Beyond the Code 2014
Ottawa, Canada
2014-09-19
Turtles All the Way Down: 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.
Notes & image credits for slides
@bridgetkromhout Pizza as a service is great way to explain. I'll be adding this to my toolkit. #beyondthecode
— Miranda Gray (@mirgray) September 19, 2014
Listening to @dramafever operations engineer @bridgetkromhout talk, my worlds finally collide haha #beyondthecode
— Keiko Climaco (@keikomonster11) September 19, 2014
. @bridgetkromhout explains the gradient from on prem hosting to SAAS is like making pizza vs take and bake vs delivery vs dining out.
— Ellen Chisa (@ellenchisa) September 19, 2014
@shopify @alambzz have curated a great group of speakers at #beyondthecode @bridgetkromhout on stage now talking devops
— vicki saunders (@vickis) September 19, 2014
Yayyyy @bridgetkromhout Here there be turtles! Amazing pic.twitter.com/pnyJW92Sf6
— Anna Lambert (@anna_lambert_) September 19, 2014
I have to say watching another woman talking about optimizing AWS across multiple regions fills me with joy #beyondthecode
— Kim Moir (@kmoir) September 19, 2014
Great ops advice on HDDs with EBS vs SSDs (and other fun alphabet soup) from @bridgetkromhout at @beyondthecode14 (Hint: SSD is faster)
— Sheri Finlay (@SheriFinlay) September 19, 2014
@bridgetkromhout totalling killing it at #beyondthecode pic.twitter.com/887yLLFSbd
— Anna Lambert (@anna_lambert_) September 19, 2014
Facebook goes down. Californians panic and call 911. @bridgetkromhout #beyondthecode
— lyndsay (@lyndsaymina) September 19, 2014
This tweet of awesome slide from @bridgetkromhout is for @ansate #etsydata #beyondthecode pic.twitter.com/C61bHW6atC
— Kronda (@kronda) September 19, 2014
The http://t.co/HqdwOTVw6f! Who is watching @bridgetkromhout right now? pic.twitter.com/EH1SF5dCg0
— Anna Lambert (@anna_lambert_) September 19, 2014
A very informative talk about “The Cloud” by @bridgetkromhout #beyondthecode— Kat Drobnjakovic (@KatDrobnjakovic) September 19, 2014
@bridgetkromhout Great talk. Are your slides available to view online?
— Voziv (@Voziv) September 19, 2014
@bridgetkromhout wanted to ask; didn't want to take up space, is sharding a scalable/practical solution to the mDB DB write lock issues?
— Leviathan's Fangs (@adaptable_being) September 19, 2014
@bridgetkromhout Your #beyondthecode talk was really interesting, informative and fun! Thanks!
— Benjamin Marsteau (@bmarsteau) September 19, 2014