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Pets versus Cattle: servers evolved

Phil Cryer
February 24, 2015

Pets versus Cattle: servers evolved

An excite talk I gave talking about Pets versus Cattle and the pros and cons of this approach going forward. TL;DR having more cattle than pets will make datacenter more efficient, shift the burden of uptime towards more of a DevOps role and provide a smoother development and deployment model. Let's do this!

Phil Cryer

February 24, 2015
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  1. Pets versus Cattle: servers evolved! St Louis, MO 02/24/2015 Phil

    Cryer / @fak3r! Automation Engineer / hacker!
  2. "When one of them gets sick, you shoot 'em in

    the head and! replace 'em with a new one” Randy Bias, CEO of Cloudscaling, 2012! Pets! Cattle!!
  3. Major disruption! (aka #fail)! Decision?! Server offline!! Fix ASAP or

    you’re fired!! Unnoticed by ! end-users! Kill server, and start another! Pets! Cattle!
  4. “…a data center full of vanity free servers… is more

    efficient and less expensive to build and run.”! ! 38% more efficient ! 24% less expensive! Hardware the "cattle" model!