cucumber-nagios lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format

“James is a member of the Amazon Web Services team focused infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and scaling.”

Tons of great info to learn from.

Here’s a video from

Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, “Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation”

Jon Jenkins “Velocity Culture” - he talks about Amazon.com and EC2