Arrested DevOps

Bridget and Matt discuss the past and future of tech with Andrew Clay Shafer. Previous episodes with Andrew Clay Shafer Platforms with Kelsey Hightower Devopsdays MSP 2017 with Bryan Liles & Jess Frazelle Devopsdays MSP 2016 with Nicole Forsgren, Charity Majors, and James Watters Devopsdays MSP 2015 GOTO Chicago 2017 with Bryan Cantrill Referenced in this episode: Cindy’s post about Everyone is not ops The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World Header image Guernica by Picasso Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30. Discount codes ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.

What is it like to change careers and get into tech later in life? Annie Hedgpeth and Megan Bohl tell their stories. This episode also features special guest Sonia Gupta! Referenced in this ep: Podcast with Annie when she was brand new Greater Than Code episode with Scott Hanselman https://www.techtalentsouth.com/ http://devopsjumpstart.org Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30. Discount codes ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon. Where We’ll Be Matt Time Series meetup in Denver, Feb 28 Minneapolis DevOps Meetup, March 20

Bridget discusses all things Go with Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin. Referenced in this ep: GoTimeFM podcast GopherCon Go in Action Microsoft CDA team Gopherize Me by Ashley McNamara Artwork credit: Ashley McNamara’s Gophers art repo on github Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30. Discount codes ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon. Checkouts Brian kubed-sh - web-based Kubernetes distributed shell Isomorphic web applications using Go Erik Blog post about virtual Kubelet Building abstraction atop k8s Machine learning setup on k8s Reverse engineering circuit boards (next book on my reading list) Bridget Honeycomb engineering blog Bombsheller leggings (again! because people ask for this at every conference!) Leakproof Nalgene water bottle

Matt, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe discuss 2017. What were some of your favorite episodes? Bridget: the GOTO Chicago eps were fun! And I love the 1-1 fireside chats. Trevor: I enjoyed the Twitter banter around getting the live call show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren going, sad I had to miss it! There’s also a ChefConf episode sitting on my Surface that I just found the charger for! Matt: The Live call in show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Also the recent fireside chat with J. Paul Reed. And the crazy-go-nuts overload show of Windows Stuff. Joe: Live eps were easier to edit. Let’s talk numbers Website 22K visitors to the website (up from 16K visitors in 2016) Little less than half of traffic comes from search Twitter still accounts for about 6% of all traffic Episodes 263,558 listens in 2017 (232,200 listens in 2016; 204,001 listens in 2015) Most listened-to episode in 2017 (and also the most-watched YouTube Video!) was Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/) What happened with you in 2017? Matt Got a new job (recently). Now DevOps Evangelist with PagerDuty Spoke at DevOpsDays Denver. Went to DevOpsDays Hartford and MSP and Madison. Pulled off an acceptable DevOpsDays Chicago Bridget New job in September! Microsoft dev advocate Kept scaling devopsdays up (51 events on 6 continents) Way less conference speaking; was on more conference program committees Trevor Wrapped up first year at Chef! Spoke at DevOpsDays Dallas Moved back to Chicago! Joe Iceland! Tesla roadtrip! Referenced in this ep: Old Geeks Yell at Cloud Fireside chat with Bryan Cantrill The Oatmeal on Tesla Clued In escape rooms GoTime podcast (AMA episode mostly about BBQ) ADO ep 1 Mary Thengvall book Bridget’s “getting into devops” blog post Past year-in-review eps: 2016 2015 2014 Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays SREcon - March 27-29 2018 - CFP closes Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:59 pm PST ScaleConf Colombia - April 27 - 28th 2018 - CFP closes Jan 15 Velocity San Jose - June 12-14 2018 - CFP closes Jan 17 ChefConf 2018 - May 23-26, CFP open now, closes Jan 10th Discount codes: ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf

Devaluing Hard Work - Katie Prizy, DevOpsDays Chicago 2017 Security, Don’t Fear The DevOps - Bill Weiss, DevOpsDays Chicago 2017

