Nish is a Production Engineer at Meta in the Cloud Foundation team. The scope of his team's work spans running compute workloads in the Cloud for many applications running at Meta. Outside work Nish is also a photographer (https://www.nish.photo). At SCaLE, Nish takes professional headsots at the Open Source Career Day.

Presentations

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Open Source Career Day Headshots

Come get your professional headshot!

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FBInstance to MetaInstance: Our Journey from Long-Running Mutable to Immutable Instances

We'll discuss the challenges we faced when running Chef in the cloud: juggling build time v/s runtime dependencies, attempting to test continuously moving updates, sharing cookbooks across different deployment environments, and being constrained to CentOS.

Later, we’ll reveal how we turned these challenges around by adopting an immutable instance philosophy: managing instance lifecycle via CI/CD pipelines, relying on build time testing, reducing chef runtime footprint, and making critical host level infrastructure portable by moving it to docker containers.

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