Ship It! Archive

Shipped It!

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 07:15:00 -0800

Justin & Autumn get together one last time for a retro: favorite episodes, lessons learned, biggest surprises & what’s next.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

AI IRL at Honeycomb

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:00:00 -0800

Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more.

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Featuring:

Phillip Carter – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

CI/CDagger

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0800

Gerhard Lazu joins the show to discuss how Ship It! started and why you might want a general purpose language for your CI/CD.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

Fork Around and Find Out

Justin and Autumn’s new podcast coming in 2025 fafo.fm

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Public safety Kubernetes

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:15:00 -0800

Marc Boorshtein from Tremolo Security joins Justin & Autumn to talk all about running Kubernetes in the public sector.

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Marc Boorshtein – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Abstractions and implementations

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0800

Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments.

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Hazel Weakly – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Hosting Hachyderm

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0800

Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.

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Featuring:

Preston Doster – GitHub, Mastodon
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo

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News & whitepapers

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0800

No interview this week! Instead, Justin & Autumn sit down to talk about what they’ve been learning recently.

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Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Infosec & OpenTelemetry

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Maybe Jira for your kids’ chores is a good idea… Probably not.

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Austin Parker – Website, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Your customer is Amazon.com

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:40:00 -0700

From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Amazon turns off last Oracle instance

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Kubernetes is an anti-platform

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:45:00 -0700

Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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System Initiative

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TIME to get SERIESous about databases

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0700

Lili Cosic’s experience at different companies & communities has given her insights into what’s important & when to adapt to learn new (or old) things.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Why InfluxDB was re-written in rust

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You suck at programming

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:15:00 -0700

Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he’s sharing what he’s learned, starting with bash.

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Dave Eddy – Website, GitHub, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

A learning mindset, starting with COBOL

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:30:00 -0700

The ability to learn on the job has been a critical skill for David Beale throughout his career. Is the job market not allowing that anymore?

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David Beale – Website, GitHub, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

LinkedIn post about David learning COBOL

Links of the week

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Linux distros

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0700

uBlue is trying to build the world’s best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it’s going.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Links of the week

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Building Rawkode Academy

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:00:00 -0700

David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he’d need to own more of the stack.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Learning & teaching networking & AI

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Du’An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don’t understand or you can invest time to learn it.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Llama 3 white paper

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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The diagram IS the code

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:30:00 -0700

What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.

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John Watson – GitHub, LinkedIn
Scott Prutton – GitHub, LinkedIn
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

System Initiative

Book recommendations

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MySQL performance

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:00:00 -0700

Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL.

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Silvia Botros – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Cloud-centric security logging

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:15:00 -0700

Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.

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Steven Wu – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

Steven Wu at scanner.dev

How things break

Azure Status History

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The Zookeeper of jujutsu

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:15:00 -0700

Tim Banks joins Justin and Autumn — there’s nothing quite like being punched in the face by Zookeeper or being taken down by a “hot” shard.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Interview

Links of the week

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5000 Walmart stores in 2 months

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 08:15:00 -0700

Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss.

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Martin Jackson – LinkedIn
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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How stuff breaks

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Deploying on a Friday

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:30:00 -0700

Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.

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Michael Gat – LinkedIn
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Outro

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GitLab's infrastructure

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:40:00 -0700

GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Gitlab’s helm chart

Outro

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Spilling the git tea

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:30:00 -0700

Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like?

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Matti Ranta – GitHub, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Intro links

Interview

Outro

git extras

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What happened to open source

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0700

Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade.

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Gareth Greenaway – GitHub, Mastodon
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

Outro

The serverless illusion

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The Kubernetes of Lambda

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:15:00 -0700

Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.

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WebAssembly

Request For Comments (RFC)

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How to build a Nushell

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:40:00 -0700

Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat!

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Intro

What the distro

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The infrastructure behind a PaaS

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:30:00 -0700

Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.

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How things break

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3D printed infrastructure

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -0700

Gina Häußge is here to tell us about the infra behind the OctoPrint project, which tests and releases new versions that work on multiple different printers and gets deployed hundreds of thousands of times.

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OctoPrint.org

3D or K8

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Is Wasm the new Java?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:00:00 -0700

Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.

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WTA: What The Acronym

ASM - Assembly
WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
AOT - ahead of time compilation
JIT - just in time compilation
WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
Wasmer - by wasmer company
WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)

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Tars all the way down

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:00:00 -0700

Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.

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Claude Shannon

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FROM guests SELECT Andrew

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 18 May 2024 04:45:00 -0700

Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.

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Interview

Andrew’s website

Fresh OSS

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How WebMD ran in the year 2000

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:30:00 -0700

All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.

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Links of the week

Interview

Rich Burroughs on Bluesky and LinkedIn

Continuous Conversation

Hey moved CI to dev machines with a bash script

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Managing Meta's millions of machines

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 04 May 2024 08:45:00 -0700

Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.

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Faux or fo sho

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Let's go back to AOL chat rooms

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0700

In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.

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JDCO

Java, Data, Cloud, Other

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Bluesky apps

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0700

Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.

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Interview

Paul on Bluesky

Fresh OSS

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From Kubernetes to Nix

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.

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Remote dev environments

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Deploying projects vs products

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 17:45:00 -0700

Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.

