Facebook's PUE and WUE Dashboard https://www.fbpuewue.com/prineville

I found the announcement for Facebook's PUE and WUE dashboard on The Register.

Bit barn efficiency metrics on a minute-by-minute basis

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Facebook has heaped pressure on major data center operators to be more transparent, publishing a dashboard that gives up-to-the-minute figures on the efficiency of the social network's gigantic bit barns.

But, no reference to the Facebook url.

Looked at DatacenterKnowledge, again no URL for the Facebook dashboard.

Then hit GigaOm and found the URL. 

The facilities are still under construction, and, as a result, the data in the two dashboards can have abnormalities, but it should become more stable over time. The company detailed its plans in a Thursday blog post on the Open Compute Project site.

With the blog post that the Register and DCK use to report.

A new way to report PUE and WUE

Thursday, April 18, 2013 · Posted by  at 09:10 AM

Today Facebook launched two public dashboards that report continuous, near-real-time data for key efficiency metrics – specifically, PUE and WUE – for our data centers in Prineville, OR and Forest City, NC. These dashboards include both a granular look at the past 24 hours of data and a historical view of the past year’s values. In the historical view, trends within each data set and correlations between different metrics become visible. Once our data center in Luleå, Sweden, comes online, we’ll begin publishing for that site as well.

It is a bit ironic that in a post about transparency it took me so long to find the original FB blog post and the dashboard. https://www.fbpuewue.com/prineville with one years worth of data.

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Disclosure: I work for GigaOm Pro as freelance analyst and like the fact that they embrace transparency in reporting.

Getting back to writing again

I had an awesome vacation and a break from blogging.  And, then jumped on a plane to head to data center land in NC.  What is more fun Disneyland or DatacenterLand?  From a family perspective Disneyland.

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From a work aspect DatacenterLand is pretty fun too.  My family just may not relate as much to the excitement of solving technical and logistics problems.

No pictures, no blogging from DatacenterLand. :-)

What's the rest of story behind Adobe's Business Catalyst move to AWS

Werner Vogel proudly tweets.

honored to support RT : moving to I'II never build another datacenter again

Here is the Adobe post on its move to AWS.

In the coming months, we will be focusing our attention on transitioning the Business Catalyst platform from our existing data centers over to this new cloud infrastructure. Based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, this infrastructure will ensure increased stability, reliability and scalability as the number of sites hosted with Business Catalyst grows into the future. If you are familiar with AWS yourself, you’ll also know this means even faster load times and higher quality of service for visitors to your client sites.

Turns out there is more behind this story.

I'll write a future post on this story as there are some good lessons behind the move.

Taking Blogging break, Spring vacation with the kids, a time to reflect

Tomorrow I'll start a vacation with the kids and take a blogging break.

Today was a good day. Some complex projects are coming together. And a bunch of other little things fell in place.  And new opportunities just show up.  Feels right to take a break.

Looking forward to vacation as a time to spend time with family reflecting on the past, appreciating the present, and thinking about the future.

Thanks for continuing to visit this blog.  Back in 1 1/2 weeks.

Get Insight on Devops, Download 2013 survey of 4,000 IT professionals

I was chatting with Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppetlabs a few months ago and he said his company had a DevOps survey it was working on and it is now available for download here.

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The survey was quite broad in 90 countries

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Mostly with IT operations.

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