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Justin Brodley's Blog http://www.justinbrodley.com SaaS, Web 2.0, Social Enterprise, Virtualization, Cloud Computing posterous.com JustinBrodleysBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:01:35 -0800 True SaaS and why you should care http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/NgF9xP35XwQ/true-saas-and-why-you-should-care http://www.justinbrodley.com/true-saas-and-why-you-should-care <p> <div>Great article on True SaaS (multitenant, single code line, hosted software) and why enterprises should care about it. Its a common practice for software vendors with highly successful products to just assume that it can "be SaaS" if we just repackage the solution as hosted. While this may look "SAAS" and your customers may even like the appearance of a higher level of data security, it has huge trade offs in terms of an enterprises need to manage the solution. Customers of these type of solutions are tied to higher per user costs, they have to do their own upgrade coordination and scheduling, normally with high up front PS costs, and they suffer less than stellar quality and performance as they scale the solution. If your in the market for a SaaS solution you should be asking about the delivery model, if your not your doing yourself a disservice.</div> <p /><a href="http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/44507/what%E2%80%99s-true-saas-and-why-the-hell-should-customers-care/">http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/44507/what%E2%80%99s-true-saas-and-why-the-hell-should-customers-care/</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/true-saas-and-why-you-should-care">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/true-saas-and-why-you-should-care#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mGwNw6njz1bY-0A0UgkH8Tuq2DI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mGwNw6njz1bY-0A0UgkH8Tuq2DI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mGwNw6njz1bY-0A0UgkH8Tuq2DI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mGwNw6njz1bY-0A0UgkH8Tuq2DI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/NgF9xP35XwQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/true-saas-and-why-you-should-care Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:17:15 -0700 Google Design Asthetic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/FPV9wEkYCjg/google-design-asthetic http://www.justinbrodley.com/google-design-asthetic <p> I used to think Microsoft had terrible design aesthetic for their applications, but I have to say the new Google designs are downright HORRIFIC. They first attacked google reader this week with this grey on grey background, white space between everything, and an ok integration into Google Plus. Today they allowed you to switch to the new Gmail interface... which is just as bad as the new google reader color pallet, yep grey on grey. I seriously don't understand the design process at Google unless its completed by color blind engineers.<p /><div>Come on Google!! Hire away some UI people from Apple, or hell even Microsoft and fix this!!</div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/google-design-asthetic">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/google-design-asthetic#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gh2GOifTZ52TqU4inBsI_kBmlA8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gh2GOifTZ52TqU4inBsI_kBmlA8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gh2GOifTZ52TqU4inBsI_kBmlA8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gh2GOifTZ52TqU4inBsI_kBmlA8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/FPV9wEkYCjg" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/google-design-asthetic Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:02:44 -0700 Why!! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/a43MjiSXs-4/why http://www.justinbrodley.com/why <p> Why has Posterous pivoted into a social network!! UGH... I don't need another Google Circles, Facebook or Twitter!! I just want to post stuff to you, point my domain at you, and have you distribute my content everywhere my friends live on the internet!! <p /><div>Not happy right now!! Will give it a few days and see if I can cope with this change.<br /><p /></div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/why">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/why#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1WPR9IBt9NKsBzJRnXft2qzfj7o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1WPR9IBt9NKsBzJRnXft2qzfj7o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1WPR9IBt9NKsBzJRnXft2qzfj7o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1WPR9IBt9NKsBzJRnXft2qzfj7o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/a43MjiSXs-4" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/why Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:08:13 -0700 What? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/SyCg3wgWB3k/what http://www.justinbrodley.com/what <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/peqZ9UJvDiR9YmEV1rYQOWK9OajBxf0iid7ADXwiEZZjS6e0aVSFagx1Znxn/photo.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Photo" height="797" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/MDlFdgVN8ABlh9CrXB5iYWaWsJaDJkYzwYBUf88e011c1x3Woyc3BMmxC04f/photo.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/what">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/what#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s8bpAg7R0s4bpQimsm_mui3vlrs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s8bpAg7R0s4bpQimsm_mui3vlrs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s8bpAg7R0s4bpQimsm_mui3vlrs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/s8bpAg7R0s4bpQimsm_mui3vlrs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/SyCg3wgWB3k" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/what Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:59:17 -0700 Why not Vmware? