Leon Fayer

Leon Fayer

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
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Veteran technology executive with over two decades of experience, having expertise…

Experience

Publications

  • DevOps and Business

    O'Reilly Media

    DevOps is much more than a set of practices to eliminate silos between development and operations groups. If your company’s DevOps transformation is to succeed, you need to blur the lines between business and technology domains. This book helps engineering leaders understand what drives the business and provides best practices for aligning technology with business goals to increase efficiency and improve the bottom line.

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  • Migrations: Getting there faster

    Performance Calendar

    Migration scrips. We’ve all had to write them. They are the background, throwaway scripts that don’t have any performance requirements. Who cares if the script you planned to run overnight takes an extra hour to finish, especially since it doesn’t directly impact users? And generally all of that is true. Of course, when the situation falls out of the “generally” bucket, it fails spectacularly.

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  • How to Streamline the Development Process with Commit Hooks

    SYS-CON

    There are different aspects of end-to-end processes that can help improve the adoption of DevOps principals by developers. One of the great automation techniques is commit/push hooks that can be implemented as part of the version control system. Unfortunately, many people are either not familiar with pre/post commit hooks or not using them to their advantage.

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  • What DevOps Is Not

    SYS-CON

    DevOps is a philosophy. It is an approach, a method. It is not a product. Or a thing. Or a way to make employees to more work.

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  • Making the Right Technology Decisions in the Changing High-Tech Landscape

    WIRED Innovations Insight

    With increased availability of new technological choices, people tend to make the mistake of jumping on "hot" technology without a compelling business reason. Reading industry blogs and aggregators, engineers and managers alike hear about "the next best thing" and jump on whatever that is without considering the consequences (or need), justifying the move with a lot of fluff.

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  • New Year’s Resolutions for Internet Retail

    SYS-CON

    As the holiday rush is winding down, I sit here reflecting on all the companies that lost business/revenue during the busiest time of the year. Loss of business not because of technology failure, although this is always a manifestation of a problem, but because of process failure in order to remedy the failures of technology.

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  • Scaling Your Online Business for the Holidays

    Retail Online Integration

    There are many resources out there on how to prepare for a traffic spike - some are better than others. While the details on what changes you need to make will be specific to your architecture, at the end of the day, optimizing your systems boils down to a couple of principal concepts.

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  • Data Quantity, Quality & Frequency: Keys to Production Readiness

    SYS-CON

    Despite the fact that majority of developers firmly believe that "it worked on my laptop" is a poor excuse for production failures, most don't truly understand why it is virtually impossible to make your development environment representative of production.

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  • Catch a bug with monitoring

    TechRepublic

    Development of business and functionality monitors should be a part of any project scope.

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  • Seeing the Big Picture: A Holistic View of Web Application Monitoring

    DevX

    Determining that the application is operating effectively requires a monitoring strategy that meets the needs of multiple constituents and goes beyond simply tracking.

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  • Monitoring the Big Picture: A Modern Approach for Web Application Monitoring

    DevX

    Most Web businesses believe that their web application monitoring efforts are sufficient. Here's why most of them are wrong.

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  • Technical Debt: Naughty or Nice?

    On Technical Debt

    Are you running the risk of having the accrued technical debt outweighing the actual ROI? Or is there a statute of limitations on technical debt to the point where it becomes “a feature, not a bug?”

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  • In Search of the Unknown

    SYS-CON

    The importance of business process monitoring alongside of system monitoring

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  • Is ad personalization a threat to privacy?

    CSO

    Mining and analyzing online behavior for internet marketing is here to stay. So how can those concerned about privacy protect themselves?

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  • Think Ahead

    Internet Retailer

    10 steps every web retailer should take to prevent nasty surprises in a site redesign.

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  • Technical Debt vs ROI

    On Technical Debt

    I often get criticized for my mantra toward the development approach. Your code may be elegant, but mine f***ing works. In an effort to avoid repeating myself on a regular basis, I decided to write down my point of view on the topic. Adhere to it or not — your choice.

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  • Consideration for Selecting a Content Management System

    SYS-CON

    What do you really need, now and in the future

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Projects

  • AlliSports (MTV)

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    Architected an intelligent media and content management system, aligned with internal workflow priorities; real-time content publishing from live events. Production time was cut by 50%, and the caching layer and overall architecture easily sustained a 700% spike in traffic--or 50,000 concurrent live streams--while page load times remained at 200 to 250 milliseconds.

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  • Fontdeck

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    Build font service capable of serving more than 45,000 requests/second and handles upwards of 1 million concurrent client connections.

  • National Geographic

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    End-to-end revamp that enhanced the siteʼs infrastructure and scalability, improved content management. Re-engineered and compacted the site ʼs architecture to reduce human and machine resource requirements. Exponentially improved ability to scale to handle its growth and significant traffic spikes of more than 1,000%.

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  • PBS Kids

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    Designed a light stateless CMS interacting with dozen of internal and external systems, supporting future expansion. Because the system was architected with future growth in mind, addition of new source integrations can be done by non-technical staff, without any code changes. The resulting performance was demonstrated ʼout of the boxʼ at 5x the projected needs with proven horizontal ability to scale well beyond.

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  • PlasmaNet: Freelotto

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    Created real-time behavioral targeting, geo-targeting, demographic targeting and historical targeting, while crunching the numbers for business analytics at the same time for for the dataset over 80 million users. setup business monitoring for better decision making, and an ability to further refine use-cases to optimize data sets needed. Managed operations, scaling to over billion page views and 100 million emails per day.

  • SoulCycle

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    Organizational restructure and technology refocus to support exponential growth while reducing operational expenses. Hardened architecture to allow for daily traffic spikes. Restructured technology department to implement processes and structure to improve delivery efficiency and quality.

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  • Wikipedia

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    Developed a new, Article Feedback Tool to engage readers to contribute to Wikipedia--and become editors over time, with ability to do A/B testing of the user interface.

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