Posts Tagged: microsoft

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11
Aug 15

Managing the CommunityOps

So many of the companies who build the tools we use daily take special care to cultivate and nurture a community of users. But that doesn’t just happen magically. For episode 57, we sit down with community managers from Chef, Perforce, and VictorOps to talk to them about their experiences building community, the difficulties with community engagement, getting the business to see the value, and what community is really made of. Join us as we talk to the folks responsible for…

Managing the CommunityOps

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Pete Cheslock , aka @petecheslock for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and another Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 57, or any of our previous shows!

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Paul introduces us to GitQL, an SQLite-backed interface to search your Git repositories!


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What experiences has your company had with building and nurturing a community?

What do you wish community managers did more of?

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22
Nov 14

Managing the Magic of Microservces

When looking at all the organizations that are doing interesting technological, cultural, and scaling things in the DevOps space, one of the common architectural patterns is the use of microservices. For episode 52, the panel sits down to talk a bit about microservices: what they are, the benefits they provide, the costs, the issues around releasing, deploying, and operating microservices-based applications, in an attempt to figure out whether they’re the future or a fad and what, exactly, should make you pay attention and start investigating whether that old monolithic application should be sliced and diced into a microservice-utopia. Join us as we talk through:

Managing the Magic of Microservices

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a lil’ art!

Episode 52 is sponsored by
Pager Duty!

Or, download Episode 52, or any of our previous shows!

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Some Tech Art

We had a poet among us and didn’t even know it!

Submit your own tech haiku to us by 11:59 pm PST November 30th, via @ShipShowPodcast or crew@theshipshow.com; we’ll select one to receive a special prize!

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Are you investigating converting your application to a microservices-architecture?

If you already use microservices, what problems and issues have you encountered?

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31
Aug 14

Making Monitoring Work for You

Monitoring is a big part of DevOps, but what’s the best way to get started? Infrastructure monitoring? Application monitoring? What should you monitor? Where should that data go? How can you turn data into information and monitoring into alerts? What about alert fatigue and humane monitoring? Join the special guest Bridget Kromhout and the panel as they take a high-level look at monitoring, data collection, analysis, and

Making Monitoring Work for You

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, Pete Cheslock, aka @petecheslock, and Bridget Kromhout aka @bridgetkromhout, for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and some commentary!

Or, download Episode 47, or any of our previous shows!

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The Comment Block

Bridget shares her thoughts on Jawbone releasing an interesting graph that uses aggregate data.

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How were you able to sell your organization on the value of monitoring? Was it an easy sell? Tough sell?

How do you turn your monitoring data into information?

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31
Mar 14

Deciphering the “Docker Lifestyle”

Creating that initial environment for your application to run in is a solved problem. Or is it? On the market today, there are a seemingly ever-increasing number of tools to facilitate that process: CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Ansible, Salt Stack, Rundeck… the list goes on. In episode 39, the panel takes a closer look at one of these new tools: Docker. The panel is joined once again by Atlassian’s James Dumay, since the discussion was prompted by a question he tweeted: “[S]omeone thinks Docker can replace Chef/Puppet. I believe they are at least complementary.” Are they? And what workflows make sense for Docker? Join the panel as we try:

Deciphering the “Docker Lifestyle”

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review!

Or, download Episode 39, or any of our previous shows!

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The team reviews Explain Git with D3.

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Is Docker conceptually inconsistent with Puppet/Chef/CFEngine?

How would Docker fit into your organization’s workflow?

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10
Dec 13

Whose Function Is It Anyway?

For episode 0×20, we sit down with Bay Area improvisation trainer Chris Sams. Chris works with all sorts of organizations, including software development companies, teaching their teams in the art of applied improvisation. Most of us probably think of comedy troupes or shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway when we think of improv, but improv skills can increase team creativity and cohesion, and make it easier for the team to work together and react in real time to unforeseen situations. Chris also discusses how tech companies, specifically, can up their skills by learning improvisation basics, and how this all fits in with companies on their own DevOps transformation journey, plus illuminates some surprising facts about what the basics of improvisation are about! So join us as we sit down, improvise an interview, and try to find out:

Whose Function Is It Anyway

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 32, or any of our previous shows!

