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Thursday, October 20 • 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Can You Manage Me Now? Humanizing Configuration Management at Scale – Tray Torrance, Twitter

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Managing a large Puppet installation is not historically easy. This is not likely to be better at the scale of tens of thousands of servers, and roughly one hundred active contributors. It's even harder when the existing code base is full of booby traps and time bombs, and has the reputation of a mob boss. This talk will explore how the Core Infrastructure team at Twitter managed (and manages) the following types of scenarios (and more): * A several-year-old, mixed 2.x and 3.x codebase with over 100,000 commits. * A version control migration. * Massive cultural FUD (and occasional propaganda) about Puppet.
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Tray Torrance

Site Reliability Engineer, Twitter
Tray has been working in systems administration since 2009, and in that time has been called every possible name the role can have (including several not suited for reprinting here!). His interests range from managing complex, distributed systems, to Operating System development... Read More →

Thursday October 20, 2016 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT
Grand Hall
  Track 1: Culture

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