Speaker
Abstract
At Meta, developers use a combination of development servers, including virtual machines and physical hosts, as well as on-demand containers to perform their daily software engineering work.
In this talk, we will present these environments and discuss a few of their architectural underpinnings put in place specifically to ensure their availability and reliability in the presence of maintenance workflows and disasters.
In discussing these environments, their architecture, and their reliability characteristics, we will be focusing on addressing questions such as:
- Where does the data used by developers live and why does that make the design reliable in the face of disasters?
- What are the backup and migration strategies in place and why does it allow us to continue working in the face of outages?
- What are the types of disasters we prepare for and how do we communicate with our users in the face of these outages?
- How do we conduct OS and software updates/upgrades without causing disruptions to the developer community?
Topics
QCon New York 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
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