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CVE-2024-3094
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cyber Resilience Act

All the releases of the rainbow 🌈

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Blue/Green
Red/Black
Canary
Feature flagging/Dark launch
A/B testing
Database migrations

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SoCal Linux Expo

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:30:00 -0700

Justin & Autumn take you with them to the 2024 SoCal Linux Expo where they asked six fellow attendees about their favorite open source projects and their least favorite commands.

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Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Favorite projects mentioned

Least favorite commands

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Productivity engineering at Netflix

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0700

What’s the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we’re joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

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Interview

ReadySet

WTA: What the Acronym?

K8s - Kubernetes numeronym
O11y - Observability
I18n - internationalization
A11y - accessibility
Y2k - millennial tech problem

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Containers on a diet

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0700

Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let’s find out!

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SlimToolkit

How things break

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Scoring your project’s security

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:00:00 -0800

Autumn and Justin are joined by Chris Swan to discuss tech industry trends like AI and sustainability, gamifying the software development process and motivating devs to write more secure code, OpenSSF Scorecards and how they offer a way to measure and improve the security and compliance of GitHub repos, the scoring system, and the security posture of a repository.

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Links of the week

Person, place, thing, || null

Linux - person (Linus Torvalds)
git - person (Linus Torvalds)
Kubernetes - thing (helmsman)
Algorithms - person (Al-Khwarizmi, Persian mathmetition)
Trojan Horse - place (Troy)
Bluetooth - person (Harold Bluetooth, Denmark king)
Hadoop - thing (kids elephant toy)
Venn diagram - person (John Venn)
MySQL - person (My Widenius)
Debian - person (Deb and Ian)
Neon - Greek neon meaning new

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Hybrid infrastructure load balancing

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:20:00 -0800

Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.

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Infrastructure regrets and endorsements after 4 years
Reddit signing deal with AI company
This Week I Learned (TWIL):
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Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0800

What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick.

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Building containers without Docker

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:40:00 -0800

We’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.

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Kaizen! Embracing change 🌟

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:15:00 -0800

This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam & Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this episode. It also means making more time to experiment, maybe try a few of those small bets that we recently talked about with Daniel. Kaizen will continue, we are thinking on the Changelog. Stick around to hear the rest.

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Rust efficiencies at AWS scale

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:50:00 -0800

Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust.

The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components.

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📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust
🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara
📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io
📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday
📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog
📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust
Rust on AWS
Rust Nation 2023

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Treat ideas like cattle, not pets

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0800

In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.

For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.

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Creator Spotlight: Daniel Vassallo’s Success on Gumroad
Small Bets
The Good Parts of AWS
Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
🎧 Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach
🎬 Building a Portfolio of Small Bets with Daniel Vassallo - The Bootstrapped Founder #166

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Why we switched to serverless containers

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:35:00 -0800

Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian talks about how they evaluated AWS, GCP & Azure before they settled on the platform that met their requirements.

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🎬 Why We Switched to Serverless Containers - Swiss Cloud Native Day, September 2022
🎬 What is the fuzz around serverless (containers)? - Open Source @ Siemens, May 2022
🔬 Self-host ZITADEL on Knative
🐙 github.com/zitadel/zitadel

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Human scale deployments

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:15:00 -0800

Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD.

More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”?

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The hard parts of platform engineering

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:45:00 -0800

Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.

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Bare metal meets Talos Linux (the K8s OS)

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:40:00 -0800

Welcome to 2023! A new year is the perfect time to start with a fresh perspective. Given a few bare metal hosts with fast, local storage, how would you run your workloads on them? Would you cluster them for redundancy? What operating system would you choose?

Steve Francis, CEO at Sidero Labs and Andrew Rynhard, CTO at Sidero Labs join us today to talk about running Talos Linux on bare metal.

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Talos Linux
🎬 Hack Sesh: K8s@Home Edition - April, 2022
🎬 DevOps Toolkit - Talos: Linux Designed For Kubernetes - March, 2022
🎬 Sidero Metal Webinar - January, 2022
🎬 I am Installing Talos OS (Sidero) at Home - October, 2021

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🎄 Planning for failure to ship faster 🎁

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:30:00 -0800

Eight months ago, in 🎧 episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements.

So how did all of this work out in practice? How did the improved system cope with the Black Friday peak, as well as all the following Christmas orders? Thank you Alex for sharing with us your Ship It! inspired Kaizen story. It’s a wonderful Christmas present! 🎄🎁

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Red Hat's approach to SRE

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:15:00 -0800

Narayanan Raghavan leads the global SRE organization that runs Red Hat managed cloud services including OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science among others across the three major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure. We start with a high-level discussion about DevOps, SRE & platform engineering, and then we dig into SRE specifics, including what it takes to safely roll out updates across many tens of thousands of OpenShift clusters.

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Let's deploy straight to production!

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:15:00 -0800

In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of two guests: Whitney Lee, Staff Technical Advocate at VMware, the one behind the ⚡️ Enlightning episodes, and Mauricio Salatino, which you already know from 🎧 shipit.show/41 on Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes.

The two of them gave the most amazing KubeCon NA Keynote last month: What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production!

So how do we create an Internal Development Platform that enables anyone on the team to deploy straight to production with the confidence that everything will just work?

