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 Em…

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…

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 Copilo…

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.Di Breandan Dezendorf, Ken Mink, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins

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…

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/a…

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 …

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\ BeyondC…

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 Softwa…

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 LawDi Breandan Dezendorf, Ken Mink, and Jack Neely

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 …

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 (Wik…

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…

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 c…

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 Onl…

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 W…

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…

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.…

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…

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 …

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 ema…

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 Layoff…

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@…

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 …

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-Li…

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 Dete…

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…

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 Cloudfla…

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. Comm…

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…

Where we discuss the year this was, what we thought it was going to be, and how wrong we really were. We also discuss the future a little bit, and try to find patterns in this chaos. 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 fo…

Where we talk with Darren Fallis about some of the reasons you should really upgrade to a modern TLS version, and what that means in practical terms. At the moment, this is TLS 1.3, but as with all advice - especially security related advice - please stay current! Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episod…

Where we talk with Evan Bloom about getting started in this industry, coming from a very different world of music. This includes where to get started with linux, programming and generally how to look at the careers we talk about on this podcast. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus…

Where we talk about our pet peeves - technical red flags that tell you something about an environment isn’t right. 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. Sponsors for Episode 103: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing …

Where we talk about the many lies we tell ourselves, even when we know better. 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. Sponsors for Episode 102: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing inObservability, Cloud Migration, Co…

Where we talk about some mergers and aquisitions in the configuration management space and discuss somewhat about where the industry is headed. 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. Sponsors for Episode 101: 42 Lines is a DevOps …

Where we revisit our first episode, The Culture of DevOps, and talk about what’s changed in the last 5 years, including the growth of the Site Reliability Engineering movement to implement DevOps, and some thoughts about the next 5 years. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup,…

Where we discuss Elasticsearch’s X-Pack as compared to the OpenDistro For Elasticsearch, and talk a little bit about being a good citizen for open source 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. Sponsors for Episode 99: 42…

Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look at various implementations of time series databases' support for calculating accurate percentiles. Comments for the episode ar…

Where we interview Greg Harris, Principal Security Engineer at Fitbit. We cover security issues around BeyondCorp, VPNs, Docker, and vulnerability scanning. With Greg we learn how to stop reacting to security incidents and instead focus on building threat models for your software and company to forecast and prevent them. Comments for the episode ar…

Where we discuss the possible rise of ARM on the desktop as a replacement or challenge to the supremecy of Intel’s venerable x86_64 instruction set. 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. Sponsors for Episode 96: 42 Lines is a Dev…

Where we talk about being multi-cloud, along with the reasons and challenges of doing so, and talk about if it is really worth 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. Sponsors for Episode 95: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting fir…

Where we discuss findability and search with a special guest - JP Sherman, the Manager of Search and Findability at Red Hat. 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. Sponsors for Episode 94: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm spec…

Where we talk about building a modern linux desktop, for both personal and professional use. There’s some talk about Intel vs AMD, Apple and ARM, and video cards… all in good fun. 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. Sponsors fo…

Where we talk to CloudTruth’s Matt Conway and Greg Arnette about why they are configuration management geeks, and some of the realities of looking at problems with configuration management in mind. 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@operatio…

Where we talk at length with Brandon Peskin, a Sysadmin turned Network Engineer, who has pretty much seen and done it all - from microwave repeaters across parking lots to massively redundant datacenter to cloud migration projects. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you…

Where we discuss practice, and how it makes everything easier - for both personal and professional 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. Sponsors for Episode 90: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing inObserva…

Where we discuss Greg Kogan’s Article, “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime” and rant about simplicity and how to choose what things to spend time running. 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. Sponsors for Episode 89: 42 Lines is …

Where we invite Ashi Sheth, the Senior Manager of Global End User Services at LinkedIn, to talk about the logistical and personal considerations of moving a 20,000 user organization to full-time remote work with very little advanced notice. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setu…

Where we talk to Ken Mink about his trials and tribulations setting up a Raspberry Pi/Rock64 Kubernetes cluster. 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. Sponsors for Episode 88: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing inO…