Web OperationsIt’s not (all) about shipping version 1

GDS 20th March 2012

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A problem

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A typical project somewhere

briefcase designer lead developer developer tester release!

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A project plan

briefcase

designer

lead developer

developer

tester

release!

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Waterfall project management

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Agile project management

briefcase

designer developer

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But what about after launch?

operations

Maintain existing projects

briefcase

designer developer

Move on to new projects

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Misaligned incentives

operations

“Keep things stable”

briefcase

designer developer

“Build things quickly”

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Fight!

A solution

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No more silos

operations

“Keep things stable”

briefcase

designer developer

“Build things quickly”

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Shared goals

operations

briefcase

designer developer

“Build things that are easy to keep stable”

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Cross functional teams

DatabasesDatabases

HTML/CSS

Ruby

Javascript

User experience

Accessibility

Scala

Databases

Rails

Visual designPerformance

Security

Monitoring

Deployment

Config management

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Doesn’t mean everyone does everything

HTML/CSS

Ruby

Javascript

User experience

Accessibility

Scala

Databases

Rails

Visual designPerformance

DatabasesDatabases

Security

Monitoring

Deployment

Config management

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Doesn’t mean everyone does everything

HTML/CSS

Ruby

Javascript

User experience

Accessibility

Scala

Databases

Rails

Visual designPerformance

DatabasesDatabases

Security

Monitoring

Deployment

Config management

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Just like

John Alspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 2009

What to Expect

- Monitoring everything- Testing production- Building infrastructure (in code)- Providing tools for deploying and managing services

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What we’ll be doing

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Monitoring tools

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Graph everything

Dashboards

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Scenario: check that calendars works correctly Given I am testing "calendars" Then I should be able to visit: | Path | | /when-do-the-clocks-change | | /bank-holidays |

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Human readable infrastructure tests

Scenario: check we don't get results for cheese Given I am testing "search" When I search for "cheese" Then I should receive no results

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A test specifically for Mat

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Infrastructure management...

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...in code

service { apache2: ensure => running enable => true,}

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Self service deploys

From the start think about how

we will run what we build

Questions?

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