Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed: Recent Episodes
Breandan Dezendorf, Ken Mink, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins
Practical Operations is about the difference between running your IT organization the "Right Way" and the Practical Way. Your hosts talk about the theory of small to web scale operations and DevOps and then discuss how to get the most out of these tools in practice.
Where we discuss how damaging Shadow IT can be, how to identify it, how to think about it, and some strategies for getting rid of it.
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Where look at Hollywood’s inability to get technology in movies even remotely correct… this time, we’re talking about “The Net”, a 1995 Sandra Bullock movie, where so many things are just… wrong.
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Links for Episode 132: * The Net (1995 film)
Where we discuss another thing that is eating the world - Visual Studio Code. We also talk about IDEs in general.
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Links for Episode 130: * Bash VIM keybindings * Code Server * Cloud9 IDE * Theia IDE * XKCD Ineffective Sorts * Stacksort * Github Copilot * Github Copilot Security Issues * VIM codex plugin * OpenAI Codex
Where we discuss setting up a zero-trust network access policy - what Google referrs to as “BeyondCorp”.
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Links for Episode 129: * Cryptocurrencies Are Detrimental to Society * BeyondCorp\ * BeyondCorp Wikipedia Page * Traefik * Authelia * Bind Response-Policy Zones * OpenID Connect * Hairpin NAT * CloudFlare Teams * 1.1.1.1 * Ory * Pomerium * Google Zanzibar
Where we discuss the end of 2021 and what we expect in 2022.
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Links for Episode 128: * Last Year’s Year In Review * log4shell exploit * log4shell explained * tidelift * openssl * heartbleed * leftpad * Software Is Eating The World * AWS Outages * WFH Mental Health * Reddit Salary/Workforce Post * Top 12 Gartner 2022 Technology Trends * IBM Quantum Developer Cert * Amazon Bracket
Where we discuss how to scale things when the human element is the limited capacity.
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Links for Episode 127: * Hyrum’s Law
Where we discuss Tyler Treat’s essay about how the paradigm of SRE doesn’t scale.
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Links for Episode 126: * SRE Doesn’t Scale * Google SRE Book: The Evolving SRE Engagement Model * Reddit Pay Scale Post
Where we discuss observability, prompted by a post on The New Stack by Charity Majors, looking at the current state of observability in the industry.
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Links for Episode 125: * Observability (Wikipedia) * Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective
Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts.
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Links for Episode 124: * Gruntwork
Where we discuss outsourcing and insourcing - when to buy a product, when to staff a team, and when to do it all yourself.
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Links for Episode 123: * Model M Bolt Mod * OpenCompute Networking * AWS custom silicon for ASIC
Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done.
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Links for Episode 122: * Amazon Workspaces Overview * Google Cloudtops For Employees Only * VSCode Remote SSH * VSCode Remote Development * HP t630 Thin Client * A Hobbyist’s Guide to Amazon WorkSpaces
Where we discuss how we get personal things done away from our work from home workstations, while whishcasting about tech that we think should exist.
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Links for Episode 121: * Home on iPod * AWS WorkSpaces * ChromeOS Crostini Project * Google Pixelbook Go Keyboard Review * Google Tensor SoC and the Pixel 6 * Windows Subsystem for Linux
Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne.
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Links for Episode 120: * The Last Starfighter
Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic.
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Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse.
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Links for Episode 118: * Imposter Syndrome * Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome
Where we discuss human input and output. Who are we kidding? We talked about mechanical keyboards, with very mild diversions into trackballs, trackpads and monitors. This is a notes-heavy episode, please look at the shownotes!
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Links for Episode 117: * Apple Chicklet Keyboard * Apple Extended Keyboard II * SpaceSaver Model * VT100 Serial Terminal Keyboards * IBM Selectric Typewriter * Monoprice Cherry MX Blue Keyboard * IBM 5251 with Solenoids * List of key switches * Switch Tester from WASD * Socketable Keyswitch Mounts * Keyboard Sizes Explained * Sun Type 5 Keyboard * Gateway 2000 Anykey Keyboard * 40% Keyboards * ErgoDox Split Ergonomic Ortholinear * ErgoDox EZ * Keychron K8 * Keychron C1 * Unicomp * Sorarers Converter * Model F Keyboards * keeb.io * Nyquist Keyboard * Custom Keyboard Cable Supplies * Chyrosran22 Keyboard Reviews * i3wm * Kensignton Expert Mouse * HighDPI Displays in Linux * Apple Cinema HD Display
Where we discuss one of the fundamental physical constants that is always trying to bring us down - the speed of light - and how latency for round trip times impacts programming, systems design, and organizational behavior.
