Two DevOps engineers sharing their hands-on experience, a dash of knowledge, a bit of brainstorming, and having fun along the way.
Send us a text In this episode we talked about k8s nodes monitoring and as always, found ourselves going way beyond Links - https://dotenvx.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we had a debate around how AI is moving forward, the outlook on engineering jobs and how we use it daily as time progresses. Links: - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/ - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text In this episode we discussed S3 from different angles: tiering, signed links, potential risks, and awkward situations people found themselves in. Links: https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/third-party-software/others/configuring-an-amazon-web-services-static-site-to-use-cloudflare/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/getting-started-cloudfront-overview.html https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/network-load-balancers-now-support-security-groups/ https...
Send us a text In this episode we discussed K8s from scratch with some analogies and then more advanced topics: Links: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-up-and/9781491935668/ https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184 https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/redis-license-open-source/ https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-brief-xz-utils-cve-2024-3094/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t...
Send us a text This week we talked bout all-things-caching. What it is, where to implement, the risks the tips and everything else on our minds. Links https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods Omer's newsletter - https://newsletter.omerxx.com Host single page app caching - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/host-single-page-applications-spa-with-tiered-ttls-on-cloudfront-and-s3/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel...
Send us a text This week we played the roles of a consultant and a customer and discussed a real world problem and approaches to understanding it and then solving it. Links https://everything.npm.lol/ https://clerk.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we talked about automating processes. Any process. whether pipelines, scripts or beyond. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation https://www.mixo.io/ https://pocketbase.io/ https://wails.io/ https://github.com/unfor19/tfcoding Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we discussed main announcements that were interesting to us and we thought are worth mentioning and discussing Links: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we discussed communication with, and as managers. Relationships within devops teams and outside it. How we asses it when looking for a job, while hiring or when managing teams. Links: The post Omer mentioned: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373 JSON Resumee - https://jsonresume.org resume-cli - https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-cli ChatGPT - DevOps Description Dynamizer Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaks Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's b...
Send us a text This week we talked about when is it a good time to make changes in systems and how! Links: Post: https://blog.danslimmon.com/ Topeaks Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaks Git CTF: https://www.mrnice.dev/ctf/ Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/ a4 terminal: https://www.a4term.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we discussed a very interesting paper from Google, released just a few months back on modern cloud applications and the way they can be deployed. Links: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90osDkqZt0 https://github.com/ServiceWeaver/weaver https://serviceweaver.dev/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we talked about AI and how we use it and are evolving with the different tools out there. From using latest GPT options to running local models. Links: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl https://ollama.ai/ https://pinokio.computer/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text Hi! This week it's just Omer again, waiting and hoping for better quieter times. Discussing yet again serverless instantiations vs containers, why serverless is special, where does it fit and what is an actual valid use case. In terms of links: Newsletter: https://newsletter.omerxx.com Hackthebox: https://hackthebox.com Wargames: https://overthewire.org/wargames Topgrade: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade GTFO bins: https://gtfobins.github.io Meir's blog: https://m...
Send us a text Hi folks, I hope this episodes find you well, safe and in good health. This is not a standard episode and it is my short attempt at normality in these crazy days we're all going through. I hope you find some escape and maybe catch something new. Links: Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's revised webite: https://omerxx.com Omer's newsletter: https://newsletter.omerxx.com https://quickchart.io https://fly.io https://www.cookiecutter.io You can find me at: ome...
Send us a text This week we talked about soft skills, based on our conversation from last week (Ep #32) it was important for us to cover a topic that's often ignored - communicating ideas, reviews and so on. Links https://mistral.ai/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This weeks we discussed how to approach a new position / consultation gig. What do you tackle first? How do you map things out? This is based both on our experience (naturally), with the important aspect of us being consultants for quite a few years before moving into fulltime positions on larger companies. Links: https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg https://www.pulumi.com Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espr...
