I attended and spoke at DevOpsDays NYC 2018 this week. The conference was very well organized. It was a truly unique experience held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square. There were some absolutely amazing talks. The talks were all great. The one thing I enjoyed the most was meeting people and seeing where they were along their journey. There are a lot of folks, some in really big companies, trying to change their cultures and improve their environments in dramatic ways. The Verizon story about their dojo program is an enormous effort to turn an old, stuffy enterprise into a full-blown DevOps organization. 16,000 people will learn the ways of DevOps at Verizon through their program. It’s quite the story and if successful it’ll be one to tell for quite some time.
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People
What is Developer Advocacy? by Ashley McNamara
What To Do If You Get Stuck In A Technical Interview: Don’t panic; you can do this.
Process
Hawaii missile mess: That was no ‘wrong button.’ Take a look. This is why DevOps exists. Software should never result in a user of that software getting fired if they’re using it as designed.
Intel Has a Big Problem. It Needs to Act Like It: No kidding. Intel has really bungled the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
The hidden costs of serverless: “There are more costs to Serverless than just CPU and RAM — and for many users, the additional cost categories of API Requests, Storage and Networking will be the major cost drivers.”
The Kubernetes Journey from Research to Production at Presslabs
What to do if you have a DevOps failure (and you will): “Without the right plan and processes in place, there is a good chance you could have a DevOps failure.”
How To Establish a High Severity Incident Management Program: High severity incident management is the practice of recording, triaging, tracking, and assigning business value to problems that impact critical systems.
An example escalation policy — CRE life lessons
Tools
Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans: Digital Ocean has been busy upgrading things
Speed and Stability: Why Go is a Great Fit for Lambda
GitOps: High velocity CICD for Kubernetes
Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis
List.community: an easy way to browse curated lists on GitHub.
Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes: It’s the database that matters… Always.
Twirp: A sweet new RPC framework for Go
kubed-sh: Kubernetes distributed shell for the casual cluster user.
Mine all the data, they said. It will be worth your while, they said: Good developers instrument their applications. Good ops teams monitor everything. This near-fetishisation of telemetry has been extended to DevOps, where it now risks becoming something of a problem.
DevOps’ish Tweet of the Week
“You have a lot of women on your team, is it a diversity thing?”
— Ashley Willis (McNamara) (@ashleymcnamara) January 17, 2018
Let me be very clear here, we hired the best in the industry and the best are women. The end.
Don’t insult us by assuming it’s a diversity thing. It’s a skill thing.