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Episode 482: Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code

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Episode 482: Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code

Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, joined host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about infrastructure as code (IAC), which allows software development teams to configure and control their cloud infrastructure assets using code in contrast to other approaches such as using web interfaces or command line interfaces. Luke described how IAC allows teams to apply good […]

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Episode 457: Jeffery D Smith on DevOps Anti Patterns

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Episode 457: Jeffery D Smith on DevOps Anti Patterns

Jeffery D Smith, author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions, discusses anti-patterns in software development organizations and how they can be fixed. Host Robert Blumen spoke with Smith about why he chose to focus on what can go wrong; fixing things that are broken in your organization; information hoarding; why important information about systems can be […]

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Episode 440: Alexis Richardson on gitops

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Episode 440: Alexis Richardson on gitops

Alexis Richardson of WeaveWorks discusses gitops.  GitOps is a deployment model for infrastructure and applications in which commits are approved and landed in a git repository, and a deployment agent continuously applies the latest commit from the repository to production.  Host Robert Blumen spoke with Richardson about the origins of the gitops approach, at what […]

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Episode 429: Rob Skillington on High Cardinality Alerting and Monitoring

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Episode 429: Rob Skillington on High Cardinality Alerting and Monitoring

Rob Skillingon discusses the difficulty of scaling monitoring and alerting to high dimensional spaces, as are typically found in modern applications at scale.  High cardinality versus high dimension spaces. The episode begins with a review of monitoring, metrics, metadata, and alerting.  How do things change at scale?  Filtering signals out of high-dimension data sets.  When […]

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