They misspelled "Wall Street".
Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
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#53The most surprising thing about this is that test and staging are 1:1 duplicates of production. At the companies I've worked at dealing in scale, that has never been the case. "Oh, you run 10 servers and 2 load balancers across these 2 sub-systems? Here's 2 servers and a toy whistle for staging." But then again, I suppose that's what you get when you can dump hundreds of millions of dollars on a problem over a couple…
With Puppet, and with AWS, presumably it's possible to flip a switch, and 5 minutes later have a replica which is around for the 30m you want to test it for, at 1/250th of the monthly cost
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#54It's interesting that apart from the DynamoDB and the SQL Warehouse (Redshaft?) there's a pretty large LevelDB instance serving the sites/services. I also wonder if in reality there were only one or two instances in each zone for each site behind the ELBs and the others were added to show how scalable the infrastructure is; or if their number actually did correspond to the avg. number of instances they ended up havin…
My guess is that they wouldn't have used Redshift as it only became available for beta a few weeks before the election.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda odd saying that it has an expiration date. Aren't the same systems required for the next election?
I was at a talk by Rayid Ghani, the chief scientist for the Obama campaign. He said that they shut down everything after the campaign simply because they can't afford to keep on all the staff full-time for the 4 years, but they don't throw away the code.
With the billions of dollars pumped into election campaigns, it's odd that a political party wouldn't keep at least a small team on the code to continually test, update, refactor, and generally improve the quality.
Fred Brooks, nine women / one month, etc.
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#59Is this not rendering for anyone else? Latest ubuntu + chrome. All I get is black.
Same for me, along with several other sites.
Ubuntu 12.10 + chrome 26.0.1410.63
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was at a talk by Rayid Ghani, the chief scientist for the Obama campaign. He said that they shut down everything after the campaign simply because they can't afford to keep on all the staff full-time for the 4 years, but they don't throw away the code.
With the billions of dollars pumped into election campaigns, it's odd that a political party wouldn't keep at least a small team on the code to continually test, update, refactor, and generally improve the quality. Fred Brooks, nine women / one month, etc.
They keep a small team, just not the full battalion.
Source: visit to OFA offices in 2010. May have changed by now because there is no third term, but I doubt it.