Arrested DevOps

Bridget and Matt chat about devops in a large enterprise with Bryan Liles (Capital One). Check Outs Matt: GFM supports folded details (like, disclosure triangles) Tables Generator Hugo plugin for Atom written by me hub is a cool tool 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 GOTO Chicago - Matt and Bridget hosting an entire day of Arrested DevOps Live! May 1-2 - $75 off with discount code “arresteddevops” Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays Image credit

Bridget chats about startups with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) and Nicole Forsgren (DORA). Check Outs Charity: Honeycomb has a public announcement/launch on April 11 @goturbine for splitting traffic also check out buoyant.io Nicole: DORA has an ROI white paper coming out soon State of DevOps Report releases June 7 Book with Jez and Gene; early release is summer/fall Bridget: Systems We Love - coming to Minneapolis March 16th! 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 GOTO Chicago - Matt and Bridget hosting an entire day of Arrested DevOps Live! May 1-2 - $75 off with discount code “arresteddevops” Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays

DevOps Cafe w/ Jeffery Snover - Linux is docs based, Windows is API based Check Outs Liam James Turnbull Terraform Book Black Mirror - My latest show to binge watch Brandon Infrastructure testing with Pester Reuben Paramore, aka Brighter - My goto reference implementation for understanding how to write robust “microservices” that gives you options https://serilog.net/ & https://getseq.net/ Logging is the “new” debugging… Phil Haack - Be the scientist Glenn neo4j Graph database- Works on Windows too! Free OReilly ebook on graphdatabases Flow Perth create unique events in the technology community bringing skilled volunteers and not-for-profits together Chris I’m a big fan of GitKraken. I can actually do some useful things with Git without spending a couple hours reading man pages. termeter - A Go app for “rendering” ascii graphs in the console. Trevor Blue Raspberry Portable mic I’m looking at getting, tired of lugging the Yeti around (much like the 17” laptop I abandoned for my Surface) Factorio - super fun collaboration game pvpgn open source classic Battle.net + Westwood server, got it running- trying to stand it up inside habitat now Matt Maybe weird to talk about Apple-only app on the Microsoft show, but I’m now enamored with Bear Writer - just a nice markdown notes thing. I’m kind of obsessed with Golang now - the go Fundamentals Pluralsight course by Nigel Poulton was pretty dang rad

Bridget and Joe discuss their experiences at devopsdays Cuba and share audio from the closing session. Dramatis Personae Rudy Gevaert @rgevaert Patrick Debois @patrickdebois Bernard Grymonpon @wonko_be Mike Rosado @MikeRosTX Enrique Carbonell Muela @kikicarbonell Genry Leyva González @genrylg Marialina Ballesteros Hernández @MarialinaBall Further Viewing A few videos of devopsdays Cuba have made it to youtube. They can be found [here.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMwHcjpMf4&list=PLobspijdw3822IEFotAHz_vWrc0nTqwxn) Special thanks to Mike Rosado for his help in preparing the translations for this episode. 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 Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017 Monitorama - May 22-24 - until Feb 1

Matt, Trevor, and Bridget chat (at length) about podcasts, podcast recording, and podcast recording software. Oh, and the highlights of 2016 if they get around to it. (Don’t miss the supercut of all 2016’s cold opens, which was edited by Joe, even though Matt takes credit for it!) What were some of your favorite episodes? Bridget: So many great ones! Kicked off the year with Andrew Clay Shafer and Kelsey Hightower, and we kept going at that pace! Trevor: Soon-to-be-finished Singapore PowerShell Summit Episode Matt: Personal Brand episode, Who Owns Your Availability (Bridget says “omg, left pad, we need to have this episode NOW”), CareerOps Let’s talk numbers Website 16K visitors to the website 46% of traffic comes from search 16% comes from referrals, mostly Twitter (Twitter is 6% of all traffic) 1% of our traffic comes from the hugo site itself (our site generator) Episodes 232,200 listens in 2016 (204,001 listens in 2015) Most listened-to episode in 2016 was Application Configuration with Adam Jacob and Tim Gross Most watched YouTube video in 2016 was Bridget’s Fireside Chat with Bryan Cantrill Website updates Didn’t change much, but we list episode numbers now (maybe we’ll add dates sometime) Other improvements Matt did a session with Daniel J. Lewis of the Audacity to Podcast (we were a featured podcast eval in Podcasters Society) and we got a whole bunch of ideas on how to improve the show - some of which we have already started to implement). You can check out our outstanding issues on GitHub Welcome to Joe as our main audio editor! What happened with you in 2016? Matt Didn’t travel much - only spoke once twice - once at Pink16, and once at a Cloudbees conference in Chicago Only went to one devopsdays - Chicago. I’m failing! Hey, I got married Bridget 28 talks. Give or take. A few of those were at devopsdays - I made it to London, Toronto, New York, Detroit, Havana, Philadelphia, Madison, Sydney - and of course ran Minneapolis. Counting North America Joe and I hit 5 continents this year. And I was going to travel less. Instead, all the airline status. Rethinking next year. Maybe get into webinars? Devopsdays: growing! New core team! New cities! Trevor I spoke 3 times this year, but got to attend so many more conferences than before I was literally on the other side of the planet to my usual place of existence for the first time. I moved to LA I work for Chef now! Check Outs Bridget Systems We Love - videos at https://twitter.com/SystemsWeLove/status/809117528374972416 Trevor: [Westworld](http://www.startrek.com/article/klingon-mug-and-collector-lapel-pins-ready-to-beam-up Klingon Blood Wine Mug) Matt: There’s this thing called Minecraft I “discovered” via my kids. Also reminder about code.org and everyone is talking about Hour of Code It’s been super retro time for Matt as he re-read a bunch of the Dragonlance books, and discovered a bunch he hadn’t read, including The Soulforge. 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 Open CFPs lots of DevOpsDays Velocity San Jose until Jan 10th ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017 Monitorama - May 22-24 - until Feb 1 photo credit 1, photo credit 2

