Treating Your Infrastructure Like Garbage

In a day and age of elastic technologies, how easy is it to simply toss a server away and start with a fresh one?

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1. Treating Your Infrastructure Like Garbage Saturday, April 20, 13
2. Mike Fiedler, Datadog Twitter: @mikefiedler Saturday, April 20, 13
3. What do we care about? • servers • uptime • load • alerts Saturday, April 20, 13
4. What should we care about? • services • uptime • performance • alerts Saturday, April 20, 13
5. What’s the difference? • approach • perspective • business goals Saturday, April 20, 13
6. Stop server hugging! (C) GigaOM Saturday, April 20, 13
7. Everything fails. Be ready for it. http://youtu.be/drQlSptFXXI Watch this: Saturday, April 20, 13
8. So, how? Saturday, April 20, 13
9. Popular stack LB Data User Web Saturday, April 20, 13
10. Choose elasticity • Use distributed, self-healing storage Data Saturday, April 20, 13
11. Web Choose elasticity • Design web tier to tolerate failure • session state? • application behavior? service = n + 1 Saturday, April 20, 13
12. Choose elasticity • Monitor web tier health • Not always as easy at it seems! LB Saturday, April 20, 13
13. Choose elasticity User Saturday, April 20, 13
14. Missing piece? LB Data User Web Saturday, April 20, 13
15. Monitoring LB Data Web User Monitor Saturday, April 20, 13
16. [demo] https://github.com/miketheman/fullstack Saturday, April 20, 13
17. Tools used • AWS EC2 • MongoDB • Bottle.py • Python • Apache HTTP • HAProxy • Siege • Chef • Ruby • Spiceweasel • Datadog • Money Saturday, April 20, 13
18. Skills employed • System architecture design • Performance monitoring • Capacity & disaster planning Saturday, April 20, 13
19. What did you just see? • A design pattern • Experiencing failure and recovery • Disposable servers, valuable service Saturday, April 20, 13
20. #HugOps Saturday, April 20, 13