How does one go about running intensive business-intelligence (BI) database queries on rapidly changing data? We found ourselves pondering this question while helping Etsy do periodic reporting on their massive BI database. We harnessed the power of ZFS to create lightweight, yet writable, clones of production data that could be deleted when the report was done. The side effect was that we could also stand up staging environments at any time to test upgrades, schema changes and anything else that needed to be validated against real data.
A panel at ZFS Day covering the state of ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD, illumos, and more, moderated by Deirdré Straughan wih Matt Ahrens, Justin Gibbs, Will Andrews, Don Brady, Brian Behlendorf
Ben Rockwood is Joyent’s Director of Systems Engineering. Ben will speak about adopting the new philosophy of DevOps. It is about more than what tools you use, its about people first, process second, and then and only then tools. In this talk we’ll discuss the heart of DevOps, deconstruct culture, examine the fields of study upon which DevOps ideas are being drawn, and consider just what makes a tool a “DevOps tool”. You’ll get an overview of where DevOps is today and where it is going in the future.
SmartOS is an Illumos-derived distro developed by Joyent as the base OS for their cloud. This presentation focuses on the OS virtualization capabilities of SmartOS and details the extensive
enhancements made to the OS, based on real-world production experience deploying SmartOS in the Joyent cloud.
