DevOpsDays Portland, OR 2021
2021-09-22..2021-09-23
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Pick a Lane: The fallacy of generalists-only in DevOps | Laura Santamaria | 19m |
Argument: a “generalists-only” DevOps model fails because one-liners from Stack Overflow and duct-tape fixes create recurring outages, lost velocity and hidden… | ||
| Q & A | Laura Santamaria | 20m |
How to staff small specialist teams with three heads: map existing skills, hire or assign comb-shaped engineers who cover front-end and back-end overlap, and… | ||
| Don't Cross the Streams - Op Tasks, SRE Teams & Sprint | Eric Shamow | 20m |
Argues that SRE time should be measured and enforced: set targets (initial plan ~50% ops, 50% project, 20% admin), then reality often looks like >50% ops, ~40%… | ||
| Q & A | Eric Shamow | 10m |
Shows how to use a coarse Eisenhower-style rubric plus tracking to choose work, treat SREs as first-line product feedback for the platform, and let them… | ||
| Anarchy and Blaseball and Community Development | Aaron Aldrich | 25m |
Blaseball is a web app at blaseball.com that the Game Band designs to co-create with its community, backed by a large Discord, a wiki, and GitHub projects… | ||
| Q & A | Aaron Aldrich | 12m |
Community Q&A details how a surreal game world normalizes inclusion while the Discord runs on automation: Carl-bot for announcements and role assignment, cyber… | ||
| Learning Tips Every Developer Should Know | Ceora Ford | 15m |
Nine practical habits for faster, deeper learning: focus on one language and a few resources, remove phone notifications and use white‑noise for a… | ||
| Q & A Roundtable | 18m | |
Concrete tactics and lived experiments not vague platitudes: a 1040 tax form example shows teaching by doing; sleep and breaks claim memory consolidation and… | ||
| Sensory Friendly Monitoring: Keeping the Noise Down | Quintessence Anx | 19m |
Monitoring noise creates real cognitive and operational costs: studies show 25 minutes to reset after minor interruptions, AP-style scores drop about half a… | ||
| Q & A | Quintessence Anx | 12m |
Split persistent displays into two concrete types: triage dashboards that surface a very small set of dive-into metrics for fast incident response and… | ||
| The You in Union: Real Talk About Collective Action | Jerome Comeau | 24m |
Argues that tech workers can form unions that raise pay and benefits by 10–30% and that U.S. membership is about 11%; outlines a five-step organizing path… | ||
| Q & A | Jerome Comeau | 09m |
Defines company time for salaried staff as whatever falls inside agreed work hours and says anything outside that likely requires legal advice, cites federal… | ||
| There's no such thing as self-hosted serverless | Nočnica Fee | 05m |
Claim: true serverless depends on handing server responsibility to a vendor, not on running a specific tool like Kubernetes. Examples: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud… | ||
| TikTalk | Justin Garrison | 05m |
Technology has cycles of innovation and refinement. Movements that bring new ideas and ecosystems that refine the ideas into usable tools for a broader… | ||
| Instant Self-contained Development Environments | Yshay Yaacobi | 05m |
Shows a reproducible pattern: a self-contained repository that keeps devcontainer.json, Dockerfile, encrypted secrets and CI config next to code so an… | ||
| Reading 100+ Kubernetes Post-Mortems | Noaa Barki, Shimon Tolts | 05m |
Review of 100+ postmortems finds a few concrete recurring failures: default CronJob settings spawn thousands of pods by missing concurrencyPolicy, mis-placed… | ||
| Kubernetes: What Leslie Knope Can Teach Us | Matt Stratton | 05m |
Argues that Kubernetes and DevOps are about culture and practical steps not magic, with concrete tactics: draw a map of how you get where you want to go… | ||
| 3 Data-Driven Burnout Indicators | Dan Lines | 05m |
Burnout is dangerous. Even more so when we can’t see the physical indicators due to being a distributed team (particularly in the COVID era). In this lighting… | ||
| Case Sensitive: Making Sure Input is User Friendly | Jack Knives | 04m |
Cluster runs on Kubernetes 1.17 and uses the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler v2beta2; Helm chart templates and CI/CD set a default of values.yaml = "cpu" which… | ||
| How Terraform Brought Kubernetes Back From Dead | Jace Warren | 05m |
A video streaming platform at Savi Solutions suffers two catastrophic outages and is rebuilt and restored in under 15 minutes by treating everything as code… | ||
| How does Quality fit in CALMS? | Areti Panou | 05m |
Defines quality as value to some person and a quality strategy as a system of achievable goals delivering user and business outcomes; maps that onto CALMS by… | ||
| Ops Tooling and Retro Video Games | Rachel Kelly | 05m |
A small tool called emusaver shares emulator save bundles by tarring save files, pushing them to AWS S3, and restoring them into the Windows emulator context… | ||
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