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/7rLd4awN-a0/why-not-vmware http://www.justinbrodley.com/why-not-vmware <p> In the late 90's early 2000's there was a large push by major enterprises to modernize their ERP, CRM, HR and associated mission critical business applications. Oracle began acquiring enterprise software vendors like Peoplesoft, BEA and Seibel. If your interested in their acquisitions you can read about them <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/index.html">here</a>. In talking to my colleagues in Oracle shops they started the Mantra "why not Oracle" when new business requirements came up. A few years later with Virtualization gaining popularity I began hearing "why not VMware?" when talking about new server requirements and needs. This drive for virtualization rapidly dropped costs, allowed companies to be more flexible and eventually resulted in the new "cloud" age that we are in today. <p /><div>I'm a huge fan of VMWare, i've promoted it to my colleagues, used it to save my employers money and ultimately built more agile IT teams to deal with changing business requirements. While i'm a huge fan, some of my colleagues are not pointing out the high price of VMWare licensing, additional complexity, and the 15-20% performance hit between Virtualized servers and bare metal. Having been an ESX user since 2.5 I've been a long time supporter, unfortunately with the announcement of Vsphere 5 I have to now reevaluate my entire thought process.</div> <p /><div>Vsphere 5 isn't the first time that VMware has alienated their customers, the first was "Enterprise-Plus" that was introduced with Vsphere 4.0. Enterprise customers had traditionally been buying Enterprise licenses for ESX after being told that it was the "premier license" that included all of the features of ESX. Vsphere 4 introduced Enterprise-Plus now going against the messaging from VMWare sales. Luckily while there were some compelling features in Enterprise Plus (vswitch, standardized host config, etc) and larger memory configurations 99% of VMWare customers didn't find these as critical features they must have. </div> <p /><div>Now with the introduction of Vsphere 5 they have added to their socket licensing model vRAM allocations. I understand the rational for this the major push in Virtualization shops is larger servers, with more cores per socket and lots of ram. This allows you to reduce your VMWare server needs and increase your consolidation ratios. With customers buying less ESX Servers this put VMwares cash cow at risk and they needed to take action. My issue is with their vRam allocations per ESX version, for Enterprise-Plus their "premier" license you only get 48gb of Allocated memory in your license. A server with 96gb of ram only costs around 16k from Dell right now, meaning that your VMWare licenses are now over 70% of your hardware cost! This is stupid, and is going to cause nothing but pain for customers and increase costs in a time when were being ever squeezed to reduce costs and provide more. </div> <p /><div>So, VMware has taken a page from Oracles book, get your customers invested or buy your competitors, and than jack up your rates holding them hostage to you unless you want to go to great lengths to migrate off your existing solution! VMWare is the new Oracle, and shame on them for screwing their loyal customers and advocates. </div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/why-not-vmware">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/why-not-vmware#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CncOk7-8VLOi7kouaV6IG96j6p4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CncOk7-8VLOi7kouaV6IG96j6p4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CncOk7-8VLOi7kouaV6IG96j6p4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CncOk7-8VLOi7kouaV6IG96j6p4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/7rLd4awN-a0" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/why-not-vmware Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:57:26 -0700 California is 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Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/rainbow-outside-house Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:02:00 -0700 Dilbert's take on work life balance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/bfDBY8evYgI/dilberts-take-on-work-life-balance http://www.justinbrodley.com/dilberts-take-on-work-life-balance <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpdilbertcomd_ektgn" height="174" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/fdhpCnAcmhAGfupJfysbAIoBdaIxjJdzoFItkvDnqGIBkkkufezwpzyavBto/media_httpdilbertcomd_Ektgn.gif.scaled595.gif" width="560" /> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/10000/6000/600/116639/116639.strip.print.gif">dilbert.com</a></div> <p>Sometimes I swear Scott Adams and I work for the same companies.