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Boring Is Powerful

Boring Is Powerful

Jon makes the case, at DevOpsDays London 2017, that Boring Is Powerful. There's video of this content at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EUfSpk96M

The Scale Factory

September 07, 2017
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  1. “We have come to know, or rather to believe, that

    boredom is not part of the natural lot of man, but can be avoided by a sufficiently vigorous pursuit of excitement”. - Bertrand Russell, 1930 @jtopper
  2. VERSION DATE NOTABLE FEATURES 1.2 December 2009 1.4 March 2010

    Background index creation. Log rotation. 1.6 August 2010 Sharding & replica sets. 1.8 March 2011 Data journalling. Sparse & covering indices. 2.0 August 2011 Authentication 2.2 July 2012 DB level locking. Backup tool backs up indexes. 2.4 March 2013 RBAC. TLS Support. Modular authentication* 2.6 April 2014 HTTP interface disabled. Audit logging* SNMP* 3.0 March 2015 WiredTiger optional. Large replica sets (50). Query introspection. 3.2 December 2015 WiredTiger default. Encryption at rest* 3.4 November 2016 Passes Jepsen test suite. Views. Log redaction* * Enterprise @jtopper
  3. OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS_ Deployment Upgrades Clustering Load Balancing Scale Up Scale

    Out Monitoring Authentication Logging Capacity Planning Audit Backup Recovery Data Lifecycle Encryption in transit Access Control Packaging License Costs Language Support Encryption at rest Support Availability Performance Tuning Development Environments Hireability Test Harnesses
  4. BORING IS POWERFUL_ Fashionable software carries risk Consider the business

    context Take risks only for differentiators @jtopper