Turtles All the Way Down: Platform Ops in Public Cloud
- 1. Turtles All the Way Down Platform Ops in Public Cloud Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout
- 3. We are the largest online video distributor of international televised content streaming the world's best movies, documentaries and TV shows on demand with professional subtitles. @bridgetkromhout
- 4. Platform ops in public cloud? Do you mean Platform as a Service? How is this different from Infrastructure as a Service? @bridgetkromhout
- 7. (previous gig) SaaS Life normal traffic decision to turn off decision to turn back on accidental removal @bridgetkromhout
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- 11. @bridgetkromhout AWS Regions* (containing availability zones) * for some values of regions: Beijing & Sydney too
- 12. Storage No procurement delays! All the IOPS! No waiting! Yes, cloud storage better than the bad old days in some ways, but with caveats. @bridgetkromhout
- 13. Alphabet Soup: EBS, SSDs, pIOPS Go with SSDs for your Elastic Block Store. EBS-optimized instances = faster network Provisioned IOPS: guaranteed, but prevent bursting @bridgetkromhout
- 14. Story Time! Data stores and sadness (as a service) @bridgetkromhout
- 15. @bridgetkromhout wow. such nosql. very webscale.
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- 17. “a single write operation holds the lock exclusively, and no other read or write operations may share the lock.” @bridgetkromhout
- 18. It’s 4am. Do you know what your EMR cluster is doing? @bridgetkromhout
- 19. StatsD monitoring != alerting @bridgetkromhout
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- 21. If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph of something that isn’t moving yet, just in case it decides to make a run for it. -- Ian Malpass, Etsy @bridgetkromhout measure all the things
- 22. So, back to this platform stuff... ...how exactly do you build and deploy it? @bridgetkromhout
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- 25. orchestration & config management Current: Future possibilities: @bridgetkromhout
- 26. kitten, not unicorn @bridgetkromhout
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- 28. “the game has changed” @littleidea @bridgetkromhout
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- 30. Questions? (and we’re hiring!) @bridgetkromhout