Arrested DevOps

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

Supershow with Food Fight, and Software Defined Talk recorded live at the DevOpsDays Dallas / Fort Worth 2016! Trevor, Nathan and Coté were joined by Michael Hedgpeth, Annie Hedgpeth and Dillon Culpepper to discuss the first ever DevOpsDays DFW!

Bridget sits down for a classic fireside chat with Bryan Cantrill (Joyent), ranging from containers to social justice to lawn care. Container Summit Design of a Computer: The Control Data 6600 by J. E. Thornton photo credit 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. Also now works on O’Reilly Security and Velocity conferences. Devopsdays.org has dates announced for Sydney - Dec 1-2 Open CFPs A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking OSCON’s CFP closes Oct 25

Recorded live at DevOpsDays Chicago 2016, Matt was joined by Nell Shamrell-Harrington (Chef), Jill Jubinski (IBM), and Michael Stahnke (Puppet). We talked about empathy for recruiters, how the DevOpsDays Chicago event has changed over the years, and how Michael gets all of his DevOps philosophies from 90's slow jams.

Matt and Bridget chat with Michael Hedgpeth (NCR) and Doug Ireton (1Strategy) about organizations adopting open source. Checkouts Michael DevOps Days DFW on September 15 & 16 - I’ll be speaking Toyota Kata book PBS SpaceTime Doug Habitat for application automation Adam Jacob’s DevOps KungFu talk Bridget Coté on “the ROI on devops/agile/etc” BWCA is part of Superior National Forest. The National Park Service is 100 years old this year and National Forests are different than parks! The West Wing (streaming on Netflix), because it’s election time. Matt Wakatime - fitbit for programmers Homeland!!! Image credit: https://flic.kr/p/3V99c8 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. Also now works on O’Reilly Security and Velocity conferences. Devopsdays.org has dates announced for Sydney - Dec 1-2 Open CFPs A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking DevOpsDays Madison, Detroit, Cape Town, and Nashville open until August 31 DevOpsDays Berlin open until September 1 DevOpsDays Bangalore open until September 4 DevOpsDays Ghent open until September 6 Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight Bridget - Canoeing with no phone or internet, and then Velocity NY/devopsdays NY. Matt - DevOpsDays Chicago Aug 30-31

Tim Gross (Joyent) and Adam Jacob (Chef) independently started solving the problem of how to put applications in control of their own configuration. They discuss Habitat and ContainerPilot, to the edification of Matt and Bridget. Checkouts Tim github.com/joyent/containerpilot and example applications at github.com/autopilotpattern Adam habitat.sh Bridget The Art of Closing - open source maintainer advice from Jessie Frazelle Badass by Kathy Sierra Matt DevOpsDictionary.com - I’m having a bit too much fun contributing to it. 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. Open CFPs Devopsdays.org!!! DevOpsDays Singapore open until August 15 DevOpsDays Ohio open until August 26 DevOpsDays Madison, Detroit, Cape Town, and Nashville open until August 31 DevOpsDays Berlin open until September 1 DevOpsDays Bangalore open until September 4 DevOpsDays Ghent open until September 6 Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight Bridget - SpringOne Platform in Vegas Aug 1-4 Matt - in Chicago. I am boring now. But you should all come see me at DevOpsDays Chicago Aug 30-31…a few tickets left, ADO2016. Plus now with extra Adam!

How do large enterprises transform the way they do IT? What does it mean for every company to become a software company? Our panel of experts at devopsdays Minneapolis 2016 has worked in some of the largest orgs out there and has seen a lot of transformation first-hand. devopsdays Minneapolis Alice Goldfuss - Rockstars, Builders, Janitors: You’re doing it wrong 2016 State of DevOps Report

Awesome videos from ChefConf: Chef Presents: HugOps Barry Crist - ChefConf 2016 Keynote Chef Automate Demo - ChefConf 2016 Keynote Veresh Sita, Alaska Airlines - ChefConf 2016 Keynote Other delightful stuff: Habitat Chef Automate

Notes from 2016 DevOps Days DC session on DR for your career: http://e.devopsdaysdc.org/p/openspace-spades-A Severance agreement timelines: Employee Checklist: What to Do When Your Employer Offers You a Severance Agreement … Esp: “If your employer has not given you a reasonable amount of time, or rushes your decision, this is a red flag…If you are being rushed, ask for more time [in writing]” How to bounce back: Let folks know - Mike Fiedler and Annie Hedgpeth had good examples on Twitter recently. Use all your networks https://www.themuse.com/advice/help-me-find-a-job-emails-to-send-to-your-network Check Outs Jill Newly obsessed with this site (and not just because I’m being interviewed for it in a month or so) https://usesthis.com. Its super interesting to read about how people do their day to day activities from all different industry/skill backgrounds Peter Infinite Jukebox: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html My Job Went to India (was renamed in the 2nd edition to “The Passionate Programmer”) (Chad Fowler, 2009) Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss: Bridget Jill’s epic Ignite at Monitorama Curating the content you produce. Yes, I think everyone should set up their website like I do. (see also http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-detroit/proposals/how-to-train-yourself/) Matt Arrested Westeros Trevor DOOM E1M1 Cover - DOOM is fun Further Listening Want to dig deeper into some of the things we discussed today? Check out these past episodes: Building Your Personal Brand Career DevOps