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Design a good alert system is hard but worth well

2013-06-14T05:46:56Z

Since part of Testing in Production is to monitoring in production, design a flexible and accurate alert system is necessary. The alert system should combine information from different data sources and be adaptive to open tickets to the right people at the right time. I wonder does you have good references to design such alert system (I can image this might be more challenge and should be fully integrate together with Tip System). When you design an alert system, I am particular interesting that...(read more)

My thought on external monitoring

2013-06-14T05:41:19Z

Here is my thought on external monitoring. Please providing some comments/suggestions. 1) what is the different between external monitoring with run tests in production The goal are different, 1 is for monitoring the service health, such as reliability, latency, availability, 2 is for the verify the functionality of a feature. Both are valid testing strategy, but the metric, the frequency of running "tests" are different. The latter is also very important since production is the only truth...(read more)

"How Netflix Deploys Code"

2013-06-14T05:22:00Z

I am pretty busy recently to handling live site issue, so has little time to write my own blogs. I decide to take a quick way. I like to share several blogs/articles for you. The area might be testing, cloud, database and service. Today's articles "How Netflix Deploys Code" was published on infoq.com. Here is my thinking about this paper: This article talks about how Netflix deploys a hundred times per day. You will see lot of family terms: "DevOps", Continuous Deployment,etc. My take is that...(read more)

Fun with Review

2013-06-12T03:40:14Z

It is the annual performance review time again. James Whittaker wrote a song "An Ode to Reviews' which reflects people's thinking. For this years review, I only spend 15 minute to evaluate myself: I implement Cluster Dashboard project which can monitor our cluster in near real time and already capture hundreds of incidents since it launched three month ago. I exceeded my achievement since my project has big business impact and shows the future trend of testers, which is monitoring your service, understand...(read more)

My achievement

2013-03-01T07:27:06Z

In recent days, I was thinking about a question : other than technique skills, what are the skills a person have which can he/she get a job during interview. In my experience of job interview, many time, people asked about algorithm and code questions, and some asked about general behavior questions , such as how to handle conflicts, schedule. However, other than these skills, do you think other skills can make you a good hire, and if so, how you present them during interview. First, I don...(read more)

How to build and run a service

2013-02-11T16:40:56Z

This is my though on building and running a service. The main reason I separate these two is that it is possible that we have a poor service, but we can run while. And another side is also true. The ideally case is that we build a very good service and running in a professional way in that we can continuously improve ourselves. How to build a good service? 1) Build a good team then you can build a better service a) Having a architect group to review major change b) Engineers make decision...(read more)

Take away on Seattle Technique Forum: Case of Big Data

2013-02-11T16:38:00Z

Yesterday, I attended Seattle Technique Forum: Case of Big Data , I like to post my take away here for your reference. Data Visualization: Tools and Techniques by Avkash Chauhan, Sr. Escalation Engineer, Windows Azure and HDInsight, Microsoft I came later yesterday night, so only attend half of Avkash's talk. Avkash did a cool demo on data visualization and using HDInisght. I include Avkash in the e-mail in case you want to get more information about this talk. Big Data for Erlang VM and...(read more)

How a Chinese e-commerce company racked up $3 billion in sales in just one day

2013-01-18T23:45:16Z

Last week Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba shocked the web with news that its subsidiaries Taobao (like a Chinese eBay) and T-mall (like Amazon) sold a massive $3.06 billion in product in a single 24-hour period. Three billion dollars is almost triple the entire 2011 Black Friday sales of e-commerce sites in the United States, and this is a testament to both the growing maturity of the Chinese online market and the central position Alibaba holds in China. So how do you do $3 billion in sales...(read more)

Curt Monash on "The future of search"

2013-01-14T19:03:26Z

Please click here for "The future of search" by Curt Monash....(read more)

Recommend Book "The Architecture of Open Source Applications"

2013-01-11T06:40:00Z

Today, I come cross The Architecture of Open Source Applications site, which has two volumes of free books talking about the architecture of more than 50 Open Source Applications. Enjoy....(read more)