I answered a Craigslist job post by sending a list.
Nine load-balanced Apache and PHP web servers. Five load-balanced MySQL database servers. A 30-terabyte SAN that could grow to 191 terabytes. High availability on the network appliances. About 80 terabytes of traffic each month. Uptime above 99.99 percent.
That was the Beatport environment I was responsible for.
I joined Beatport in September as a senior systems administrator. In January, I moved into the director role. The title changed quickly. The machines and the work underneath them did not disappear.
Beatport was an online store for DJs. Customers came from different countries and time zones. Labels delivered music. Customers searched, paid, and downloaded files. The store did not close when the Denver office went home.
Multiple web servers spread the requests. Multiple database servers handled the data layer. The network equipment had a high-availability setup. Storage held the catalog and the files moving through the store.
Thirty terabytes was the current number. The application also said the SAN could grow to 191 terabytes. That second number showed how much room the storage design still had.
The job application forced me to put the whole environment into a few lines. It was also a direct way to show that I could handle the infrastructure work in the listing.
I attached my resume and asked them to call.
I already had a director title and a large system to run. I still answered the listing with my resume and asked for a call. The message does not say whether I wanted a separate project or a different job.
Nine web servers. Five database servers. Thirty terabytes of storage. Eighty terabytes of monthly traffic. Those were the facts I sent.