In our last single-digit episode, we sit down with Perforce’s Director of Product Technology, James Creasy, to discuss the issues faced by enterprises attempting to deploy git and the general challenges of using git in environments where its trackrecord isn’t as established. Join us for our discussion on:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and an introduction to a screen-replacement in Tool Tips!
Or, download Episode 9, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
- 1:50 – News & Views
- 1:55 – Amazon AWS suffers their “quarterly outage“
- 2:33 – Boundary notices Amazon’s “degraded performance” before Amazon reported it.
- 4:55 – Paul was a jerk on Twitter (that’s news?)
- 5:13 – Apple removes Java from Mountain Lion
- 8:01 – Why isn’t there such a thing as a “DevOps team?
- 16:10 – Main Segment: Perforce’s James Creasy and Challenges of Git in the Enterprise
- 16:38 – Some of Perforce’s customers
- 17:09 – Andreesen’s Why Software Is Eating the World
- 17:25 – Pixar versions its movies with Perforce
- 20:00 – The Five Phases of Enterprise Git Adoption
- 21:50 – What is Git Fusion all about?
- 27:20 – The famous Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup DVCS/centralized version control post
- 28:53 – “We’re from Perforce, and we’re here to help.”
- 30:08 – The five questions that often get asked with git
- 32:30 – p4 obliterate (not the drink)
- 35:53 – Perforce Streams, “branches with brains”
- 40:15 – “History” vs. “Narrative” is not equivalent
- 43:21 – “There’s a generation gap here…”
- 45:15 – Perforce Commons
- 53:50 – James Creasy answers The Ship Show’s take on the Proust Questionnaire
- 57:04 – Tool Tips
- 57:23 – Tmux
- 59:45 – ClusterSSH
- 1:00:40 – screen‘s security vulnerabilities
- 1:01:32 – ytalk
Tool Tips
Seth walks us through OpenBSD’s modern replacement for GNU screen: Tmux!
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Have you run into issues deploying git in your enterprise? What scripts and supporting tools have you found it necessary to have on hand when running git at scale?
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- Or via email us at crew@theshipshow.com
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Jun 14
Extinguishing Burnout
As tech companies implement all sorts of ways to increase their output, the often-undiscussed tradeoff is how it impacts employees. Most tech workers have struggled with burnout in a role, at a company, or even in the area of tech they’ve focused their career; some of us have even suffered through burnout without noticing it: we only became aware when friends and family intervened to let us know how off-the-rails our work/life balance had become. In episode 43, we take a look at the signs, symptoms, causes, and strategies for:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d and Pete Chesslock, aka @petecheslock for the panel discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and some opinionated thoughts and feels!
Or, download Episode 43, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
The Comment Block
Paul ponders whether or not build systems are a good proxy for determining code quality.
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What are your strategies for avoiding burnout?
Has burnout become an easier issue to wrestle with as your career has progressed?
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