Expect the Unexpected with DiRT

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Expect the Unexpected with DiRT

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December 5, 2019 at 12:00 am

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 1

Our annual DiRT testing takes place this weekend. We're not Google by any means but it's just as important to us. The whole company gets involved in one form or another.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76000 More actions · Answer 2

Worth reading about Netflix and the Chaos Monkey approach

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phegedusich SSCommitted Points: 1552 More actions · Answer 3

Our recovery guidance directs that we have three hard copies of our application recovery plans: one for the office, one for the home, and one for the vehicle.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 4

David.Poole wrote:

Worth reading about Netflix and the Chaos Monkey approach

Do you have any links? (or did I simply miss them in the article?)

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

jay-h SSCoach Points: 18816 More actions · Answer 5

"one for the office, one for the home, and one for the vehicle."

Seems like a security risk even if the paper docs don't actually contain passwords (still need a place for them)

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-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers --

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden wrote:

Our annual DiRT testing takes place this weekend. We're not Google by any means but it's just as important to us. The whole company gets involved in one form or another.

That's interesting. Would love to hear/read more about it if you can.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden wrote:

Do you have any links? (or did I simply miss them in the article?)

https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

https://www.gremlin.com/chaos-monkey/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/netflix-attacks-own-network-with-chaos-monkey-and-now-you-can-too/

Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125561 More actions · Answer 8

In addition our database backups, the infrastructure team has setup a process to copy VM host image backups to Azure for both database and application servers. It's not useful for "Opps... DBA can you please restore XYZ?" type of scenarios, but would theoretically come in handy in the event of a total SHTF disaster recovery situation.

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 9

Hopefully you test the networking there, and have an idea of the way in which this might change your architectures. Many people get surprised by some of the cumbersome nature of working in the cloud after becoming used to the way applications (and databases) perform on premises.