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Transcript
Infrastructure is Secondary Monitorama.eu 2013 – Berlin David Goodlad –
@dgoodlad 1
David Goodlad is... “Web Infrastructure Architect” @ Envato 2
Infrastructure is secondary 3
Infrastructure is secondary 4
Infrastructure is secondary 5
Look at it second... 6
Look at the business first. 7
Why? 8
I’m selfish. 9
Compu’er says no 10
Unselfish needs 11
Our systems exist to perform a function 12
Infrastructure performance is not a measure of business performance 13
Primary & Secondary 14
“Cool Story, Bro” alerts – Ted Dzubia, 2011 15
“# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high”
16
“# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high”
17
“Time to process the most recent photo was unacceptably high”
18
So now you know something is wrong... 19
Correlate 20
Your system metrics have states too 21
Riemann is awesome 22
So, what do we measure? 23
What would get your boss fired? 24
What does your boss’ boss care about? 25
Measure these deeply 26
Measure everything 27
What other data sources can you use? 28
Then share. 29
Thanks! I’m @dgoodlad 30