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. ...

2016 has come to an end. For auld lang syne, my dear! 2016 has gotten a pretty bad rap (deservedly so, in my opinion). Let’s try to leave the past where it is, dump the negative energy, and wake up to new opportunities. I like this time of year for the wrap-up pieces and year in reviews. Here are a few that I enjoyed this week: Predictions for DevOps in 2017 5 DevOps predictions for 2017 In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news What I Learned in 2016 Department of Next Year’s Old Tech Please, for the love of God, do not let leap seconds bite you in the ass ever again. Percona has a great piece for getting this problem solved: Don’t Let a Leap Second Leap on Your Database! Department of Choice Concepts Julia Evans wrote a fantastic article (and comic), How to ask good questions. Essentially good questions come from the need to plug information gaps, not from a complete lack of knowledge. Do your research then confirm what you need confirmed. This is a skill more people need to solidify. ...

Merry Christmas and Happy DevOps! 🎅 🎄 🤶 Quick hitter this week as the family watches Elf. Department of Refreshment and Refurbishment Python 3.6 was released! The full changelog is available for your review. Ruby 2.4.0 was released! The full changelog is also available. GitLab 8.15 was released! I am not a huge fan of GitLab’s UI but the Auto Deploy feature looks intriguing. OpenJDK on Windows? Yep! Thanks, Redhat. Dominick Krachtus released a nice script to quickly spin up an OpenVPN instance in AWS called autovpn Tony Narlock has made his upcoming book, The Tao of tmux, available to read for free. Department of Choice Concepts David Gilbertson shares some performance tips during his experience, “making the fastest site in the world” Julia Evans has written a fantastic piece on container networking that I would highly recommend taking a look at. Department of Next Year’s Old Tech ClusterHQ shut its doors. Their software is still open source. DevOps’ish One-Liner of the Week Should you be in a position and need to figure out what systems are holding a high number of connections to a system login and try this out: ...