Practical Operations Podcast Episode Feed

Where we discuss why using technical solutions rarely solve social problems, or solve them very poorly. Comments for the... Read more

Where we discuss resumes and interviews. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the ... Read more

Where we discuss the pros and cons of immutable infrastructure. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of ... Read more

Where we discuss three incident postmortems; two written by CloudFlare and one by AWS. Comments for the episode are welc... Read more

Where we discuss the social and technical contracts that should be considered when setting up a working group, both long... Read more

Where we talk about IBMs purchase of RedHat, and some of the past implications of tech tech mergers and acquisitions. Co... Read more

Where we discuss small office and home office networking gear. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of t... Read more

Where we discuss guidelines for documenting, designing and deploying services. Comments for the episode are welcome - at... Read more

Where we discuss the reasons to have meetings, and some gudielines on making them less awful for everyone involved. Comm... Read more

Where we talk (again) about immutable infrastructure, especially now that Kubernetes has a mature way to handle state, t... Read more

Where we discuss the relative merits of splitting large, monolithic multi-tenant applications into smaller single tenant... Read more

Where we discuss our plans for Monitorama, one of our favorite conferences. Comments for the episode are welcome - at th... Read more

Where we talk about the tendancy the internet at large has to overract to things, including two examples of this. The Gi... Read more

Where we discuss available software licensing, both for code you have written and code you are thinking of adopting into... Read more

Where we discuss long term metrics storage, primarily for Prometheus. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bott... Read more

Where we talk more about Kubernetes and dig a little deeper into why it has become so popular. Comments for the episode ... Read more

Where we discuss professional certifications, exams and some of the pitfalls and caveats that go along with them. Commen... Read more

Where we discuss Jack Neely’s Monitorama 2019 PDX lighting talk - 5 Neat Prometheus Tricks. Comments for the episode are... Read more

Where we discuss the Nintey-Nintey Rule and overall the idea of diminishing returns. Comments for the episode are welcom... Read more

Where we discuss continuous integration and continuous delivery including some of the tools and strategies. Comments for... Read more