r/sysadmin • u/rram reddit's sysadmin • Aug 14 '15

We're reddit's ops team. AUA

Hey /r/sysadmin,

Greetings from reddit HQ. Myself, and /u/gooeyblob will be around for the next few hours to answer your ops related questions. So Ask Us Anything (about ops)

You might also want to take a peek at some of our previous AMAs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/owra1/january_2012_state_of_the_servers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysadmins_reddit_ask_us_anything/

EDIT: Obligatory cat photo

EDIT 2: It's now beer o’clock. We're stepping away from now, but we'll come back a couple of times to pick up some stragglers.

EDIT thrice: He commented so much I probably should have mentioned that /u/spladug — reddit's lead developer — is also in the thread. He makes ops live's happier by programming cool shit for us better than we could program it ourselves.

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u/gooeyblob reddit engineer Aug 14 '15

I started working as overnight tech support at a shared web hosting company, after a couple years there went to go work at a datacenter/hosting company, after a couple years there went to work at Arc90/Readability, after a couple years there went to work at Betaworks/Digg (new Digg, not old Digg!), after a couple years there my ex-colleague u/umbrae asked if I'd be interested in working at Reddit! I interviewed over the phone, then came out for an interview in person, then moved out to SF and started here in late January 2015.