Where we discuss incident management practices, and walk through some of the important things to do during a service outage or degradation event.

Where we discuss the avoidable pitfalls of infrastructure decisions early in an organization’s life. Most of these can be avoided with some extra thought up front when setting up core services - networking, directory services and deployment decisions can stick with a team long after the people doing the implementation have left.

Where we discuss the differences between logs and metrics, and some of the pratical applications there of. Also, discussions of the pitfalls of percentiles (why averaging percentiles yields worse than useless data).

Where we discuss our personal work environments, both digital and physical. 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 16: Intrex Jarvis Sit-Stand Desk Standesk.co Alera Elusion Task Chair iTerm2 version 3 SetTerminalStyle Synergy Homebrew LastPass CrashPlan The awesome window manager Spectacle

Where we discuss why the cloud is useful and when it can be risky, depending on your models. 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 15: ZFS on rsync.net Let’s Encrypt a static S3 site apt-s3 yum-s3 Amazon Talk About Scaling Internal Resources

Where we discuss failure. It happens to everyone, and it will happen to you. We cover some of the general cases to consider, and talk a little about backups and the cloud.

Where we discuss the human side of systems design. 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]

Where we discuss the relative merits of software loadbalancers we’ve used and loved, and share our general distain for proprietary hardware based offerings. 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 12: CloudFlare DDoS Blackholes Google Maglev Mikrotik

Where we discuss leaving and starting new jobs.

Where we discuss various merits of configuration management systems, notably the relative use cases for Puppet and Ansible, and some of the finer points of using both.

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 10: Encrypt Your Data Using Hiera-Eyaml confd hiera-vault r10k mgmt