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Links for Episode 116: * GCPing * AWS Cloud Ping * How Distributed Systems Fail * Jepsen Failure Talks * Bandwidth Delay Product * XKCD 1205
Where we discuss the seperation of work and personal life, and why such a seperation is both crucial and hard to do.
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Links for Episode 115: * NYT Article About Google * Video Game Industry Layoffs * Jarod’s Thanos PR
Where we discuss getting control of an existing, organically built cloud environment, and how to structure said control. Monolitic terraform? Hundreds of terraform projects? CloudFormations? Control Tower?
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Links for Episode 114: * Gruntwork * AWS Landing Zone is currently in Long-term Support and will not receive any additional features * AWS Control Tower * AWS Multi Account Architecture * Hashicorp Landing Zones * Multi-Account with Centralized Identity Management
Where we discuss licensing and how it intersects with everything we do - from Elastic adopting Mongo’s SSPL to the mess that was made public with Wireguard, PFSense and BSD. Licenses are important, folks, choose them well and with purpose, ideally with a laywer in the room.
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Links for Episode 113: * Open Source Is Not A Business Model * Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana * The SSPL Is Not An Open Source License * Apache 2.0 License * proprietary eponym * Wireguard * Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call * OpenSource Licenses * Choose A License
Where we talk with Brian Miller about running large scale networks for a major university and his adventures in Internet2, IPv6 and wireless all come up.
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Links for Episode 112: * Internet2 * C-Light * Clemson CCIT * ARIN * Globus * StatSeeker
Where we discuss the risks you take using package managers and code you do not host yourself.
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Links for Episode 111: * Dependency Confusion * The Great Suspender * Leftpad NPM Debcle * DNS Exfil * Detecting ‘curl | bash’ serverside * Solar Winds Hack Blamed On Intern’s Password
Where we discuss the failure of the Texas energy grid and how it relates to a failure to plan ahead. We look at active/active, n+1 and other cases where redundancy sneaks away from you.
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Links for Episode 110: * 2021 Winter Storm * Slack January 2021 Outage Postmortem * Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room * California Electricity Crisis * Sun X4500 Storage Server
Where we discuss deplatforming, through the lens of what happened to social media sites after the political upheaval in early January.
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Links for Episode 109: * Cloudflare Controversies * Cloudflare’s Press Release * CDA Section 230 * SEC 10-k and 10-q Forms * Germany Backs Away From COVID Database * Amazon And Apple Drop Parler * AWS Suspends Parler
Where we discuss the state of the Kubernetes project with someone who knows a lot about it - Seth McCombs. Seth, a Cloud Orchestration Software Engineer at Workday, is member of Kubernetes SIG-Release and SIG-Docs. The conversation covers the qualities of building communities, the road ahead, and the things he likes the most about the project.
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Links for Episode 108: * Contribute to K8s docs * K8s SIG-Docs * Stackrox and IBM * istio/envoy proxy * linkerd * kubebuilder * operator framework * Prometheus Operator * Helm 3 * kubernetes/kops * Kustomize
Where we discuss how to handle opportunities - ones at your current job, how to approach new jobs, and tackling some of the personal sides of things.
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Links for Episode 107: * Imposter Syndrome
Where we discuss the year this was, what we thought it was going to be, and how wrong we really were. We also discuss the future a little bit, and try to find patterns in this chaos.
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Links for Episode 106: * Episode 81 - The End Of The Year * CentOS Is Changing * Rocky Linux * KOPF - A Python K8S Operator Library * Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom * occupancyd
Where we talk with Darren Fallis about some of the reasons you should really upgrade to a modern TLS version, and what that means in practical terms. At the moment, this is TLS 1.3, but as with all advice - especially security related advice - please stay current!
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Links for Episode 105: * Episode 57: Two Factor Authentication with Darren Fallis * Transport Layer Security * Mozilla SSL Configurator * Boring SSL * OCSP Stapling * Mutual TLS Authentication * CAA records
Where we talk with Evan Bloom about getting started in this industry, coming from a very different world of music. This includes where to get started with linux, programming and generally how to look at the careers we talk about on this podcast.
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Sponsors for Episode 104: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 104: * Linux 101 edX * Reddit Linux Upskill Challenge * PiHole * Deviant Olliam I’ll Let Myself In * Python The Hard Way * EVE Online Python * Gentoo Wiki * Arch Linux Wiki Pages
Where we talk about our pet peeves - technical red flags that tell you something about an environment isn’t right.
