What a week in DevOps ! There is so much news to share this week it took me an hour to collect it all! I also went to the Open Source 101 conference this week to pick up some knowledge on communities. It was a very good conference. If the future of open source software was represented there it will definitely not be a white male dominated field. Department of Choice Concepts Like a lot of sysadmin and DevOps teams, I bet you have some random cron jobs that are critical to your daily/weekly/monthly workflows. The problem with these jobs is that they always seem to never have a great place to live. Marc Cuva and the Serverless movement might have given us a solution to consider. Make SELinux Enforcing Again! We all do it… To some extent. Let’s try to stop disabling SELinux in 2017. 18F at GSA ran a small experiment in September and it turned out that working more hours did not net more productivity. Confining work schedules and after hours phone checking actually made a team more effective. The crazy thing is this analysis came from a US government agency. Kudos to The U.S. Digital Service! ...

Oh look! There’s a 666 in the epoch this week… Great! But, as one of my co-workers and I always say, we’re going to “will it” to be a good week in DevOps . It usually works out too. Department of Choice Concepts Nitin Agarwal breaks down the Docker filesystem (AUFS). It is a rather simplistic presentation. If you know someone struggling with the concepts it’s definitely worth a read. Brendan Gregg built out a very simple page containing ALL his works on Linux Performance. I do not think you could bookmark this page enough. Department of Data Defense There is some pretty insane stuff happening in Russia. Some pretty senior cybersecurity folks are being held by a military tribunal. Keep an eye on this one. Department of Refreshment and Refurbishment DZone recently released their Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation. Lots of cool concepts and stories for you to ponder over. Department of Happy Little Clouds Did you hear that SoftLayer was handing over the reigns to BlueMix? Me neither (sorry, not sorry). The transition appears to be going over like a fart in church. Big Blue where are you? ...

What a busy week in the land of DevOps! It seems like everyone has shaken off the holidays and snow days. So without further adieu let’s get to it! Department of Choice Concepts Breanne Boland has a great piece on lessons learned during her first year as a software engineer. “Timing is everything” as always but her point on curiosity is spot on. The Cloudcast had a fantastic episode titled, “Balancing Monolithic Apps and Microservices”. I had a lightbulb click on for one of the products I support while listening to this episode. Everyone has legacy infrastructure. This episode discusses a strategy to deal with the older parts of your applications. Grant Shipley shared how to get a full blown OpenShift cluster up and running in thirty minutes. OpenShift is looking more and more appealing. Jessie Frazelle hacked the bejesus out of CoreOS’ Container Linux. She put graphics drivers in CoreOS, y’all… Graphics drivers! Jess is a glutton for punishment and I admire the hell out of her for it. ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of DevOps’ish where we cover Dev, Ops, and all the ish in between. I hope you had a productive week and are looking forward to another productive week ahead! So much DevOps , so little time. Department of Assemblage Obtainment Trello was acquired by Atlassian for a whopping $425 million. This is an acquisition that makes a lot of sense for Atlassian. Trello could be used as a sort of gateway drug into the much more complicated Atlassian software products. Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, is leaving Apple and joining the Autopilot team at Tesla. According to a Business Insider source, Chris Lattner left because he felt, “He always felt constrained at Apple in terms of what he could discuss publicly.” But, Chris vehemently denied this report in a tweet saying, “Folk just want to make 🍎 look bad. 😠”. Ashley McNamara maintains a “Curated list of resources for budding developers” that is a consolidated treasure trove of language resources. ...

Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the DevOps is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! This song has been in my head all day as the US east coast has been coated in a blanket of frozen participation. We have not taken down our interior Christmas decorations yet either so that might be part of it too. Department of Choice Concepts Vladimir Vivien wrote a book on Go. Learning Go Programming was written over the course of a year and a half and is an attempt to make it easier for newcomers. I bought it and intend to read it. Department of Dafuq When I mentioned the leap second last week I was hoping it would go off without a hitch. That was not the case when Cloudflare had a globally impacting issue with its RRDNS software. Developers have a hard job, I believe all of us in DevOps recognize that. But, this is a good example of how an assumption caused a big problem. ...