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Paul introduces the team to Idan Kamara’s explainshell.com; Seth starts weeping.

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How would your organization react to improvisation training?

Do you think it would help developers and operations work better together?

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27
Nov 13

A Cornucopia of Dev[Ops] Tools: A Chat with Atlassian

As the holiday season approaches, we take a moment to sit down with Sarah Goff-Dupont and James Dumay from Atlassian’s Bamboo team to discuss the full stack of tools used by companies of all sizes, from startups to massive enterprises to NASA to get their software shipped. (Sometimes off of the planet!) Atlassian is known for the bug-tracker Jira, but we discuss the many of the other things they do, the process they use to design the various tools in their stack, how they work to address the special technological and cultural challenges that larger enterprises and governments find themselves facing when working towards scaling a DevOps transformation, and how to get those organizations started. So, grab some turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, and join us for:

A Cornucopia of Dev[Ops] Tools: A Chat with Atlassian

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for a fireside chat with Atlassian and a Thanksgiving Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 31, or any of our previous shows!

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Youssuf discusses his experience with JetBrains’ recently open-sourced Python IDE PyCharm 3.0 Community Edition (source code!)


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Would you consider your organization’s continuous integration pipeline to be stable?

Is there anything we can do to be more empathetic to the issues faced by large enterprises?

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26
Oct 13

To Be Continued: Release Engineering Tools at Netflix

It is fitting that our first episode to be split into a TV-esque cliffhanger is with our Netflix panel! In episode 28, we discussed Netflix’s unique engineering culture; in part two, we discuss with the panel the dynamics of how Netflix develops its release engineering tools, Netflix’s cloud prize, configuration management vs. baked potatoes, what percentage of the Internet Netflix actually uses at peak, plus the panel’s guilty (and possibly embarrassing) Netflix pleasures; find out what they are and more when we wrap up:

To Be Continued: Release Engineering Tools at Netflix

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus plus another installment of #DevOpsDearAbby!

Or, download Episode 29, or any of our previous shows!

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DevOps Dear Abby

@zsepi asks “Despite having worked maintenance years on legacy codebases at BigCo, I don’t see why people keep picking on ‘enterprise developers’; shouldn’t we approach code with the assumption that everyone did their best given the circumstances (culture, skills, deadlines, etc.)?“

@StevenMurawski asks via email:

Why are ops guys in primarily Windows environments looked down upon (or feel looked down upon) in the DevOps community? Very often references will be “oh, and on Windows” like the ops guys running Windows wouldn’t be expected to be as professional as their compatriots on the *nix side of things. How can a primarily Windows ops guy fit in to this DevOps community?

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What’s your design and testing process for your organization’s build/release engineering tools?

Do you use active configuration management or the “baked AMI” approach?

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19
Sep 13

Branching, Merging, and Octopi (Oh My!)

With the explosion in popularity and usage of Git and its distributed version control brethren, developers finally have cheap, easy, local branching. But branching is pointless without merging, and many organizations are finding that the free-for-all merge process that Git can leave your organization with (mostly by being totally silent on the subject) is error prone, doesn’t scale, and may even destroy content! As you search for the perfect branching model, questions like “should we use fast-forward merges or merge commits,” “When do we rebase (if ever)?” and “What repository structure should we use” are bound to crop up, along with “can’t we just use git flow?” Join the panel as they grab a razor and a yak and talk:

Branching, Merging, and Octopi (Oh My!)

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 27, or any of our previous shows!

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Paul reviews Storm, a tool to “manage your SSH like a boss!”

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What branching and merging models do you like? Which ones do you despise?

Or do you just hope you don’t have to worry about any of it?

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