Envato Dev Ops - Alt.Net Melbourne

Dev Ops, Ruby, Rails, and Envato A team of 8 deploy heaps of times a day to a Ruby on Rails app that has scaled up to around 20 million requests a week without an ops team. lolwut?Thursday, 30 June 2011

John Barton @johnbarton john@envato.comThursday, 30 June 2011

Envato? http://envato.comThursday, 30 June 2011

Stock Marketplaces & Tutorial NetworkThursday, 30 June 2011

MarketplacesThursday, 30 June 2011

Like iStockPhoto but for other creative niches or eBay for digital goodsThursday, 30 June 2011

Tuts+ NetworkThursday, 30 June 2011

Big Blog Network for education in creative ﬁeldsThursday, 30 June 2011

The MarketplaceThursday, 30 June 2011

August 2006Thursday, 30 June 2011

One MarketplaceThursday, 30 June 2011

FlashDenThursday, 30 June 2011

Rails 0.13b No Users No TrafﬁcThursday, 30 June 2011

June 2011Thursday, 30 June 2011

9 MarketplacesThursday, 30 June 2011

ActiveDen (nee FlashDen) AudioJungle ThemeForest VideoHive GraphicRiver CodeCanyon 3D Ocean Tuts+ Marketplace PhotoDuneThursday, 30 June 2011

Rails 2.3.11 830,462 Users 22 Million Requests WeeklyThursday, 30 June 2011

One Codebase and One Production EnvironmentThursday, 30 June 2011

What’s interesting about our deployments?Thursday, 30 June 2011

deploy frequently, high scale, no ops teamThursday, 30 June 2011

What do you need to do the same?Thursday, 30 June 2011

Some technical infrastructure, some business/culturalThursday, 30 June 2011

Cultural BitsThursday, 30 June 2011

The “Dev Ops” CultureThursday, 30 June 2011

“Culture of respect & trust, good attitude toward failure...” Ted DzubiaThursday, 30 June 2011

“How about "culture of stop fucking up"?” Ted Dzubia http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/devops-scam.htmlThursday, 30 June 2011

A problem of competing prioritiesThursday, 30 June 2011

Our Solution: Don’t have OpsThursday, 30 June 2011

Outsource commodity platform bits: virtualisation/cloud, have rackspace take care of db/ mailserverThursday, 30 June 2011

Ensure the dev team has the skills to take care of the restThursday, 30 June 2011

Take advantage of an individuals talents, but don’t rely upon them ie. don’t accidentally create an ops guyThursday, 30 June 2011

OK to have specialists... for special work. Keeping the app running isn’t “special”Thursday, 30 June 2011

Within the BusinessThursday, 30 June 2011

Preserve The “Golden Age”Thursday, 30 June 2011

Thursday, 30 June 2011

3 Developers 30 minute feedback cycle deploy, discuss on forums, deploy againThursday, 30 June 2011

Keep doing everything good about the the startup days for as long as we canThursday, 30 June 2011

Avoid Corporate AntipatternsThursday, 30 June 2011

We’ve all been doing dev long enough to see this stuff screwed up over and over againThursday, 30 June 2011

Decision 3: Don’t do all that stuffThursday, 30 June 2011

Ultimate ResponsibilityThursday, 30 June 2011

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our QA or Ops, But in ourselves."Thursday, 30 June 2011

Test Driven Development vs. QA TeamThursday, 30 June 2011

Test Driven Infrastructure vs. Ops TeamThursday, 30 June 2011

Both as a team and as individuals we own our work from when we are asked to do it...Thursday, 30 June 2011

... until is is demonstrably error free and performant in productionThursday, 30 June 2011

Everyone is in the (paid) on call rosterThursday, 30 June 2011

Everyone takes a turn at Level 2 Customer SupportThursday, 30 June 2011

Want those jobs to be easier? Stop fucking up.Thursday, 30 June 2011

ProcessThursday, 30 June 2011

LEAN / TPS Principles ...without the processThursday, 30 June 2011

You cannot write code any faster than you can deploy it to productionThursday, 30 June 2011

