Metamorphosis

Talk given at Marathon Data Systems on 2012-01-20.

Transcript

1. @kastner & @gmail.com Metamorphosis How We Went From Fear to Fun
3. Billions of Pageviews Each Month
4. 10,000 Production Deployments in 2011
6. Optimization
7. Optimization Fear
8. Optimization Fear Feedback Loops
9. Optimization
10. Sad Engineers are Bad Engineers
11. Communication
12. Mean Time Between Failures
13. Mean Time To Repair
14. Being Dumb
15. Commit to Master Deploy from HEAD
17. Branching in Code
19. FEAR
20. Trust
21. “People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” – Peter Drucker
22. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” – Peter Drucker
23. Open By Default
24. “Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity” – Clay Shirky
25. November code-freeze
26. November code-freeze 949 Deploys
27. Culture > Code
29. Constant Improvement
30. 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
31. StatsD
32. StatsD.increment('registrations')
35. Vertical Line Technology™
36. FIX IT!
37. Blameless Post-mortems
38. Game-day Exercises
39. 6 Change-related incidents in 2010
40. Know what you’re optimizing for
41. A little fear is good. Too much is deadly
42. 10 Iterate 20 GOTO 10
43. Thank you