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26
Jun 13

DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2013 Super Panel

Episode 22 sports a special treat: in case you weren’t able to attend DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2013, we join forces with the Food Fight Show (again!) and the DevOps Cafe for the first ever “Food Ship Cafe!” We convene a group of DevOps household names (including the “fairy godmother” of DevOps himself!) for the:

DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2013 Super Panel!

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a tooltip!

Or, download Episode 22, or any of our previous shows!

Show Links/Notes

1:05 – Sascha gets some feedback on her Velocity Conf slides
2:02 – News & Views
- 2:06 – Oracle discontinues free timezone updates for customers without a support contract; later reverses the decision
- 2:20 – Also (accidentally) re-licenses the MySQL manual pages
- 5:43 – 15 milliseconds = $28 million?
- 7:35 – Someone does a technical teardown of the original Prince of Persia source code for the Apple IIe
- 7:56 – The original 6502 assembly Prince of Persia source code available on github
- 9:17 – Don’t copy that floppy!
12:29 – Main Segment: DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2013 Super Panel!
- 12:50 – @mrhinkle and buildacloud.org
- 13:08 – Is your Team Instrument Rated (or: Deploying 89.000 times a day)
- 21:41 – Leveling Up a New Engineer in a Devops Culture; Healthy Sustainability
- 24:08 – All the talks are now available!
- 24:50 – DevOps and the CIA
- 25:39 – Beer Pinapples and Bottlenecks
43:53 – Tool Tip

Tool Tip

For everyone who doesn’t know about it yet, Paul introduces ipython: an interactive frontend to the Python interpreter that brings a number of great features to Python developers!

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5
Sep 12

Too Much… Automation?

Our topic for episode 5 attempts to answer a question that seems like it should have an obvious one: is there such a thing as too much automation. Many would say “Of course not,” but is it that simple? Is blindly automating everything in sight the best use of time and resources and, more importantly, the best way to manage risk in the release process? Join the conversation as we try to answer:

Is There Such a Thing as “Too Much Automation?”

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and our newest co-host, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, as we discuss the above, plus review the last couple of weeks in News & Views and answer listener questions in our new “DevOps Dear Abby” segment.

Or, download Episode 5, or any of our previous shows!

Show Links/Notes

0:40 – Join us in welcoming: Sascha Bates, aka The Bratty Redhead!
1:28 – (She is not a fangirl.)
1:45 – Check out the DevOps Weekly newsletter
2:14 – News & Views
- 2:18 – Amazon announces Glacier
- 5:35 – Oracle knew for months about Java 7 exploit?
- 5:45 – Java reverses its position and releases out-of-band update…
- 7:51 – … but “Oh no, not quite fixed.“
- 9:50 – Etsy talks about its unique hardware setup
14:42 – Main Segment: Is There Such a Thing as “Too Much Automation?”
- 18:00 – Perrow’s Normal Accidents
- 23:20 – Air France Flight 447 accident
- 23:35 – Automation lessons for manufacturers, prompted by the AF447 accident
- 33:52 – Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto
- 34:30 – What shouldn’t we automate?
- 37:48 – “Turn your key, sir“
40:04 – DevOps Dear Abby