Time: 22:50 | 04/13/2010 | Download MP3
Mark, Joshua, and John on life as a 37signals Sys Admin
The Sys Admin team discusses hosting the 37signals apps, working with programmers, helping support, telecommuting, dealing with vendors, improving speeds in Europe, and more.
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Jason
on 13 Apr 10What are some of the sysadmin tools you use for automation? You mentioned being about to perform rollbacks with ease. How do you do that?
DL
on 13 Apr 10I think it was Josh who said that being a system admin should be more like being a developer than it traditionally is. I couldn’t agree more, I’ve worked for a Fortune 10 company as a DBA and for a much smaller company too.
At the large company it was imperative that each member of the team be scripting/coding minded, logging into 7000+ machines to make a change isn’t practical. In the smaller company scripting wasn’t as important but I did it anyway, as a result I had much more time to work on new projects or tools as I saw the need for.
Be a lazy sys admin and you’ll be loved and respected.
MI
on 13 Apr 10Jason: Our favorite tools for automation are Chef from our friends over at Opscode, and Capistrano which was created by our very own Jamis Buck.
Greg Laws
on 14 Apr 10Great podcast guys!!
I never would have expected you’d have that much data growth. I hope you’ll be on again soon to share how you’ve dealt with some of the problems you discussed. As a business owner and sysadmin myself, it’s always great to hear how others deal with these kinds of problems. Thanks again for giving me a little look behind the curtain.
Brandan L.
on 14 Apr 10Is Mark Greenberg responsible for your podcast theme music? It sounds like the same tune as in the customer case study videos. And can I find his (or whomever’s) music somewhere?
ML
on 14 Apr 10Yes, the music is by Mark Greenberg who was a member of The Coctails.
Sean
on 16 Apr 10Interesting to hear about your storage challenges.
Have you looked into an application level filesystem like MogileFS? It was built to solve a similar problem for LiveJournal.
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