Where we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette.
Hosted by Breandan Dezendorf,
Breandan Dezendorf has 15+ years of operations experience,
a degree in Journalism and has managed monitoring and alerting
systems for every company he's ever worked for.
Jack Neely,
Jack Neely has been in operations for over 15 years and
finds solutions through code. Experience in configuration
management, time series based metrics, and automating platform
deployments for large companies.
and Jarod Watkins.
Jarod Watkins has over 8 years experience in operations at small
companies and startups. Automation and infrastructure as code are
his specialty.
Practical Operations is a pragmatic podcast 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.
Your hosts Breandan Dezendorf, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins have over 35 years of IT experience. Practical experience in small companies and research groups of only a handful of people to large multinational technology companies, cloud providers, and major universities. We practice operations.
Episode 73 - Conference Calls
July 19, 2019
Episode 72 - A Tale of Three Postmortems
July 12, 2019
Where we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS.
Episode 71 - Long Term Prometheus Metrics Storage
July 5, 2019
Where we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus.
Episode 70 - Monitorama 2019 PDX Recap
June 27, 2019
Where we recap Monitorama PDX 2019 and talk about our favorite talks and events.
Episode 69 - Neat Prometheus Tricks
June 12, 2019
Where we discuss Jack Neely’s Monitorama 2019 PDX lighting talk - 5 Neat Prometheus Tricks.
Episode 68 - Monitorama PDX 2019
May 28, 2019
Where we discuss our plans for Monitorama, one of our favorite conferences.
Episode 67 - Not Invented Here
May 20, 2019
Where we discuss Not Invented Here, or the tendency in technology companies to needlessly reinvent the wheel.
Episode 66: Diminishing Returns
April 23, 2019
Where we discuss the Nintey-Nintey Rule and overall the idea of diminishing returns.
Episode 65: Troubleshooting
March 14, 2019
Where we discuss one of the core skills - troubleshooting. Stay alert. Keep your laser handy.
Episode 64: Resumes and Interviews
February 1, 2019
Where we discuss resumes and interviews.