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 18 - Infrastructure for Small Shops
Where we discuss the avoidable pitfalls of infrastructure decisions early in an organization’s life. Most of these can be avoided with some extra thought up front when setting up core services - networking, directory services and deployment decisions can stick with a team long after the people doing the implementation have left. 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 18: Mailgun UniFi EdgeRouter UniFi AP AC LITE
Episode 17 - Log Aggregation, Metrics and Data Analysis
Where we discuss the differences between logs and metrics, and some of the pratical applications there of. Also, discussions of the pitfalls of percentiles (why averaging percentiles yields worse than useless data). 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 17: Percentages Aren’t People Monitorama PDX 2016 - Heinrich Hartmann - Statistics for Engineers Prometheus Histograms and Summaries Lucene Breandan’s Talk at Surge
Episode 16 - Personal Work Environments
Where we discuss our personal work environments, both digital and physical. 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 16: Intrex Jarvis Sit-Stand Desk Standesk.co Alera Elusion Task Chair iTerm2 version 3 SetTerminalStyle Synergy Homebrew LastPass CrashPlan The awesome window manager Spectacle
Episode 15 - Using The Cloud
Where we discuss why the cloud is useful and when it can be risky, depending on your models. 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 15: ZFS on rsync.net Let’s Encrypt a static S3 site apt-s3 yum-s3 Amazon Talk About Scaling Internal Resources
Episode 14 - Planning For Failure
Where we discuss failure. It happens to everyone, and it will happen to you. We cover some of the general cases to consider, and talk a little about backups and the cloud. 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 13 - Systems Design
Where we discuss the human side of systems design. 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 12 - Loadbalancers
Where we discuss the relative merits of software loadbalancers we’ve used and loved, and share our general distain for proprietary hardware based offerings. 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 12: CloudFlare DDoS Blackholes Google Maglev Mikrotik
Episode 11 - Job Transitions
Where we discuss leaving and starting new jobs. 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 10 - Configuration Management
Where we discuss various merits of configuration management systems, notably the relative use cases for Puppet and Ansible, and some of the finer points of using both. 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 10: Encrypt Your Data Using Hiera-Eyaml confd hiera-vault r10k mgmt
Episode 9 - Init Systems
Where we discuss the downfalls of modern init systems. 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 9: SystemD Will Eat Everything GIF
Episode 8 - Working From Home
Where we discuss working from home. 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 8: Trello Tomato Timer
Episode 7 - Breaking Up The Lumbering Monolith
Where we discuss why to break large monolith applications into smaller pieces, and Breandan goes on for far too long about the ELK stack and Jack can’t stop talking about Graphite Storage. Jarod speaks to the frustrations of being an Operations Engineer supporting an application that can’t be broken up any time soon, and talks about realistic load balancing options. 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. Apologies for the heavy-handed and sometimes inexplicable editing - we all were recovering from various illnesses and travel. Additionally, we didn’t have followup organized into notes. Links for Episode 7: Difference between Microservices Architecture and SOA Java Heap Compressed Pointers carbon-c-relay statsrelay buckytools Cyanite - A Cassandra Graphite Backend Netflix Keystone XL Pipeline AWS re:Invent Presentation
Episode 6 - Looking Ahead
Where we discuss technologies in 2015 that we have come to appreciate, and our realistic hopes for 2016. Kafka, Prometheus, Elixr are mentioned, and we have the usual grumblings about databases. 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 Followup on Episode 5: Operations.fm on iTunes PL Proxy Do Not Pass This Way Again Links for Episode 6: Kafka 0.9.0.0 brings SASL and Kerberos Prometheus Elixir The Phoenix Framework OmniTI metrics store
Episode 5 - Data Storage
Where we discuss the merits and use cases for Relational Data Bases, Document Storage and touch on key-value stores for time series work. Jarod discusses the reasons you should never ever use MySQL (and use postgres instead), Breandan talks to Elasticsearch and Jack dives a bit into columnar datastores. Links for Episode 5: The MySQL Book Breandan was talking about Jepsen: Elasticsearch Jepsen: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
Episode 4 - Systems Programing Languages and Packaging
Where we discuss the relative merits of Perl, Python, Ruby, and Go. We also touch upon Rust and Swift. There are also discussions about code hygiene, notably in the preferred indentation: Jarod is a 2-space man, Jack prefers 4, and Breandan sits firmly in the tab-as-indent camp. There are mentions of Rust, Swift, Scala, Akka and the pitfalls of Java and the JVM. Finally, we discuss how to package languages and libraries for use on platforms we deploy software to - with a bonus conversation about Docker as a packaging format, relative done-ness and using it in production. Followup on Episode 3: Grafana 2.5 Timelion Elasticsearch Aggregations Editable Filters in Kibana 4.3 Links for Episode 4: Apple Open Sources Swift Apple Package Manager for Swift Go Object Handling App Container and the Open Container Project