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This was an incredibly busy week in tech news and events. First, AllThingsOpen was this week. For me, this included the annual opensource.com Moderators meeting in Red Hat Tower. The conference was amazing but, I feel like it might have outgrown the Raleigh Convention Center. 4,100 people registered to attend AllThingsOpen and I’m pretty sure half of them tried to get to two talks I wasn’t able to attend due to crowds. I got to spend and even monopolize time with some truly amazing folks. If you were at AllThingsOpen and we weren’t able to connect my deepest apologies. GitHub had two significant outages this week that are discussed later. It’s amazing to me how technology professionals treat these complex services they use every day as if they’re air, water, and light. If you think running your code is hard, imagine how much harder it is to run the thing your code relies on. GitHub’s week definitely ended on a high note though. The “Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is complete. 🎉” ...

Every time, without fail, I mention anything resembling a political leaning in this newsletter I get negative feedback. This week, I am sure I will again. But, this message is personal so I’ve made it simple. VOTE. I don’t care what your stances on the issues are, whether you care if a pot-smoking gay couple can be photographers at your cousin’s wedding, nor what you think of these weird things that are happening on the planet. I only want you to VOTE. I gave up a huge part of my existence helping others enable voting in foreign countries because US citizens voted to put my team there. Afghanistan voted today in parliamentary elections. People died in Afghanistan to vote today. Brazil, Fiji, Ireland, Israel, Taiwan, and the United States have elections coming up this year. All I want is when it is your time, VOTE. Webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics Want to deliver faster? Join our free webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics. Gain insights into software delivery pipeline and learn to use metrics to improve your path to production. SPONSORED ...

I spent the week in Orlando. The first two days for work and the last three for play. This is the second business trip the family has been on with me in as many months. It’s interesting to chaos test your travel routines with weird bookings due to work needs. I try to spend very little time proving who I am or what I do when I travel. I’ve had horrific experiences traveling and I go out of my way to reduce the chances of that happening. I’ve optimized for smoother sailing through government and security checkpoints. My family has no status or extra vetting. It’s amazing to see what happens when traveling with them. Throwing a toddler into the mix changes everything. All systems seemed to be geared toward not having a toddler meltdown. We often comment here in the US how all the “added” security post-9/11 is more theater than actual security. We all have stories of smuggling something we forgot to take out of a bag through security. This makes me wonder about how much of what we do might actually be more theater than anything. Dashboards are great but, if the most important dashboard a team has is the one that only leadership looks at (never used by anyone else) perhaps that’s more theater than improved outcomes. What else in our day-to-day operations is theater and not adding any real value to our work? ...

I spent the week in Austin at AnsibleFest. If you ever want to experience impostor syndrome put yourself in a room full of Ansible’s core contributors. It was exciting and terrifying every time I opened my mouth. But, for someone with Marketing in their title, the folks at the Contributor Conference were very embracing. The event itself was a whirlwind of various duties to include but not limited to MC, door duty at a bar, helping a developer understand Ansible internals, talking to customers, and trying to lighten the load on all the folks that put AnsibleFest together. Kaete, Carrie, and Leigh Anne did amazing work this year. I know it was not easy putting together an almost 1400 person conference. They pulled it off and made it an amazing event. Webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics Want to deliver faster? Join our free webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics. Gain insights into software delivery pipeline and learn to use metrics to improve your path to production. SPONSORED ...

I will be in Austin, TX Sunday through Thursday this week for AnsibleFest. If you are attending, please come say, “Hello.” and ask me for some DevOps’ish stickers, please. If you’re in the Austin area and want to grab a coffee, drink, etc. let me know. I’ll be in Orlando next week for some work and some play. If you’re around Orlando the week of the 8th, let me know. Remediation Strategy for Continuous Delivery of Microservices In systems based on microservices architecture, you have multiple services getting updated frequently. How do you respond when a deployment of a service introduces instability or bugs? Sheroy Marker offers some remediation strategies in this blog. SPONSORED Kelsey Hightower and Chris Gaun on serverless and Kubernetes Enjoy this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, featuring a conversation on serverless and Kubernetes, with Kelsey Hightower, developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform at Google (and co-author of Kubernetes: Up and Running), and Chris Gaun, Kubernetes product marketing manager at Mesosphere. SPONSORED ...