Open source projects have a lot of benefits, as we all know. But sometimes it can be a real challenge to take tools and projects developed internally and open-source them, especially from a traditional enterprise. Guest Aaron Rinehart shares his journey and story with open sourcing his internal security chaos engineering tool, Chaoslingr. Referenced in this ep: ChaoSlingr Waffle.io The Hand-Waver’s Guide To Contributing To Open Source Rugged Software Stranger Things Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays SREcon - March 27-29 2018 ScaleConf Colombia - April 27 - 28th 2018 Velocity San Jose - June 12-14 2018 ChefConf 2018 - May 23-26, CFP Discount codes: ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework http://theshipshow.com/ Does Humor Belong In Technology Bryan Berry’s blog post Live DevOps Call In Show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren @theitskeptic on Twitter Wardley mapping introduction and [https://twitter.com/swardley](Simon Wardley’s) free Wardley Mapping book New York Times article on life at Etsy today This American Life episode about NUMMI DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw The Ship Show - Extinguishing Burnout Twitter thread about adding release management features to git Sysadvent Day 3 - 14 Tips for Git Giddiness in 2014 Matt refers to an episode of “Coupling” on the BBC - the episode was Series 1, Episode 2, “Size Matters” - here’s the quote: Patrick: Oh, don’t be so piecey. Howard: Typical lefty puritan.. Sally: Typical what? Come the revolution-. Patrick: What revolution!? You guys are in power! We’re the revolution now!. Sally: No. No, it can’t be right… Patrick: You’re the evil empire.. Sally: No!. Howard: Yes! Like Star Wars, and Patrick and me are the Rebel Alliance.. Sally: No! You’re not the goodies, we’re the goodies! We’re lefties!! We’re always goodies!. Patrick: puts glass on his mouth and makes a Darth Vader voice No, Sally. You’re the establishment. Open CFPs https://www.devopsdays.org/speaking/ https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity https://chefconf.chef.io/cfp/ Image credit By inkknife_2000 [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Bridget sat down for a fireside chat with Alice Goldfuss (GitHub). No actual fires were harmed in the making of this episode. LISA17 devopsdays Portland Charity T-Shirts - Interrupt Designs - awesome nerdy shirts with proceeds going to charity Checkouts Alice Chair Baking Scale - round metal, good for scones Increment Magazine SysAdvent Airplane food critique website Sailor Mercury zines Bridget Go Pirates - Veronica Mars podcast Bombsheller leggings - again! because they’re just that great Jewelbots - because I got Joe’s 10-year-old niece in the gift exchange Nerdy Baby - great STEM gifts Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Use code “ADO2017” for a discount on many devopsdays. Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays SREcon - March 27-29 2018 - CFP closes Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:59 pm PST ScaleConf Colombia - April 27 - 28th 2018 - CFP closes Jan 15 Velocity San Jose - June 12-14 2018 - CFP closes Jan 17

Devopsdays Madison 2017 was the second year for this event. With great speakers, workshops, open spaces, and sponsors, this event brought the community together to learn and share. Bridget and Matt sat down with a speaker (Emily Freeman) and a couple of organizers (Joshua Zimmerman & Christian Herro) to talk about the wider themes of organizational change when you may not call all the shots in your org. Emily Freeman’s talk: Scaling Sparta: Military Lessons For Growing A DevOps Team Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Use code “ADO2017” for a discount on many devopsdays. Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays

Ines Sombra (Fastly) and James Turnbull (Empatico) are chairs of the Velocity conference series, which is celebrating its 10th year in 2017. They joined Bridget to talk about the events next month in New York and London, and share tips for making the most of your conference as well as submitting talks to future conferences. The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier Check outs James Launching new classroom collaboration project Empatico Product-launch survival food Indomie Mi Goreng instant noodles Bundle of Terraform and Packer books Inés Fastly Teams growing the EdgeApps services - ImageOpto, Video, Load Balancing Recently got into Almond lattes (like a true Californian) Bridget Bombsheller leggings - I just bought circuitboard ones, and I see also that they have Settlers of Catan ones. WANT. Cloud Developer Advocates at Microsoft - I just joined this awesome team! Community & Event Stuff If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf Upcoming conferences Use code “ADO2017” for 20% off at Velocity New York Oct 1-4. Use code “ADO2017” for a discount on many devopsdays. Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays