Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

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 Wilkie - Grafana Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs Grafana Loki

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Remediation: By trying to build an autoremediation system, we realized we never actually wanted one by Kale Stedman Optimizing for Learning by Logan McDonald Next Generation Observability for Next Generation Data by Peter Balis Throwing Spaghetti at a Blue Sky by Ted Young Putting Billions of Timeseries to work at Uber with Autonomous Monitoring by Prateek Rungta

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