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This is the kind of downtime that would never happen again: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-sR0oJ:blog.nodejitsu.com/on-our-recent-d

This is the kind of downtime that would never happen again: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-sR0oJ:blog.nodejitsu.com/on-our-recent-downtime+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-... The employee page is unavailable right now. But if you look through the bios, they have a bunch of young open source hackers, but virtually zero operations experience, and virtually zero ops culture, unless you count hanging out in an IRC channel sometimes.

trevor-rollin 14y ago
They are evidently a bunch of amateur, let's-change-the-world hipster types, as are most of the JavaScript and Node communities. The current "leader" of the Node.js project is a former vacuum cleaner salesman, hahahaha.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Operations, like management, is something that engineers who haven't been directly involved in, under estimate. It's like Python programmers telling an embedded systems guy that an ad-hoc database is pretty straightforward, just use a b-tree for heavens sake, everyone learns how to build a basic tree. That said, there is also a tremendous seduction in leaving the problems to others. Nobody really wants their programming or configuration mistakes to call them up in the middle of the night. Scaling is hard and it's why many products die when they find they can't scale. But it also keeps good devops people in high demand. So I really can't complain.
driverdan 14y ago
Obvious troll is obvious. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. They run thousands of instances on an infrastructure they've built mostly themselves. They built the platform to be provider agnostic, meaning they can run it on EC2, Rackspace Cloud, or an internal rack. If you actually look at the open source projects listed you'll see most of them are from Nodejitsu and are used internally.
- sparkle202 14y ago
  Ops is not about building the platform, it's about running the service.
- trevor-rollin 14y ago
  But they don't even host their own database servers?

trevor-rollin 14y ago

They are evidently a bunch of amateur, let's-change-the-world hipster types, as are most of the JavaScript and Node communities. The current "leader" of the Node.js project is a former vacuum cleaner salesman, hahahaha.

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Operations, like management, is something that engineers who haven't been directly involved in, under estimate. It's like Python programmers telling an embedded systems guy that an ad-hoc database is pretty straightforward, just use a b-tree for heavens sake, everyone learns how to build a basic tree. That said, there is also a tremendous seduction in leaving the problems to others. Nobody really wants their programming or configuration mistakes to call them up in the middle of the night. Scaling is hard and it's why many products die when they find they can't scale. But it also keeps good devops people in high demand. So I really can't complain.

driverdan 14y ago

Obvious troll is obvious. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. They run thousands of instances on an infrastructure they've built mostly themselves. They built the platform to be provider agnostic, meaning they can run it on EC2, Rackspace Cloud, or an internal rack. If you actually look at the open source projects listed you'll see most of them are from Nodejitsu and are used internally.

sparkle202 14y ago
Ops is not about building the platform, it's about running the service.
trevor-rollin 14y ago
But they don't even host their own database servers?