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🎬 What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production! + 🗺 SLIDES + 🐙 CODE - KubeCon NA 2022 Keynote
⚡️ Enlightning - learn cloud concepts with Whitney & her lightboard - every Tuesday at 11am ET
📃 Building platforms on top of Kubernetes: vcluster and Crossplane - Mauricio Salatino - August 2022
📖 Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes

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Kaizen! 24 improvements & a lot more

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:45:00 -0800

For our last 2022 Kaizen episode, we went all out:

💪 @jerod outdid himself in the number of improvements shipped between Kaizens
🕺 A few of our listeners contributed → prompted us to create a new contributing guide
🗺 We now have a new infrastructure diagram

All of this, and a whole lot more, is captured as GitHub discussion 🐙 changelog.com#433. If you want to see everything that we improved, that is a great companion to this episode.

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Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0800

In your company, who designs the end-to-end developer experience? From design to implementation, what is the developer experience that you actually ship? Even though the average developer wastes almost half of their working hours because of bad DX, many of us don’t even know what that means, or how to improve it.

Kenneth Auchenberg is working at Stripe, building economic infrastructure for the internet. Gerhard found his perspective on Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) refreshingly simple, as well as very useful.

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Show Notes:

The tweet that started this episode
📝 Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture - How to design an end to end developer journey - Shawn “swyx” Wang

Developer Experience is the new hot thing, and we now see many existing teams re-labeled as Dev Experience. What does DX really mean, and what is the relationship between developer relations, advocacy, DX, and product teams?
@auchenberg Twitter 🧵

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The system that runs Norway's welfare payments 🇳🇴

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0800

In today’s episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway’s Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud.

Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.

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Show Notes:

NAIS.io - Application platform and DevEx toolbox for teams digitalizing NAV.no
🗂 docs.nais.io - references, step-by-step guides & some good YAML
📊 NAV.no deployment stats, 2009 - 2022
🗺 NAV Teknisk retning (technical direction)
Being NAIS at a distance - How we work in a hybrid world
Do we need an internal technology platform? - The case for platforms at NAV
Changing Service Mesh - How we swapped Istio with Linkerd with hardly any downtime
NAIS @ GitHub
📃 How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy
🐦 Do you know what’s cool? Keeping your #kubernetes clusters secure.

NAV.no average weekly service deployments, 2009 - 2022

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Seven shipping principles

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:30:00 -0700

15 years ago, Gerhard discovered magic in the form of Ruby on Rails. It was intuitive and it just worked. That is the context in which Gerhard fell in love with infrastructure and operations.

Today, for special episode 77, we start at Seven Shipping Principles, and, in the true spirit of Ship It, we’ll see what happens next.

Our guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, and a lot more - check out dhh.dk.

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📝 Seven Shipping Principles
📝 Why we’re leaving the cloud
DHH @ Le Mans 2022
Basecamp Next’s caching hardware - Jan. 2012 - 864GB of RAM - $12k in 2012
Gerhard’s favourite signals from the new 37signals.com
Email’s new heyday

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Container base images with glibc & musl

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:30:00 -0700

In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.

Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.

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Show Notes:

Ariadne’s Twitter thread that kick-started this episode
Wolfi OS - a stripped-down distro designed for the cloud-native era
Minimal Container images from Chainguard
ko - build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
apko Overview - build OCI images using APK directly
melange - build APKs from source code
musl libc
glibc - GNU C library
“We discovered a bug in our repository management service”

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How vex.dev runs on AWS, Fly.io & GCP

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:15:00 -0700

Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.

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vex.dev - Stream your meeting, or your moon landing 💥 Demo
WebRTC
HLS - HTTP Live Streaming
Typescript SDK for working with the Vex API
🎬 When to Choose Rust for Your Cloud Native App - Tim McNamara - #swisscnd 2022
Postgres WASM

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Vorsprung durch Technik

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:20:00 -0700

I don’t think that you can imagine just how excited Gerhard was to find out that Audi, his favourite car company, has a Kubernetes competence centre. We have Sebastian Kister joining us today to tell us why people, followed by tech make the process.

The right thing to focus on is the genuine smiles that people give in response to something we do or say. That is an important SLI & SLO for reducing friction between silos.

How does this impact the flow of artefacts into production systems that design & build cars?

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Show Notes:

🎬 Container Days - September 2022: A culture beyond SLA and T&C - Sebastian Kister, Audi
📄 How Audi provides developer self-service - April 2022
🎬 NGINX Sprint 2.0 - Nov. 2021: Audi Harnesses the Full Potential of Kubernetes with NGINX App Protect
Celebrating 50 years of “Vorsprung durch Technik”
Audi Digitalization
🚙 Audi Films: An Avant Story

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A modern bank infrastructure

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:40:00 -0700

Matias Pan is a Staff Software Engineer at Lemon Cash, a crypto startup based in Argentina. Lemon infrastructure runs digital wallets & physical cards, which technically makes them a bank. How does Matias & his team think about enabling developers get code from their workstations into production? Remember, we are talking about a bank - a bad deploy is a big deal. And when a bad database migration goes out, what happens then?

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Matias Pan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

📄 Deploying services at Lemon - May 2022
Matias’ follow-up post: How services are provisioned, deployed and operated at Lemon Cash - October 2022
Early inspiration: Let a 1000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. - September 2015

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Klustered & Rawkode Academy

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:20:00 -0700

One of our listeners, Andrew Welker, suggested that we talk about Klustered, so a few hours before David Flanagan was about to do his workshop at Container Days, we recorded this episode. We talked about all the weird and wonderful Kubernetes debugging sessions on Klustered, a YouTube playlist with 43 videos and counting.

