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Transcript
Context & Contingency Aaron Suggs
Thank you Jen, Joe, Ann Marie, Kaete, Chris, Mark, and
Katie!
Aaron Suggs ktheory Ops Engineering
helps creative projects come to life
1. ELK 2. Management
“It’s not a promotion, it’s a career change” — Lindsay
Holmwood MGMT 101
Kyle Burckhard built it @talaris
Business Requirements
“Look at the massive explosion in operational software offerings over
the past 5-6 years.” — Charity Majors
Hosted SAAS
Maybe Splunk?
ELK
None
App logs Vendor logs lograge S3 Event filebeat SQS worker
logstash (+S3) logstash AWS Elasticsearch Service (with Kibana)
Proof of concept
!
filebeat with real data!
filebeat with real data! “Do no harm”
Trivia Time!
Trivia Time! Why might a disk be 100% full after
you delete several large files?
Answer " A process has open file handles (use lsof)
What to do?
What to do? - Upgrade it! Thx GitHub.
What to do? - Upgrade it! Thx GitHub. - Restart
it.
What to do? - Upgrade it! Thx GitHub. - Restart
it.
AWS Elasticsearch vs. DIY on EC2
None
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable ✅ ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable Hard to debug Lots of visibility ✅ ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable Hard to debug Lots of visibility ✅ ✅ ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable Hard to debug Lots of visibility Aligned w/ our use ✅ ✅ ✅
AWS Elasticsearch DIY on EC2 Less dev attention* More dev
attention Less flexible Flexible, adaptable Hard to debug Lots of visibility Aligned w/ our use ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Rails log & Logstash
Rails log & Logstash
Lograge github.com/roidrage/lograge
When you show devs Kibana
When you show devs Kibana
MVP = better than alternative
T-Shaped skills
T-Shaped skills Me AWS Ruby
T-Shaped skills Me AWS Ruby Kyle AWS Ruby Docker
T-Shaped skills Me AWS Ruby Kyle AWS Ruby Docker ?
Distributed systems Go
Ingesting vendor logs - S3 access logs - CDN access
logs - CloudTrail logs
S3 Events -> SQS -> shoryuken ruby worker -> logstash
S3 Events -> SQS -> shoryuken ruby worker -> logstash
re-import old logs
Autoscaling!
Trivia Time!
Trivia Time! What’s the bottleneck after you scale logstash?
Answer " 100% Elasticsearch CPU
Answer " Then it crashes. $ 100% Elasticsearch CPU
None
Mitigating Burnout MGMT 102
Solution: Pairing 1. Fosters career growth 2. Cross-training 3. Team
bonding
Summary
Summary 1. Mind the skills of your team
Summary 1. Mind the skills of your team 2. Know
the next-best alternative
Summary 1. Mind the skills of your team 2. Know
the next-best alternative 3. Consider a tool’s community
Thank you! ktheory