Making ops life easier
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Carmen Sarlo, a principal operations engineer at Vox Media, discusses how Fastly's API has streamlined operations by empowering the team to confidently implement changes through tooling and chat-ops. This approach has improved efficiency for the small operations team, addressing issues like poor configuration syntax and ticket management. Overall, using Fastly has enhanced the operational experience, allowing for better configuration management and freeing up time for the team.
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Making ops life easier
- 1. Making Ops Life Easier Carmen Sarlo Principal Operations Engineer at Vox Media
- 2. Fastly’s API has provided us the ability to create tooling for any member of the team to use and feel confident to roll out changes. Some of our tooling using Fastly’s API is done by chat-ops or integrated workflow using common tools used by the engineering team. Making edge tasks easier for other team members, makes a happier engineering staff.
- 3. • 8 Media brands • Large product team - designers, developers, support, etc… • Small operations team Who are we?
- 4. • Poor configuration syntax • Lots of manual changes • Some vendors force you into Professional Services to make not so difficult changes • Ticket management nightmare Previous Providers
- 5. • Familiar with the VCL syntax • Configuration management, source control, api to keep us honest • Single url purges can be performed via chat ops How is using Fastly making Operations life easier
- 6. • Confidence in what is applied to the edge is what we have in source control and applied to our origin • chat-ops to perform simple tasks to free up time for the operations team.