Send us a text In this episode we discussed something we deal with occasionally - understanding a problem or a pain, thinking of a solution, and then implementing this as a tool or a product. We share some tips that can help out when starting to build, both from the engineering side but also from Ops perspective. Links https://zellij.dev/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text Hashicorp left a rather cryptic announcement last week about future releases start using the BSL license, which may have huge implications to many businesses around the world. Links: https://twitter.com/HashiCorp/status/1689733106813562880 https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq https://twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1690039537370824704?s=20 https://twitter.com/0merxx/status/1690321901120307202?s=20 https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/bram_moolenaar_obituary/ https://taylor.tow...
Send us a text This week we took a break from best practices and procedures and talked about some hot news - AWS starting to charge for public IPv4 addresses - what should you do? How to mitigate, when does it start etc. The other topic was Israel's shiny new region, pricing, reasons to use and some AC considerations if you ever decide to build your own data center! Links https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/identify-and-optimize-public-ipv4-address-usage-on-aws/ htt...
Send us a text What's the perfect CI/CD pipeline? What is even CD? How do we implement our own and what we see as the holy grail "perfect" flow? That's our topic for this week Links: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/ https://www.runatlantis.io https://k8sgpt.ai https://12factor.net Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we discussed Chaos Engineering, where did it come from, what it means, how can you incorporate it into daily work and plans. Links https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero https://principlesofchaos.org/ https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/llama-2-foundation-models-from-meta-are-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/esp...
Send us a text This week we talked about the services you don't normally hear when it comes to AWS: LightSail, Rekognition, Kafka, Open search, Prometheus and many more! Links: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc https://cupogo.dev https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/14xyido/the_gorilla_web_toolkit_project_is_being_revived/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we talked about yet another undiscussed (kidding) buzz word - "DevSecOps". What is it? Where did it come from? What falls under the category? Things mentioned: https://helix-editor.com/ https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we went on a small adventure discovering the K8s control plane components as well as the node resource. We shared background, experience, and as usual - went too far with stories ;) Links: https://chirper.ai/ https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text This week we discussed whether "ops" engineers should know how to code, and if so, to what degree. We went into languages, frameworks, when and if should you start as a junior. We shared our views on everything around "Dev" as it relates to "Ops" when it comes to actual positions within a software company. Things mentioned: The Grand Budapest Hotel https://github.com/spf13/cobra https://github.com/spf13/viper https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x...
Send us a text Is Amazon dropping serverless? What was the trigger to the huge backlash on serverless and microservices of the past few weeks? We discussed AWS's blog post, DHH comments, Kelsey Hightower response and more! Amazon's Prime Video moving away from serverless: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90 DHH blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-...
Send us a text This week we had the pleasure of discussing EC2! The basic building block of AWS has so much going on around it so we made an effort keeping it short (did not do all that well if you compare to previous episodes 😉) Links: EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2 The SSM plugin for AWS CLI (Using SSM connect from a teminal) Golang Telegram bot API - https://github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-api GORM: The Golang ORM - https://gorm.io/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer&apos...
Send us a text In this episode we discussed S3, which is not all that "simple"! Policies, web hosting, tiering, smart tiering, Glacier, Cloudfront, indexing and MORE! Links and things mentioned: S3 search and access throughput with prefixes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.html URL shortener with S3 redirect function https://github.com/ducaale/xh https://thebrowser.company/ https://brave.com/ https://minbrowser.org/ Meir's blog: https:/...
Send us a text This week we discussed AWS IAM, on the infrastructure level, application level, what are users, roles, profiles, permission sets, temporary credentials and MORE! Links promised: SSO Sync for Google to AWS SSO: https://github.com/awslabs/ssosync Tools / Experience of the week: Omer mentioned "nocode": https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops...
Send us a text In this episode we discussed all-things VPC! From the very basics of structure and best practices, deep down to wiring the internals, hacks tips and lots of other stuff. Things we mentioned: Omer's list of K8s ingress controllers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit#gid=907731238 Meir's stack for this week: https://nestjs.com & https://vitejs.dev Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerx...
