Building Web Applications for the High Scale

How I'm mending the broken relationship between Developers and Operations Engineers in Enterprise environments to make sure we actually scalable web applications.
This talk was presented at http://2013.webcampzg.org/
The video is available http://2013.webcampzg.org/speakers/igor-galic/

Links that don't show up in this PDF, but should:
Vagrant: http://vagrantup.com/
Logstash: http://logstash.net/
Traffic Server: https://trafficserver.apache.org/
fpm: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet
Honeybees: http://heatherdiane.com/Honeybees
What If?: http://what-if.xkcd.com/

Transcript

1. Building Web Applications for
   the High Scale
   

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2. whoami
   Igor Galić / igalic / @hirojin
   Brainsware / Apache / Puppet Labs / Dev♥Ops
   Infrastructure / Infrastructure / Infrastructure /
   Infrastructure
   

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3. What this talk is not about
   

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4. What is scaling anyways?
   Performance
   

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5. What is scaling anyways?
   Physical Limits
   

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6. What is scaling anyways?
   Financial Limits
   

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7. What this talk really is about
   Horizontal Scaling
   

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8. What this talk really is about
   Scaling used to be hard
   

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9. What this talk really is about
   but then we turned computers from
   

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10. What this talk really is about
    into this
    

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11. Why is scaling still so hard?
    

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12. DevOps
    

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13. DevOps
    ...
    

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14. DevOps
    i can't server, because
    

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15. DevOps
    Let's reinvent the wheel
    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn://
    

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16. DevOps
    chmod 777
    as Configuration Management
    

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17. DevOps
    ...
    

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18. Dev♥Ops
    

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19. Dev♥Ops
    works on my machines
    

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20. Dev♥Ops
    collect logs
    

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21. Dev♥Ops
    Use The Protocol
    and use Traffic Server.
    

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22. Dev♥Ops
    Use packages
    and use fpm.
    

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23. Dev♥Ops
    Automate
    

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24. Dev♥Ops
    Share the pain
    because Empathy doesn't scale over distance from Nagios.
    

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25. Dev♥Ops
    New abstractions
    

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26. Dev♥Ops
    explore the frontiers
    

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27. Thank you
    deafening applause
    

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