Welcome back to DevOps Dispatch! I've been traveling a bunch lately, including DevOpsDays Charlotte and Microsoft TechDays Finland, most recently. If you'll be at the upcoming SCaLE17x event this week, say hi! I'll be presenting there as well on the topic of "Fight, Flight, or Freeze - Releasing Organizational Trauma".
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Articles
Dev, Ops, and Determinism
I’ve noticed an interesting pattern when discussing incidents with engineers over the years. One of the topics that invariably comes up is the concept of “root cause,” a notion faithful followers of my Twitter stream know that I have at least a few thoughts about.
How to explain Kubernetes Operators in plain English
What are Kubernetes Operators, and why are they so valuable to organizations working with containers? Here’s a primer for IT leaders – and anyone needing to demystify the concept.
Resilience Engineering and Error Budgets
This post on error budgets should be considered fluid, ideas worked in and out as any good beliefs should. My experiences with error budgets are not universal and should not be assumed as decrying anyone who has had success using them.
The Four Agreements of Incident Response
Not gonna lie - I wrote this blog post, but I think it's pretty good, so I'm including it in my own newsletter. Is that allowed?
Podcast Episodes
On-Call Nightmares - J. Paul Reed - Everywhere and Nowhere ;-)
I'm a big fan of Jay Gordon's new podcast, "On-Call Nightmares". This episode featuring J. Paul Reed is a really good listen.
Tweets
Corey Quinn
Remember, you're only "a corporate credit card" away from someone spinning up a new AWS account without your onerous controls. Aim to build guardrails, not impermeable gates, or you'll hate what happens next.
Bridget Kromhout
@abbyfuller Scene opens on a grizzled ops type.
“You wanna get into devrel, kid? Okay. First get angry at computers, real angry, angry enough to spend years learning how to do something about it.”
She leans close, almost whispering. “Then take what you learned and spare others that pain.”
Lanette Creamer
I am not interested in technology and have never been. I am interested in people, including what technology can do for actual people. This is a difference in thinking that many people fail to understand & part of why their focus is discouraging diversity.
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