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 33 - Considering Elasticsearch as a Time Series Database
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. 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 33: Timelion Announcement Blog Post Timelion Docs Lucene PointValues Circonus fq NSQ
Episode 32 - The Trouble With Histograms
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. 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 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
Episode 31 - Finding Privacy On The Internet
Where we discuss how to find privacy on the internet, both for yourself at home and for users of your 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 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
Episode 30 - The S3 Outage
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. 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 30: S3 Post Morterm AWS Tweets It Can’t Update It’s Dashboard GitLab Outage Postmortem
Episode 29 - Multi Factor Authentication
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. 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 29: Wikipedia: Authentication CloudFlare Secret Material Leak SHA1 Broken NIST is No Longer Recommending Two-Factor Authentication Using SMS Netflix Bless
Episode 28 - The Year Ahead and Behind
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
Episode 27: Bitterness Is The Death Of Culture
Where we discuss how bitterness can be the worst aspect of a job and some helpful advice to avoid 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
Episode 26 - You Are Not Paid To Build Systems
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. 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 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
Episode 25 - Chat Tools
Where we discuss the history and use of chat tools. 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 25: IRSSI
Episode 24 - Side Projects
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. 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 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
Episode 23 - Programming Languages
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
Episode 22 - Non-Linux Distributions
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
Episode 21 - Internet Criticism
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. 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 21: The Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory (Comic) Duty Calls Torvalds Defends High Right To Shame Kernel Developers Wheaton’s Law
Episode 20 - ScrumOps with Special Guest Judson Drennan
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. 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 20: VitalSource The Agile Manifesto Kanban
Episode 19 - When Things Break
Where we discuss incident management practices, and walk through some of the important things to do during a service outage or degradation event. 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 19: StatusPage.io cachethq status.io StatusPage Generator AWS re:Invent 2015 Session NET404 Bandwidth-delay product