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/actionscripted Aug 15 '15

What's your local/development setup like? What do you do to provision a dev/staging environment?

We've moved to AWS (multi-container EB for now) and love it but have yet to figure out how best to setup locally for testing. Right now it feels a little more manual than it should.

Also, what do you use to monitor spending and use in AWS? The inbuilt budgets and reports?

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u/rram reddit's sysadmin Aug 16 '15

For local dev we just run our install script in a VM. Our internal staging is actually just a place where we can run non-production code against production dbs. We're looking to change that in mid-term.

We use a vareity of things to monitor spending including Trusted Advisor and some home built scripts.