Author Archives: Pete

About Pete

I've been a DevOps guy at AppNexus for the past three years. When I'm not working, I'm either spending family time with my wife and three daughters, reading, or growing my beard.

DevOps in Milliseconds

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Pete

AppNexus engineers have it good. They don’t lie awake at night wondering if we can handle the next increase of impressions. They don’t worry that our systems are down and we don’t know it. They don’t develop in a bubble, … Continue reading →

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Metrics Collection and Display via Graphite

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Pete

At AppNexus the production adserving component of our business has over 600 servers (a combination of virtual and baremetal) spread across 4 datacenters (AMS1 in Amsterdam, NYM1 and NYM2 in New York, and LAX1 in Los Angeles). We aggregate metrics from all … Continue reading →

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