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Sponsors for Episode 103: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Where we talk about the many lies we tell ourselves, even when we know better.
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Sponsors for Episode 102: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Where we talk about some mergers and aquisitions in the configuration management space and discuss somewhat about where the industry is headed.
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Sponsors for Episode 101: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 101: * Progress Software Holdings * WSFTP * SaltStack * Ansible * VMWare * CloudTruth Episode * Datadog and Azure Partnership * Long Term Capitol Management
Where we revisit our first episode, The Culture of DevOps, and talk about what’s changed in the last 5 years, including the growth of the Site Reliability Engineering movement to implement DevOps, and some thoughts about the next 5 years.
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Sponsors for Episode 100: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 100: * Episode 1 - Introduction and The Culture of DevOps * Finding the Golden Signals with Prometheus * Jack Neely’s ATO Speaker Bio
Where we discuss Elasticsearch’s X-Pack as compared to the OpenDistro For Elasticsearch, and talk a little bit about being a good citizen for open source projects.
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Sponsors for Episode 99: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 99: * Elasticsearch Github Repo * OpenDistro For Elasticsearch * The Elastic License * X-Pack Download * SearchGuard * PerfTop Plugin for OpenDistro
Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look at various implementations of time series databases' support for calculating accurate percentiles.
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Sponsors for Episode 98: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 98: * Atlassian Incident Management * High Availibility Percentage Calculation * Google SRE Book: Embracing Risk * Quantile Definition * Four Golden Signals * Histograms at Scale * VictoriaMetrics Histograms * Circonus Log-Linear Histograms * T-Digests
Where we interview Greg Harris, Principal Security Engineer at Fitbit. We cover security issues around BeyondCorp, VPNs, Docker, and vulnerability scanning. With Greg we learn how to stop reacting to security incidents and instead focus on building threat models for your software and company to forecast and prevent them.
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Sponsors for Episode 97: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 97: * Mozilla Id trust proxy * Ghost Tunnel * Hashicorp Vault SSH PKI/Key authority * Netflix Bless * Crypt.co / crypton - gen u2f token on phone * STRIDE Thread modeling * Threat Dragon * Censys * Shodan * Wireguard * Isto * Minimal linux * Sysdig * OWASP Dependency Check * Anchore Engine
Where we discuss the possible rise of ARM on the desktop as a replacement or challenge to the supremecy of Intel’s venerable x86_64 instruction set.
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Sponsors for Episode 96: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 96: * Converged Infrastructure * Intel CEO Mistake about iPhone * Linus Complains about AVX-512 * Intel Misses Next Process Shrink * Clang and LLVM * ARM Architecture Support * Anand Shimpi * AWS Graviton2 Instances * Open Compute * Raspberry Pi 4
Where we talk about being multi-cloud, along with the reasons and challenges of doing so, and talk about if it is really worth it.
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Sponsors for Episode 95: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Where we discuss findability and search with a special guest - JP Sherman, the Manager of Search and Findability at Red Hat.
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Sponsors for Episode 94: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 94: * Solr * LucidWorks Fusion * Algolia * SwiftType * Schema App * Haystack Conferences * Learn To Rank
Where we talk about building a modern linux desktop, for both personal and professional use. There’s some talk about Intel vs AMD, Apple and ARM, and video cards… all in good fun.
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Sponsors for Episode 93: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 93: * Keyboards * CMR vs SMR and ZFS * darktable * ardour * Microsoft’s 14% Market Share
Where we talk to CloudTruth’s Matt Conway and Greg Arnette about why they are configuration management geeks, and some of the realities of looking at problems with configuration management in mind.
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Sponsors for Episode 92: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 92: * CloudTruth Homepage * @cloudtruth
Where we talk at length with Brandon Peskin, a Sysadmin turned Network Engineer, who has pretty much seen and done it all - from microwave repeaters across parking lots to massively redundant datacenter to cloud migration projects.
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Sponsors for Episode 91: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 91: * Brandon Peskin * Monitorama 2017 PDX Power Issues * Considerations For Moving An Engineering Organization Fully Remote
Where we discuss practice, and how it makes everything easier - for both personal and professional things.
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Sponsors for Episode 90: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 90: * Theory vs Practice Quote
Where we discuss Greg Kogan’s Article, “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime” and rant about simplicity and how to choose what things to spend time running.
