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Well I woke up to another Digg sell out rumor so it must be the first Friday of the month. What is interesting this time is the players couldn’t get much bigger; Google and Microsoft thanks to techcrunch breaking the news. While this has to be the geekiest picture ever on the cover of a magazine it is damn good marketing. Kevin Rose took a suggestion he made to the Slashdot founder over lunch and turned it into the largest social news site that so far can’t be outdone. The digg stack is completely Lamp, High Scalability has the details, and done on a shoestring budget of course with the exception of the support of digg CEO and co-founder Adelson’s Equinox as the founder and CTO. Good idea, reasonable execution, and a solid Ops team, which started with one guy.

Jon Pral has great list here of 85 Operaions rules to live by. Here are my top 5 from the list.

1. Know your bottlenecks and know how to spot them – every layer – know if you are blocking on disk, RAM, or CPU. It is usually that simple.

2. The value of a project manager, tech writer, and financial analyst in the ops organization should not be underestimated. They will more than pay for themselves.

3. Monitor EVERYTHING – alert on actionable only, record other for trend information.

4. Assign people to be point people for every bit of technology.

5. Do it right the first time. Rarely do you get the chance to go back and redo things. If you do, it comes at a very big cost to the company. Take the hit on work, the first go round.

Well I don’t want to make this blog about aggregating others blogs but I came across a great post regarding metrics this afternoon that I think we should read.

How and what to measure via Ask the Wizard