Where we talk about the tendancy the internet at large has to overract to things, including two examples of this. The GitLab User Tracking terms of service and subsequent rollback, and the Terraform Azure provider id issue. 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 78: GitLab Product Usage Tracking Terraform Issue 4747: Remove default “terraform” partner_id Hot Co...
Nov 22, 2019•17 min
Where we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies. 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 05, 2019•29 min
Where we discuss the signposts of scalable systems. How to evaluate application state, inputs, and outputs help judge if it can handle scaling 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 76: Trickster - Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Time Series Databases Stackless The Jepsen Tests...
Oct 18, 2019•44 min
Where we discuss single board linux computers with special guest Ken Mink. 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 75: Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi Atomic Pi Devuan PicoCluster/Rock64 Cluster piragekit 18650 Battery Pack Raspberry Pi 4 Hackerboards: The Single Board Computer DB Armbian...
Sep 05, 2019•32 min
Where we discuss small office and home office networking gear. 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 74: Raspberry Pi 4 USB C Issue Netgear Switches Mikrotik pfsense Netgate SG 3100...
Jul 25, 2019•45 min
Where we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette. 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 73: Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings Polycom SoundStation Polycom Meeting Room Mic USB Headset Jabra Wireless...
Jul 19, 2019•27 min
Where we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS. 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 72: CloudFlare Regex Outage Coding Horror Regex Performance Loggly Regex Performance S3 Outage Writeup BGP Optimizer Outage PagerDuty How To Write A Postmortem Google Status Grid...
Jul 12, 2019•31 min
Where we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus. 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 71: TSDB List
Jul 05, 2019•37 min
Where we recap Monitorama PDX 2019 and talk about our favorite talks and events. 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 70: John Allspaw - Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software Evan Chan - Rich Histograms At Scale FiloDB Andrew Newdigate - Practical Anomaly Detection using Prometheus David Calavera - Observability and Performance Analysis with BPF Tom ...
Jun 27, 2019•30 min
Where we discuss Jack Neely’s Monitorama 2019 PDX lighting talk - 5 Neat Prometheus Tricks. 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 69: The Actual Lightning Talk Distributed Debugger Overcast 5 Neat Tricks With-Prometheus Prometheus Histograms I Prometheus Histograms II...
Jun 13, 2019•31 min
Where we discuss our plans for Monitorama, one of our favorite conferences. 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 68: Jason Dixon Monitorama PDX Statistics for Engineers CoffeeOps...
May 28, 2019•18 min
Where we discuss Not Invented Here, or the tendency in technology companies to needlessly reinvent the wheel. 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 67: NetDisco C10K Problem...
May 20, 2019•30 min
Where we discuss the Nintey-Nintey Rule and overall the idea of diminishing returns. 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 66: The Ninety-Ninety Rule The Practice of System and Network Administration Editions...
Apr 23, 2019
Where we discuss one of the core skills - troubleshooting. Stay alert. Keep your laser handy. 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
Mar 14, 2019•32 min
Where we discuss resumes and interviews. 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
Feb 01, 2019•36 min
Where we discuss the end of 2018 and what we see coming in 2019, including things we missed in 2018’s predictions show. 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 63: Tilt Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects SageMaker Immutable Infra Episode Thanos Cortex Envoy Proxy Cloud Native Computing Foundation Grafana Loki...
Jan 10, 2019•27 min
Where we discuss the pros and cons of immutable infrastructure. 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 62: Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code 12 Factor Apps Digital Ocean What Is Immutable No-SSH Movement Pets vs Cattle...
Nov 26, 2018•30 min
Where we talk about IBMs purchase of RedHat, and some of the past implications of tech tech mergers and acquisitions. 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 61: Merger Announcement Maddogs Take...
Nov 15, 2018•17 min
Where we talk more about Kubernetes and dig a little deeper into why it has become so popular. 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 60: Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes
Nov 05, 2018•25 min
Where we talk about Caleb Doxseys article titled Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal 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 59: Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects EC2 is the new on-prem EKS will be the next on-prem...
Oct 30, 2018•22 min
Where we talk about XKCD #2044, The Sandboxing Cycle. It’s pervasive in all things we do, and it can really limit how we operate. 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 58: XKCD #2044: The Sandboxing Cycle XKCD #927: Standards...
Oct 18, 2018•28 min
Where we discuss rolling out multi factor authentication with Darren Fallis. 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 05, 2018•40 min
Where we discuss security again, moving up to more sensitive users and begin the discussion of implementing a Single Sign On solution for users. 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 53: Yubico Security Key U2F FIDO2 Key Upgrade Your SSH Keys OSX Workstation Security Digital Ocean: Setup MFA for SSH Wikipedia: SAML Shibboleth...
Sep 09, 2018•27 min
Where we talk about the basics of end-user security best practices, mostly focused on passwords, MFA tokens and computer hygiene. 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 55: Password Lists Password Cracking Benchmarking Windows Password Compromise XKCD ‘Correct Horse Battery Staple’ Effectiveness of Google Hardware Tokens...
Aug 27, 2018•26 min
Where we discuss the initial phases of preparing for a planned outage and reacting to an unplanned one. 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
Aug 03, 2018•28 min
Where we discuss that old interview chestnut: Tell me about a time you’ve broken something. 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 20, 2018•44 min
Where we discuss why using technical solutions rarely solve social problems, or solve them very poorly. 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 52: IETF DNS Mailing List Discussion FALE Technical Solutions to Social Problems?: Some Implications of a Computer-Based Welfare Benefits Information System...
Jul 11, 2018•30 min
Where we discuss the relative merits of splitting large, monolithic multi-tenant applications into smaller single tenant ones. 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 04, 2018•33 min
Where we discuss how we’re all buried in alerts, but we don’t need that many. 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 50: My Philosophy On Alerting
Jun 29, 2018•26 min
Where we discuss Monitorama 2018 (PDX), and the return of a reasonable publication schedule. Additionally, apologies for Breandan’s audio. Something was off in his recording setup and this is the best audio we could get out 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 Links for Episode 49: All Talks The present and future of Serverless observability by Yan Cui Assisted Remediat...
Jun 21, 2018•33 min