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Sponsors for Episode 89: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 89: * Simple Systems Have Less Downtime * Slackware KISS Philosophy
Where we invite Ashi Sheth, the Senior Manager of Global End User Services at LinkedIn, to talk about the logistical and personal considerations of moving a 20,000 user organization to full-time remote work with very little advanced notice.
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Sponsors: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for the Episode: * Ashi Sheth
Where we talk to Ken Mink about his trials and tribulations setting up a Raspberry Pi/Rock64 Kubernetes cluster.
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Sponsors for Episode 88: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 88: * Pico Cluster * Atomic Pi
Where we discuss the fact that for many environments, Kubernetes may be overkill. That said, it still has an important role to play.
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Sponsors for Episode 87: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Episode 87: * RancherOS * OpenShift History * MiniKube * Nomad Project
Where we discuss the mass migration of the tech community to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even if only on a temporary basis.
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Sponsors for Special Episode 1: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Links for Special Episode 1: * CDC - COVID-19 resources and information * Logitech Wireless Headset * Sysadmin Advice
Where we discuss the future of microservices… is it the monolith?
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Links for Episode 86: * Monoliths Are The Way Forward * The Majestic Monolith * Steve’s Platform Rant * Jepsen.io/consistency * Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo
Where we discuss concurrency and parallelism in systems design, and touch on programming languages and challenges a little bit.
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Links for Episode 85: * Concurrent Computing * Embarrassingly Parallel Problems * MongoDB is Webscale * Stackless Python * Rob Pike - Concurrency is not Parallelism * Alan Perlis Quote
Where we discuss best practices around selecting technologies and strategies for building an observability stack.
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Links for Episode 84: * The USE Method * The RED Method * The Four Golden Signals * DataDog Tagging Standards * Logz.io Logging Best Practices * DataDog Field Standards
Where we discuss analog tools for an work-from-home digital world. Desk ergonomics, common utility items, and other considerations to make life easier.
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Links for Episode 83: * Ergonomics * Maha Battery Charger * MXL 990 Microphone * ATR 2100 USB Microphone * Golden Bear Pencils * Book Of Knowing * Midlands Weather Radio
Where we discuss analog tools for an on-the-go digital world. Everyday Carry Bags, the contents of said bags, and our preferences for notebooks and writing implements.
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Links for Episode 82: * InCase Icon Backpack * Crumpler Bags * Neoprene Laptop Sleeve * Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter * Zebra F301 Ball Point Pen * M301 Mechanical Pencil * Micron PIGMA Fineliner 005 * Golden Bear Wood-cased Pencil * Lechturm 1917 Dotted Grid A5 * ISO A-Size Paper * The Book Factory * The Book Factory Classic Journal * The Book Factory Log Book * Swiss Micros RPN Calculator
Where we talk about evens in 2019 and expectations of 2020.
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Where we talk (again) about immutable infrastructure, especially now that Kubernetes has a mature way to handle state, the statefulset.
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Links for Episode 80: * Single Instance ASGs * Practical Operations Podcast Episode 62 * Elastic inside Kubernetes * LeftPad * RedHat/Quay
Where we discuss professional certifications, exams and some of the pitfalls and caveats that go along with them.
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Where we talk about the tendancy the internet at large has to overract to things, including two examples of this. The GitLab User Tracking terms of service and subsequent rollback, and the Terraform Azure provider id issue.
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Links for Episode 78: * GitLab Product Usage Tracking * Terraform Issue 4747: Remove default “terraform” partner_id * Hot Coffee Lawsuit * Most Downvoted Reddit Comment Ever * Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory * Boaty McBoatface
Where we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies.
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Where we discuss the signposts of scalable systems. How to evaluate application state, inputs, and outputs help judge if it can handle scaling up.
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Links for Episode 76: * Trickster - Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Time Series Databases * Stackless * The Jepsen Tests
Where we discuss single board linux computers with special guest Ken Mink.
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Links for Episode 75: * Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi * Atomic Pi * Devuan * PicoCluster/Rock64 Cluster * piragekit * 18650 Battery Pack * Raspberry Pi 4 * Hackerboards: The Single Board Computer DB * Armbian
Where we discuss small office and home office networking gear.
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Links for Episode 74: * Raspberry Pi 4 USB C Issue * Netgear Switches * Mikrotik * pfsense * Netgate SG 3100
Where we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette.
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Links for Episode 73: * Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings * Polycom SoundStation * Polycom Meeting Room Mic * USB Headset * Jabra Wireless
Where we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS.
