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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Episode 87 - You Don't (Always) Need Kubernetes
March 27, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutes - 14.9 MBWhere we discuss the fact that for many environments, Kubernetes may be overkill. That said, it still has an important role to play. 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 87: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 87: RancherOS Op...
Special Episode - Preparing For Pandemic Triggered Remote Work
March 16, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 13.1 MBWhere we discuss the mass migration of the tech community to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even if only on a temporary basis. 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 Special Episode 1: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Special Episo...
Episode 86 - Moving Back To The Monolith
March 13, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 12.7 MBWhere we discuss the future of microservices… is it the monolith? 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 86: Monoliths Are The Way Forward The Majestic Monolith Steve’s Platform Rant Jepsen.io/consistency Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo
Episode 85 - Concurrency vs Parallelism in Systems Design
February 28, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 13.5 MBWhere we discuss concurrency and parallelism in systems design, and touch on programming languages and challenges a little bit. 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 85: Concurrent Computing Embarrassingly Parallel Problems MongoDB is Webscale Stackless Python Rob Pike - Concurrency is not Parallelism Alan Perlis Quote
Episode 84 - Observability Best Practices
February 14, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MBWhere we discuss best practices around selecting technologies and strategies for building an observability stack. 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 84: The USE Method The RED Method The Four Golden Signals DataDog Tagging Standards Logz.io Logging Best Practices DataDog Field Standards
Episode 83 - Analog Tools For a Digital World - Part 2
February 01, 2020 11:22 - 29 minutes - 14 MBWhere we discuss analog tools for an work-from-home digital world. Desk ergonomics, common utility items, and other considerations to make life easier. 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 83: Ergonomics Maha Battery Charger MXL 990 Microphone ATR 2100 USB Microphone Golden Bear Pencils Book Of Knowing Midlands Weather Radio
Episode 83 - Analog Tools For a Digital World, Part 2
February 01, 2020 11:22 - 29 minutes - 14 MBWhere we discuss analog tools for an work-from-home digital world. Desk ergonomics, common utility items, and other considerations to make life easier. 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 83: Ergonomics Maha Battery Charger MXL 990 Microphone ATR 2100 USB Microphone Golden Bear Pencils Book Of Knowing Midlands Weather Radio
Episode 82 - Analog Tools For a Digital World
January 21, 2020 14:45 - 27 minutes - 13.2 MBWhere we discuss analog tools for an on-the-go digital world. Everyday Carry Bags, the contents of said bags, and our preferences for notebooks and writing implements. 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 82: InCase Icon Backpack Crumpler Bags Neoprene Laptop Sleeve Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter Zebra F301 Ball Point Pen M301 Mechanical Penc...
Episode 81 - The End Of The Year
January 03, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 10.4 MBWhere we talk about evens in 2019 and expectations of 2020. 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 80 - Revisiting Immutable Infrastructure
December 20, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 14 MBWhere we talk (again) about immutable infrastructure, especially now that Kubernetes has a mature way to handle state, the statefulset. 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 80: Single Instance ASGs Practical Operations Podcast Episode 62 Elastic inside Kubernetes LeftPad RedHat/Quay
Episode 79 - Professional Certifications and Exams
December 06, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 15 MBWhere we discuss professional certifications, exams and some of the pitfalls and caveats that go along with 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]
Episode 78 - Retractions and Reactions
November 22, 2019 09:00 - 16 minutes - 8.03 MBWhere we talk about the tendancy the internet at large has to overract to things, including two examples of this. The GitLab User Tracking terms of service and subsequent rollback, and the Terraform Azure provider id issue. 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 78: GitLab Product Usage Tracking Terraform Issue 4747: Remove default “terraform” partner_...
Episode 77 - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
November 05, 2019 14:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBWhere we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies. 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 76 - Signposts of Scalable Systems
October 18, 2019 12:00 - 43 minutes - 20.6 MBWhere we discuss the signposts of scalable systems. How to evaluate application state, inputs, and outputs help judge if it can handle scaling 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 76: Trickster - Open Source Dashboard Accelerator for Time Series Databases Stackless The Jepsen Tests
Episode 75 - Single Board Computers
September 03, 2019 09:45 - 32 minutes - 15.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 74 - Small Office/Home Office Networking
July 25, 2019 14:00 - 44 minutes - 20.9 MBWhere we discuss small office and home office networking gear. 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 74: Raspberry Pi 4 USB C Issue Netgear Switches Mikrotik pfsense Netgate SG 3100
Episode 73 - Conference Calls
July 19, 2019 09:00 - 27 minutes - 13.1 MBWhere we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette. 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 73: Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings Polycom SoundStation Polycom Meeting Room Mic USB Headset Jabra Wireless
Episode 72 - A Tale of Three Postmortems
July 12, 2019 17:00 - 30 minutes - 14.5 MBWhere we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS. 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 72: CloudFlare Regex Outage Coding Horror Regex Performance Loggly Regex Performance S3 Outage Writeup BGP Optimizer Outage PagerDuty How To Write A Postmortem Google Status Grid
Episode 71 - Long Term Prometheus Metrics Storage
July 05, 2019 14:00 - 37 minutes - 17.6 MBWhere we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus. 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 71: TSDB List
Episode 70 - Monitorama 2019 PDX Recap
June 27, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14.4 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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 w...
