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Join Mandi Walls as she takes us back to the AOL chat room era, discussing the evolution of online communities and tech infrastructure at AOL. Explore Unix platform commands, web operations, Apache projects, and software tools for various functions. Reflect on the challenges and nostalgic memories of managing servers and the importance of teamwork in tech success.
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- Managing early 2000s AOL infrastructure complexities and challenges during migration.
- Utilizing AOL's proprietary technologies and facing issues with non-prod environments and tool limitations.
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AOL Infrastructure and Migration Challenges
The podcast episode delves into the complexities of managing AOL's infrastructure in the early 2000s, highlighting challenges faced during the migration from AOL server to Tomcat in 2006. The speaker shares insights on the mishmash of infrastructure tools and the struggle with lack of version control and config management, narrating experiences of dealing with outages, tarball deployments, and limited thread capacities.
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