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/dilberts-take-on-work-life-balance">Permalink</a> 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http://www.justinbrodley.com/facebook-getting-old <p> Recently i've found that I no longer visit facebook as often as I used too. Now that i'm not compelled to tend to my farm, fish, city, starship, etc (I quit all the social games cold turkey back in July), I just don't find as much stuff that I find interesting. Facebook is my friends and former colleagues I wanted to stay connected too, and a few of my Wife's friends husbands and friends that we've become friends with as couples. Facebook was fun at first to catch up with what was going on with them, but it seems like they are even posting less and less. I've been thinking about why this is happening and have a few theories:<p /><div>1. Value/Reward - Posting updates and photos on Facebook is not as rewarding as it used to be. Sure you may get some likes, but you don't get any feedback and most of the time when you do get feedback it something negative and discouraging or a counter opinion putting you immediately on the defensive.</div> <div>2. Trying to keep track of the ever increasing privacy issues on Facebook is exhausting and confusing, and people are tired of dealing with it. </div><div>3. They get more value out of other websites that have like minded individuals (website for your knitting club, computer club, book club, etc) that have more value to you and put you in touch with like minded people who can add value. </div> <div>4. Honestly if were really friends we talk outside of facebook and I already know about what your posting... having a debate over a political issue is more rewarding in person and you don't hurt peoples feelings, etc. The need for human feedback is better met with face to face, phone to phone or some other interactive method like IM than in posts on facebook.</div> <p /><div>So what am I doing with my time now that i'm not using facebook as much.</div><p /><div>1. Well a new baby and a 22 month old take a up a ton of my personal time (and do you really want to know that i just changed the 5th poopy diaper for Corbin for the day?? No not reallly.</div> <div>2. Work. My company makes an awesome product called Spaces, that we use for corporate collaboration and social, I keep track of it throughout my day for information on prospective sales, HR updates, and projects my team is working on. </div> <div>3. Posterous - Why just post on facebook, when i can post on Twitter, facebook, disqus and a dozen other social avenues and feed most of the comments and discussion back to one central place. </div><div>4. Twitter - If you want breaking news this is the best place, faster then any traditional media company. </div> <div>5. Google Reader - Keep up on the blogs and twitter feeds you can't watch all day and night, but are interested in following.</div><p /><div>Is anyone else finding Facebook less and less valuable than it used to be?</div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/facebook-getting-old">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/facebook-getting-old#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/USotYQm5sqbBmKR6I-bpGrmgpHI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/USotYQm5sqbBmKR6I-bpGrmgpHI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/USotYQm5sqbBmKR6I-bpGrmgpHI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/USotYQm5sqbBmKR6I-bpGrmgpHI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/F4B8huP8lGE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/facebook-getting-old Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:47:00 -0800 Colby James Brodley http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/DILbrLNfTcU/colby-james-brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/colby-james-brodley <p> <p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, helvetica, arial, sans serif; font-size: 12px;">After being stubborn for the last two weeks, Colby has decided to finally join us! </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Helvetica, helvetica, arial, sans serif; font-size: 12px;">Colby James Brodley<br />Born February 9th 2011<br />Weight: 7 Pounds, 4 Ounces<br />Length: 19.5 Inches<p />Mommy and Baby are doing fine, and dad is doing alright too! </span><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/GSgvCnJZ0coyfE8J36JKF5c7PFK8CAtAdJkYcmlQoGGWPNZjNAzxgsok4sR4/DSC_0071.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0071" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/Dvl9TrMbjUCzShF1iZWf6SeHQJM9WDq0CJGuiYsL0dc7xN0c0jEPagtG95j3/DSC_0071.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/eAaNYC4TMdHdfOhgUflUaFv8HTPhxnQtnCi6fdO3LLvpz5vzqAT6z2PNZUNt/DSC_0062.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0062" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/R8uWdztcTIOQWv9heEXU0eua1ViruwVCTfXBepIbh3ZTrnvHQ6rOyZ5nwVvB/DSC_0062.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/VM5l1tHIb6cRumx0aJwD1U7SWgduJVe0oRF30QrCLNoN2oAnIvDKECt8afBe/DSC_0064.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0064" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/3ykOkC5BJ6y5CzkMGfR57i72uoxmaNsU5GcQEoXwFEwuc3m6FqhkwpqTxKWs/DSC_0064.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/X5JfonCPJrLTvLHuZuHHlUe7B8MddShzXTWRo42Q5nYPnTIDclMuaKUPBrY4/DSC_0067.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0067" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/m5wk08sfXDWTgre8SyGIPB8lzE0Da3Km0uOxgOd5T9MrDkYJOwMubay6DPxz/DSC_0067.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/rsjjf1BsjGNNGfstXCuFRg1k2BVzjapu3rhYA3YGkHYQeVzFSNuV6rvMhTJh/DSC_0068.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0068" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/t252QhIP0dS8TkKIAvp0idiHNCk7ovk6cjmjylV3w7ktBfHhy6Wb0SZA9AIu/DSC_0068.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/8UlBB2qjFzpPI6QVhu1pdZIOy1GDpDRgcoj3k8RxmOqSzM8S8ExwyhFEsGus/DSC_0065.