You don’t have to wait for a recession to tighten up your operations. Squeezing more oomph out of your servers
(or instances!) is always a good thing, and streamlining how you handle site issues is too. We’ll will talk
about what we’ve been doing at Flickr to get more out of less from both our machines and our humans.
Capacity Hacks: diagonal scaling, tuning opportunities, and some other stupid performance tricks.
Ops “runbook” Hacks: Server and process self-healing, application-level measurement, ops communication tools,
and some worst-case scenario tricks to have in your back pocket.
John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for twenty years in many different environments: biotech, government, online media, social networking, and e-commerce. 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 infrastructure at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster, and Flickr, and Etsy. He served as SVP of Engineering and then Chief Technology Officer at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.
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