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 78 - Retractions and Reactions
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. 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 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
Episode 77 - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Where we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies. 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 76 - Signposts of Scalable Systems
Where we discuss the signposts of scalable systems. How to evaluate application state, inputs, and outputs help judge if it can handle scaling 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 76: Trickster - Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Time Series Databases Stackless The Jepsen Tests
Episode 75 - Single Board Computers
Where we discuss single board linux computers with special guest Ken Mink. 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 75: Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi Atomic Pi Devuan PicoCluster/Rock64 Cluster piragekit 18650 Battery Pack Raspberry Pi 4 Hackerboards: The Single Board Computer DB Armbian
Episode 74 - Small Office/Home Office Networking
Where we discuss small office and home office networking gear. 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 74: Raspberry Pi 4 USB C Issue Netgear Switches Mikrotik pfsense Netgate SG 3100
Episode 73 - Conference Calls
Where we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette. 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 73: Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings Polycom SoundStation Polycom Meeting Room Mic USB Headset Jabra Wireless
Episode 72 - A Tale of Three Postmortems
Where we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS. 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 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
Episode 71 - Long Term Prometheus Metrics Storage
Where we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus. 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 71: TSDB List
Episode 70 - Monitorama 2019 PDX Recap
Where we recap Monitorama PDX 2019 and talk about our favorite talks and events. 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 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
Episode 69 - Neat Prometheus Tricks
Where we discuss Jack Neely’s Monitorama 2019 PDX lighting talk - 5 Neat Prometheus Tricks. 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 69: The Actual Lightning Talk Distributed Debugger Overcast 5 Neat Tricks With-Prometheus Prometheus Histograms I Prometheus Histograms II
Episode 68 - Monitorama PDX 2019
Where we discuss our plans for Monitorama, one of our favorite conferences. 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 68: Jason Dixon Monitorama PDX Statistics for Engineers CoffeeOps
Episode 67 - Not Invented Here
Where we discuss Not Invented Here, or the tendency in technology companies to needlessly reinvent the wheel. 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 67: NetDisco C10K Problem
Episode 66: Diminishing Returns
Where we discuss the Nintey-Nintey Rule and overall the idea of diminishing returns. 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 66: The Ninety-Ninety Rule The Practice of System and Network Administration Editions
Episode 65: Troubleshooting
Where we discuss one of the core skills - troubleshooting. Stay alert. Keep your laser handy. 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 64: Resumes and Interviews
Where we discuss resumes and interviews. 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