Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

Where we discuss Tyler Treat’s essay about how the paradigm of SRE doesn’t scale.

Where we discuss observability, prompted by a post on The New Stack by Charity Majors, looking at the current state of observability in the industry.

Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts.

Where we discuss outsourcing and insourcing - when to buy a product, when to staff a team, and when to do it all yourself.

Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done.

Where we discuss how we get personal things done away from our work from home workstations, while whishcasting about tech that we think should exist.

Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne.

Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic.

Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse.

Where 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!