Etsy Engineering | Infrastructure upgrades with Chef

In 2020 we updated this post to adopt more inclusive language. Going forward, we'll use "primary/replica" in our Code as Craft entries. This post in particular names an open-source repository that we need to rename. We are actively working on that and will update this post ASAP. Infrastructure overview As we have written before, at Etsy we run our production stack exclusively on physical hardware.

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Infrastructure upgrades with Chef As we have written before, at Etsy we run our production stack exclusively on physical hardware. This, albeit being less elastic in terms of bringing new hosts up, gives us the power to serve 1.5 billion page views a month on a relatively small number of machines. T