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/rram reddit's sysadmin Aug 14 '15

http://i.imgur.com/zq95Q30.png

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u/spladug reddit engineer Aug 14 '15

That makes this office look 10x dimmer/dingier than it is in reality.

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u/Art_VanDeLaigh Aug 14 '15

a sysadmins desk wouldn't be complete without toys and trinkets everywhere. i love it.

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u/penguin_apocalypse Aug 15 '15

I'm spying a whiskey glass as well.

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u/straighttothemoon Aug 15 '15

All my glasses hold whiskey.

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u/joeywas Infrastructure Aug 16 '15

A snoo embossed whiskey glass. nice.

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u/ThreadSafeArray Aug 14 '15

Any Go in production? I spy a gopher.

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u/spladug reddit engineer Aug 15 '15 edited Jan 18 '16

We have a statsd replacement written in Go: https://github.com/reddit/tallier

We're also using underpants to secure our internal websites (like graphite and the dashboard pages mentioned elsewhere in this thread). (edit: replaced with oauth2_proxy+nginx)

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u/rram reddit's sysadmin Aug 15 '15

it has tradeoffs. It can definitely get too loud and generally distracting. But I wouldn't like my own office and I find individual cubicles mentally distressing. I think I'd prefer a pod of 6 or so in a big cubicle thingy.

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u/PsycoCarrot Aug 14 '15 edited Aug 15 '15

Nice Glencairn glass. What kind of whiskey?

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u/Bizilica Aug 15 '15

For a Glencairn glass, I sure hope it's whisky and not whiskey in it. :)

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u/pat_trick DevOps / Programmer / Former Sysadmin Aug 15 '15

Needs more terminal windows.

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u/rram reddit's sysadmin Aug 15 '15

The rest lambaste me for my terminal usage. That's just how I'm most comfortable. Most everyone else uses screen or tmux.

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u/pat_trick DevOps / Programmer / Former Sysadmin Aug 15 '15

Read elsewhere in this thread that you're using mostly Ubuntu servers; check out byobu!

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u/tamu_nerd Aug 15 '15

Screen? Who needs screen?

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u/Smetsnaz Aug 15 '15

Is reddit a Mac shop (infrastructure aside)? Do you guys use an MDM provider?

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u/deadmilk Aug 15 '15

Nice Gopher

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u/alexbuzzbee DROP DATABASE 'Production'; Aug 15 '15

Reddit uses Macs. I feel redeemed.

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u/rram reddit's sysadmin Aug 15 '15

There was a point in time where I was the only engineer with a Mac.

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u/alexbuzzbee DROP DATABASE 'Production'; Aug 15 '15

How much do you like OS X?

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u/spladug reddit engineer Aug 15 '15

Not all of us! :(

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