Adventures in DevOps

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Adventures in DevOps episodes

December 24, 2019DevOps 018: How We Killed DevOps? with Adam Nowak
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the pane interviews Adam Nowak. Adam is a part of the DevOps team at Netguru. He joins the panel today to share his DevOps transformation story. Adam starts by explaining the title he chose for today’s episode. He also shares his definition of DevOps.
Adam explains the age-old story of a misunderstood DevOps team that was overworked and underappreciated. The organization grew but the DevOps team didn’t scale with it, leaving them with piles of tickets and everyone else wondering what was taking so long. The panel commiserates with Adam and shares some of their own similar stories.
Reaching out to others to help solve the problem, Adam found that many DevOps teams had and are experiencing the same problem. He found help from others in the DevOps space and recommended books. His team started by making their work more visible. To do this they streamlined their communication and published documentation.
Next, they made more focused goals. Instead of trying to do everything and never meeting their goals they chose a couple things to work on and focused on that. Another change they made was to diversify their meetings, projects, and initiatives; they brought in people from all the teams to collaborate, making the projects even better.
The panel discusses the importance of empathy in the workplace and in life. Most people are trying their best and probably have a reason for doing the things that they are doing. Instead of treating others as if they are incompetent, talk them and discuss the reasons behind their actions and decisions.
Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Charles Max Wood

Guest
Adam Nowak

Sponsors
CacheFly

Links
How we killed DevOps by creating a dedicated DevOps team | Adam Nowak

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/

Picks
Charles Max Wood:
Holiday Inn

White Christmas

The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
The Mandalorian

Rust in Motion

Adam Nowak:
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Jabra Elite 85h Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones

Special Guest: Adam Nowak.
54 min
December 10, 2019DevOps 017: Improving User Experience by Logging with Grant Schofield
In this episode Adventures in DevOps, the panel interviews Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of Infrastructure at Humio. He being by discussing the growth of logging and logging tools. Grant explains the business value of logging and analytics. He shares some real-life examples of how longing helped gain insight into the user experience. The panel wonders how Humio takes the data gathered in the logs and separate out specifics of user experience. Grant explains that by aggregating all data in one place Humio uses the logs, tracing and other metrics to draw conclusions about user experience. He shares some of the conclusions that can be drawn from that data and explains that the conclusions all depend on what you are looking for. The panel discusses how tracing traditionally works and asks Grant what process Humio uses to good sampling. Grant explains that sampling is a good way to save on costs and depends on how much indexing is taking place. He explains that knowing when to sample is very important if you want an accurate sample. Compliance concerns are the next topic the panel discusses with Grant. He explains what Humio does to remain compliant and keep user info safe and private. The panel moves on to discuss index-free logging. Grant explains how index-free logging works. He explains how fast it is and how easily clients can retrieve their data. Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood
Guest
Grant Schofield
52 min
December 10, 2019DevOps 017: Improving User Experience by Logging with Grant Schofield
In this episode Adventures in DevOps, the panel interviews Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of Infrastructure at Humio. He being by discussing the growth of logging and logging tools. Grant explains the business value of logging and analytics. He shares some real-life examples of how longing helped gain insight into the user experience.
The panel wonders how Humio takes the data gathered in the logs and separate out specifics of user experience. Grant explains that by aggregating all data in one place Humio uses the logs, tracing and other metrics to draw conclusions about user experience. He shares some of the conclusions that can be drawn from that data and explains that the conclusions all depend on what you are looking for.
The panel discusses how tracing traditionally works and asks Grant what process Humio uses to good sampling. Grant explains that sampling is a good way to save on costs and depends on how much indexing is taking place. He explains that knowing when to sample is very important if you want an accurate sample.
Compliance concerns are the next topic the panel discusses with Grant. He explains what Humio does to remain compliant and keep user info safe and private. The panel moves on to discuss index-free logging. Grant explains how index-free logging works. He explains how fast it is and how easily clients can retrieve their data.
Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Scott Nixon

