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This is the best thing I've read all day.

While I'm not sure what this exact probe is built upon, some popular choices for mission critical applications I've seen in the past are:

* VxWorks for real time operating system (proprietary)

* Ada/C++ for programming language.

> Of course, I could be completely wrong, and missing a great alternative service.

AppNeta TraceView is an alternative to New Relic: http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/

Disclosure: I work for AppNeta.

Ahh cool! I completely agree that using your own products from a customer point of makes a better employee. Thanks for the input =)

Agreed, I doubt Amazon had any evil intentions with this change.

I wonder more if this was a product of Amazon developers using S3 (i.e. dogfooding) and not noticing the cost side effect because I'm assuming they don't get billed?

interestingly enough, here's the original commit that defaulted `validate=True`:

https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/95939debc3813468264159d5...

EDIT: Looks like the original committer is an Amazon employee.

i updated the article to move the inline update to the `2. Enable mod_pagespeed` section as requested =)

nice! just ordered a used copy =)

Nice link! And I agree the daily rotation is a bad idea, however we're leaning towards doing a Tuesday-to-Tuesday week long shift.

"During pager hand-off, last week's guy and this week's guy should talk about what happened and if there's anything they should know"

Agreed, we were thinking of doing week long rotations (Tuesday - Tuesday) with a "hand off conversation" happening on Tuesdays.

Wow, thanks for the brain dump!

We're an established team/product, so we have an internal wiki, help/support desk, and use PagerDuty. We just want to shift away from only a few people (basically 2) handling DevOps emergencies and spread the experience over more members of our engineering team.

With the "all on call/no schedule" route, have you ever had a scenario where no one acknowledged an issue?

We have not discussed this point, but I'm assuming it's off the table due to cost. And yes, this is for 24x7 rotations where everyone is in the same timezone...

Agreed, we are thinking the weekly rotation will be better then daily to help whomever is on call to have a sense of "ownership" of the environment.

Our overall goal is to keep the DevOps skills sharp between as many members of the team as possible...

cool concept, especially when paired with a Chromebook

hyped! still have to come up with an idea to work on tho~