Episode 69 - Neat Prometheus Tricks
June 13, 2019 00:15 - 30 minutes - 15.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 69: The Actual Lightning Talk Distributed Debugger Overcast 5 Neat Tricks With-Prometheus Prometheus Histograms I Prometheus Histograms II
Episode 68 - Monitorama PDX 2019
May 28, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes - 8.47 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 68: Jason Dixon Monitorama PDX Statistics for Engineers CoffeeOps
Episode 67 - Not Invented Here
May 20, 2019 09:00 - 29 minutes - 14.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 67: NetDisco C10K Problem
Episode 66: Diminishing Returns
April 23, 2019 09:00Where 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 66: The Ninety-Ninety Rule The Practice of System and Network Administration Editions
Episode 65: Troubleshooting
March 14, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 15.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 64: Resumes and Interviews
February 01, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutes - 16.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 63 - The Turning Of The Year
January 10, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes - 12.8 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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 ...
Episode 62 - Immutable Infrastructure
November 26, 2018 22:00 - 30 minutes - 14.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 61: Tech Mergers And Acquisitions - RedHat and IBM
November 15, 2018 12:00 - 17 minutes - 8.45 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 61: Merger Announcement Maddogs Take
Episode 60: Deeper Into Kubernetes
November 05, 2018 14:00 - 25 minutes - 12.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 60: Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes
Episode 59 - Cheap Kubernetes For Everyone
October 29, 2018 09:30 - 21 minutes - 10.3 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 58 - The Sandboxing Cycle
October 18, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 58: XKCD #2044: The Sandboxing Cycle XKCD #927: Standards
Episode 57 - Rolling Out MFA
October 05, 2018 09:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 56 - Sysadmin And Small Office Security
September 07, 2018 09:45 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 55 - End User Security
August 25, 2018 12:41 - 26 minutes - 12 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 55: Password Lists Password Cracking Benchmarking Windows Password Compromise XKCD ‘Correct Horse Battery Staple’ Effectiveness of Google Hardware Tokens
Episode 54 - How To Have An Outage (Part 1)
August 03, 2018 17:00 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 53: When We Are The Problem
July 20, 2018 14:00 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 52 - Technical Solutions for Social Problems
July 11, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 51 - Divide and Conquer
July 04, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 50 - You Have Too Many Alerts
June 29, 2018 05:20 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 50: My Philosophy On Alerting
Episode 49 - Monitorama 2018 Recap
June 21, 2018 14:18 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 49: All Talks The present and future of Serverless observability by Yan Cui Assist...
Episode 48: The Year Ahead (and Behind)
December 31, 2017 12:00 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBWhere 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 [email protected] 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
Episode 47 - Efficient Meetings
December 04, 2017 10:00 - 16 minutes - 7.4 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 47: First Round - Making Communication Better Things I have learned about effective sysadmin meetings NYT - How To Run An Effective Meeting
Episode 46 - Service Design Documentation
November 27, 2017 07:12 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 45 - Social and Technical Contracts For Teams
November 07, 2017 13:20 - 26 minutes - 14.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 45: Monorepo Keybase.io Breandan’s Keybase Entry Jack’s Keybase Entry
Episode 44 - Onboarding
October 06, 2017 12:00 - 27 minutes - 15.9 MBWhere 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 [email protected]
Episode 43 - Revisiting Backups
September 06, 2017 13:55 - 29 minutes - 17.2 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 43: CrashPlan Home Notice Backblaze B2 Pricing Amazon S3 Pricing Amazon Glacier Pricing ARQ Backup borg backups attic backup rsync.net
Episode 42 - Choosing A License
August 17, 2017 09:00 - 25 minutes - 14.6 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 42: Choose A License Creative Commons tl;dr legal
Episode 41 - Get Up And Speak Already!
July 24, 2017 11:34 - 14 minutes - 8.56 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 41: meetup Toastmasters
Episode 40 - Conway's Law and Confirmation Bias
July 11, 2017 14:00 - 28 minutes - 16.1 MBWhere 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 [email protected] Links for Episode 40: Conway’s Law Confi...