Long running projects?Thursday, 30 June 2011

A. B. C. Always Be Cmerging (the c is silent)Thursday, 30 June 2011

I would not want to try this with Subversion, or Visual Source Safe... and I never had enough money to try “Team Foundation Server”Thursday, 30 June 2011

Use GIT http://git-scm.com/Thursday, 30 June 2011

Dark Launch Feature Flags Private BetaThursday, 30 June 2011

User CommunityThursday, 30 June 2011

We do trip up running this fastThursday, 30 June 2011

But through years of openness with our users via our forums and owning up to our mistakesThursday, 30 June 2011

... we’ve ended up with a (relatively) sympathetic communityThursday, 30 June 2011

Time Zones both help and hurtThursday, 30 June 2011

Trafﬁc peaks during US day means that if things go wrong we’re usually asleepThursday, 30 June 2011

But it makes it very easy to deploy during our business hoursThursday, 30 June 2011

Open SourceThursday, 30 June 2011

No point you solving the same problem as the guy down the streetThursday, 30 June 2011

No point the guy down the street solving the same problem you did last weekThursday, 30 June 2011

TechnologyThursday, 30 June 2011

Commodity Hosting is a prerequisiteThursday, 30 June 2011

Notice I’m not saying “Cloud Computing”Thursday, 30 June 2011

You cant trust “the cloud” but you can trust “the cloud to be “the cloud”.Thursday, 30 June 2011

Make a conservative platform choice so we don’t have to sweat the details ie. Ubuntu 10.4 LTSThursday, 30 June 2011

I guess you guys have to choose like Windows Ultimate 2009 Edition?Thursday, 30 June 2011

Seriously though, Ruby guys love shiny new things, and we’re spoiled for choice _even_ when it harms us.Thursday, 30 June 2011

So we make an effort to keep the stack as Vanilla as possibleThursday, 30 June 2011

Virtualised servers in our own sandbox. Cloud Flexibility - Cloud Shit-ness = WINThursday, 30 June 2011

Automate Conﬁguration ManagementThursday, 30 June 2011

Babushka http://babushka.me/Thursday, 30 June 2011

Test drive your architecture...Thursday, 30 June 2011

...or borrow “deps” built by other peopleThursday, 30 June 2011

Lets look at some codeThursday, 30 June 2011

Babushka is designed to be run manually on the remote machineThursday, 30 June 2011

Use Dollhouse https://github.com/geelen/ dollhouse To drive babushka remotelyThursday, 30 June 2011

moar codeThursday, 30 June 2011

A lot of people I take seriously, take Chef seriously. http://wiki.opscode.com/Thursday, 30 June 2011

Automate DeploymentThursday, 30 June 2011

Capistrano https://github.com/ capistrano/capistranoThursday, 30 June 2011

Codes?Thursday, 30 June 2011

The un-sung heroThursday, 30 June 2011

rake db:migrateThursday, 30 June 2011

I’m so used to having it I can’t even remember how I ever deployed database changes in the pastThursday, 30 June 2011

Performance & ScalingThursday, 30 June 2011

Not as big a deal as everyone thinksThursday, 30 June 2011

.NET runtime is faster... but it’s really not that big a dealThursday, 30 June 2011

Shared-nothing load balanced app servers + out of request queue workers not rocket surgeryThursday, 30 June 2011

Measure, deploy, measure again and then tweak or rollback New Relic FTWThursday, 30 June 2011

There is no code faster than no code.Thursday, 30 June 2011

Why I’m happier than I was as a .NET programmerThursday, 30 June 2011

Mainly because of System.Threading.TimerThursday, 30 June 2011

No Viewstate (Yes I heard you’ve got MVC now instead)Thursday, 30 June 2011

A culture of people who ﬁx things instead of waiting for them to be ﬁxedThursday, 30 June 2011

People who care about expressiveness of code and ﬁnding the right abstractionsThursday, 30 June 2011

Question?Thursday, 30 June 2011

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