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Dsc_0065" height="398" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jbrodley/PTa9GdGKlZwVhTLAoEdaJd0TExd0ry9cz3K15NJOtjYsMWNfiWpT79tyPUCp/DSC_0065.jpg.scaled595.jpg" width="595" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/colby-james-brodley">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/colby-james-brodley">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/colby-james-brodley#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hdjAdv_VttmVhljyEf483o3M7a8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hdjAdv_VttmVhljyEf483o3M7a8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hdjAdv_VttmVhljyEf483o3M7a8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hdjAdv_VttmVhljyEf483o3M7a8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/DILbrLNfTcU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/colby-james-brodley Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:00 -0800 Article: How does Etsy manage development and operations? « Code as Craft http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/v4qWNwpTRKU/how-does-etsy-manage-development-and-operatio http://www.justinbrodley.com/how-does-etsy-manage-development-and-operatio <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote> <p /> </blockquote> <div> <h3><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">Great Article, I have a ton of respect for John Allspaw and the Developers at Etsy and Flickr.  -- Justin</span></h3> </div> <blockquote> <div> <h3>How does Etsy manage development and operations?</h3> <p>Posted by chaddickerson | Filed under <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/operations/" title="View all posts in operations" rel="category tag">operations</a>, <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/people/" title="View all posts in people" rel="category tag">people</a>, <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/philosophy/" title="View all posts in philosophy" rel="category tag">philosophy</a></p> <p>I’ve been loving using<a href="http://quora.com/"> Quora</a> these past few months, and have been amazed at the level of behind-the-scenes detail people are providing about really complex and specific things (like <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-automated-testing-does-Facebook-do">how Facebook does automated testing</a>).</p> <p>Recently, someone asked, “<a href="http://www.quora.com/How-does-Etsy-manage-development-and-operations">How does Etsy manage development and operations?</a>” with these comments:  <em>Etsy seems to have scaled far and fast, whilst continuing to add new features; how is all this managed – is there a strictly-defined process within which engineers operate, or is it a case of hiring clever people and letting them get on with it (Facebook-style)?</em></p> <p>First of all, I love the team and am proud of the work that they do.  It’s an amazing group and none of this would work or be as fun as it is without them.</p> <p>So, here’s <a href="http://www.quora.com/How-does-Etsy-manage-development-and-operations/answer/Chad-Dickerson?srid=36Z">the answer I just posted</a>:</p> <p>In 2010, we did grow the engineering team pretty fast, going from 20 to about 70, and the rest of the company grew quickly, too.  As we grew, overall speed has been really important to us, and we’ve continually tuned our processes, tools, and culture to support that.  I wrote about some of these principles behind all of it in my blog over the summer: <a href="http://bit.ly/foHPc1">http://bit.ly/foHPc1</a></p> <p>Right now, developers are divided up into a number of small teams, usually 3-7 engineers.  These teams are paired with a product manager and a designer, and there is some movement across teams as needed.  All designers at Etsy code and product managers code at various levels, too. Ops and dev work really closely together, and we have one development team that is very ops-like and straddles both domains. Everyone in the company uses IRC.  Lots of ideas are worked out on a wiki, and people around the company comment on those ideas and plans (we use Confluence).  Some projects form organically, and others are more top-down.</p> <p>We generally plan in 60-day chunks and divide the deliverables up into 2-week periods (though we’re not officially using capital-A Agile).  The 60-day cycle has no special significance — we just felt like it was a reasonable timeframe for planning near-term deliverables.  The 60-day plans go through a review, we set goals, and we publish the plans on the wiki.  Our founder, CEO, and head of product (Rob Kalin) participates in these reviews and stays in close contact with the product and engineering teams throughout.  In general, the teams have a lot of autonomy in how they get their work done within a set of architectural principles we’ve established (a subject for another post) and our overall design approach.  Specs are typically very light, and the focus is on building working features.</p> <p>We onboard engineers quickly and their first goal is simple: deploy on your first day.  The goal here is to constantly emphasize shipping, and get over any deployment fears early.  Engineers get productive very quickly.  The level of cooperation between developers and ops is also really high (see our engineering blog for more: <a href="http://etsy.me/hMtu1A">http://etsy.me/hMtu1A</a>)</p> <p>We practice continuous deployment and make small changes frequently to the site.  We use what we call “config flags,” which are more or less an exact copy of what Flickr does (see the Flickr engineering blog: <a href="http://bit.ly/dZZzfY">http://bit.ly/dZZzfY</a>) and a lot of the code for features runs “dark” for days or weeks, and feature launches mean flipping a switch in the code.  