DevOps Without The "Ops" – A Fallacy? A Dream? Or Both?
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Claims running a Ruby on Rails stack at 4,000 requests per second and 400 updates per second with 99.97% uptime while growing traffic 100x in six months and deploying 5–6 times a day. Builds automated infrastructure with Chef, HAProxy fronting app, search and DB, Redis + fallback overflow for jobs, Memcached, DNS Made Easy for failover, Circonus dashboards, hosted on Joyent, no separate Ops team, engineers take on on‑call work and achieve low page rates.
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- 0:00DevOps without A fallacy? A dream?
- 0:44WANE Wanelo is the digital mall of the f the most amazing
- 2:17How much traffic does
- 3:49What the heck is Devo
- 4:41Traditional "Heavy" Ag
- 5:35Traditional Operations
- 10:10Automation and Dep
- 11:45Incremental Deployme
- 12:59Fault tolerant infrast
- 14:41Resilience keeps you sle
- 15:11What the hell Makara?
- 15:27automatically retries it replica goes down
- 18:11Alert only on what's Nagios is great for visibility • Not great for knowing when to because the site is on fire
- 18:41Obsessive monitorin
- 19:30DevOps, really, is ju








