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Transcript

  1. Infrastructure is Secondary Monitorama.eu 2013 – Berlin David Goodlad –

    @dgoodlad 1

  2. David Goodlad is... “Web Infrastructure Architect” @ Envato 2

  3. Infrastructure is secondary 3

  4. Infrastructure is secondary 4

  5. Infrastructure is secondary 5

  6. Look at it second... 6

  7. Look at the business first. 7

  8. Why? 8

  9. I’m selfish. 9

  10. Compu’er says no 10

  11. Unselfish needs 11

  12. Our systems exist to perform a function 12

  13. Infrastructure performance is not a measure of business performance 13

  14. Primary & Secondary 14

  15. “Cool Story, Bro” alerts – Ted Dzubia, 2011 15

  16. “# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high”

    16

  17. “# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high”

    17

  18. “Time to process the most recent photo was unacceptably high”

    18

  19. So now you know something is wrong... 19

  20. Correlate 20

  21. Your system metrics have states too 21

  22. Riemann is awesome 22

  23. So, what do we measure? 23

  24. What would get your boss fired? 24

  25. What does your boss’ boss care about? 25

  26. Measure these deeply 26

  27. Measure everything 27

  28. What other data sources can you use? 28

  29. Then share. 29

  30. Thanks! I’m @dgoodlad 30