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kastner
January 20, 2012
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Metamorphosis
Talk given at Marathon Data Systems on 2012-01-20.
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Transcript
@kastner & @gmail.com Metamorphosis How We Went From Fear to
Fun
None
Billions of Pageviews Each Month
10,000 Production Deployments in 2011
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Optimization
Optimization Fear
Optimization Fear Feedback Loops
Optimization
Sad Engineers are Bad Engineers
Communication
Mean Time Between Failures
Mean Time To Repair
Being Dumb
Commit to Master Deploy from HEAD
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Branching in Code
None
FEAR
Trust
“People who don't take risks generally make about two big
mistakes a year.” – Peter Drucker
People who do take risks generally make about two big
mistakes a year.” – Peter Drucker
Open By Default
“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity” – Clay
Shirky
November code-freeze
November code-freeze 949 Deploys
Culture > Code
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Constant Improvement
Text "My strategy has always been: be wrong as fast
as we can, Which basically means, we're gonna screw up, … Let's not be afraid of that." – Andrew Stanton
StatsD
StatsD.increment('registrations')
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Vertical Line Technology™
FIX IT!
Blameless Post-mortems
Game-day Exercises
6 Change-related incidents in 2010
Know what you’re optimizing for
A little fear is good. Too much is deadly
10 Iterate 20 GOTO 10
Thank you