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Links for Episode 72: * CloudFlare Regex Outage * Coding Horror Regex Performance * Loggly Regex Performance * S3 Outage Writeup * BGP Optimizer Outage * PagerDuty How To Write A Postmortem * Google Status Grid
Where we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus.
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Links for Episode 71: * TSDB List
Where we recap Monitorama PDX 2019 and talk about our favorite talks and events.
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Links for Episode 70: * John Allspaw - Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software * Evan Chan - Rich Histograms At Scale * FiloDB * Andrew Newdigate - Practical Anomaly Detection using Prometheus * David Calavera - Observability and Performance Analysis with BPF * Tom Wilkie - Grafana Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs * Grafana Loki
Where we discuss Jack Neely’s Monitorama 2019 PDX lighting talk - 5 Neat Prometheus Tricks.
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Links for Episode 69: * The Actual Lightning Talk * Distributed Debugger * Overcast * 5 Neat Tricks With-Prometheus * Prometheus Histograms I * Prometheus Histograms II
Where we discuss our plans for Monitorama, one of our favorite conferences.
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Links for Episode 68: * Jason Dixon * Monitorama PDX * Statistics for Engineers * CoffeeOps
Where we discuss Not Invented Here, or the tendency in technology companies to needlessly reinvent the wheel.
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Links for Episode 67: * NetDisco * C10K Problem
Where we discuss the Nintey-Nintey Rule and overall the idea of diminishing returns.
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Links for Episode 66: * The Ninety-Ninety Rule * The Practice of System and Network Administration Editions
Where we discuss one of the core skills - troubleshooting. Stay alert. Keep your laser handy.
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Where we discuss resumes and interviews.
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Where we discuss the end of 2018 and what we see coming in 2019, including things we missed in 2018’s predictions show.
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Links for Episode 63: * Tilt * Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects * SageMaker * Immutable Infra Episode * Thanos * Cortex * Envoy Proxy * Cloud Native Computing Foundation * Grafana Loki
Where we discuss the pros and cons of immutable infrastructure.
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Links for Episode 62: * Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code * 12 Factor Apps * Digital Ocean What Is Immutable * No-SSH Movement * Pets vs Cattle
Where we talk about IBMs purchase of RedHat, and some of the past implications of tech tech mergers and acquisitions.
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Links for Episode 61: * Merger Announcement * Maddogs Take
Where we talk more about Kubernetes and dig a little deeper into why it has become so popular.
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Links for Episode 60: * Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes
Where we talk about Caleb Doxseys article titled Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects.
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Links for Episode 59: * Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects * EC2 is the new on-prem * EKS will be the next on-prem
Where we talk about XKCD #2044, The Sandboxing Cycle. It’s pervasive in all things we do, and it can really limit how we operate.
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Links for Episode 58: * XKCD #2044: The Sandboxing Cycle * XKCD #927: Standards
Where we discuss rolling out multi factor authentication with Darren Fallis.
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Where we discuss security again, moving up to more sensitive users and begin the discussion of implementing a Single Sign On solution for users.
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Links for Episode 53: * Yubico Security Key U2F FIDO2 Key * Upgrade Your SSH Keys * OSX Workstation Security * Digital Ocean: Setup MFA for SSH * Wikipedia: SAML * Shibboleth
Where we talk about the basics of end-user security best practices, mostly focused on passwords, MFA tokens and computer hygiene.
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Links for Episode 55: * Password Lists * Password Cracking Benchmarking * Windows Password Compromise * XKCD ‘Correct Horse Battery Staple’ * Effectiveness of Google Hardware Tokens
Where we discuss the initial phases of preparing for a planned outage and reacting to an unplanned one.
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Where we discuss that old interview chestnut: Tell me about a time you’ve broken something.
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Where we discuss why using technical solutions rarely solve social problems, or solve them very poorly.
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Links for Episode 52: * IETF DNS Mailing List Discussion * FALE * Technical Solutions to Social Problems?: Some Implications of a Computer-Based Welfare Benefits Information System
Where we discuss the relative merits of splitting large, monolithic multi-tenant applications into smaller single tenant ones.
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Where we discuss how we’re all buried in alerts, but we don’t need that many.
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Links for Episode 50: * My Philosophy On Alerting
Where we discuss Monitorama 2018 (PDX), and the return of a reasonable publication schedule.
Additionally, apologies for Breandan’s audio. Something was off in his recording setup and this is the best audio we could get out of it. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 49: * All Talks * The present and future of Serverless observability by Yan Cui * Assisted Remediation: By trying to build an autoremediation system, we realized we never actually wanted one by Kale Stedman * Optimizing for Learning by Logan McDonald * Next Generation Observability for Next Generation Data by Peter Balis * Throwing Spaghetti at a Blue Sky by Ted Young * Putting Billions of Timeseries to work at Uber with Autonomous Monitoring by Prateek Rungta
Where we discuss tech trends in 2017 and what we’re looking forward to in 2018.