We then talked about Rawkode Academy, and we finished with conferences. Good thing we did, because David almost forgot about KubeHuddle, the conference that he is co-organising next week. Gerhard is looking forward to talking at it! No, seriously, check it out at kubehuddle.com.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎬 Klustered
🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to acorn.io
🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to DockerSlim
🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to apko & melange
🎬 Rawkode Academy: Introduction to BGP - Limitless: Global Reach with BGP
github.com/RawkodeAcademy/courses
KubeHuddle - Oct. 3-4, 2022 - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s first Kubernetes conference

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Modern Software Engineering

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:45:00 -0700

Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…

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Show Notes:

Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture!
🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery
🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams
🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed
🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works
🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery
🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad?
👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here

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Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:20:00 -0700

In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an upgrade the world kind of scenario. Since Lars Wikman did all the heavy ID3 lifting, he joins us in this episode.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

What is ID3 in the context of MP3?
PR #417 - ID3vx-based episode tagging
id3vx - Elixir library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
PR #423 - Upgrade Elixir from 1.12 to 1.13 (and all the other things)
The failing CircleCI build that resulted in removing the integration
erlang/otp issue #6241
PR #421 - What to do if the Wireguard tunnel stops working in GHA
PR #418 - Notify Slack when a deploy succeeds
GitHub SSH commit verification now supported - thanks Marcos Nils!
Signing Git Commits with SSH Keys

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The cloud native ecosystem

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 07:00:00 -0700

Maybe it’s the Californian sun. Or perhaps it’s the time spent at Disney Studios, the home of the best stories. One thing is for sure: Taylor Dolezal is one of the happiest cloud native people that Gerhard knows.

As a former Lead SRE for Disney Studios, Taylor has significant hands-on experience running cloud native technologies in a large company. After a few years as a HashiCorp Developer Advocate, Taylor is now Head of End User Ecosystem at CNCF. In his current role, he is helping enable cloud native success for end-users like Boeing, Mercedes Benz & many others.

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Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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Taylor Dolezal – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎬 KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 Keynote
This episode started with a tweet
Phippy as far as the eye can see! 👀 🦒
KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 - Transparency Report
Take the 2022 Cloud Native Survey
A recap from OSS Summit North America 2022
🎬 Navigating an Infinite Landscape - Taylor Dolezal - PlatformCon 2022
ArgoCon 2022 - September 19 - 21, 2022

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Behind the scenes at Microsoft Azure

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:15:00 -0700

Most of you already know what it’s like to work in a startup or a small company. A few of you have been asking us for conversations with engineers that work for big companies, the kind that run everything from big title games to banking, and even critical national infrastructure.

In today’s episode, we talk to Ganeshkumar, a Software Engineer in the Azure Kubernetes Service team, who works on Node Lifecycle and Kubernetes Versioning, and Brendan, Kubernetes project co-founder and engineering Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure OSS and Cloud-native Compute. We talk about what it’s like to work for Microsoft, how mentoring works in practice, and what Kubernetes, Omega, & Borg have to do with it all.

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Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

📄 Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - March, 2016
🎬 How to use GitOps with Microsoft Azure - Brendan Burns - July, 2021
🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1 - January, 2022
Event Grid on Kubernetes with Azure Arc

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All your network are belong to eBPF

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0700

A few weeks ago, Jerod spoke with Liz Rice about the power of eBPF on The Changelog. Today, we have the pleasure of both Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Office at Isovalent & Thomas Graf, CTO & co-founder at Isovalent, the creators of Cilium.

Around 2014, Facebook achieved a 10x performance improvement by replacing their traditional load balancers with eBPF. In 2017, every single packet that went to Facebook was processed by eBPF. Nowadays, every Android phone is using it. Truth be told, if it’s network-related and it matters, eBPF is most likely a part of it.

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Thomas Graf – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

eBPF.io
📘 What is eBPF? - written by Liz Rice, free to download
📕 Security Observability with eBPF - written by Natália Réka Ivánkó and Jed Salazar, free to download
🎬 A Guided Tour of Cilium Service Mesh - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KubeCon 2022 EU
🎬 eCHO Episode 51: Life of a Packet with Cilium - Duffie Cooley
Learn more about Cilium and eBPF from the technology experts
✨ Twinkly - Liz’s wall neon

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Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind.

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:45:00 -0700

Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years?

Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Cloud Foundry and Concourse CI. Rob is now the CEO of Geometer.io, an incubator where Elixir is behind many great ideas executed well, including the US COVID response programme.

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Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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Rob Mee – Website
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

BBC News: The firm that starts work at 9.06am
Cloud Foundry
Concourse CI
Pivotal IPO - 2018
🎧 Ship It! #9 - the one where we talk about the RabbitMQ Concourse CI pipeline
🎬 Panel discussion around startups, venture capital in the Erlang Ecosystem - Code BEAM America 2021

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Two thumbs up for the Cool Wall

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:15:00 -0700

Tammer Saleh, founder of Super Orbital, a tiny team of exceptional Kubernetes engineers and teachers, is joining us today to talk about what is cool in the Cloud Native world. Yes, it’s the same Tammer that we had the pleasure of on shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform?

