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Continuous Deployment at Etsy
Chad Dickerson, CEOchad@etsy.com / @chaddickerson
March 10, 2012SXSW
1.4B page views per month$525MM sales on Etsy in 201139MM unique visitors / month800K shops / 150 countries100+ engineers
By the numbers
Our simple definition of continuous deployment:Small, frequent changes
to production.
Continuous deployment transformed Etsy
6/05 9/08 12/09 9/10
Timeline
Etsy launches I joined
First 1-button deploy; 7
deploys in ’09
StatsD(graphs!)
12/10 12/11
3,029 deploys
in ‘10
10,068deploys
in ‘11
12/12
10x growth
September 2008
“There are issues to address now and there will most certainly be bumps on the technology side as Etsy grows, but I want all of you Etsians to know that it is an honor and a privilege to be serving the Etsy community as your CTO. If you can give me some time and understanding here in my early days at Etsy, I hope to make you proud.”
- An Honest Beginning for Etsy’s New CTO (company blog)
http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2008/tech-update-an-honest-beginning-for-etsys-new-cto/
Problems!
What was missing at Etsy at the time
• Culture of transparency!
• Monitoring
• Metrics / Graphing
• Automated testing
• Error log analysis
The present
6/05 9/08 12/09 9/10
Timeline
Etsy launches I joined
First 1-button deploy; 7
deploys in ’09
StatsD(graphs!)
12/10 12/11
3,029 deploys
in ‘10
10,068deploys
in ‘11
12/12
10x growth
Confidence as a Service
Fred
Board members deploy!
Dogs deploy!
How we got there
Most important issue?
Culture.
Peopleware:“the major problems of
our work are not so much technological as
sociological in nature”
“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”
Conway’s Law:
- Melvin Conway, 1968
Fix people and team issues first.
Communication
Insist on transparency
Operability reviews
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/go-or-nogo-operability-and-contingency-planning-at-etsycom
Blameless post-mortems
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/advanced-postmortem-fu-and-human-error-101-velocity-2011
Key tools at Etsy
Deployinator:One button deploy
https://github.com/etsy/deployinator
StatsD:Graphs, democratized
https://github.com/etsy/statsd
Code talks.
Make graphs!
Yes! No.
Dashboard Driven Development**
**60,000 graphs, ~30 of the most important ones on deploy dashboard
Errors*
*Vertical lines are deploys!
Key business metrics*
*Vertical lines are deploys!
Automated Testing
http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/04/20/divide-and-concur/
What continuous deployment gives Etsy
Agility: Always Be Shipping
MTTD / MTTR
Stability & predictability
Encourages experimentation
Developer happiness
DevOps
Scales trust and risk
“Not being in a state to deploy is a matter of liability. It's like having the only fire exit blocked. You ignore it at everyone's peril.”
— Lacy Rhoades, Etsy Engineer
“an ecosystem where the lazy, excitable and impatient really shine”
— Andrew Morrison, Etsy Engineer“The Product Hacking Ecosystem”
http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/01/04/the-product-hacking-ecosystem/
ResourcesCode as Craft bloghttp://codeascraft.etsy.com/
Slides (including these)http://www.slideshare.net/etsy
Github http://github.com/etsy/
Join in the fun http://www.etsy.com/careers/
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