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...
Dec 31, 2017•23 min
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...
Dec 04, 2017•16 min
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
Nov 27, 2017•27 min
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...
Nov 07, 2017•26 min
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
Oct 06, 2017•28 min
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...
Sep 08, 2017•30 min
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...
Aug 17, 2017•26 min
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...
Jul 25, 2017•15 min
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 B...
Jul 11, 2017•28 min
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...
Jul 01, 2017•26 min
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...
Jun 26, 2017•30 min
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...
Jun 14, 2017•30 min
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-yo...
Jun 02, 2017•31 min
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...
May 20, 2017•48 min
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...
May 16, 2017•33 min
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...
May 08, 2017•33 min
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 Circon...
Apr 19, 2017•31 min
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 Tr...
Apr 10, 2017•40 min
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...
Mar 27, 2017•26 min
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 Long...
Mar 02, 2017•31 min
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
Jan 21, 2017•24 min
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
Jan 05, 2017•22 min
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 Datacen...
Dec 11, 2016•30 min
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
Dec 01, 2016•22 min
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 Pyt...
Nov 05, 2016•36 min
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...
Oct 27, 2016•31 min
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...
Oct 14, 2016•23 min
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 Rig...
Sep 15, 2016•21 min
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...
Sep 09, 2016•31 min
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...
Sep 01, 2016•35 min
