In this presentation, Mike walks through the philosophical shift of treating the servers that you have in-house as if they were part of a “cloud” and disposable, and then jumps into a technical demonstration of how to actually tear down and reconstruct your infrastructure at a moment’s notice.

1. Treating Your
Infrastructure
Like Garbage
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2. Mike Fiedler, Datadog
Twitter: @mikefiedler
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3. What do
we care about?
• servers
• uptime
• load
• alerts
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4. What should
we care about?
• services
• uptime
• performance
• alerts
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5. What’s the difference?
• approach
• perspective
• business goals
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6. Stop server hugging!
(C) GigaOM
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7. Everything fails.
Be ready for it.
Watch this:
http://youtu.be/drQlSptFXXI
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8. So, how?
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9. LB
Popular stack
Data
User
Web
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10. Choose elasticity
Data
• Use distributed, self-healing storage
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11. Web Choose elasticity
• Design web tier to tolerate failure
• session state?
• application behavior?
service = n + 1
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12. Choose elasticity
LB
• Monitor web tier health
• Not always as easy at it seems!
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13. User Choose elasticity
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14. LB
Data
User
Web
Missing piece?
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15. LB
Monitoring
Data
Web
User
Monitor
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16. [demo]
https://github.com/miketheman/fullstack
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17. Tools used
• AWS EC2
• MongoDB
• Bottle.py
• Python
• Apache HTTP
• HAProxy
• Siege
• Chef
• Ruby
• Spiceweasel
• Datadog
• Money
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18. Skills employed
• System architecture design
• Performance monitoring
• Capacity & disaster planning
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19. What did you just see?
• A design pattern
• Experiencing failure and recovery
• Disposable servers, valuable service
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20. #HugOps
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