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Entries tagged “operations”
Jesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automationShifts for sysadmins and a surprising use for Chef.
OpsCode chief community officer Jesse Robbins discusses cloud infrastructure automation and the most surprising use of Chef he's seen so far.
Top Stories: April 9-13, 2012Carsharing boosts city governments, why complex systems fail, and what web ops teams could do with big data.
This week on O'Reilly: How Zipcar's technology is saving big money for U.S. city governments, why scalable clouds need simple parts, and pondering the possibilities of web ops and machine learning.
Operations, machine learning and premature babiesAn astonishing connection between web ops and medical care.
Machine learning and access to huge amounts of data allowed IBM to make an important discovery about premature infants. If web operations teams could capture everything — network data, environmental data, I/O subsystem data, etc. — what would they find out?
The feedback economyCompanies that employ data feedback loops are poised to dominate their industries.
We're moving beyond an information economy. The efficiencies and optimizations that come from constant and iterative feedback will soon become the norm for businesses and governments.
What's on the agenda for Velocity EuropeSteve Souders previews Velocity Europe 2011.
Velocity co-chair Steve Souders highlights a number of Velocity Europe speakers and sessions that caught his attention.
Velocity 2011A tribe of web performance and operations pros is pushing the web forward.
As we approach the fourth Velocity conference, here's a look at how the web performance and operations communities came together, what they've done to improve the web experience, and the work that lies ahead.
Operations: The secret sauce revisitedThe forces of "technical debt" apply to computational infrastructure.
An investment in web operations can yield big returns, both financially and competitively. But a lack of understanding prevents many companies from taking appropriate steps. Guest blogger Andrew Clay Shafer makes a case for web ops as the "secret sauce" by examining the forces of technical debt.
Creating cultural change
At Velocity 2010, John Rauser presented four funny and powerful examples of cultural change, from a campaign at his office to get people to fill the coffee pot after taking the last cup, to an award winning advertising campaign. This talk explains how to "sneak past people's mental filters" and make things happen....
On the performance of cloudsA study ran cloud providers through four tests. Here's some of the results.
Bitcurrent and Webmetrics ran five cloud providers through a series of tests: a small object, a large object, a million calculations, and a 500,000-row table scan. Here's some of the results and lessons learned.
How Facebook satisfied a need for speedFacebook boosted speed 2x. Director of engineering Robert Johnson explains how.
Robert Johnson, Facebook's director of engineering and a speaker at the upcoming Velocity and OSCON conferences, discusses an in-depth optimization and rewrite project that boosted Facebook's speed 2x.
Velocity Culture: Web Operations, DevOps, etc...
Velocity 2010 is happening on June 22-24 (right around the corner!). This year we've added third track, Velocity Culture, dedicated to exploring what we've learned about how great teams and organizations work together to succeed at scale.
Web Operations, or WebOps, is what many of us have been calling these ideas for years. Recently the term "DevOps" has become a kind of rallying cry that is resonating with many, along with variations on Agile Operations. 
White House moves Recovery.gov to Amazon's cloud
Recovery.gov will be the first government website to be hosted within Amazon.com's public cloud.
Preparing for the realtime webHow the shift to realtime will affect the web (and why info overload is overblown).
The stream of updates and links that powers the realtime web is giving static websites a run for their money. In this Q&A, "Building the Realtime User Experience" author Ted Roden discusses the impact of the realtime web on developers and users.
What will the browser look like in five years?Opera's Charles McCathieNevile on the web browser's near-term future.
The web browser was just another computer application five years ago. Now, it's become not just a portal to the Internet, but an application hub as well. In this Q&A, Opera's Charles McCathieNevile looks ahead to the web browser's next five years.
Big data analytics: From data scientists to business analysts
The growing popularity of Big Data management tools (Hadoop; MPP, real-time SQL, NoSQL databases; and others) means many more companies can handle large amounts of data. But how do companies analyze and mine their vast amounts of data? For companies that already have large amounts of data in Hadoop, there's room for even simpler tools that would allow business users to directly interact with Big Data.
Twitter By The Numbers
I collected some interesting stats from today's presentations at Chirp. Over a thousand people attended the conference and the numbers below attest to how vibrant the Twitter platform is. Today's announced API enhancements (e.g., user streams, annotations) will make the Twitter ecosystem even more interesting: 1. # of registered users: 105,779,710 (1,500% growth over the last three years.) 2. #...
Web operators are brain surgeonsOur increased reliance on web-based intelligence makes speed and reliability even more important.
As we become more dependent on our collective consciousness, web operators will be much more involved in end-user experience measurement, from application design to real user monitoring. We're in the century of the distributed nervous system, and web operators are its brain surgeons.
Brian Aker on post-Oracle MySQLA deep look at Oracle's motivations and MySQL's future
In time for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo, Brian Aker discussed a number of topics with us, including Oracle's motivations for buying Sun and the rise of NoSQL.
Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan
I've puzzled over Google's Fiber project ever since they announced it. It seemed too big, too hubristic (even for a company that's already big and has earned the right to hubris) -- and also not a business Google would want to be in. But the FCC's announcement of their plans to widen broadband Internet access in the US puts Google Fiber in a new context. The FCC's plans are cast in terms of upgrading and expanding the network infrastructure. That's a familiar debate, and Google is a familiar participant. This is really just an extension of the "network neutrality" debate that has been going on with fits and starts over the past few years.
Code review redux (good news from GitHub)
I wrote in 2008 about Review Board, a code review package I'd tried and liked. Unfortunately our developers didn't like it as much as I did, and having learned my lesson (thanks, FogBugz), I declined to impose a tool choice on them. They chose Gerrit, instead, which is more tightly bound to Git, and has some nice features related to that (such as pushing to master from a button in the UI when the review is complete). The rest of the UI is very unpolished, but has been getting progressively better.
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