Operational Efficiency Hacks

You don’t have to wait for a recession to tighten up your operations. Squeezing more oomph out of your servers (or instances!) is always a good thing, and streamlining how you handle site issues is too. We’ll will talk about what we’ve been doing at Flickr to get more out of less from both our machines and our humans.

Capacity Hacks: diagonal scaling, tuning opportunities, and some other stupid performance tricks.

Ops “runbook” Hacks: Server and process self-healing, application-level measurement, ops communication tools, and some worst-case scenario tricks to have in your back pocket.