The b0ardside

Test-Driven Chef

Sideb0ard — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:57:15 +0000

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

Sideb0ard — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:39:54 +0000

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

Sideb0ard — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:27:59 +0000

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

Sideb0ard — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:42:37 +0000

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

Grizzled

Sideb0ard — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:12:19 +0000

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

Gene Kim and Etsy

Sideb0ard — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:31:45 +0000

*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

Sideb0ard — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:52:17 +0000

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

Sideb0ard — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:56:02 +0000

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

immutability

Sideb0ard — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:06:41 +0000

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

via igrigorik’s twitter

JVM and GC Performance Tuning

Sideb0ard — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:42:03 +0000

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