In today’s episode, we also cover two great blog posts:

Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints project by Sean Kane
Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane

We wrap up with ✨ The Cool Wall of Cloud Native ✨

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Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

Featuring:

Tammer Saleh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform?
Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints project by Sean Kane
Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane
Top Gear Fan Wiki: The Cool Wall

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Bass: the beat drop after Concourse

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:20:00 -0700

Our today’s guest spent 4 days building a feature for his side project so that we could ship it together on Ship It!, while recording. The feature is called rave mode, and the context is Bass, an interpreted functional scripting language written in Go, riffing on the ideas of Kernel & Clojure. When the local build runs, you can now press r to synchronise the beats of your currently playing Spotify track with the build output. For a demo, see bass v0.9.0 release.

Please welcome Alex Suraci, a.k.a. vito, the creator of Concourse CI and Bass.

This episode is dedicated to the late John Shutt, the creator of Kernel.

Your ideas continue in Bass.

Thank you for getting them out into the world.

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Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.

Featuring:

Alex Suraci – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Concourse CI
See shipit.show/9 notes for the RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline from 2020
Concourse core roadmap: towards v10 - written by Alex 3 years ago
🎬 Getting Started with Concourse CI - Dr. Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne - October 2016
Faux-O talk - Gary Bernhardt
The Kernel Programming Language
Bass bassics
The bass shipit file that ships Bass
bass v0.9.0 release - the one that we shipped while recording this episode
booklit.page - a tool for building static websites from semantic documents
Package repository size/freshness map

Gerhard & Alex shipping bass v0.9.0

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KubeVelo 2022

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0700

We know that many of you listen to this podcast while running 🏃‍♀️ or cycling 🚴‍♂️ Hey Dan!

How many of you cycled to a conference? Gerhard knows a single person that cycled 764 miles for 8 days straight from Switzerland to Spain for this year’s KubeCon EU. His name is Johann Gyger, a CNCF ambassador & a cloud consultant at Peak Scale. Johann is a cloud engineer at heart that is all in on sustainability. He is the main reason why Gerhard is super excited to talk about electric cars & Dagger at the Swiss Cloud Native Day this September.

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.

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Johann Gyger – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Swiss Cloud Native Day 2022 speakers
🎬 Swiss Cloud Native Day 2021
🎬 Gurten, Bern - Swiss Cloud Native Day location
The best bits from KubeCon EU 2022

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 - 764 miles - 8 days - Johann Gyger

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Operational simplicity is a gift to you

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:35:00 -0700

Gerhard’s transition to a senior engineer started 10 years ago, when he embraced the vim mindset, functional core & imperative shell, and was inspired to seek simplicity in his code & infrastructure. Most of it can be traced back to one person: Gary Bernhardt, the creator of Execute Program, Destroy all Software and the now famous Wat idea.

Few stick around long enough to understand the long-term impact of their decisions on production systems. Even fewer are able to talk about them as well as Gary does.

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Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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Gary Bernhardt – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎧 Why we 💚 Vim - changelog.fm/450
Execute Program - Learn it. Code it. Remember it.
Destroy all Software - Everyday programming tools built from scratch
🎬 Wat talk - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012

Gary tweets June 1, 2022
I just needed a small new feature to finish the task I was doing. It took 3 minutes to write the code, then 9 minutes for CI and deploy, so it was live in production 12 minutes after I realized I needed it. Can’t imagine working any other way.

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The ops & infra behind Transistor.fm

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:20:00 -0700

Today we talk with two lovely folks from Transistor.fm: Jason Pearl, Senior Software Developer & Jon Buda, co-founder. Gerhard was curious to find out about their setup & how did it change with the launch of the new podcast website builder. After all, you have been hearing us talk about our setup for years, so it was high-time to challenge some assumptions and learn how another team is solving similar problems.

TL;DL: keeping it simple is at the root of smooth operations & stable systems.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Transistor.fm launches Free Podcast Website Builder on Product Hunt
Jason joins Transistor.fm
CloudFlare R2
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
🎧 Build your SaaS E135: What’s it really like to work at Transistor?

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Kaizen! Post-migration cleanup

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:00:00 -0700

In our 6th Kaizen, we talk with Jerod about all the things that we cleaned up after migrating changelog.com from a managed Kubernetes to Fly.io. We deleted the K8s cluster and moved wildcard cert management to Fastly & all our vanity domain certs to Fly.io. We migrated the Docker Engine that our GitHub Actions is using - PR #416 has all the details. We did a few other things in preparation for our secrets plan. Thank you Maikel Vlasman, James Harr, Adrian Mester, Omri Gabay & Owen Valentine for kicking it off in our Slack #shipit channel.

Gerhard’s favourite improvement: the new shipit.show domain.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

PR #416 - Deploy & use Docker Engine running on Fly.io
Jerod does some more Kaizen-driven development: 404 & 500 fix 💪 try shipit.show/1234
shipit.show/60 👈 works for any published episode
shipit.show/request 💬 request an episode
Argo CD Vault Plugin 👍 thanks Adrian Mester
1Password/vault-plugin-secrets-onepassword 👍 thanks Owen Valentine

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Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:00:00 -0700

Ben Johnson, the creator of Litestream, joined Fly.io a few weeks after we migrated changelog.com - episode 50 has all the details. That was pure coincidence. What was not a coincidence, is Gerhard jumping at the opportunity to talk to Ben about Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream.

