Operations at (Small) Scale

Elliott Sims

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Operations at (Small) Scale

Elliott Sims, Backblaze

Abstract:

Backblaze is not a traditional unicorn or unicorn-aspirant. We take a bootstrapped and simple low-cost approach to operations that differs from the current cloud-based trends. This has some key advantages in terms of not requiring heavy VC backing and all that entails, but also presents a different set of challenges. I’ll be describing some of those challenges from the point of view of someone who recently moved from large scale and is now adapting to a smaller scale.

Elliott Sims is a Senior Sysadmin at Backblaze. Previously, he worked at Facebook from 2009-2015 building and maintaining infrastructure through exponential growth.

Elliott Sims, Backblaze

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BibTeX

@conference {208619,
author = {Elliott Sims},
title = {Operations at (Small) Scale},
year = {2016},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}

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