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Practical Configuration Practices
We’ve established that it’s way simple1 to manage configurations across a large number of servers. This is great for operating data centers. It’s also great for code promotion: by using configuration...
View ArticleReleases and Checksums
Big sympathies for my peers and compatriots over at Bioware Austin today. The live SW:TOR servers are down for the next seven hours or so after a deployment issue resulted in old data pushed live....
View ArticleClouds and MMOs
One of the fun things about interviewing is the times you wind up geeking out about tech or business with a simpatico interviewer. I have been talking to a good number of such people this week, and one...
View ArticleIt’s All Code
I have been pretty busy with travel lately, but it turns out to be sort of reasonable to write on an iPad while flying. This post is brought to you by JetBlue. Let’s talk about a few best engineering...
View ArticleGo Team Elder!
Big cheers to my old team and friends at ZeniMax Online Studios, who got to announce Elder Scrolls Online yesterday. Note: announcement Web site living in the cloud. Very nice.
View ArticleGDC Online
I’m very pleased to let y’all know that I’ll be presenting at GDC Online in Austin this October. My session is “Devops: Bringing Development and Operations Together for Better Everything” and it’ll be,...
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GDC Online 2012 Discussion
My GDC presentation, lavishly titled “Devops: Bringing Development and Operations Together for Better Everything”, will be was on Tuesday, 10/9 at 4:50 PM. This post is a placeholder for comments and...
View ArticleGDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel
These are pretty rough notes from the single tech ops oriented talk I got to at GDC Online. Hao Chen and Jesse Willett did a great job filling in at what looked like the last minute — the talk was...
View ArticleReading List
At my last job, a product manager asked me if I had any reading recommendations for someone who wanted to learn more about what an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) does. I wrote one up; here it is....
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