We have a lot of Flickr DNA in the company (John Allspaw, our VP of Ops, ran ops at Flickr, and Kellan Elliott-McCrea was architect at Flickr).  In January (a month in which we did over a billion page views), code committed by 76 unique individuals was deployed to production by 63 different folks a total of 517 times.   Product managers make changes and do deploys (here’s Jenn Vargas, one of our newest product managers, <a href="http://twitter.com/jennjenn/status/32498375471403010">tweeting about it</a>) and we have trained aspiring developers on our support team to make small changes with our help and guidance, too.  Our deployment environment requires a lot of trust, transparency, communication, coordination, and discipline across the team.  We’ve invested a lot in our automated unit and functional testing (we have a team devoted just to this), tooling for deployment (see our blog post about Deployinator: <a href="http://etsy.me/c6RJD7">http://etsy.me/c6RJD7</a>), and metrics and monitoring (see “Tracking Every Release”: <a href="http://etsy.me/e1ULhO">http://etsy.me/e1ULhO</a>).   Key system-level and business level metrics (like checkout/listing/registration/sign-in rates)  are projected on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chad/5144084512/">screens in the office</a> and we have a number of internal dashboards that the team uses (we mainly use Ganglia and Graphite).  We also have lots of switches and knobs to help us roll features out to percentages of users and ramp them up slowly, or quickly.  Features are used and tested by us here at Etsy for some period of time before they are rolled out publicly.</p> <p>When we make mistakes, we conduct blameless post-mortems and assign remediation items to the appropriate team members.  Engineers frequently post in our community forums when we have any issues and we have a status blog that we maintain (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chad/5144084512/">http://www.etsystatus.com/</a>).  I think that interacting with Etsy members gives everyone a deeper sense of responsibility for the code we’re writing.  We also write about the mistakes we make pretty openly (<a href="http://etsy.me/hgZ4qh">http://etsy.me/hgZ4qh</a>).</p> <p>Overall, engineers are treated as creative collaborators in the overall process with design and product, and products are worked out and iterated on with engineers instead of simply being handed to them for implementation.   Rob (our founder and head of product) likes working with engineers and the engineers spend a lot of time interacting with Rob.  Our ability to work this way has as much to do with the personalities of the people involved and the culture as the technologies involved. We’re always learning and adjusting and we’ll continue to evolve as time goes on.</p> <p> </p> <div><br /><strong>Category:</strong> <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/operations/" title="View all posts in operations" rel="category tag">operations</a>, <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/people/" title="View all posts in people" rel="category tag">people</a>, <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/philosophy/" title="View all posts in 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But, i'm sorry to say i'm leaving the Mozy service.  Last week they announced they were terminating their unlimited plan and increase the fee from 4.99 to 5.99 for only 50GB of storage, or for an additional 4.00 dollars i could select the 125gb plan.  For every 20gb your over your plan its an additional $2.00 dollars a month.  </p> <p>For work i'm using Jungle DIsk and S3, but for the wifes computer I think i'll switch to BackBlaze where they continue to offer $5.00 dollars per month and unlimited storage.  For those of you who have followed my recommendation, i'd advise checking out Backblaze for your online backup needs. </p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/goodbye-mozy">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/goodbye-mozy#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uXruvopyk9ww4QIm8av7TP-D3Xg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uXruvopyk9ww4QIm8av7TP-D3Xg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uXruvopyk9ww4QIm8av7TP-D3Xg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uXruvopyk9ww4QIm8av7TP-D3Xg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/wh6kJJgeJ-Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/goodbye-mozy Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:42:00 -0800 Virtual Business Cards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/P7TpO4ixQxs/virtual-business-cards http://www.justinbrodley.com/virtual-business-cards <p> <p><span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black;">I hate business cards, they clutter up my desk and I never use them.<span style="">  </span>I started adding them to my Outlook Contacts and throwing them away, which is what I think the entire business world does these days.<span style="">  </span>But why kill the trees and go through the manual process of entering this into Outlook (or scan them with one of those nifty business card scanners).<span style=""> </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black;">I heard about Bump from a friend of mine, and installed it set it up, and have anxiously awaited the moment I can exchange a business card with someone virtually. After having this application installed for 2 years it has never happened.<span style="">  </span>I’ve asked numerous times and either the other person doesn’t have bump or they use another solution. Looking in the app store there are hundreds of business card apps from scanners to virtual solutions.