CloudDevelop 2014
Columbus, OH
2014-10-17


Here There Be Turtles: Platform Ops in Public Cloud

When I joined a startup already in progress as their first ops hire, I got a crash course in cloud operations. Running databases in EC2 without being on bare metal presents its own challenges; we also began using Hadoop and HBase on EMR, with tragicomic results. What monitoring existed was a twisty maze of half-measures, so improving our Mean Time To Lost Sleep required trying new tools and alerting strategies. And scaling performance meant relying on best practices and gut-feeling hunches. This talk will have appeal for those curious about AWS, about using MapReduce in the cloud, and about whether MongoDB is really “web scale”. (Spoiler alert: lolol.) Come for the EC2 trivia; stay for the table-flipping.

Here There Be Turtles: Platform Ops in Public Cloud from bridgetkromhout

Notes with further reading/viewing & image credits for slides

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Here There Be Turtles - Platform Ops in Public Cloud - Notes

Public cloud has a lot of mysterious corners, like those regions of the map where there used to be dragons. (original image) I've been in ops for a while; a little visual on some of the places I've worked and otherwise participated. The University of Minnesota, 8thBridge, DramaFever, the AWS MN meetup, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. (And DevOps Against Humanity.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/627324241/release-the-game http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Spoonbridge_Cherry.jpg Where I work. I'm at DramaFever, the world's largest streaming video site for international content, and also hiring.