5000 Walmart stores in 2 months

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss.

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Featuring:

• Martin Jackson – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

How stuff breaks

• Pragmatic Engineer summary
• CrowdStrike’s Executive Summary (PDF)
• Brendan Gregg on eBPF

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

챕터

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:10:00)

https://coder.com/

4. Martin's role at Walmart (00:13:50)

5. Running what you can locally (00:19:48)

6. Application layer (00:22:33)

7. Why store specific servers? (00:25:51)

8. Time to rearchitect (00:28:58)

9. Non-stop migration (00:31:44)

10. Large scale configuration management (00:34:13)

11. Making it up as you go (00:40:42)

12. When things changed (00:43:23)

13. What would you do differently? (00:45:06)

14. It's been a blast (00:48:33)

15. Sponsor: Retool (00:49:33)

https://retool.com/changelog

16. The closer (00:52:30)

17. Outro (01:14:46)