Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

Where we discuss the reasons to have meetings, and some gudielines on making them less awful for everyone involved. 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 47: First Round - Making Communication Better Things I have learned about effective sysadmin meetings NYT - How To Run An Effective Meeting

Where we discuss guidelines for documenting, designing and deploying services. 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 social and technical contracts that should be considered when setting up a working group, both long-standing and ad-hoc. 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 45: Monorepo Keybase.io Breandan’s Keybase Entry Jack’s Keybase Entry

Where we discuss onboarding new employees - both as a new hire and as a team bringing someone on. 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 available software licensing, both for code you have written and code you are thinking of adopting into your 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 42: Choose A License Creative Commons tl;dr legal

Where we discuss Conway’s Law. which is the tendency of teams to build software that reflects the communication patterns of the larger organization, as well as confirmation biases and the Dunning Kruger effect, which blinds people to new ways to escape from the traps they set for themselves. 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 40: Conway’s Law Confirmation Bias Dunning Kruger Effect Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant Forget Technical Debt

Where we discuss pratical guidelines for expanding your monitoring platform to cover the new and challenging world of Microservice (and Service Oriented Architecture) monitoring, with brief side trips into log tracing and fostering healthy culture. 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 36: [Don’t Read Your Logs ] (https://medium.com/@chimeracoder/dont-read-your-logs-13586c790202) OpenTracing ZipKin Google Dapper Paper Standard Sensor Format Tenents Of Microservice Monitoring

Where we discuss how to run statsd and metrics pipelines at a scale of over 750,000 packets per second. 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 35: github: jjneely/statsrelay github: statsite/statsite CloudFlare: How To Receive A Million Packets

Where we discuss the evolution of modern filesystems. 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 34: ZFS Sun Fire X4500 Thumper ZFS/CDDL Patent Licence Protection BTRFS BTRFS RAID5/6 Unsafe NTFS ZFS Licencing and Linux WD RED Pro drive specs

Where we discuss using Elasticsearch (along with Kibana, Timelion and Kafka) as a Timeseries Database (TSDB). It has several drawbacks over traditional timeseries storage engines, mostly in storage efficiency, but has other unique attributes that may overcome these drawbacks in the right use case. 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 33: Timelion Announcement Blog Post Timelion Docs Lucene PointValues Circonus fq NSQ

Where we discuss histograms as the best data type ever, and the complexities of actually using them in Prometheus. For the most part, this is Jack Neely’s domain of expertise, so he does most of the talking in this episode. 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 32: Jack’s Post About Histograms PR to make rule evaluation and federation consistent in time Circonus Log Linear Histogram Implementation Circonus Histogram Docs Circonus Blog Prometheus 2.0 Sneak Peak

Where we discuss how to find privacy on the internet, both for yourself at home and for users of your services. 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 31: Tor Network WhisperSystems HSTS Super Cookies Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway Panopticlick Device Fingerprinting Am I Unique Perfect Forward Secrecy Symantec Considered Harmful Trump Signs Internet Privacy Repeal

Where we discuss the AWS S3 outage on February the 28th, which was due to an operations error, and relevant discussions about outages and how to learn from mistakes. 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 30: S3 Post Morterm AWS Tweets It Can’t Update It’s Dashboard GitLab Outage Postmortem

Where we discuss multifactor authentication (MFA), often called Two Factor Authentication (2FA). We talk a little bit about the history and then the practical implications of hardware tokens to assist with this security best practice. 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 29: Wikipedia: Authentication CloudFlare Secret Material Leak SHA1 Broken NIST is No Longer Recommending Two-Factor Authentication Using SMS Netflix Bless

Where we discuss highlights of the last year and things we’re looking forward to in 2017. 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 bitterness can be the worst aspect of a job and some helpful advice to avoid 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

Where we discuss side projects. Not consulting or side work, but projects that let us scratch itches we get at work but aren’t officially sanctioned. 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 24: Breandan’s Mute Switch ZFS On Linux ZFS Native on Xenial LTS Docker ZFS Driver Disqus Comment System Cable Modem Metrics Surfboard Metrics Perl Code Surfboard Metrics Python->Prometheus HomeKit in Go

Where we discuss operating systems outside the traditional Linux fare. OpenSolaris, SolarisNext, Illumos, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, oh my! 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 22: SystemD Security Vulnerability Talk about exposing systemd to web APIs Illumos Illimos Based Distribtons BTRFS Joyent Triton Joyent SmartOS Solaris Network Virtualization - Project Crossbow ZFS and Ubuntu Licensing RedHat Ceph OpenBSD Security ZFS and Apple

Where we discuss the often savage and insensitive nature of dealing with other people on the internet and some gentle advice on how to make everyone’s life a little less awful. Having an opinion on the internet means you need a thick skin. 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 21: The Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory (Comic) Duty Calls Torvalds Defends High Right To Shame Kernel Developers Wheaton’s Law

Where we discuss Kanban, Agile and Scrum with special guest, Judson Drennan. Judson is a Product Owner at VitalSource Technologies, and has done a lot of management of complex technology teams. 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 20: VitalSource The Agile Manifesto Kanban