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Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"

Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture" on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2012–2018.

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Amazon's Jon Jenkins at Velocity 2011 on how operations can drive revenue and on Amazon's highly available, autonomous architectures. It includes details on deployment frequency and Amazon's move to AWS.

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HN commenters cite it as a primary source for facts such as Amazon.com running on AWS and its very frequent deployments.

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“the mean time between deployments on an average weekday is 11.6 seconds.”
— dxm, Aug 2013, in “Amazon was down”

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aphexairlinesJun 2018Recommends

Amazon describes its internal service architecture here: ▶ this video Services use an internal tool called Apollo to describe the service, deploy it to EC2 VMs, and auto-scale. Apollo inspired AWS CodeDeploy and AWS AutoScaling. Services are reachable via load balancer sets similar to AWS ELB/ALB/NLB. You reach a service by the LB-set's DNS name. If you don't want to use AWS or AWS-specific deployment tools, you could use Puppet Pipelines to do the same on Google Cloud or Azure. Puppet Pipelines was built by people who previously built some of those internal Amazon tools and offers similar functionality but cross-cloud. And if you want even fewer moving parts, just go PaaS or serverless.

in “Four years after its release, Kubernetes has come a long way” · View on HN

alberthMar 2017Cites it

Off topic: does google.com run on GCP? I ask because since 2010, Amazon.com has been running on AWS. ▶ this video (Around 7m30s into video)

in “Always Free Usage Limits” · View on HN

mrjatxDec 2014Cites it

Geez, oh yes. They built their platform and decided to start reselling it. That's why Netflix, Pintrest, Airbnb, Expedia, Foursquare, NASA, the MLB all use AWS. They converted 100% in 2011 according to Jon Jenkins ▶ this video

in “AWS CodeCommit” · View on HN

dxmAug 2013Cites it

Every developer does have the ability to deploy to production and roughly 0.001% of deployments cause an outage, but this is a company where the mean time between deployments on an average weekday is 11.6 seconds. Source: ▶ this video

in “Amazon was down” · View on HN

yapOct 2012Cites it

Amazon runs all of the Amazon.com web servers on EC2 hosts (and has since 2010: ▶ this video ). They've just made sure that they have enough hosts in each of the other AZs to withstand an outage.

in “Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others” · View on HN

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityTech company stories & documentariesamazonawsdevopsdeployment frequencyvelocity conf