Making Ops Life Easier

Carmen Sarlo Principal Operations Engineer at Vox Media

Fastly’s API has provided us the ability to create tooling for any member of the team

to use and feel confident to roll out changes. Some of our tooling using Fastly’s API is done by chat-ops or

integrated workflow using common tools used by the engineering team. Making

edge tasks easier for other team members, makes a happier engineering staff.

• 8 Media brands

• Large product team - designers, developers, support, etc…

• Small operations team

Who are we?

• Poor configuration syntax

• Lots of manual changes

• Some vendors force you into Professional Services to make not so difficult changes

• Ticket management nightmare

Previous Providers

• Familiar with the VCL syntax

• Configuration management, source control, api to keep us honest

• Single url purges can be performed via chat ops

How is using Fastly making Operations life easier

• Confidence in what is applied to the edge is what we have in source control and applied to our origin

• chat-ops to perform simple tasks to free up time for the operations team.