One Million Builds per Year, Only One Page - Operating Internal Services Without Heroics

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:55 pm2:15 pm PDT

Cail Young, Octopus Deploy

Abstract: 

A nuts-and-bolts examination of how a small team at Octopus Deploy was able to deliver a set of internal services that enabled in excess of 1 million builds in a calendar year - with only one out-of-hours page in that time! We'll cover the technical and social aspects of what was involved, and discuss some of the downsides of having what appears to be a stable system.

Cail has spent the last couple of decades working at the intersection of people and technology: in the performing arts, in the motion picture industry, and now in the field of software operations. He is fascinated by learning from incidents - large and small - and will gladly trade stories about them.

BibTeX
@conference {305475,
author = {Cail Young},
title = {One Million Builds per Year, Only One Page - Operating Internal Services Without Heroics},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}