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Episode 63 - The Turning Of The Year

January 10, 2019 00:26:52 13.38 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss the end of 2018 and what we see coming in 2019, including things we missed in 2018’s predictions show. 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 63: Tilt Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects SageMaker Immutable Infra Episode Thanos Cortex Envoy Proxy Cloud Native Computing Foundation Grafana Loki

Episode 62 - Immutable Infrastructure

November 26, 2018 00:30:11 14.97 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss the pros and cons of immutable infrastructure. 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 62: Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code 12 Factor Apps Digital Ocean What Is Immutable No-SSH Movement Pets vs Cattle

Episode 61: Tech Mergers And Acquisitions - RedHat and IBM

November 15, 2018 00:17:27 8.85 MB Downloads: 0

Where we talk about IBMs purchase of RedHat, and some of the past implications of tech tech mergers and acquisitions. 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 61: Merger Announcement Maddogs Take

Episode 60: Deeper Into Kubernetes

November 05, 2018 00:25:26 12.69 MB Downloads: 0

Where we talk more about Kubernetes and dig a little deeper into why it has become so popular. 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 60: Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes

Episode 59 - Cheap Kubernetes For Everyone

October 30, 2018 00:21:32 10.82 MB Downloads: 0

Where we talk about Caleb Doxseys article titled Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects. 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 59: Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects EC2 is the new on-prem EKS will be the next on-prem

Episode 58 - The Sandboxing Cycle

October 18, 2018 00:28:26 13.65 MB Downloads: 0

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. 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 58: XKCD #2044: The Sandboxing Cycle XKCD #927: Standards

Episode 57 - Rolling Out MFA

October 05, 2018 00:39:40 19.04 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss rolling out multi factor authentication with Darren Fallis. 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 56 - Sysadmin And Small Office Security

September 09, 2018 00:27:08 13.02 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss security again, moving up to more sensitive users and begin the discussion of implementing a Single Sign On solution for users. 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 53: Yubico Security Key U2F FIDO2 Key Upgrade Your SSH Keys OSX Workstation Security Digital Ocean: Setup MFA for SSH Wikipedia: SAML Shibboleth

Episode 55 - End User Security

August 27, 2018 00:26:06 12.53 MB Downloads: 0

Where we talk about the basics of end-user security best practices, mostly focused on passwords, MFA tokens and computer hygiene. 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 55: Password Lists Password Cracking Benchmarking Windows Password Compromise XKCD ‘Correct Horse Battery Staple’ Effectiveness of Google Hardware Tokens

Episode 54 - How To Have An Outage (Part 1)

August 03, 2018 00:28:12 13.54 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss the initial phases of preparing for a planned outage and reacting to an unplanned one. 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 53: When We Are The Problem

July 20, 2018 00:44:05 21.16 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss that old interview chestnut: Tell me about a time you’ve broken something. 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 52 - Technical Solutions for Social Problems

July 11, 2018 00:30:22 14.57 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss why using technical solutions rarely solve social problems, or solve them very poorly. 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 52: IETF DNS Mailing List Discussion FALE Technical Solutions to Social Problems?: Some Implications of a Computer-Based Welfare Benefits Information System

Episode 51 - Divide and Conquer

July 04, 2018 00:33:00 15.84 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss the relative merits of splitting large, monolithic multi-tenant applications into smaller single tenant ones. 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 50 - You Have Too Many Alerts

June 29, 2018 00:25:35 12.28 MB Downloads: 0

Where we discuss how we’re all buried in alerts, but we don’t need that many. 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 50: My Philosophy On Alerting

Episode 49 - Monitorama 2018 Recap

June 21, 2018 00:32:58 15.82 MB Downloads: 0

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