The prospect of running a cluster of our app instances spread across all regions, with local SQLite & Litestream replication, is mind boggling. Let’s find out from Ben what will it take to get there. Thanks Kürt for kicking off this dream.

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Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🆕 FOLLOW-UP: Live read replicas update in GitHub issue comment

How this episode started
I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite
Getting Started with Litestream
github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
litestream.io repository
The Secret Lives of Data - Raft
🎧 Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson - ThinkingElixir #101 - May, 2022
🎧 Open source, not open contribution - Changelog #433 - March, 2021
Datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month - April, 2021
Picoshare - A minimalist, easy-to-host service for sharing images and other files
Picoshare deploy to Fly.io
Fly Machines: An API for Fast-booting VMs

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How to keep a secret

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:20:00 -0700

Rob Barnes (a.k.a. Devops Rob) and Rosemary Wang (author of Infrastructure as Code - Patterns & Practices) are joining us today to talk about infrastructure secrets.

What do Rosemary and Rob think about committing encrypted secrets into a repository? How do they suggest that we improve on storing secrets in LastPass? And if we were to choose HashiCorp Vault, what do we need to know?

Thank you Thomas Eckert for the intro. Thank you Nabeel Sulieman (ep. 46) & Kelsey Hightower (ep. 44) for your gentle nudges towards improving our infra secrets management.

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Rosemary Wang – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Rob Barnes – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Bitnami Sealed Secrets
age CLI
Mozilla SOPS
Experimental LastPass provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store
HashiCorp Vault
📖 Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices - Rosemary Wang, July 2022
🎬 Cloud Identity with HashiCorp Vault - Rob Barnes, DevOps Exchange London, March 2022
🎬 Developing a Secrets Engine for HashiCorp Vault - Rosemary Wang, August 2021

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What do oranges & flame graphs have in common?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:45:00 -0700

Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev.

This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.

TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.

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Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

⚠️ Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates!)
Introducing ArcticDB: A database for Observability
Profiling Next.js apps with Parca
Michal Kuratczyk helped us figure out what we were doing wrong with Erlang perf maps
David Ansari: Improving RabbitMQ Performance with Flame Graphs
Kemal Akkoyun: Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them Part 1 & Part 2
Matthias Loibl: pyrra - Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone!
Tyler Neely: 🎬 Modern database engineering with io_uring - FOSDEM 2020
Achille Roussel: Go library to read/write Parquet files - segmentio/parquet-go
Julia Evans: How to spy on a Ruby program

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DevOps teams with shared responsibilities

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 10:30:00 -0700

Today we are talking with Maikel Vlasman, technical lead for a large Dutch machine construction company, and a cloud engineer by heart. We cover self-updating GitLab & ArgoCD, Maikel’s thinking behind dev environment setup and a Kubernetes workshop that he is preparing for his team. The goal is to function as a true DevOps team with shared responsibilities.

This conversation started as a thread in our community Slack - link in the show notes. Thank you Maikel for being a long-time Changelog listener and for reaching out to us - we enjoyed telling this story.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

2 months ago, Maikel reached out via our Slack
🎬 Introduction to Docker - the video that introduced Maikel to cloud engineering
Terraform Argo CD - set up Argo CD in K8s & then maintain everything (including Argo CD) using Argo CD GitOps pull functionality

Maikel's thinking behind dev env setup Maikel's infra bootstrap Maikel's infra running setup

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Optimising sociotechnical systems

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0700

Today we are talking how to optimise sociotechnical systems with Ben Ford, founder & CEO of Mission Control. The correct order is: people, process & technology. The tools are important, and we talk about specific ones in the second half of this episode, but there are rules and principles that govern how people interact, and we need to start there.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎧 Ship It! #4 OODA for operational excellence
🎬 The Paradox of Control - NATO C2COE C2 Webinar 2021 - Ben Ford
Mission ctrl - Organisation engineering as a service
Strapi - Next.js Corporate Starter
Appsmith - Open source framework to build internal tools
Metabase - Business Intelligence
Cube.dev - Open Source Headless Business Intelligence
Causal.app - Business Planning Platform
The Orbit Model
Orbit - Community Growth Platform
n8n.io - Workflow Automation Platform
Hasura - Instant GraphQL on all your data
Railway.app - Bring your code, we’ll handle the rest.
Notion - One workspace. Every team.

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Knative, Sigstore & swag (KubeCon EU 2022)

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 25 May 2022 08:00:00 -0700

This is the post-KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 week. Gerhard is talking to Matt Moore, founder & CTO of Chainguard about all things Knative and Sigstore.

The most important topic is swag, because none has better stickers than Chainguard.

The other topic is the equivalent of Let’s Encrypt for securing software.

