DevOps @Scale (Greek Tragedy in 3 Acts)
summary
Startup grows from 3 to ~26 to 100 engineers and the operations story follows: initial firefighting with Jenkins + AWS Beanstalk and a left-pad outage forces manual fixes, then a duty rota, Sumologic/ELK logs and Pingdom monitoring, then formal RCAs that resize a queue to 42 queue size and surface that 65% of defects were S1/S2 while only 19% required code fixes. A GitHub-style incident shows six hours of customer data lost after five backup/replication methods fail, prompting APM, Docker, Artifactory, Blazemeter and service-virtualization adoption.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to DevOps at scale
- 4:28Act 1: The fire brigade
- 13:45Act 2: The smoke alarm
- 29:25Act 3: The perfect storm
- 51:21Epilogue and key takeaways
