Tag: infrastructure
SE-Radio Episode 345: Tyler McMullen on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Tyler McMullen of Fastly discusses using Content Delivery Networks to improve application speed, reliability, and security. Host Jeremy Jung speaks with McMullen about what CDNs are and how developers can take advantage of them. They discuss how a CDN consists of thousands of edge servers in datacenters around the world; how these servers cache and […]
SE-Radio Episode 334: David Calavera on Zero-downtime Migrations and Rollbacks with Kubernetes
Jeremy Jung talks with David Calavera about zero-downtime migrations and rollbacks with Kubernetes. In this episode we define migrations, rollbacks, and discuss how Netlify was able to migrate to Kubernetes and roll back off of it multiple times without impacting their users. David explains how developers can run old and new systems simultaneously, the importance […]
SE-Radio Episode 332: John Doran on Fixing a Broken Development Process
Jeremy Jung talks with John Doran about fixing a broken development process. In this episode we discuss how a project that started as a desktop application transitioned to becoming a SAAS business that serves thousands of businesses. John tells the story of a business that found commercial success but struggled with outages, a lack of […]
SE-Radio Episode 289: James Turnbull on Declarative Programming with Terraform
James Turnbull rejoins the show with Robert Blumen for a conversation mostly about Terraform, as well as a bit about Puppet. Terraform is a declarative programming tool for automating infrastructure resource creation; it targets resource providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and other cloud and SAAS back ends. The discussion explores the […]
SE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning From
John Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages; how are systems defended against outages?; why do they fail anyway?; why are failures not entirely preventable?; why do outages involve multiple failures?; the time that Etsy identified it’s own office as a potential source of fraud; the human as part […]
