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The Two Sides to Google Infrastructure for Ever...

The Two Sides to Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else

My talk from Velocity Santa Clara. The format was a debate. Between myself. Looking at the pros and cons around adopting software and practices from other organisations wholesale, using the GIFEE meme as an example.

Gareth Rushgrove

June 22, 2016
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  1. Taking opposing viewpoints on the same issue, as a way

    of exploring it in-depth Gareth Rushgrove
  2. The talk is split into two parts; a For part

    and an Against part Gareth Rushgrove
  3. I’d like to explore: - Technical practice evolution - How

    we adopt software - The organisational context Gareth Rushgrove
  4. Successful companies will look like Google in the future, so

    we should adopt Google-like software and practices today Gareth Rushgrove
  5. You’re probably: 1 Struggling with distributed systems 2 Missing out

    on machine learning 3 Wondering how to scale operations Gareth Rushgrove
  6. (without introducing more risk) GFS = HDFS BigTable = HBase

    Protocol Buffers = Thrift or Avro (serialization) Stubby = Thrift or Avro (RPC) ColumnIO = Parquet Dremel = Impala Omega = Mesos Blaze = Pants or Buck FlumeJava = Crunch Logsaver = Scribe or Flume Millwheel = Storm or Samza? Borgmon/Monarch = Graphite Dapper = Zipkin 2014 from @avibryant, @joshwills, @skamille, @marius, @wickman Gareth Rushgrove
  7. - Orchestration - Logging - Configuration - Self-healing - Storage

    Gareth Rushgrove - Load balancing - Service discovery - Scaling - Batch workloads - Lots more
  8. - Nearest neighbour - Linear regression - Recurrent neural networks

    - Multilayer perceptron - Lots more Gareth Rushgrove
  9. SRE: Have software engineers do operations Gareth Rushgrove Dan Luu,

    ex Google ” “ http://danluu.com/google-sre-book/
  10. (without introducing more risk) Gareth Rushgrove Dev SRE Ops From

    http://web.devopstopologies.com/ by Matthew Skelton
  11. The unfamiliar: - Error budget - Strong software engineering skills

    - 50% operations work cap Gareth Rushgrove
  12. So much of the information in the SRE book makes

    PERFECT sense if you’re Google Gareth Rushgrove John Vincent, Ops Hero ” “
  13. <1% of US workers are software engineers or programmers Gareth

    Rushgrove US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2002. 1,069,000 jobs in working age population of 185million
  14. Goal of SRE team isn’t zero outages – SRE and

    product devs are incentive aligned to spend the error budget to get maximum feature velocity Gareth Rushgrove Dan Luu, ex Google ” “ http://danluu.com/google-sre-book/
  15. What if you’re operating an air traffic control system or

    a nuclear power station? Your goal is probably closer to zero outages Gareth Rushgrove
  16. bringing a software engineering perspective to a problem isn’t always

    the best or right solution Gareth Rushgrove ” “ John Vincent, Ops Hero
  17. If a human operator needs to touch your system during

    normal operations, you have a bug. The definition of normal changes as your systems grow Gareth Rushgrove Carla Geisser, Google SRE ” “
  18. What is normal for Google may not be suitable for

    your organisation Gareth Rushgrove
  19. Your startup with a single-purpose application does not have the

    luxury of having your operations team say I’m sorry you’re over your error budget Gareth Rushgrove John Vincent, Ops Hero ” “
  20. The technology we run, and how we run it, are

    interlinked Gareth Rushgrove
  21. (without introducing more risk) The field of Sociotechnical Systems suggests

    that all human systems include both a technical system and a social system Gareth Rushgrove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution#Technological_coevolution
  22. (without introducing more risk) Better outcomes are usually obtained by

    a reciprocal process of joint optimization, through which both the technical system and the social system change Gareth Rushgrove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution#Technological_coevolution