Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPractical Operations is about the difference between running
your IT organization the "Right Way" and the Practical Way. Your hosts talk
about the theory of small to web scale operations and DevOps and then discuss
how to get the most out of these tools in practice.
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Episodes
Episode 137 - Amin Astaneh
June 28, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 137: Certo Modo MongoDB is Webscale Emotional Warrior Certo Modo Substack BOFH DevOps Meetup Talk - Demystifying SRE 8 Steps For Leading Change
Episode 135 - Resisting Automation
March 27, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 135: XKCD 1205: Is it worth the time
Episode 134 - ChatGPT
March 13, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 134: I will not harm you unless you harm me first VSCode Rubberduck Github Copilot Self-hosted Stable Diffusion Microsoft Tay Microsoft Invests in OpenAI
Episode 133 - Shadow IT
July 25, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected].
Episode 132 - HollywoodOS - The Net
April 18, 2022 09:09 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 132: The Net (1995 film)
Episode 131 - COVID, Burnout, And The Great Resignation
March 08, 2022 15:30 - 35 minutes - 20.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 131: The Great Resignation [What is ‘The Great Resignation’](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/what-is-the-great-resignation-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it/ http://www.example.com) Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration ...
Episode 130 - VSCode and Cloud IDEs
February 22, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 20.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 130: Bash VIM keybindings Code Server Cloud9 IDE Theia IDE XKCD Ineffective Sorts Stacksort Github Copilot Github Copilot Security Issues VIM codex plugin OpenAI Codex
Episode 129 - BeyondCorp
January 24, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 22.5 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 129: Cryptocurrencies Are Detrimental to Society BeyondCorp\ BeyondCorp Wikipedia Page Traefik Authelia Bind Response-Policy Zones OpenID Connect Hairpin NAT CloudFlare Teams 1.1.1.1 Ory Pomerium Go...
Episode 128 - 2021 How We Haven't Missed Ya
December 31, 2021 11:30 - 50 minutes - 29 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 128: Last Year’s Year In Review log4shell exploit log4shell explained tidelift openssl heartbleed leftpad Software Is Eating The World AWS Outages WFH Mental Health Reddit Salary/Workforce Post Top 12 Gartner 2022 Technology Trends IBM Quantu...
Episode 127 - Scaling Humans
December 12, 2021 20:40 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 127: Hyrum’s Law
Episode 126 - SRE Doesn't Scale
November 29, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 17 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 126: SRE Doesn’t Scale Google SRE Book: The Evolving SRE Engagement Model Reddit Pay Scale Post
Episode 125 - Observability Defined
November 15, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 22.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 125: Observability (Wikipedia) Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective
Episode 124 - Enforcing Structure On Production
October 22, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 124: Gruntwork
Episode 123 - Outsourcing and Insourcing
October 05, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 19.7 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 123: Model M Bolt Mod OpenCompute Networking AWS custom silicon for ASIC
Episode 122 - Cloudstations and Remote Graphical Workstations
September 20, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 122: Amazon Workspaces Overview Google Cloudtops For Employees Only VSCode Remote SSH VSCode Remote Development HP t630 Thin Client A Hobbyist’s Guide to Amazon WorkSpaces
Episode 121 - Personal Workstations Away From The Home Office
August 23, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 22.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 121: Home on iPod AWS WorkSpaces ChromeOS Crostini Project Google Pixelbook Go Keyboard Review Google Tensor SoC and the Pixel 6 Windows Subsystem for Linux ...
Episode 120 - Building Teams with Jim Browne
August 09, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 120: The Last Starfighter
Episode 119 - Conducting Interviews
July 26, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 27.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected].
Episode 118 - Imposter Syndrome
July 12, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 20.4 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 118: Imposter Syndrome Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome
Episode 117 - Human Input and Output
June 04, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 28 MBWhere 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 email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 117: Apple Chicklet Keyboard Apple Extended Keyboard II SpaceSaver Model VT100 Serial...
