Carmen Sarlo Principal Operations Engineer, Vox Media at Fastly Altitude 2016 Fastly’s API has provided us the ability to create tooling for any member of the team to use and feel confident to roll out changes. Some of our tooling using Fastly’s API is done by chat-ops or integrated workflow through Jenkins. Making edge tasks easier for other team members, makes a happier engineering staff.

1. Making Ops Life
Easier
Carmen Sarlo
Principal Operations Engineer at Vox Media

2. Fastly’s API has provided us the ability to
create tooling for any member of the team
to use and feel confident to roll out
changes. Some of our tooling using
Fastly’s API is done by chat-ops or
integrated workflow using common tools
used by the engineering team. Making
edge tasks easier for other team members,
makes a happier engineering staff.

3. • 8 Media brands
• Large product team - designers, developers,
support, etc…
• Small operations team
Who are we?

4. • Poor configuration syntax
• Lots of manual changes
• Some vendors force you into Professional Services
to make not so difficult changes
• Ticket management nightmare
Previous Providers

5. • Familiar with the VCL syntax
• Configuration management, source control, api to
keep us honest
• Single url purges can be performed via chat ops
How is using Fastly making
Operations life easier

6. • Confidence in what is applied to the edge is what
we have in source control and applied to our origin
• chat-ops to perform simple tasks to free up time for
the operations team.