turtles all the way down: platform ops in public cloud

Turtles All the Way Down

Platform Ops in Public Cloud

Bridget Kromhout

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Platform ops in public cloud?Do you mean Platform as a Service?

How is this different from Infrastructure as a Service?

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(previous gig) SaaS Life

normal traffic

decision to turn off

decision to turnback on

accidental removal

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Platform?

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AWS Regions*(containing availability zones)

* for some values of regions: Beijing & Sydney too

StorageNo procurement delays!All the IOPS!No waiting!

Yes, cloud storage better than the bad old days in some ways, but with caveats.

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Alphabet Soup: EBS, SSDs, pIOPSGo with SSDs for your Elastic Block Store.

EBS-optimized instances = faster network

Provisioned IOPS: guaranteed, but prevent bursting

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Story Time!

Data stores and sadness (as a service)

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wow. such nosql. very webscale.

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“a single write operation holds the lock exclusively, and no other read or write operations may share the lock.”

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It’s 4am. Do you know what your EMR cluster is doing?

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StatsD

monitoring != alerting

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If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph of something that isn’t moving yet, just in case it decides to make a run for it. -- Ian Malpass, Etsy

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measure all the things

So, back to this platform stuff...

...how exactly do you build and deploy it?

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orchestration & config management

Current: Future possibilities:

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kitten, not unicorn

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“the game

has changed”

@littleidea

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Questions? (and we’re hiring!)

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