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Securing K8s releases (KubeCon EU 2022)

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:10:00 -0700

Today we are at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022, talking to Adolfo García Veytia about securing Kubernetes releases. Adolfo is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, and one of the technical leads for SIG release, meaning that he helps ship Kubernetes. You most likely know him as Puerco, and have seen first-hand his passion for securing software via SBOMs, cosign and SLSA. Puerco’s love for bikes and Chainguard are a great match 🚴‍♂️

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Adolfo García Veytia – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

KCCNCEU 2022: Make the Secure Kubernetes Supply Chain Work for You - Adolfo García Veytia, Chainguard
KCCNCEU 2022: Releasing Kubernetes Less Often and More Secure - The SIG Release Update - Adolfo García Veytia & Carlos Panato, Chainguard; Sascha Grunert, Red Hat; Stephen Augustus, Cisco
Kubernetes signals massive adoption of Sigstore for protecting open source ecosystem
kubectl plugin for signing Kubernetes manifest YAML files with sigstore
CLI utility to generate SPDX-compliant Bill of Materials manifests

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Priyanka's Happy Hour (KubeCon EU 2022)

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 11 May 2022 08:30:00 -0700

Today we talk to Priyanka Sharma (E.D. at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation) about all things KubeCon Europe 2022. We start with Gerhard’s favourite subject - Priyanka’s Happy Hour - and then we switch focus to the conference.

For many, this will be the first in-person KubeCon since 2019. As for Gerhard, he is not sure that he remember how airports work. If he succeeds, he looks forward to meeting some of you in Valencia. If not, send help.

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Priyanka Sharma – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022:

Schedule
Register - in-person or virtually
Health + Safety
Vaccines + Masks for Safe In-Person Events

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From Kubernetes to PaaS - now what?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 04 May 2022 08:45:00 -0700

Today we talk to Mark Ericksen about all the things that we could be doing on the new platform - this is a follow-up to episode 50.

Mark specialises in Elixir, he hosts the Thinking Elixir podcast, and he also helps make Fly.io the best place to run Phoenix apps, such as changelog.com. In the interest of holding our new platform right, we thought that it would be a great idea to talk to someone that does this all day, every day, for many years now.

We touch up on how to run database migrations safely, and how to upgrade our application config to the latest Phoenix version. We also talked about some of the more advanced platform features that we may want to start leveraging, like the multi-region PostgreSQL.

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Kaizen! We are flying ✈️

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:30:00 -0700

This is our 5th Kaizen where we talk about the next improvement to changelog.com: we are now running on Fly.io and our PostgreSQL is managed. This is a migration that many were curious about, including Simmy de Klerk, the person that requested this episode.

After migrating all our media files to AWS S3 (check episode 40), we thought that this part was going to be easy. Plan met reality. Pull request 407 has all the details.

We want to emphasise the type of partner relationships that we seek at Changelog & why they are important to us, as well as to our listeners. Honeycomb & Fly embody the principles that we care about, and Gerhard thinks that we are currently missing a Kubernetes partner.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

PR #407 - ✈️ Migrate changelog.com to Fly.io ✈️

changelog.com March 2022 - Requests & Bytes served changelog.com April INCOMPLETE 2022 - Requests & Bytes served changelog.com March 2022 - Miss latency 95pc changelog.com April INCOMPLETE 2022 - Miss latency 95pc

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Improving an eCommerce fulfilment platform

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:15:00 -0700

Alex Sims, a Senior Software Engineer at James & James, an eCommerce fulfilment company, reached out to us about the Kaizen story of the third-party logistics (3PL) platform that he has been involved with for several years now.

The system delivered 16 millions of orders in 10 years, and 4.5 million in the last year alone. All the numbers are going up, and there is only so much that a single PHP monolith deployed as VM images can handle. So how do you even start thinking about the architectural improvements, and inspire everyone involved to move towards better?

We encourage you to look at the architectural diagrams in the show notes, especially the 10 year roadmap, and ask Alex for a blog post follow-up. While today’s episode was a good conversation starter, there is a lot that we did not have time to cover.

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Show Notes:

James & James - eCommerce Fulfilment Services

☝️ First improvement to the ecommerce fulfilment system ☝️ ☝️ The 10 year roadmap that Alex imagines ☝️

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Launching Dagger

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:00:00 -0700

In this episode we talk about launching Dagger with all four founders: Andrea, Eric, Sam & Solomon.

While you may remember Sam & Solomon from episode 23, this time we assembled all four superheroes in this story and went deeper, covering nearly three years of refinements, the launch, as well as the world-class team & community that is coming together to solve the next problem of shipping software. Container images and Kubernetes are great steps in the right direction, but now it’s time for the next leap into the future.

You can use Dagger to run your CI/CD pipelines locally, without needing to commit and push. You can also use Dagger as a Makefile alternative, which resonates with Gerhard, but go further and your perspective on documentation & automation may start shifting.

Gerhard believes that this is the Docker moment of CI/CD.

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Eric Bardin – LinkedIn, X
Sam Alba – GitHub, X
Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎧 Ship It #23: A universal deployment engine
📰 Public launch announcement
💬 Dagger launch discussion on Hacker News
✨ dagger.io: A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
🐙 dagger/dagger on GitHub

github.com/dagger/dagger stars after 3 days Dagger Launch - NASDAQ billboard

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The Docker Swarm story

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0700

This episode was requested by Tyler Smith who feels that he may not need Kubernetes just yet. Tyler has a few questions about Docker & Docker Swarm, so Andrea Luzzardi, former Docker Swarm Lead, joins us today to answer them.

We talk about Docker Swarm beginnings, some of the challenges that it faced, and what Andrea’s recommendation is for Tyler’s journey with Docker Swarm.

