Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts.
Hosted by Breandan Dezendorf,
Breandan Dezendorf has 20 years of operations experience,
a degree in Journalism and has managed monitoring and alerting
systems for every company he's ever worked for.
Ken Mink,
Ken Mink has spent 30 years as a Unix Administrator and Developer.
He started out on AIX and HP-UX in the early '90s. Ken finally
started using Linux in 1994 while working at Gateway. Since then
he's bounced between doing development, administration, later
HPC administration, and now DevOps. While Ken has recently spent
time handling very large HPC and database clusters, he really
enjoys small SBCs. Ken is also a long time user of MythTV.
Jack Neely,
Jack Neely has been in operations for close to 20 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 12 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, Ken Mink, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins have over 70 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 124 - Enforcing Structure On Production
October 22, 2021
Episode 123 - Outsourcing and Insourcing
October 5, 2021
Where we discuss outsourcing and insourcing - when to buy a product, when to staff a team, and when to do it all yourself.
Episode 122 - Cloudstations and Remote Graphical Workstations
September 20, 2021
Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done.
Episode 121 - Personal Workstations Away From The Home Office
August 23, 2021
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.
Episode 120 - Building Teams with Jim Browne
August 9, 2021
Where we discuss building, managing and fostering healthy team dynamics, with a special guest, Jim Browne.
Episode 119 - Conducting Interviews
July 26, 2021
Where we discuss interviewing - good versus bad questions, cultural issues, and how to avoid common pitfalls, bias and other things that are problematic.
Episode 118 - Imposter Syndrome
July 12, 2021
Where we discuss imposter syndrome and how it changes work dynamics for the worse.
Episode 117 - Human Input and Output
June 4, 2021
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!
Episode 116 - How The Fundamental Constants of The Universe Hate Us And Want Us To Fail
May 21, 2021
Where we discuss one of the fundamental physical constants that is always trying to bring us down - the speed of light - and how latency for round trip times impacts programming, systems design, and organizational behavior.
Episode 115 - Your Employer Isn't Your Family
May 7, 2021
Where we discuss the seperation of work and personal life, and why such a seperation is both crucial and hard to do.