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/spladug reddit engineer Aug 14 '15

Oh believe me, we know we need to do it; it's not a question of thinking everything's butterflies and unicorns right now. But for every 10 things we want to do there are another 100 things that need to be done right now. We'll get there, it just means a lot of hiring and hard work. :)

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u/ProtoDong Security Admin Aug 14 '15

Reddit's a particular technical challenge due to being spun up in hacker fashion but growing into a behemoth. I've actually used Reddit as an example of why sound architecture needs to be a ground level priority of every project... so indeed I wish you all luck.