Web Operations: Keeping the Data On TimeA web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll offer insights into this evolving field. You'll learn stories from the trenches--from builders of some of the biggest sites on the Web--on what's necessary to help a site thrive.
Contributors include: John Allspaw |
From inside the book
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... Running a Postmortem 223 Postmortem Follow-Up 224 Conclusion 226 14 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Anoop Nagwani Data Asset Inventory 227 Data Protection 231 Capacity Planning 240 Storage Sizing ...
... runs. Processor architectures, memory systems, storage systems, network switching and routing, why Layer 2 protocols work the way they do, HTTP, database concepts...the list could go on for pages. Having the basics down pat is essential ...
... run at things. I have some advice for individuals entering this field with little experience: be patient. However, this adage is typically paradoxical, as your patience very well may run out before you comprehend it. Discipline.
... run into along the way. Picnik runs a pretty typical LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) stack (see Figure 2-1). However, our servers don't do a lot when compared to many other sites. The vast majority of the Picnik experience is ...
... running on top of Xen, so all I had to do was make some slight modifications to our existing render VM image to fit ... run. One of those is our RenderServer code, which connects to the queue to pull work to do. The first thing I did was ...
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5 Infrastructure As Code | 65 |
6 Monitoring | 81 |
7 How Complex Systems Fail | 107 |
8 Community Management and Web Operations | 117 |
10 Dev and Ops Collaboration and Cooperation | 139 |
UserFacing Metrics | 157 |
12 Relational Database Strategy and Tactics for the Web | 187 |
The Art and Science of Postmortems | 219 |
14 Storage | 227 |
15 Nonrelational Databases | 247 |
16 Agile Infrastructure | 263 |
17 Things That Go Bump in the Night and How to Sleep Through Them | 285 |