Test-Driven Chef

Posted: May 15, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: chef, devops, engineering, howto, vagrant, video | Comments Off

I’m looking to start using Test-Kitchen and Berkshelf, and basically trying to get my head round setting up a proper test driven Chef setup.

I found this video from last year to be quite a good introduction to some of the setup –

Netflix OSS

Posted: May 11, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: aws, cloud, engineering, howto, resiliency, video | Comments Off

Found this to be a particularly good episode of The Food Fight show with Jeremy Edberg and Adrian Cockcroft talking about the Netflix tools and architecture:

jedberg talk at Airbnb

Posted: May 8, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: aws, cloud, devops, engineering, internet, performance, video, web | Comments Off

I was along at this talk last year, and just now found it online – was one of the most informative talks i’ve been to, learned loads from it –

PostgreSQL on AWS

Posted: April 24, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: aws, cloud, database, postgresql, video, virtualization | Comments Off

Excellent video specifically for PostgreSQL on AWS, however the principles are pretty universal information for running anything on AWS –

Grizzled

Posted: April 9, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: openstack, video, virtualization | Comments Off

yow, the latest OpenStack release is looking rather slick..

Gene Kim and Etsy

Posted: April 2, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: video | Comments Off

*tumbleweeds rolling through*

sorry, not being finding much video content to post recently – tho heres a couple of half decent ones.

Gene Kim at DevOps Days London on Maximizing Flow -

( I just recently read his Phoenix Projects book which was way more enjoyable than it should have been!)

And a corny but well done April Fools video from John Allspaw at Etsy –

PBS’s Silicon Valley

Posted: February 12, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: history, video | Comments Off

Really enjoying this doc:

Watch Silicon Valley Chapter 1 on PBS. See more from American Experience.

Full episode available on the PBS website

Etsy Scaling vid from 2011

Posted: January 17, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: devops, engineering, howto, video | Comments Off

All well accepted practices by now, but still a good watch.

immutability

Posted: January 10, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: abstraction, big data, database, future, ideas, programming, video | Comments Off

Excellent talk from Pat Helland, “Immutability Changes Everything” :

via igrigorik’s twitter

JVM and GC Performance Tuning

Posted: January 3, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: java, performance, video | Comments Off

Been working a lot of JVM GC performance problems of late, so this video interview my friend Johan turned me on has some great info –

Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/szegedi-performance-tuning

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