Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

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 Product XKCD 1205

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

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 Control Tower AWS Multi Account Architecture Hashicorp Landing Zones Multi-Account with Centralized Identity Management

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 Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana The SSPL Is Not An Open Source License Apache 2.0 License proprietary eponym Wireguard Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call OpenSource Licenses Choose A License

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

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

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 Storage Server

Where we discuss working from home. 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 8: Trello Tomato Timer

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

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

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 Datacenter PXE Booting LeftPad Removal from Node.JS The Practice of System and Network Administration Aphyr/Jepsen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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