Rails With Oracle And Deploying It All To Tomcat
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Weekend Links
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Speaker Sponsors
…Engine Yard University is much more than just this first course. We're working on a full curriculum for enterprise teams covering everything from Agile to Scaling, and for every member of the team from Ops to Management.
We'll also be bringing the show to your door. Let us know if you're interested in a custom, in-house workshop for your team.
Reserve your seat for Zero to Rails 3 now!
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Announcing Engine Yard University: Zero to Rails 3
- 4 Lines of Code: Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing EncryptedCookieStore plugin for Rails 2.3
- SKORKS: Using Ruby On Rails With Oracle And Deploying It All To Tomcat
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Speaker Sponsors