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Links for Episode 48: * Visibility Engineering * Prometheus 2.0 * AWS S3/Glacier SELECT * Docker Announced Kubernetes Support * Apache Mesos Kubernetes * AWS Lambda Doubles Memory Limit * Red Hat Deprecates BTRFS * Monitorama 2018 * Elasti{con} 2018
Where we discuss the reasons to have meetings, and some gudielines on making them less awful for everyone involved.
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Links for Episode 47: * First Round - Making Communication Better * Things I have learned about effective sysadmin meetings * NYT - How To Run An Effective Meeting
Where we discuss guidelines for documenting, designing and deploying services.
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Where we discuss the social and technical contracts that should be considered when setting up a working group, both long-standing and ad-hoc.
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Links for Episode 45: * Monorepo * Keybase.io * Breandan’s Keybase Entry * Jack’s Keybase Entry
Where we discuss onboarding new employees - both as a new hire and as a team bringing someone on.
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Where we discuss backups for contractors and small businesses in wake of the Crashplan For Home product exiting the market.
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Links for Episode 43: * CrashPlan Home Notice * Backblaze B2 Pricing * Amazon S3 Pricing * Amazon Glacier Pricing * ARQ Backup * borg backups * attic backup * rsync.net
Where we discuss available software licensing, both for code you have written and code you are thinking of adopting into your projects.
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Links for Episode 42: * Choose A License * Creative Commons * tl;dr legal
Where we discuss the importance of being able to give short (or long) presentations, and some practical advice for getting started.
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Links for Episode 41: * meetup * Toastmasters
Where we discuss Conway’s Law. which is the tendency of teams to build software that reflects the communication patterns of the larger organization, as well as confirmation biases and the Dunning Kruger effect, which blinds people to new ways to escape from the traps they set for themselves.
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Links for Episode 40: * Conway’s Law * Confirmation Bias * Dunning Kruger Effect * Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant * Forget Technical Debt
Where we discuss the Nagios monitoring project, and how relevant it is in this day and age. (Hint: we think the answer is YES)
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Links for Episode 39: * Nagios Official Website * Nagios Wikipedia * Thruk * pnp4nagios * Livestatus * Ninja * Icinga2 Distributed Monitoring
Where we discuss scripted installs vs golden images vs immutable infrastructure via containers.
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Links for Episode 38: * Netflix Bless * AWS Lambda
Where we discuss repeatability and reliability in systems design, why it’s important and what it means for your job.
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Links for Episode 37: * RAS * Idempotency
Where we discuss pratical guidelines for expanding your monitoring platform to cover the new and challenging world of Microservice (and Service Oriented Architecture) monitoring, with brief side trips into log tracing and fostering healthy culture.
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Links for Episode 36: * [Don’t Read Your Logs ] (https://medium.com/@chimeracoder/dont-read-your-logs-13586c790202) * OpenTracing * ZipKin * Google Dapper Paper * Standard Sensor Format * Tenents Of Microservice Monitoring
Where we discuss how to run statsd and metrics pipelines at a scale of over 750,000 packets per second.
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Links for Episode 35: * github: jjneely/statsrelay * github: statsite/statsite * CloudFlare: How To Receive A Million Packets
Where we discuss the evolution of modern filesystems.
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Links for Episode 34: * ZFS * Sun Fire X4500 Thumper * ZFS/CDDL Patent Licence Protection * BTRFS * BTRFS RAID5/6 Unsafe * NTFS * ZFS Licencing and Linux * WD RED Pro drive specs
Where we discuss using Elasticsearch (along with Kibana, Timelion and Kafka) as a Timeseries Database (TSDB). It has several drawbacks over traditional timeseries storage engines, mostly in storage efficiency, but has other unique attributes that may overcome these drawbacks in the right use case.
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Links for Episode 33: * Timelion Announcement Blog Post * Timelion Docs * Lucene PointValues * Circonus fq * NSQ
Where we discuss histograms as the best data type ever, and the complexities of actually using them in Prometheus. For the most part, this is Jack Neely’s domain of expertise, so he does most of the talking in this episode.
