scottvdp

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by scottvdp 13y ago
Well, it depends on the application. Most people think about scaling far too early, and the same applies to configuration management. I am a fan of shortcuts, early and often... worry about things when you have things to worry about. That
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by scottvdp 13y ago
The baked AMI comes up and pulls, so it doesn't need to be baked each time. If you take the route you just mentioned, I highly recommend using Netflix's Asgard ( https://github.com/Netflix/asgard ) and check out their recently released Amin
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by scottvdp 13y ago
Huge fan of salt stack, and I may push Adrian in that direction. The changes we made here were minimal in the way he deploys, and with so many architecture changes behind the scenes, we decided less is more on that front.
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by scottvdp 13y ago
I'd certainly be down. I love talking about this entire arena, specifically where it falls on its face.
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by scottvdp 13y ago
I apparently need to get back to that book.
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by scottvdp 13y ago
Really loved working on this with you, and I'm excited to see what you come up with now that you have a much better understanding of AWS. Congrats on the re-launch!
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by scottvdp 13y ago
This is 100% correct. We also generated static snapshots of the origin and mirrored to S3. In the instance of something going awry with our primary origin servers, we could fail back to S3 as an origin. EDIT: I'll add that our origin offl
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by scottvdp 13y ago
The subtlety you are referring to in #2 is that we moved from puppet for deployments to puppet to configure template nodes. We baked AMIs from those template nodes and deployed those, drastically shortening our time from boot to serving tr
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by scottvdp 13y ago
A) That's a bit nuanced and depends on the application you are referring to (there are ~200 represented here), but if you had the scripts and the repos and built from a vanilla AMI, a box would boot and configure within a few minutes. We s
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by scottvdp 13y ago
That part is a a little more nebulous. When deploying the entire full stack of all applications is automated, rolling a new environment is very simple. So, for instance, if I wanted to load test a specific end point in our API, I would ju
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by scottvdp 13y ago
We used Akamai, Cloudfront, and Level3 in various combinations.
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by scottvdp 16y ago
Adjusted. Better?
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by scottvdp 16y ago
You are 100% correct. I honestly think the problem is the speed at which we are throwing this together right now. This is an exercise for us in rapid implementation. The team that put this together is the same team that launched chicago2
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by scottvdp 17y ago
Yes, we could have. However time is of the essence here, and we took all of the recommendations you see directly from the Chicago Police Department. They recommended a direct cash incentive would be the quickest and easiest way to find bo
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by scottvdp 17y ago
Sorry dudes, we were told by the police that we cannot release any information as to _why_ we want to track these guys down. They said that in situations in the past, people have been sued for defamation. I really really really wish I coul