John Allspaw
CTO, Etsy

John has worked in systems operations for over ten years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster.com and Flickr.com, where he currently manages the Operations Engineering group.

He is the author of “The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources”

Sessions

1:00pm–1:45pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr

Operations
Location: Regency 1 Level: Intermediate

John Allspaw (Etsy), Paul Hammond (-)

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Communications and cooperation between development and operations isn't optional, it's mandatory. Flickr takes the idea of "release early, release often" to an extreme - on a normal day there are 10 full deployments of the site to our servers. This session discusses why this rate of change works so well, and the culture and technology needed to make it possible. Read more.

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