John Allspaw's AMA

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Etsy runs roughly 40–60 deploys a day while deliberately decoupling code rollout from schema and infra changes, using Chef to manage the infrastructure substrate rather than as an all-in-one deploy tool. Alert overload drives measurable sleep loss tracked with Jawbone/Fitbit and teams treat alerting as a design problem. A public post criticizes the SEC Knight Capital writeup for explaining rule violations but not the causal story. Focus is on culture, measurement and system safety.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:48Would you have expected the current state of the industry
3. 4:47Why did you leave Flickr for Etsy
4. 7:35Advice for large enterprises
5. 10:10Continuous deployment
6. 18:20Any story is the story

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