The document discusses platform operations in the public cloud, emphasizing the role of cloud storage and orchestration in modern video distribution. It highlights the differences between platform as a service and infrastructure as a service and notes the importance of monitoring and managing data storage effectively. It also touches upon the challenges and opportunities in cloud computing, encouraging proactive data tracking and learning from operational signals.

1. Here There Be Turtles
Platform Ops in Public Cloud
Bridget Kromhout
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3. We are the largest online video distributor of
international televised content streaming the
world's best movies, documentaries and TV
shows on demand with professional
subtitles.
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5. Platform ops in public cloud?
Do you mean Platform
as a Service?
How is this different
from Infrastructure as a
Service?
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7. (previous gig) SaaS Life
normal traffic
decision
to turn off
decision
to turn
back on
accidental removal
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8. Platform?
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11. AWS Regions*
(containing availability zones)
* for some values of
regions: Beijing &
Sydney too
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13. Storage
No procurement delays!
All the IOPS!
No waiting!
Yes, cloud storage better
than the bad old days in
some ways, but with caveats.
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14. Alphabet Soup: EBS, SSDs, pIOPS
Go with SSDs for your Elastic Block Store.
EBS-optimized instances = faster network
Provisioned IOPS: guaranteed, but prevent
bursting
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16. Story Time!
Data stores and
sadness (as a service)
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17. wow. such nosql. very
webscale.
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19. “a single write
operation holds the
lock exclusively, and
no other read or write
operations may share
the lock.”
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20. It’s 4am. Do you
know what your EMR
cluster is doing?
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21. StatsD
monitoring != alerting
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23. measure all the things
If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll draw a graph
of something that isn’t moving yet, just in case it
decides to make a run for it. -- Ian Malpass, Etsy
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24. So, back to this
platform stuff...
...how exactly do you
build and deploy it?
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27. orchestration & config management
Current: Future possibilities:
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28. kitten, not unicorn
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29. “The single strongest signal that you
have something to learn...
...is that a
difference exists.”
-- Aneel Lakhani
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30. “The game has
changed.”
--Andrew
Clay
Shafer
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