Today is my first day working with the incredible team that runs this amazing website! I am happy to announce that I have joined the DEV team as a ...
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The most painful part of the DEV.to open-source codebase is its dependence on Alogia.
So if the mention of Elastisearch is to replace that service that would ease development and would be quite welcomed.
I wonder if having an SRE will drive the platform away from Heroku to just directly utilize cloud computing services such as AWS. Since I would think an SRE would want to have fine-tuned control over configuration since Heroku can certainly be stifling.
The Upgrade to Postgres 11 made me think there is some clunkiness with upgrading where if the infrastructure was directly managed on AWS my users would never need to be warned of such an upgrade and no interruption would be felt.
Congratz Molly.
These are very good observations and definitely enters into where and why we need help.
That is indeed a thing we want to do. Beyond the pain of having a dependency like Algolia, search has the capacity to become more central to what we do and moving to a leading open source provider seems ideal. So yeah, Molly is here to get stuff done along those lines.
Hopefully, DEV.to makes use of Amazon Elasticsearch. I have a cluster running on ExamPro so I can use full-text search on my large bank of practice exam questions.
Elasticsearch is notorious for going bonkers and using 99.99% of CPU. One of the few times it better to use a managed service is Elasticsearch since it already fined-tuned on AWS to avoid having to put in the crazy amount of people-power debugging cluster configuration issues.
i googled ExamPro out of curiosity about what sort of stack youre running and all I can find is stuff related to OB-GYN... is that accurate?
Exampro.co. You may be mistaking us for the.co.ukor the.comElasticsearch is one of those tools that is very easy to get started with but if you want to use it at any sort of scale you really have to understand how it works otherwise it is VERY easy to crash it. When we started using it at Kenna we had 500 million docs and were processing a few million a day and we were maxing out our 20 node cluster. By changing our data architecture and how we ran queries we were able to take that exact same cluster and store 5 billion docs in it and process 300+ million of them a day.
Hey Molly, I'm really excited to see that you've joined DEV and I'm looking forward to all the things you gonna do and write here :) I'm a software developer with a tendency to DevOps and I'm really interested in learning more about SRE!
Congrats Molly! Looking forward to you sharing your SRE wisdom and experiences from inside DEV 🤓
Congratulations, Molly! This is so well deserved and an excellent match of skills and talent. Looking forward to seeing your contributions to the Dev Community in this new role! 💪🏻
Holy cow! Congrats Molly!!!! I'm so excited for you.
I've never met you but enjoyed your last post Congratulations on your new role. Let your passion shine!!!
This is just great! I wish you success here at Dev and your contributions make this platform even better!
BTW, I don't know why but when you published you were leaving Kenna Security I suspected you'd go working at Dev. Never really bother to ask but my suspicious was true 😁 and it's super awesome!
With the #hacktoberfest event, I started my first contribution to Dev. This is a great platform and I have already seen tons of interesting things in its codebase.
You working here now will make it even more interesting to read, learn, and contribute.
👏🏽👏🏽
PS: your dogs are super cute :)
This is so awesome! Congrats Molly! I’m sure you will make a huge impact on the DEV platform and community in this role. I’m looking forward to seeing everything you are able to build. Will you get to build out a team eventually?
That's the goal!!!
Super cool!
Congrats Molly! I should have suspected a move to Dev when you said you were leaving Kenna...
Great, now I want a corgi too 😍😶
Not going to lie they are the BEST dogs and super smart!
Wohoo... Congrats Molly!
Glad you joined, big win for the community ❤️
Are you kidding me? How it comes dev.to hire all that cool people.
Wooooo so excited to have you on!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
Congrats Molly!
We are so excited to have you on the team, Molly! 🙌🏽
Congratulations, Molly! I'm sure you'll be a great addition to the DEV team.
Congrats!!
Congrats Molly! See you in the next RubyConf! :)
Congrats Molly and I enjoyed reading your intro :) Your dogs are adorable!
OMG this is so exciting!!!
You rock ; )
Congratulations Molly! 🎉 I look forward to reading more of your posts and experiences with the DEV team.
Congrats! Really good article. Do you have any books, video resources you recommend for getting into site reliability engineering?
Thank you!!!
The SRE Google book is great and honestly the only book I have read. Otherwise, I enjoy reading blog posts and articles as I come across them. Nothing stands out, I usually read posts based on my needs and projects at any given time.
Congratulations and good luck!
We bootstrapped our SRE team this year, and it's been a whirlwind. Hope your path is another.
I already said on the Twitterz, but congrats again Molly! Your posts and community involvement have been inspiring and can't wait to see your work for Dev.to.