John Allspaw

John Allspaw
SVP, Technical Operations, Etsy.com

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John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon, InfoWorld, Friendster, and Flickr. He is now VP of Tech Operations at Etsy, and is the author of The Art of Capacity Planning published by O’Reilly.

Sessions

9:00 Tuesday, 8/11/2011
Opening remarks
Keynote
 Location: Hall 1 B/C
Steve Souders (Google), John Allspaw (Etsy.com)
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9:00 Wednesday, 9/11/2011
Opening remarks
Keynote
 Location: Hall 1 B/C
John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Steve Souders (Google)
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10:35 Wednesday, 9/11/2011
Anticipation: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Keynote
 Location: Hall 1 B/C
John Allspaw (Etsy.com)
Average rating: ****.
(4.27, 37 ratings)
Putting in place contingency plans for when things might go wrong means first having an engineer's imagination for those possible failures and surprising outcomes. I'm going to talk about walking the fine line between immobilizing paranoia and a healthy but constant sense of unease in order to build your anticipation muscles. Read more.
Bulletin

Bulletin
  • ip-label
  • Compuware Corporation
  • dynaTrace
  • Keynote Systems
  • New Relic
  • Citrix Systems
  • Google
  • Apica
  • AppDynamics
  • CDNetworks
  • Cotendo
  • Dyn Inc.
  • ImmobilienScout24
  • Spil Games
  • Dyn Inc.

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