2012 Year in Review: devops blog posts and articles

This is a whirlwind tour of blog posts and articles that I saved in Instapaper in 2012.

January

• Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'Warehouse' Computing

February

• The Etsy Way

March

• Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode

April

• Design your web site for a graceful fail (Mike Brittain on resilient user experience)
• How Draw Something rode its rocketship of growth

May

• High Scalability's Big List of 20 Common Bottlenecks
• Engineering Change: Enable Rapid Experiementation (from Kellan Elliot-McCrea at Etsy)

June

• StubHub Architecture: The Surprising Complexity Behind the World's Largest Ticket Marketplace

July

• How we ran the first Khan Academy healthy hackathon (by Ben Kamens)
• Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox
• On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor (by Mathias Meyer)

August

• Automate Google Analytics reporting using Google Apps Script
• High availability with Pound load balancer (from Server Density)
• What hardware powers Etsy.com?

September

• Automatic Memory Machine (automating server installs at Evernote)

October

• Continuously Deploying Culture - Scaling Culture at Etsy
• Even stranger than expected: a systematic look at EC2 I/O (by Scalyr)

November

• Release Engineering at Facebook
• Gone Fishin': Tumblr Architecture

December

• Optimizing MySQL performance at scale with Anemometer
• Blobstore: Twitter's in-house photo storage system
• Top 9 tips from fine-tuning your cloud architecture in 2013 (from RightScale)