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Links for Episode 32: * Jack’s Post About Histograms * PR to make rule evaluation and federation consistent in time * Circonus Log Linear Histogram Implementation * Circonus Histogram Docs * Circonus Blog * Prometheus 2.0 Sneak Peak
Where we discuss how to find privacy on the internet, both for yourself at home and for users of your services.
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Links for Episode 31: * Tor Network * WhisperSystems * HSTS Super Cookies * Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway * Panopticlick * Device Fingerprinting * Am I Unique * Perfect Forward Secrecy * Symantec Considered Harmful * Trump Signs Internet Privacy Repeal
Where we discuss the AWS S3 outage on February the 28th, which was due to an operations error, and relevant discussions about outages and how to learn from mistakes.
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Links for Episode 30: * S3 Post Morterm * AWS Tweets It Can’t Update It’s Dashboard * GitLab Outage Postmortem
Where we discuss multifactor authentication (MFA), often called Two Factor Authentication (2FA). We talk a little bit about the history and then the practical implications of hardware tokens to assist with this security best practice.
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Links for Episode 29: * Wikipedia: Authentication * CloudFlare Secret Material Leak * SHA1 Broken * NIST is No Longer Recommending Two-Factor Authentication Using SMS * Netflix Bless
Where we discuss highlights of the last year and things we’re looking forward to in 2017. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Where we discuss how bitterness can be the worst aspect of a job and some helpful advice to avoid it.
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Where we discuss the tendency of Operations and DevOps folks to build complex systems, and the fact that we aren’t paid to build systems. We’re paid to produce value to the organization. This episode was kicked off by BraveNewGeek’s post, You Are Not Paid To Write Code.
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Links for Episode 26: * You Are Not Paid To Write Code * Cloudflare Datacenter PXE Booting * LeftPad Removal from Node.JS * The Practice of System and Network Administration * Aphyr/Jepsen
Where we discuss the history and use of chat tools.
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Links for Episode 25: * IRSSI
Where we discuss side projects. Not consulting or side work, but projects that let us scratch itches we get at work but aren’t officially sanctioned.
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Links for Episode 24: * Breandan’s Mute Switch * ZFS On Linux * ZFS Native on Xenial LTS * Docker ZFS Driver * Disqus Comment System * Cable Modem Metrics * Surfboard Metrics Perl Code * Surfboard Metrics Python->Prometheus * HomeKit in Go
Where we come back to sanity from last episode’s departure into Solaris runtimes and instead talk about operations support of programming languages. Go, Python, Ruby and others are discussed as well as test driven development. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 23: * Habitat * fq * jlog * Why gets() is bad
Where we discuss operating systems outside the traditional Linux fare. OpenSolaris, SolarisNext, Illumos, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, oh my! Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 22: * SystemD Security Vulnerability * Talk about exposing systemd to web APIs * Illumos * Illimos Based Distribtons * BTRFS * Joyent Triton * Joyent SmartOS * Solaris Network Virtualization - Project Crossbow * ZFS and Ubuntu Licensing * RedHat Ceph * OpenBSD Security * ZFS and Apple
Where we discuss the often savage and insensitive nature of dealing with other people on the internet and some gentle advice on how to make everyone’s life a little less awful. Having an opinion on the internet means you need a thick skin.
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Links for Episode 21: * The Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory (Comic) * Duty Calls * Torvalds Defends High Right To Shame Kernel Developers * Wheaton’s Law
Where we discuss Kanban, Agile and Scrum with special guest, Judson Drennan. Judson is a Product Owner at VitalSource Technologies, and has done a lot of management of complex technology teams.
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Links for Episode 20: * VitalSource * The Agile Manifesto * Kanban
Where we discuss incident management practices, and walk through some of the important things to do during a service outage or degradation event.
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Links for Episode 19: * StatusPage.io * cachethq * status.io * StatusPage Generator * AWS re:Invent 2015 Session NET404 * Bandwidth-delay product
Where we discuss the avoidable pitfalls of infrastructure decisions early in an organization’s life. Most of these can be avoided with some extra thought up front when setting up core services - networking, directory services and deployment decisions can stick with a team long after the people doing the implementation have left.
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Links for Episode 18: * Mailgun * UniFi EdgeRouter * UniFi AP AC LITE
Where we discuss the differences between logs and metrics, and some of the pratical applications there of. Also, discussions of the pitfalls of percentiles (why averaging percentiles yields worse than useless data).
