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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...

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Code 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...

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Web 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...

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Speaking 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...

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Slides 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...

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Slides 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...

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Uncaching bits in filesystem cache

Domas makes something more useful than I bet most would think: http://mituzas.lt/2009/06/26/uncache/

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Meanwhile: 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...

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A 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...

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An 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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