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.
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Episode 48: The Year Ahead (and Behind)
Where we discuss tech trends in 2017 and what we’re looking forward to in 2018. 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 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
Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings
Where we discuss the reasons to have meetings, and some gudielines on making them less awful for everyone involved. 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 47: First Round - Making Communication Better Things I have learned about effective sysadmin meetings NYT - How To Run An Effective Meeting
Episode 46 - Service Design Documentation
Where we discuss guidelines for documenting, designing and deploying services. 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 45 - Social and Technical Contracts For Teams
Where we discuss the social and technical contracts that should be considered when setting up a working group, both long-standing and ad-hoc. 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 45: Monorepo Keybase.io Breandan’s Keybase Entry Jack’s Keybase Entry
Episode 44 - Onboarding
Where we discuss onboarding new employees - both as a new hire and as a team bringing someone on. 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 43 - Revisiting Backups
Where we discuss backups for contractors and small businesses in wake of the Crashplan For Home product exiting the market. 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 43: CrashPlan Home Notice Backblaze B2 Pricing Amazon S3 Pricing Amazon Glacier Pricing ARQ Backup borg backups attic backup rsync.net
Episode 42 - Choosing A License
Where we discuss available software licensing, both for code you have written and code you are thinking of adopting into your 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 42: Choose A License Creative Commons tl;dr legal
Episode 41 - Get Up And Speak Already!
Where we discuss the importance of being able to give short (or long) presentations, and some practical advice for getting started. 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 41: meetup Toastmasters
Episode 40 - Conway's Law and Confirmation Bias
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. 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 40: Conway’s Law Confirmation Bias Dunning Kruger Effect Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant Forget Technical Debt
Episode 39 - Is Nagios Viable?
Where we discuss the Nagios monitoring project, and how relevant it is in this day and age. (Hint: we think the answer is YES) 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 39: Nagios Official Website Nagios Wikipedia Thruk pnp4nagios Livestatus Ninja Icinga2 Distributed Monitoring
Episode 38 - Scripted Installs vs Golden Images
Where we discuss scripted installs vs golden images vs immutable infrastructure via containers. 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 38: Netflix Bless AWS Lambda
Episode 37 - Repeatability and Reliability
Where we discuss repeatability and reliability in systems design, why it’s important and what it means for your job. 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 37: RAS Idempotency
Episode 36 - The Tenents of Microservice Monitoring
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. 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 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
Episode 35 - Scaling Metric Delivery Pipelines
Where we discuss how to run statsd and metrics pipelines at a scale of over 750,000 packets per second. 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 35: github: jjneely/statsrelay github: statsite/statsite CloudFlare: How To Receive A Million Packets
Episode 34 - Modern Filesystems
Where we discuss the evolution of modern filesystems. 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 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