Operations post by O'Reilly Radar
This is a post from Luke's old blog; it is saved here statically for historical purposes, as of October 2008
Jesse Robbins has posted about Operations on the O'Reilly Radar:
In my experience it takes about 80 hours to bootstrap a startup. This generally means installing and configuring an automated infrastructure management system (puppet), version control system (subversion), continuous build and test (frequently cruisecontrol.rb), software deployment (capistrano), monitoring (currently evaluating Hyperic, Zenoss, and Groundwork). Once this is done the "install time" is reduced to nearly zero and requires no specialized knowledge. This is the first ingredient in "Operations Secret Sauce".
It's great to see more noise being made about operations, and especially open source operations, on the larger O'Reilly sites. It's nice to see that people are starting to see that their operations can be a competitive advantage, and especially in this world of meteoric scale.