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Links for Episode 17: * Percentages Aren’t People * Monitorama PDX 2016 - Heinrich Hartmann - Statistics for Engineers * Prometheus Histograms and Summaries * Lucene * Breandan’s Talk at Surge
Where we discuss our personal work environments, both digital and physical. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 16: * Intrex * Jarvis Sit-Stand Desk * Standesk.co * Alera Elusion Task Chair * iTerm2 version 3 * SetTerminalStyle * Synergy * Homebrew * LastPass * CrashPlan * The awesome window manager * Spectacle
Where we discuss why the cloud is useful and when it can be risky, depending on your models. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 15: * ZFS on rsync.net * Let’s Encrypt a static S3 site * apt-s3 * yum-s3 * Amazon Talk About Scaling Internal Resources
Where we discuss failure. It happens to everyone, and it will happen to you. We cover some of the general cases to consider, and talk a little about backups and the cloud.
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Where we discuss the human side of systems design. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Where we discuss the relative merits of software loadbalancers we’ve used and loved, and share our general distain for proprietary hardware based offerings. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 12: * CloudFlare DDoS Blackholes * Google Maglev * Mikrotik
Where we discuss leaving and starting new jobs.
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Where we discuss various merits of configuration management systems, notably the relative use cases for Puppet and Ansible, and some of the finer points of using both.
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Links for Episode 10: * Encrypt Your Data Using Hiera-Eyaml * confd * hiera-vault * r10k * mgmt
Where we discuss the downfalls of modern init systems.
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Links for Episode 9: * SystemD Will Eat Everything GIF
Where we discuss working from home.
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Links for Episode 8: * Trello * Tomato Timer
Where we discuss why to break large monolith applications into smaller pieces, and Breandan goes on for far too long about the ELK stack and Jack can’t stop talking about Graphite Storage. Jarod speaks to the frustrations of being an Operations Engineer supporting an application that can’t be broken up any time soon, and talks about realistic load balancing options.
Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Apologies for the heavy-handed and sometimes inexplicable editing - we all were recovering from various illnesses and travel. Additionally, we didn’t have followup organized into notes.
Links for Episode 7: * Difference between Microservices Architecture and SOA * Java Heap Compressed Pointers * carbon-c-relay * statsrelay * buckytools * Cyanite - A Cassandra Graphite Backend * Netflix Keystone XL Pipeline AWS re:Invent Presentation
Where we discuss technologies in 2015 that we have come to appreciate, and our realistic hopes for 2016. Kafka, Prometheus, Elixr are mentioned, and we have the usual grumblings about databases.
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Followup on Episode 5: * Operations.fm on iTunes * PL Proxy * Do Not Pass This Way Again
Links for Episode 6: * Kafka 0.9.0.0 brings SASL and Kerberos * Prometheus * Elixir * The Phoenix Framework * OmniTI metrics store
Where we discuss the merits and use cases for Relational Data Bases, Document Storage and touch on key-value stores for time series work. Jarod discusses the reasons you should never ever use MySQL (and use postgres instead), Breandan talks to Elasticsearch and Jack dives a bit into columnar datastores.
Links for Episode 5: * The MySQL Book Breandan was talking about * Jepsen: Elasticsearch * Jepsen: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
Where we discuss the relative merits of Perl, Python, Ruby, and Go. We also touch upon Rust and Swift. There are also discussions about code hygiene, notably in the preferred indentation: Jarod is a 2-space man, Jack prefers 4, and Breandan sits firmly in the tab-as-indent camp. There are mentions of Rust, Swift, Scala, Akka and the pitfalls of Java and the JVM. Finally, we discuss how to package languages and libraries for use on platforms we deploy software to - with a bonus conversation about Docker as a packaging format, relative done-ness and using it in production.
Followup on Episode 3: * Grafana 2.5 * Timelion * Elasticsearch Aggregations * Editable Filters in Kibana 4.3
Links for Episode 4: * Apple Open Sources Swift * Apple Package Manager for Swift * Go Object Handling * App Container and the Open Container Project
Episode 3 of the Practical Operations Podcast, where we talk about how more advanced use cased for metrics based monitoring and the relative pros and cons of different time series databases.
Links to some of the things discussed: * Graphite vs Statsd * Kafka prioritizes in crash recovery * What Are Holt Winters Predictions? * Elasticsearch as a Timeseries Database
Episode 2 of the Practical Operations Podcast, where we talk about how to get your monitoring systems under control and stop the bleeding - getting rid of the unacknowledged wall of critical alerts in the system. This is important to tackle, because without it, you can not understand what is actually happening in your environment.
The initial episode of the Practical Operations Podcast, where we introduce ourselves (poorly) and talk about the culture that surrounds DevOps, and why it is more than just a job description.