June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
18h 45m
English
book
Art of Scalability, The: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise, 2nd Edition
by Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher
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Chapter 9. Managing Crises and Escalations
There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
—Sun Tzu
You’ve probably never seen the 404 (page not found) error on Etsy’s site (www.etsy.com). The error page is a cartoon that depicts a woman knitting a three-armed sweater (Figure 9.1). Etsy is the de facto marketplace for handmade or vintage items, and as such it seems only fitting that the company commissioned an actual three-armed sweater that it uses to reward the engineer who most spectacularly brings down the site. While this fun fact is indicative of the amazing culture that thrives in Etsy’s technology teams, what’s more interesting about this 404 page is the site incident that it caused a few years ago. John Allspaw, ...
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