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Just when you thought a toxic, old, white guy with lousy hygiene was going to dominate the news this week, in walks Seth Vargo. On Thursday, Seth Vargo, a former Chef employee, learned something he wasn’t comfortable with about code he’d written. Seth discovered Chef had an active contract with the US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Seth then did something rather extraordinary. He yanked his code (including chef-sugar) from GitHub and RubyGems. This resulted in many production systems going offline across the globe. We could see some metrics about impact in a lawsuit at some point. When DM’ing Seth early Friday AM he told me, “It’s almost certain that Chef is going to sue.” Read More → DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five Remove Richard Stallman My top 25 items in a senior engineer’s checklist 8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit 17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong Alert Automation for your Cloud Infrastructure SPONSORED See the top ten → ...

PagerDuty Summit 2019 is Sept 23-25 in San Francisco. It’s three days of interactive workshops, keynotes, and breakouts with topics focusing on cutting edge incident response techniques, resilience engineering, managing team health, continuous improvement, DevSecOps, machine learning, and other intersections with real-time operations. Join experts from Google, Microsoft, Hashicorp, Twilio, Salesforce, Gremlin, Honeycomb, Adobe, AWS, and more. Register with code PDS19DOISH to save 50% and attend for $350. SPONSORED Full Alerting Coverage Without the Toil Balance rapid feature development and production stability with alert automation for your cloud infrastructure from Blue Matador. Activate alert automation in your cloud infrastructure today with our free trial. SPONSORED Sensu Summit is offering DevOps’ish readers $300 off the full price ticket price. “Enjoy two days of talks, workshops, and great conversations about all things monitoring.” AnsibleFest is coming to Atlanta! There are some amazing sessions that are lined up for this year. I’m also happy to say that there will be a number of sessions about containers and Kubernetes. This includes the “Building Kubernetes Operators with Ansible Hands-On Workshop” I’ll be helping with. Take 20% off standard rates using discount code ANFCSDO19 when registering. Come see what my awesome Red Hat friends have put together for us! ...

There’s a lot in the newsletter this week; from Istio to intelligence gathering for nation-states. Python 2’s sunset date of 1 Jan 2020 being set is going to have some pretty significant impact. There are also 28 mentions of “Kubernetes” in the source for this week’s newsletter. This week’s DevOps’ish Tweet of the Week can get you a free copy of Kubernetes: Up and Running, Second Edition. Oh and Richard Stallman MUST go. DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker? A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption hunterlong/statping 3 Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Don’t Have a Deadline Curl Cookbook See the top ten → Events Event season is upon us but the good news is DevOps’ish has discounts to some of the hottest events this year. PagerDuty Summit 2019 is Sept 23-25 in San Francisco. It’s three days of interactive workshops, keynotes, and breakouts with topics focusing on cutting edge incident response techniques, resilience engineering, managing team health, continuous improvement, DevSecOps, machine learning, and other intersections with real-time operations. Join experts from Google, Microsoft, Hashicorp, Twilio, Salesforce, Gremlin, Honeycomb, Adobe, AWS, and more. Register with code PDS19DOISH to save 50% and attend for $350. SPONSORED ...

Full Alerting Coverage Without the Toil Balance rapid feature development and production stability with alert automation for your cloud infrastructure from Blue Matador. Activate alert automation in your cloud infrastructure today with our free trial. SPONSORED PagerDuty Summit 2019 is Sept 23-25 in San Francisco. It’s three days of interactive workshops, keynotes, and breakouts with topics focusing on cutting edge incident response techniques, resilience engineering, managing team health, continuous improvement, DevSecOps, machine learning, and other intersections with real-time operations. Join experts from Google, Microsoft, Hashicorp, Twilio, Salesforce, Gremlin, Honeycomb, Adobe, AWS, and more. Register with code PDS19DOISH to save 50% and attend for $350. SPONSORED Sensu Summit is offering DevOps’ish readers $300 off the full price ticket price. “Enjoy two days of talks, workshops, and great conversations about all things monitoring.” AnsibleFest is coming to Atlanta! There are some amazing sessions that are lined up for this year. I’m also happy to say that there will be a number of sessions about containers and Kubernetes. This includes the “Building Kubernetes Operators with Ansible Hands-On Workshop” I’ll be helping with. Take 20% off standard rates using discount code ANFCSDO19 when registering. Come see what my awesome Red Hat friends have put together for us! ...

This week I read about a study of 17 languages that suggests humans, “no matter how fast or slowly languages are spoken, they tend to send information at about the same rate: 39 bits per second, about twice the speed of Morse code.” The study points out that some languages are clearly “faster” than others but, a steady average rate of 39.15 bits per second (bps) kept coming up. This study fascinated me since I talk to people as part of my work. My mind jumped to being on stage somewhere and spewing 1s and 0s out at a measly 17.6 kilobytes per hour. That is such a low data rate. It’s relatively equal to this random file I found on GitHub. Telemetry data alone on some of the oldest satellites I ever worked with was 4 kbps of status, position, orientation, and other measurements. That’s a continuously updated status update, and it only needed 4 kbps. Meanwhile, there I am, rendered inadequate with my paltry 39.15 bps. To add insult to injury, the thing giving me impostor syndrome is a device floating in space. No one in the room can see or hear it but, I theorize it is broadcasting 4 kbps at earth at that very moment. ...