Bridget and special guest host Matt Ray of Software Defined Talk chat with Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, and Katie McLaughlin at devopsdays Sydney 2016. 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 Open CFPs DevOpsDays Baltimore - closing on Dec 12, 2016 ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017 Velocity San Jose until Jan 10th Monitorama - May 22-24 - CFP opening soon

Distributed systems, service discovery, load balancing: Service Discovery at Stripe 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 For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off. DevOpsDays Berlin Nov 16, 2016 - Nov 17, 2016 DevOpsDays Brazil Nov 18, 2016 DevOpsDays Warsaw Nov 22, 2016 - Nov 23, 2016 DevOpsDays Paris Nov 28, 2016 DevOpsDays Sydney Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 2, 2016 Open CFPs DevOpsDays Baltimore - closing on Dec 12, 2016 ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017 Velocity San Jose until Jan 10th Monitorama - May 22-24 - CFP opening soon Check Outs Julia A critique of the CAP theorem: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05393v2.pdf Bridget Catchafire - matching volunteers with skills to orgs that can use their skills Minnesota Literacy Council - look for your local literacy org to teach English, math, civics, and more to immigrants & refugees

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Little’s Law Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation (aka “the Drive TED talk”) The Five Love Languages of DevOps “As a great conductor, I don’t know how to play every instrument. But I know how they should sound” - Pauly Pauly is launching a new blog in 2017 at http://www.devopstherapist.com/ 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 For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off. DevOpsDays Cape Town Nov 7, 2016 - Nov 8, 2016 DevOpsDays Nashville Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 11, 2016 DevOpsDays Berlin Nov 16, 2016 - Nov 17, 2016 DevOpsDays Brazil Nov 18, 2016 DevOpsDays Warsaw Nov 22, 2016 - Nov 23, 2016 DevOpsDays Paris Nov 28, 2016 DevOpsDays Sydney Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 2, 2016 Open CFPs DevOpsDays Baltimore - closing on Dec 12, 2016 ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017 Check Outs Pauly Pauly is speaking 9:30a.m. Wednesday the 9th at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 or check out the live stream! Pauly’s talk at DevOpsDays KC Matt MarkdownToPDF Errors Azure Throws Chicago Cubs win the World Series!

ADO episode at devopsdays Chicago 2014 with J. Paul Reed Jerry started his career swapping out computers for Y2K in tropical locations. Nice job to have! Most sportsball talk on any episode of ADO to date! “You may not be able to move as fast as others, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit still” - Jeff Conversations Matt has had with local folks in the past two years have changed from “this will never work at my company” to “ this is really hard, and we aren’t moving as fast as I would like us to be” 1871 - Chicago incubator Chicago DevOps Meetup 2016 Chicago Tech Madness Bracket Companies doing cool devops in chicago Kcura Grubhub Gogo Hyatt Braintree DRW ThoughtWorks US Foods McDonalds Walgreens CME Group 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 For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off. DevOpsDays Ohio Oct 31, 2016 - Nov 1, 2016 DevOpsDays Madison Nov 2, 2016 - Nov 3, 2016 DevOpsDays Bangalore Nov 4, 2016 - Nov 5, 2016 DevOpsDays Cape Town Nov 7, 2016 - Nov 8, 2016 DevOpsDays Nashville Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 11, 2016 Open CFPs A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking Check Outs Jeff Neptune.io Netflix’s Winston Chicago DevOps Book Club Jerry DevOpsDays Chicago videos Spantree Vimeo - a Meetup recording company that also does tech consulting Sameer Edmund Lau’s Effective Engineer a great, fast read that’s made big differences in day to day life (reminds me of Time Management for System Adminstrators) Can’t wait for Halloween and the finale of the web series Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party OMG I’m loving http://armviz.io Matt Storm Trooper Whiskey Decanter Hamilton in Chicago! Westworld on HBO

Don’t forget to check out the book itself! The Art of Monitoring. Back in the day, James also wrote a book called Pro Nagios 2.0. Three stages of monitoring maturity: Manual, user-initiated, or no monitoring (aka Bridget’s example of “we know things are broken because the customer calls us to complain”) Reactive Proactive “You will eventually get to CPU, memory, and disk, but a lot later after you start with the things you should really care about” - James “Too much monitoring is binary - this thing either works or it doesn’t” - James Also mentioned: Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg RFC 1149 IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - IETF Community & Event Stuff Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight Matt is getting married at the Jim Beam distillery on Saturday Bridget will miss the bourbon wedding as she’s heading to Joe’s family reunion followed by GOTO Copenhagen. 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 For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off. Also now works on O’Reilly Security conference. For more DevOps awesomeness, check out the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code ARRESTEDDEVOPS to get 10% off your ticket! Open CFPs A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking OSCON’s CFP closes Oct 25 Check Outs James Skyliner.io Jason Dixon Vote, but not for Trump Bridget Cloud Foundry Summit is going on in Frankfurt right now honeycomb - explorable operations metrics from Charity Majors MicroBadger - for docker image inspection Liz Rice & Anne Curry at Microscaling Systems Trevor Windows Server 2016 is GA! Matt InSpec has shipped 1.0! You can check it out at http://inspec.io/ InSpec is compliance as code – a human-readable language for automating the continuous testing and compliance auditing of your entire infrastructure. You can also use it to verify if your servers and applications are configured correctly. Self-promotion: working on a shareable theme using hugo for podcasts. Check it out at github.com/mattstratton/castanet