How WebMD ran in the year 2000

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.

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Featuring:

• Rich Burroughs – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• The Cloud Under the Sea
• UK introduces first IoT security laws

Interview

• Rich Burroughs on Bluesky and LinkedIn

Continuous Conversation

• Hey moved CI to dev machines with a bash script

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:16:21)

https://sentry.io/

4. Welcome Rich Burroughs! (00:20:16)

5. Early scaling (00:23:05)

6. Returning responsibilities (00:25:55)

7. Moving to WebMD (00:27:46)

8. Single use web servers (00:34:12)

9. CVS before Git (00:35:04)

10. Rich's IIS story (00:38:18)

11. Why Elon got kicked from PayPal (00:41:47)

12. Early work environments (00:42:35)

13. The mansion from Gone with the Wind (00:44:25)

14. WebMD migration to office (00:45:21)

15. In front of the bubble (00:46:16)

16. Learning from then (00:48:37)

17. DNS never worked (00:49:48)

18. Things start open (00:51:43)

19. The current bubble (00:56:28)

20. Is this a never-ending circle? (01:00:06)

21. Just say I don't know (01:05:02)

22. Thanks for joining us! (01:07:01)

23. Where to reach out (01:07:55)

24. The closer (01:09:44)

25. Outro (01:25:29)