Charles Max Wood

Guest
Grant Schofield

Sponsors
CacheFly

Links
RBAC

LDAP

Bloom filter

https://kafka.apache.org/

https://www.elastic.co/

Map reduce

https://www.humio.com/

https://twitter.com/schofield

https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/

Picks
Charles Max Wood:
It’s a Wonderful Life

Mr Krueger’s Christmas

Scott Nixon:
The Ref

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/

Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
Windows Subsystem for Linux

Terminator: Dark Fate

Grant Schofield:
Rust

Dead Astronauts

Tsunami Bomb

Night Surf

Special Guest: Grant Schofield.
52 min
November 26, 2019DevOps 016: Kubernetes as Infrastructure Abstraction with Oleg Chunikin
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Oleg Chuninkin, CTO of Kublr. Oleg starts by explains what Kublr is all about and how he got the idea of using Kubernetes as an infrastructure abstraction. He and the Kublr team were trying to decide the most productive way to think of Kubernetes. Oleg advocates for using Kubernetes locally and shares how you can then orchestrate your architecture so you can see what it will do in productions. Charles breaks down a few of the ideas Oleg shares. Oleg explains how the portability of Kubernetes can be used and shares recommendations with the panel on how to run a Kubernetes in a lightweight way. The panel asks Oleg about the pressure for a cloud independent service and how these effects application requirements. Oleg shares some resources in answer. Moving on the panel considers Olegs comment about the layered architectural approach. Oleg outlines the layered architectural approach and explains what he means by layered. He explains the benefits of this approach. Panelists
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood
Guest
Oleg Chunikin
47 min
November 26, 2019DevOps 016: Kubernetes as Infrastructure Abstraction with Oleg Chunikin
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Oleg Chuninkin, CTO of Kublr. Oleg starts by explains what Kublr is all about and how he got the idea of using Kubernetes as an infrastructure abstraction. He and the Kublr team were trying to decide the most productive way to think of Kubernetes.

Oleg advocates for using Kubernetes locally and shares how you can then orchestrate your architecture so you can see what it will do in productions. Charles breaks down a few of the ideas Oleg shares. Oleg explains how the portability of Kubernetes can be used and shares recommendations with the panel on how to run a Kubernetes in a lightweight way.

The panel asks Oleg about the pressure for a cloud independent service and how these effects application requirements. Oleg shares some resources in answer. Moving on the panel considers Olegs comment about the layered architectural approach. Oleg outlines the layered architectural approach and explains what he means by layered. He explains the benefits of this approach.

Panelists
Scott Nixon

Charles Max Wood

Guest
Oleg Chunikin

Sponsors
CacheFly

Links
https://kublr.com/

https://www.openshift.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix

https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks
Charles Max Wood:
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Scott Nixon:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

https://ulysses.app/

Oleg Chunikin:
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Special Guest: Oleg Chunikin.
46 min
November 20, 2019 The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99!
15 min
November 20, 2019 The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99!
15 min
November 05, 2019DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson
This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his whole career spanning about 12 years. He is also the author of Shiplane. John made Shiplane after working with Docker for a while and getting fed up with some features not being as he wanted them to be. The panelists begin the discussion with going over John's talk “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, where he covers three camps of developers namely pioneers, settlers, and townsfolk and the panelists go into detail about these camps. They also talk about how docker and Shiplane fit into this idea. John shares that Shiplane is a tool that converts docker-compose yaml files into production-ready docker deployments. John details more of how shiplane came about, the problems it solves, how it works, and how it helps users to cross knowledge barriers. He also shares how Shiplane provides customizability as it will give the user everything they need but lets them choose the pieces they want. The panelists also discuss what websites are running Shiplane as well as some of the support that Shiplane has. Currently it does not support Kubernetes but John is working on it. Chuck then asks John what the use case is for running Shiplane. They discuss specifically whether Shiplane is used locally, or as a SAAS service and why it is the way it is. Nell then asks John what his hopes are for the future of Shiplane. John would like to have Kubernetes capability added within a year. If someone wants to get involved with Shiplane they can do so by trying it out, reaching out to him on his discord server, and helping him find edge cases. Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood
Guest
John Epperson
51 min
November 05, 2019DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson
This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his whole career spanning about 12 years. He is also the author of Shiplane. John made Shiplane after working with Docker for a while and getting fed up with some features not being as he wanted them to be. The panelists begin the discussion with going over John’s talk “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, where he covers three camps of developers namely pioneers, settlers, and townsfolk and the panelists go into detail about these camps. They also talk about how docker and Shiplane fit into this idea.
John shares that Shiplane is a tool that converts docker-compose yaml files into production-ready docker deployments. John details more of how shiplane came about, the problems it solves, how it works, and how it helps users to cross knowledge barriers. He also shares how Shiplane provides customizability as it will give the user everything they need but lets them choose the pieces they want. The panelists also discuss what websites are running Shiplane as well as some of the support that Shiplane has. Currently it does not support Kubernetes but John is working on it. Chuck then asks John what the use case is for running Shiplane. They discuss specifically whether Shiplane is used locally, or as a SAAS service and why it is the way it is.
Nell then asks John what his hopes are for the future of Shiplane. John would like to have Kubernetes capability added within a year. If someone wants to get involved with Shiplane they can do so by trying it out, reaching out to him on his discord server, and helping him find edge cases.

Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Scott Nixon

Charles Max Wood

Guest
John Epperson

Sponsors
Dev Ed

JavaScript Jabber

The Freelancers Show

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Links
Shiplane

Docker

Kubernetes

Docker Compose

Nginx

Picks
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Boostnote

Pumpkin Pie

Scott Nixon
Scrum: The Art Of Doing Twice The Work In Half The time

Zero Fasting

Charles Max Wood
V02 Max

75 Hard

John Epperson
Ledaig Whiskey

Notion

Special Guest: John Epperson.
51 min
October 22, 2019DevOps 014: Continuous Delivery With Julian Fahrer
Julian Fahrer is a software engineer with a systems administration and operations background. He currently works at Hover and is helping them move towards continuous delivery. Nell opens up the discussion by asking Julian to explain what continuous integration and continuous delivery are. He shares that continuous integration revolves around having testing and automation around the code being pushed to ensure that it works and conforms to standards. Continuous delivery feeds off of the concept of continuous integration and is the ability to deploy to any environment at any point in time. Chuck puts these ideas together by saying that continuous delivery and continuous deployment is about making sure that it's possible to deploy at any time and actually doing so. The next topic covered by the Adventures in DevOps panelists is how to handle apprehension around having a continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Julian shares that big cultural changes are required to make CI/CD successful. They share that a lot of organizations are nervous about code with breaking changes immediately being deployed. One way to handle this vulnerability is by hiding features behind feature flags so that only certain people, for example the QA team, will have access to the feature.They share why an organization would want to change to a continuous delivery pipeline and some real world examples that they have experiencedChuck asks what some prerequisites are for a CI/CD pipeline. Scott says that one thing that needs to happen is backfilling areas of the application that previously did not have tests and expanding the testing coverage of the system. Julian shares that these prerequisites depend on how changes are made and shares some specific examples of what that entails. Nell asks what it takes for an organization to be able to do continuous delivery. Julian shares that it is mostly process driven. They establish some rules such as shortening the lifetime of development branches and improving how they are deployed. They also have a discussion on how integration tests should come about and who should write them. Julian mentions that you want to empower people and give them the tools they need to succeed. They then cover some of the work that Julian has done with Hover and some of the details of the continuous delivery environment he is building and the steps they took to begin moving towards that workflow.The topic then moves to dependency management. Nell asks Julian how he approached dependencies in his applications. Julian details how his usage of containers and specific tools helped him. For external environments he says that a database is required and that it would help to have standards for managing dependencies. They share how the current development culture is to give the QA team enough time to test a feature before it goes out. With a CI/CD environment, feature flags can be used to gradually roll out a changes and if a certain users needs a specific set of features then an individual environment can be spun up for their use case. The panelists share some thoughts on environments setup and production best practices and tooling. Panelists
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon
Guest
Julian Fahrer
1 hr 2 min

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