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.
Episode 121 - Personal Workstations Away From The Home Office
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. 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 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
Episode 120 - Building Teams with Jim Browne
Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne. 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 120: The Last Starfighter
Episode 119 - Conducting Interviews
Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic. 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.
Episode 118 - Imposter Syndrome
Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse. 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 118: Imposter Syndrome Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome
Episode 117 - Human Input and Output
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! 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 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
Episode 116 - How The Fundamental Constants of The Universe Hate Us And Want Us To Fail
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. 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 116: GCPing AWS Cloud Ping How Distributed Systems Fail Jepsen Failure Talks Bandwidth Delay Product XKCD 1205
Episode 115 - Your Employer Isn't Your Family
Where we discuss the seperation of work and personal life, and why such a seperation is both crucial and hard to do. 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 115: NYT Article About Google Video Game Industry Layoffs Jarod’s Thanos PR
Episode 114 - Terraforming Existing Clouds
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? 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 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
Episode 113 - Licensing
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. 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 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
Episode 112 - Large Scale Networking With Brian Miller
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. 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 112: Internet2 C-Light Clemson CCIT ARIN Globus StatSeeker
Episode 111 - Host Your Own Code
Where we discuss the risks you take using package managers and code you do not host yourself. 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 111: Dependency Confusion The Great Suspender Leftpad NPM Debcle DNS Exfil Detecting ‘curl | bash’ serverside Solar Winds Hack Blamed On Intern’s Password
Episode 110 - Planning For Failure, or a Failure To Plan
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. 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 110: 2021 Winter Storm Slack January 2021 Outage Postmortem Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room California Electricity Crisis Sun X4500 Storage Server
Episode 109 - Deplatforming
Where we discuss deplatforming, through the lens of what happened to social media sites after the political upheaval in early January. 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 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
Episode 108 - Kubernetes with Seth McCombs
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. 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 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
Episode 107 - New Opportunities
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. 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 107: Imposter Syndrome