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Infrastructure is Secondary Monitorama.eu 2013 – Berlin David Goodlad – @dgoodlad 1

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David Goodlad is... “Web Infrastructure Architect” @ Envato 2

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Infrastructure is secondary 3

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Infrastructure is secondary 4

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Infrastructure is secondary 5

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Look at it second... 6

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Look at the business first. 7

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Why? 8

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I’m selfish. 9

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Compu’er says no 10

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Unselfish needs 11

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Our systems exist to perform a function 12

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Infrastructure performance is not a measure of business performance 13

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Primary & Secondary 14

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“Cool Story, Bro” alerts – Ted Dzubia, 2011 15

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“# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high” 16

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“# of photo processing jobs in queue is too high” 17

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“Time to process the most recent photo was unacceptably high” 18

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So now you know something is wrong... 19

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Correlate 20

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Your system metrics have states too 21

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Riemann is awesome 22

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So, what do we measure? 23

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What would get your boss fired? 24

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What does your boss’ boss care about? 25

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Measure these deeply 26

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Measure everything 27

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What other data sources can you use? 28

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Then share. 29

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Thanks! I’m @dgoodlad 30