<span style=""> </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black;">What we really need is an application that talks the formats of everyone else’s sync process, or better yet a large player coming out with a solution that gets immediate adoption.<span style="">  </span>There are only really two companies that could pull this off, Google or Apple.<span style="">  </span>While I know integrating this feature into the iPhone would be awesome, I also know that I still see a ton of blackberries, windows mobile and android phones at conferences and this would be an apple only solution. Google is the best choice; it can be an extension of Google contacts and platform independent. </span></span></p> <p><span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black;">I’m still waiting or if someone knows of a great solution people actually use, let me know! </span></span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/virtual-business-cards">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/virtual-business-cards#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/943KPUzuhgw6yQ9Od-Qv4BDLiG8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/943KPUzuhgw6yQ9Od-Qv4BDLiG8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/943KPUzuhgw6yQ9Od-Qv4BDLiG8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/943KPUzuhgw6yQ9Od-Qv4BDLiG8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/P7TpO4ixQxs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/virtual-business-cards Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:53:00 -0800 APNIC - Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/UQ3IKvPgMis/apnic-two-8s-allocated-to-apnic-from-iana http://www.justinbrodley.com/apnic-two-8s-allocated-to-apnic-from-iana <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote> <p /> </blockquote> <div> <div>I don't think anyone is truly prepared for IP V6 the way we need to be. It will be interesting in the next few months to see what happens. --Justin</div> </div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <h3>Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA</h3> <div> <div> <p style="font-size: 0.9em;">Published on: Tuesday, 1 February 2011</p> <p>Dear Colleagues</p> <p>The information in this announcement is to enable the Internet community to update network configurations, such as routing filters, where required.</p> <p>APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in February 2011 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near future:</p> <ul> <li>39/8</li> <li>106/8</li> </ul> <p>Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence soon. The daily report will be published on the <a href="http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon">RIPE NCC Routing Information Service</a>.</p> <p>Please be aware, this will be the final allocation made by IANA under the current framework and will trigger the final distribution of five /8 blocks, one to each RIR under the agreed <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm">"Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space"</a>.</p> <p>After these final allocations, each RIR will continue to make allocations according to their own established policies.</p> <p>APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six months. After this time, APNIC will continue to make small allocations from the last /8 block, guided by section 9.10 in <a href="http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy">"Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region"</a>. This policy ensures that IPv4 address space is available for IPv6 transition.</p> <p>It is expected that these allocations will continue for at least another five years.</p> <p>APNIC reiterates that IPv6 is the only means available for the sustained ongoing growth of the Internet, and urges all Members of the Internet industry to move quickly towards its deployment.</p> <p style="display: none;"><em>Contact: </em></p> <p style="display: none;"><em>Phone: </em></p> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation#top">Back to top of page</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation">apnic.net</a></div> <p> </p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/apnic-two-8s-allocated-to-apnic-from-iana">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/apnic-two-8s-allocated-to-apnic-from-iana#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/a1pZHl-PANbTOeHiSsrGxR6bRpQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/a1pZHl-PANbTOeHiSsrGxR6bRpQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/a1pZHl-PANbTOeHiSsrGxR6bRpQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/a1pZHl-PANbTOeHiSsrGxR6bRpQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/UQ3IKvPgMis" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/apnic-two-8s-allocated-to-apnic-from-iana Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:10:00 -0800 Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/FKZKjGiVv2A/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service http://www.justinbrodley.com/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"> <h3>What's New?