Why we use GraphicsMagick
Speed: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/BENCHMARKS.html Also, it looks like the GM devs are working on getting OpenMP (parallelism) put into GM processing, which will be a huge boom for multicore...
View ArticleCode Swarm for Config Management
Gil Raphaelli, one of the guys on our Flickr Ops team, put together a Code Swarm animation for the configuration/deployment management tool we use at Flickr to manage our infrastructure. Myles Grant...
View ArticleWeb Ops Visualizations Group on Flickr
Like lots of operations people, we’re quite addicted to data pr0n here at Flickr. We’ve got graphs for pretty much everything, and add graphs all of the time. We’ve blogged about some of how and why we...
View ArticleSpeaking at Web2.0 Expo 2009
Looks like I’m gonna talk about even more nerdy things at the Web2.0 Expo in April. You don’t have to wait for a recession to tighten up your operations. Squeezing more oomph out of your servers (or...
View ArticleSlides from Web2.0 Expo 2009. (and somethin else interestin’)
That was a pretty good time. Saw lots of good and wicked smaht people, and I got a lot of great questions after my talk. The slides are up on slideshare, and here are the PDF slides. Operational...
View ArticleSlides for Velocity Talk 2009
UPDATE: blip.tv has the video of the talk as well, below. Jeez I have some major bed-head. That was a blast! I had never done a ‘duet’ talk before. Here are the slides: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops...
View ArticleUncaching bits in filesystem cache
Domas makes something more useful than I bet most would think: http://mituzas.lt/2009/06/26/uncache/
View ArticleMeanwhile: More Meta-Metrics
Like all sane web organizations, we gather metrics about our infrastructure and applications. As many metrics as we can, as often as we can. These metrics, given the right context, helps us figure out...
View ArticleA Mature Role for Automation: Part I
I’ve been percolating on this post for a long time. Thanks very much to Mark Burgess for reviewing early drafts of it. One of the ideas that permeates our field of web operations is that we can’t have...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Monitoring/Metrics/Alerting Companies
I’d like to open up a dialogue with companies who are selling X-As-A-Service products that are focused on assisting operations and development teams in tracking the health and performance of their...
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