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Architecture Quality: Operational Manageability

Presented by Dan Pritchett on Sep 13, 2007

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Architecture
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Performance & Scalability ,
Design
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eBay ,
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Summary
You're confident that your software will handle horizontal scale to thousands of servers. But how about your operational team? Have you also architected for managing that large collection of servers? Dan Pritchett will present lessons learned at eBay and lead a discussion on how to ensure your transactional scalability doesn't ignore your architecture's manageability

Bio
Dan Pritchett is currently a Technical Fellow at eBay, and is involved in solving some of the more challenging engineering problems found anywhere on the web. His engineering career spans 25 years and includes research on relational databases, designing geographic map software, building email products, and creating scalable web applications.

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Glad to see this getting attention! by Michael Nygard Posted Sep 24, 2007 9:38 AM
Great Presentation - Hopefully these concepts become much more pervasive by Kent Langley Posted Mar 18, 2008 12:44 AM
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    Glad to see this getting attention!

    Sep 24, 2007 9:38 AM by Michael Nygard

    Designing for successful operations is the major focus of my book "Release It!" I'm thrilled to see more people paying attention to the interdependencies between design, development, and operations.

    Michael T. Nygard
    michael@michaelnygard.com
    www.michaelnygard.com/

    Author of "Release It!"
    pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mnee/index.html

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    Thank you for sharing the information in your presentation. Many of the topics you discussed are regularly ignored, downplayed, or marginalized completely by companies and their executives. This is to the detriment of business, development, and operational effectiveness everywhere. Also, I don't think you have to be at EBay scale to gain a great deal of benefit from implementation of many of the concepts touched on in this presentation. Great stuff!

    Best Regards,

    Kent Langley
    www.productionscale.com

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