Creating a successful, quality, maintainable product take a lot more than coding-it takes innovation and a good dose of discipline. It takes smart people who question the status-quo, figure our ways to make themselves and their teams productive, and maintain agility without compromising quality and sustainability.
This talk describes the challenges of ensuring the fast flow of development features of the Joyent cloud infrastructure, while preserving stability, reliability and security. I will describe the operational and business operational, architectural and deployment challenges, as well as the techniques we’ve developed to plan and execute.
Designing products is about designing experiences. It’s not about pixels, wire frames or sketches, but about creating something that will really stick with people, that they will enjoy and remember.
Learn some things you should never (probably ever) do to or in Python. Warranties may be voided.
For many years, Facebook managed its systems with cfengine2. With many individual clusters over 10k nodes in size, a slew of different constantly-changing system configurations, and small teams, this system was showing its age and the complexity was steadily increasing, limiting its effectiveness and usability.
The PageSpeed family of tools is designed to help you optimize the performance of your website. PageSpeed Insights products will help you identify performance best practices that can be applied to your site, and PageSpeed optimization tools can help you automate the process.