Episode 116 - How The Fundamental Constants of The Universe Hate Us And Want Us To Fail
May 21, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 22.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 116: GCPing AWS Cloud Ping How Distributed Systems Fail Jepsen Failure Talks Bandwidth ...
Episode 115 - Your Employer Isn't Your Family
May 07, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 115: NYT Article About Google Video Game Industry Layoffs Jarod’s Thanos PR
Episode 114 - Terraforming Existing Clouds
April 23, 2021 09:09 - 45 minutes - 25.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 114: Gruntwork AWS Landing Zone is currently in Long-term Support and will not receive any additional featur...
Episode 113 - Licensing
April 09, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 27.4 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 113: Open Source Is Not A Business Model...
Episode 112 - Large Scale Networking With Brian Miller
March 27, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutes - 23.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 112: Internet2 C-Light Clemson CCIT ARIN Globus StatSeeker
Episode 111 - Host Your Own Code
March 12, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 18.6 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. 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
Episode 110 - Planning For Failure, or a Failure To Plan
February 26, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 20.7 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 110: 2021 Winter Storm Slack January 2021 Outage Postmortem Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room California Electricity Crisis...
Episode 109 - Deplatforming
February 12, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 19.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 109: Cloudflare Controversies Cloudflare’s Press Release CDA Section 230 SEC 10-k and 10-q Forms Germany Backs Away From COVID Database Amazon And Apple Drop Parler AWS Suspe...
Episode 108 - Kubernetes with Seth McCombs
January 29, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 27.6 MBWhere 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. 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@oper...
Episode 107 - New Opportunities
January 15, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 23.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 107: Imposter Syndrome
Episode 106 - The Ending Of The Year
January 01, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Links for Episode 106: Episode 81 - The End Of The Year CentOS Is Changing Rocky Linux KOPF - A Python K8S Operator Library Episode 104 - Bootstra...
Episode 105 - Modern TLS
December 18, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 20.2 MBWhere 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 episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 105: Episode 57: Two Factor Authentication with Da...
Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom
December 04, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBWhere 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 setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 104: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observab...
Episode 103 - Pet Peeves
November 20, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 18.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 103: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 102 - The Lies We Tell Ourselves
November 06, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 11.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 102: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 101 - Long Term Configuration Management
October 23, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 12.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 101: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 101: ...
Episode 100 - DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, Revisited
October 09, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 19 MBWhere 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, or you can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 100: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, ...
Episode 99 - Elasticsearch Distributions
September 25, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 99: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Link...
Episode 98 - Histograms and Service Level Objectives
September 11, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBWhere 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 are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors f...
Episode 97 - Threat Modeling with Greg Harris
August 28, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 27.7 MBWhere 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 are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors f...
Episode 96 - ARM and the Future of Computing
August 12, 2020 12:51 - 36 minutes - 17.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 96: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 9...
Episode 95 - Being Cloud Agnostic
July 31, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 16.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 95: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 94 - Findability With JP Sherman
July 17, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes - 21.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 94: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 94: Solr LucidWorks Fus...
Episode 93 - Linux On The Desktop
July 02, 2020 23:29 - 49 seconds - 23.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 93: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team...
Episode 92 - CloudTruth and Configuration Management
June 19, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 19.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 92: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Pr...
Episode 91 - Is DevNetOps a Thing? With Brandon Peskin
June 05, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 22 MBWhere 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 can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 91: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Mi...
Episode 90 - Practice
May 22, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 90: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 90: Theory vs Practice Quote
Episode 89 - Simple Systems Are More Available
May 08, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 16 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 89: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Epis...
Special Episode - Considerations For Moving An Engineering Organization Fully Remote
April 24, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MBWhere 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 setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Sponsors: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migratio...
Episode 88 - Experimenting With Kubernetes On ARM
April 10, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 15.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]. Sponsors for Episode 88: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 88: Pico Cluster Atomic Pi