12 Days Of Dev Ops

The 12 Days Of DevOps > ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS, MY DEVOPS SENT TO ME 12 TWELVE ANTI-PATTERNS In the good old days, we just called them "bad ideas", but along came diplomacy and political correctness, out went the "brain storm" and in came the "idea shower" and with it came the “anti-pattern" - If the "pattern" is the right way, then inherently the "anti-pattern" is the wrong 11 ELEVEN DEPLOYMENTS DAILY DevOps promotes more frequent deployment of software (code) to production servers, so 11 deploys a day is awesome 10 TEN TWEETS FROM GENE KIM Gene Kim is the author of "The Phoenix Project" Book and a DevOps Guru http://www.realgenekim.me/ NINE STATSD METRICS Monitor Everything! StatsD is a simple NodeJS daemon that listens for messages on a UDP port. EIGHT EC2 REGIONS Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. i amazon I webservices" SEVEN SERVERS AUTO-SCALING Auto-scaling is a term that means adding more servers to a web farm automatically. e.g. this would happen when more customers go onto a website at Xmas. NetFlix is a good example, on a Saturday night they add 25,000 servers to thier server farm to cope with all the people wanting to watch NETFLIX movies on Netflix. 6 SIX GRAPHITE DASHBOARDS Graphite is our favourite tool for drawing pretty charts. Mon 1PM FIVE CHEF RECIPES Chef Recipes are part of the OpsCode Chef Platform which is used to create servers (for auto-scaling) automatically. CHEF FOUR DAYS WITH DEMING W. Edwards Deming is considered by some to be the founding father of work methods that are the building blocks for Agile software and DevOps. 3 THREE WAYS OF DEVOPS II The three core principles of DevOps according to Gene Kim TWO CI SERVERS Continuous Integration is the process of building and testing software each time a change is made. AND A COPY OF THE "PHOENIX PROJECT"! C to LOOK INSIDE! A book by gene kim, and the biggest DevOps Novel of 2013. The Phoenix Project DevOpsGuys Devopsguys.com 2]