Where we have Amin Astaneh on as a guest to discuss DevOps transitions, culture, consultancies and how to move forward in this career. 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 137: Certo Modo MongoDB is Webscale Emotional Warrior Certo Modo Substack BOFH DevOps Meetup Talk - Demystifying SRE 8 Steps For Leading Change...
Jun 28, 2023•59 min
Where we discuss people’s tendencies to resist automation of tasks, for whatever reason. 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 135: XKCD 1205: Is it worth the time
Mar 27, 2023•45 min
Where we ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the dangers of trusting AI tools to be correct. 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 134: I will not harm you unless you harm me first VSCode Rubberduck Github Copilot Self-hosted Stable Diffusion Microsoft Tay Microsoft Invests in OpenAI...
Mar 13, 2023•38 min
Where we discuss how damaging Shadow IT can be, how to identify it, how to think about it, and some strategies for getting rid 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 .
Jul 25, 2022•44 min
Where look at Hollywood’s inability to get technology in movies even remotely correct… this time, we’re talking about “The Net”, a 1995 Sandra Bullock movie, where so many things are just… wrong. 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 132: The Net (1995 film)...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Where we discuss the longer term effects of Covid, burnout, and The Great Resignation. 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 131: The Great Resignation [What is ‘The Great Resignation’]( https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/what-is-the-great-resignation-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it/ http://www.example.com ) Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead...
Mar 09, 2022•35 min
Where we discuss another thing that is eating the world - Visual Studio Code. We also talk about IDEs in general. 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 130: Bash VIM keybindings Code Server Cloud9 IDE Theia IDE XKCD Ineffective Sorts Stacksort Github Copilot Github Copilot Security Issues VIM codex plugin OpenAI Codex...
Feb 22, 2022•35 min
Where we discuss setting up a zero-trust network access policy - what Google referrs to as “BeyondCorp”. 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 129: Cryptocurrencies Are Detrimental to Society BeyondCorp \ BeyondCorp Wikipedia Page Traefik Authelia Bind Response-Policy Zones OpenID Connect Hairpin NAT CloudFlare Teams 1.1.1.1 Ory Pomerium Google Zanzibar...
Jan 24, 2022•39 min
Where we discuss the end of 2021 and what we expect in 2022. 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 128: Last Year’s Year In Review log4shell exploit log4shell explained tidelift openssl heartbleed leftpad Software Is Eating The World AWS Outages WFH Mental Health Reddit Salary/Workforce Post Top 12 Gartner 2022 Technology Trends IBM Quantum Developer Cert Am...
Jan 01, 2022•51 min
Where we discuss how to scale things when the human element is the limited capacity. 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 127: Hyrum’s Law
Dec 14, 2021•33 min
Where we discuss Tyler Treat’s essay about how the paradigm of SRE doesn’t scale. 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 126: SRE Doesn’t Scale Google SRE Book: The Evolving SRE Engagement Model Reddit Pay Scale Post...
Nov 29, 2021•30 min
Where we discuss observability, prompted by a post on The New Stack by Charity Majors, looking at the current state of observability in the industry. 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 125: Observability (Wikipedia) Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective...
Nov 15, 2021•40 min
Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts. 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 124: Gruntwork
Oct 22, 2021•33 min
Where we discuss outsourcing and insourcing - when to buy a product, when to staff a team, and when to do it all yourself. 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 123: Model M Bolt Mod OpenCompute Networking AWS custom silicon for ASIC...
Oct 05, 2021•34 min
Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done. 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 122: Amazon Workspaces Overview Google Cloudtops For Employees Only VSCode Remote SSH VSCode Remote Development HP t630 Thin Client A Hobbyist’s Guide to Amazon WorkSpaces...
Sep 20, 2021•31 min
Where we discuss how we get personal things done away from our work from home workstations, while whishcasting about tech that we think should exist. 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 121: Home on iPod AWS WorkSpaces ChromeOS Crostini Project Google Pixelbook Go Keyboard Review Google Tensor SoC and the Pixel 6 Windows Subsystem for Linux...
Aug 23, 2021•39 min
Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne . 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 120: The Last Starfighter...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic. 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 .
Jul 26, 2021•47 min
Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse. 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 118: Imposter Syndrome Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome...
Jul 12, 2021•36 min
Where we discuss human input and output. Who are we kidding? We talked about mechanical keyboards, with very mild diversions into trackballs, trackpads and monitors. This is a notes-heavy episode, please look at the shownotes! 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 117: Apple Chicklet Keyboard Apple Extended Keyboard II SpaceSaver Model VT100 Serial Terminal ...
Jun 04, 2021•49 min
Where we discuss one of the fundamental physical constants that is always trying to bring us down - the speed of light - and how latency for round trip times impacts programming, systems design, and organizational behavior. 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 116: GCPing AWS Cloud Ping How Distributed Systems Fail Jepsen Failure Talks Bandwidth Delay Produ...
May 21, 2021•40 min
Where we discuss the seperation of work and personal life, and why such a seperation is both crucial and hard to do. 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 115: NYT Article About Google Video Game Industry Layoffs Jarod’s Thanos PR...
May 07, 2021•33 min
Where we discuss getting control of an existing, organically built cloud environment, and how to structure said control. Monolitic terraform? Hundreds of terraform projects? CloudFormations? Control Tower? 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 114: Gruntwork AWS Landing Zone is currently in Long-term Support and will not receive any additional features AWS C...
Apr 23, 2021•45 min
Where we discuss licensing and how it intersects with everything we do - from Elastic adopting Mongo’s SSPL to the mess that was made public with Wireguard, PFSense and BSD. Licenses are important, folks, choose them well and with purpose, ideally with a laywer in the room. 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 113: Open Source Is Not A Business Model Upcomi...
Apr 09, 2021•48 min
Where we talk with Brian Miller about running large scale networks for a major university and his adventures in Internet2, IPv6 and wireless all come 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 112: Internet2 C-Light Clemson CCIT ARIN Globus StatSeeker...
Mar 27, 2021•42 min
Where we discuss the risks you take using package managers and code you do not host yourself. 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 111: Dependency Confusion The Great Suspender Leftpad NPM Debcle DNS Exfil Detecting ‘curl | bash’ serverside Solar Winds Hack Blamed On Intern’s Password...
Mar 12, 2021•32 min
Where we discuss the failure of the Texas energy grid and how it relates to a failure to plan ahead. We look at active/active, n+1 and other cases where redundancy sneaks away from you. 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 110: 2021 Winter Storm Slack January 2021 Outage Postmortem Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room California Electricity Crisis Sun X4500...
Feb 26, 2021•36 min
Where we discuss deplatforming, through the lens of what happened to social media sites after the political upheaval in early January. 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 109: Cloudflare Controversies Cloudflare’s Press Release CDA Section 230 SEC 10-k and 10-q Forms Germany Backs Away From COVID Database Amazon And Apple Drop Parler AWS Suspends Parler...
Feb 12, 2021•35 min
Where we discuss the state of the Kubernetes project with someone who knows a lot about it - Seth McCombs . Seth, a Cloud Orchestration Software Engineer at Workday, is member of Kubernetes SIG-Release and SIG-Docs. The conversation covers the qualities of building communities, the road ahead, and the things he likes the most about the project. 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@operation...
Jan 29, 2021•48 min
Where we discuss how to handle opportunities - ones at your current job, how to approach new jobs, and tackling some of the personal sides of things. 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 107: Imposter Syndrome...
Jan 15, 2021•41 min
