Fire It Up: How Empowered People Automated Provisioning In 6 Datacenters Across 4 Continents

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Automates network-device provisioning across six datacenters on four continents, replacing copy‑paste configs with a Rails API service called firekick that generates and pushes standardized templates, coordinates with an Erlang fire engine, and exposes a single webhook named kicks so orchestration cost of change is zero. Six internal groups use Perl, Ruby, Scala, Python and C to build it; a swim‑lane design enforces ubiquitous language and cuts provisioning from days to minutes.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:51even the cloud runs on hardware
3. 2:39trade-offs
4. 5:40first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget
5. 6:26second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory
6. 8:15third, a final proper design therefrom.
7. 11:18mechanism
8. 11:38policy
9. 17:00Automating a process is just as much about organizational change as technical change
10. 22:46some API consumers make their own tradeoffs which limit their flexibility
11. 28:59service objects

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