[Devops] [ANN] Devops Meetup - 27.09, 19:00

[Michael Renner]

On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:27 , Maciej Pasternacki wrote:

> On Wed Sep 21 15:01:46 2011, Michael Renner wrote:
>> I can contribute anything WRT scalability, SQL databases and such and would be interested in what your hosting and <BS Bingo>cloud strategies</BS Bingo> are ;)
> 
> I can talk about "cloud strategies", but the fact is that I'm working 
> with young projects on limited resources, so it all boils down to 
> configuration management + "have backups and be prepared to  restore 
> them" – no fancy failover/redundancy/multi-region HA deployments yet. 

Great! I think the big-rig stuff is fairly well covered in the blogosphere, I'm all for real-world day-to-day experiences in more common/widespread setups.

> On a related note, on wiki page there's your proposition of a talk 
> "Tier1 hardware - what is it good for after all?" – I'd be really 
> interested in hearing about good old-fashioned hardware that you can 
> kick if it doesn't work. This Tuesday is probably too soon, but maybe 
> you could make it for October?

October can definitely work, I'll try to get ahold of hardware so that we've got something to play around with ;)

best,
Michael