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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