"Removing the Human SPOF"
summary
Browser photo editor picnic runs a Flash front end on a LAMP back end with cloud overflow, millions of monthly users, and heavy automation; one operator handles it by codifying ops, writing runbooks, and using Chef-style tooling. The team hires a second ops hire, upgrades networking (new 10Gb core, BGP, racks, fiber) and automates deploys and runbooks, then scales 5x capacity in one month for a Google acquisition and succeeds.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:28What Is Picnic
- 6:29The Fire Engine Test
- 12:46What Is an Acceptable Risk
- 23:04Documentation
- 38:54Announcements
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