</h3> <div>Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service</div> <p>We’re excited to announce the beta release of Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon <span>SES</span>), a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon <span>SES</span> eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other <span>AWS</span> services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon <span>EC2</span>. With Amazon <span>SES</span> there is no long-term commitment, minimum spend or negotiation required – businesses can utilize a free usage tier, and after that, enjoy low fees for the number of emails sent plus data transfer. To get started using Amazon <span>SES</span>, visit <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/01/25/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service#">http://aws.amazon.com/ses/</a>.</p> <p>Building large-scale email solutions to send marketing and transactional messages is often a complex and costly challenge for businesses. To increase the percentage of emails that are successfully delivered, businesses must deal with hassles such as email server management, network configuration, and meeting rigorous Internet Service Provider (ISP) standards for email content. Additionally, many third-party email solutions require contract and price negotiations, as well as significant up-front costs.</p> <p>Amazon <span>SES</span> eliminates these challenges and enables businesses to benefit from the years of experience and sophisticated email infrastructure Amazon.com has built to serve its own large-scale customer base. Through a simple <span>API</span> call, businesses can now access a high-quality, scalable email infrastructure to efficiently and inexpensively communicate to their customers. For high email deliverability, Amazon <span>SES</span> uses content filtering technologies to scan a business’s outgoing email messages to help ensure that the content meets <span>ISP</span> standards. The email message is then either queued for sending or routed back to the sender for corrective action. To help businesses further improve the quality of email communications with their customers, Amazon <span>SES</span> provides a built-in feedback loop, which includes notifications of bounce backs, failed and successful delivery attempts, and spam complaints.</p> <p>Start sending email in minutes through Amazon <span>SES</span> using the <span>AWS</span> software development kits for Java and .NET, or code directly to our <span>HTTPS</span> interface using your favorite programming language.</p> <p>Learn more about Amazon <span>SES</span> at: <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/01/25/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service#">http://aws.amazon.com/ses</a></p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/01/25/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service/">aws.amazon.com</a></div> <p>Amazon announced their new Simple Email Services. I have thought for a long time that this was a gap and am glad to see them closing it. I need to work out the economics if it makes sense to use this feature. Look for more coming soon from me on this topic.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8IYAaOjAb0JgyyKdlc-nIKbn4mA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8IYAaOjAb0JgyyKdlc-nIKbn4mA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8IYAaOjAb0JgyyKdlc-nIKbn4mA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8IYAaOjAb0JgyyKdlc-nIKbn4mA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/FKZKjGiVv2A" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:16:34 -0800 The Blog has Moved! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/hkenAYYxNaA/the-blog-has-moved http://www.justinbrodley.com/the-blog-has-moved <p> So after being hosted on Wordpress for the last year, i've decided to move this blog to Posterous. While i liked the flexibility and power of wordpress I had several concerns:<p /><div>1. Security was always a problem. I had to constantly keep wordpress updated plus the plugins that I had installed needed to be upgraded regularly.</div> <div>2. Updates were a pain vs the simplicity of just sending an email to posterous when something comes to mind.</div><div>3. I really want to do more blog posts in 2011, and build out my online presence, but i don't want to leave people behind on twitter, facebook, etc but I also can't handle tracking comments on everything, posterous greatly simplifies this for me.</div> <div>4. I'm doing a lot more with Amazon these days and I want to talk about it more!</div><p /><div>Keep your eyes open for more new content from me, plus other things that I find interesting. I also highly recommend you follow my google reader feed as I"m regularly sharing cool content. </div> <div><br />Hope everyone has an awesome 2011!! </div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/the-blog-has-moved">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.justinbrodley.com/the-blog-has-moved#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/46lFR0Nvvnev7y_vdyrweOpsoGY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/46lFR0Nvvnev7y_vdyrweOpsoGY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/46lFR0Nvvnev7y_vdyrweOpsoGY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/46lFR0Nvvnev7y_vdyrweOpsoGY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~4/hkenAYYxNaA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/974119/NBP-6713.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3tpAMG6ZMmjv Justin Brodley Justin Justin Brodley http://www.justinbrodley.com/the-blog-has-moved Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:00:00 -0800 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-17 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustinBrodleysBlog/~3/0jCyHp4hlto/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-01-17 http://www.justinbrodley.com/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-01-17 <p> <ul class="aktt_tweet_digest"> <li>LOL! 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