Shipping at the Speed of Life
summary
GitHub ships by measuring everything, instrumenting front end with BrowserMob and multiple CDNs and back end with Collectd/Graphite and New Relic, then reacting to concrete signals: 24,000 installs in 24 hours and 900 exceptions the same day drive immediate fixes. An internal Haystack streams exceptions so teams see frequencies and impact, Jenkins plus a Heaven API enables 17–200 second deploys and more than 20 deployments a day; topic-branch and subset deploys let changes hit limited servers for safe experiments.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 5:09Measure Backend Behavior
- 7:24Campfire
- 10:54Haystack Exception Logging
- 19:08Deployment Fixes out to Users








