Where we discuss professional certifications, exams and some of the pitfalls and caveats that go along with them.
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 79 - Professional Certifications and Exams
December 6, 2019
Episode 78 - Retractions and Reactions
November 22, 2019
Where we talk about the tendancy the internet at large has to overract to things, including two examples of this. The GitLab User Tracking terms of service and subsequent rollback, and the Terraform Azure provider id issue.
Episode 77 - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
November 5, 2019
Where we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies.
Episode 76 - Signposts of Scalable Systems
October 18, 2019
Where we discuss the signposts of scalable systems. How to evaluate application state, inputs, and outputs help judge if it can handle scaling up.
Episode 75 - Single Board Computers
September 3, 2019
Where we discuss single board linux computers with special guest Ken Mink.
Episode 74 - Small Office/Home Office Networking
July 25, 2019
Where we discuss small office and home office networking gear.
Episode 73 - Conference Calls
July 19, 2019
Where we discuss conference calls and microphone etiquette.
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.