After dedicating four years of his professional career to Docker Swarm, Andrea is the best person that Gerhard knows to talk about this subject. And guess what, the same thing happened now as it did at KubeCon 2015: Sam pointed to Andrea. It will all make sense in the first five minutes. This one is going to be fun!

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Andrea Luzzardi – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Scale Testing Docker Swarm to 30,000 Containers (and 1,000 nodes) - November 2015
🎬 Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, KubeCon NA 2015
🎬 Docker Orchestration, Cloud Field Day 2016
Speakerdeck: Heart of the SwarmKit: Topology Management, July 2016
From Docker to Docker Swarm: The new changelog.com setup for 2019

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A simpler alternative to cert-manager

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:40:00 -0700

Nabeel Sulieman, Senior Software Engineer at Vercel, talks about KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager that he built. Gerhard tried it out, and he thinks that Nabeel is onto something. If you want to see the video that they recorded, ping us on Twitter or Slack.

We love this story, especially the long-term approach of working on something that one truly believes in, and the only reason is because it’s fun. The world needs more people like Nabeel, and we hope that this episode inspires you to go all out, and do just that.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Sep 2020: cert-manager issue #3238 that kicked the KCert idea off
Oct 2020: Kubernetes SSL certs the “Hard Way”
Feb 2021: KCert in practice after a few months
Mar 2021: KCert is ready for broader usage
Feb 2022: KCert v1.0
KCert today

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Swiss Quality Assurance

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0700

Pia Wiedermayer, Lead QA at Zühlke, is talking with Gerhard today about software quality. If the name sounds familiar, check out episode 28. Thank you Romano for the introduction 👋🏻

Do you remember the last time that you used an app, whether it was in the browser or on your mobile, and everything just worked? What about that intuitive feel, snappiness and you achieving the task that you intended to without feeling that you are fighting tech? Experiences like those take a lot of effort across multiple disciplines. They are designed, built and maintained over long periods of time. It all starts with people like Pia that really care about quality. It’s so much more than just automated testing…

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Fundamentals

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:00:00 -0700

Today’s conversation with Kelsey Hightower showed Gerhard what he was missing in his quest for automation and Kubernetes. The fundamentals that Kelsey shares will most certainly help you level up your game.

This is a follow-up to the last 45 seconds of the Kubernetes documentary.

Oh, and we finally cleared where we should run our changelog.com PostgreSQL database 🙂

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

The 45 seconds that started this conversation

🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1
🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 2
🎬 Kubernetes The Easy Way! - KubeCon NA 2017
🎬 Kelsey, Kubernetes, and GitOps - GitHub Universe 2020
🎬 Kelsey Hightower’s Best Live Demo Yet - Cloud Next ’18
🎬 The future of Kubernetes - The DEVOPS Conference 2022
Google Cloud Run
kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

@lawik follow-up: Fundamentals & Deployment

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Rails Active Deployment

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:30:00 -0800

In this week’s episode Cameron Dutro, a software engineer at GitHub, Ship It listener and someone with an extraordinary attention to detail, joins us to talk about Kuby, a convention-over-configuration approach to deploying Rails apps.

The question that we will be trying to answer is what happened to Rails Active Deployment. The path to that promise land is paved with good intentions, but it’s complicated.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Deploy Your Rails App the Easy Way
getkuby/kuby-core
getkuby/kube-dsl
🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast #339 kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
github.com/gerhard/deliver
deliver - LRUG, March 2013
github.com/edeliver/edeliver

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Kubernetes in Kubernetes

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 07:00:00 -0800

This week we have the pleasure of Rich Burroughs, Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast.

We talk about multitenancy in Kubernetes and how to run Kubernetes in Kubernetes with vcluster. If you are using KiND, you will find this episode interesting, and maybe even helpful.

We also talk about the role that Kelsey Hightower played in Rich joining the CNCF ecosystem. The key take-away is that people make all the difference.

ADHD is something that Rich thinks about often. Gerhard was curious about the difference between ADHD and burnout, as well as this Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎙 Kelsey Hightower on Kube Cuddle
🎙 Dave Fogle and Kris Nova on Kube Cuddle
What is vcluster?
github.com/loft-sh/vcluster
🎬 Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs - KubeCon NA 2021
🎬 Hands-on introduction to vcluster - Rakwode Live
Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails

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Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:00:00 -0800

In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Mauricio Salatino (@salaboy) about the Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes book that he is currently writing.

Mauricio is a Staff Engineer at VMware where he spends most of his time contributing to Knative, an open source platform for running serverless workloads on Kubernetes. Gerhard & Mauricio spent a few months in 2021 working on Knative Eventing, and they both appreciate shipping great software continuously. Mauricio helped ship Knative 1.0.

The from-monolith-to-k8s application used throughout this book has been a few years in the making. It doubles-up as a workshop-style guide for rearchitecting a Java monolith to a Cloud Native architecture running in Kubernetes.

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Kaizen! New beginnings

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0800

We finally did it! All our static files are served from AWS S3. This is the most significant improvement to our app’s architecture in years, and now we have unlocked the next level: multi-cloud. We talk about that at length, and how it fits in our 2022 setup. The TL;DR is that changelog.com will fly, both literally and figuratively.

We also address Steve’s comment that he left on our previous Kaizen episode - thanks Steve!

Towards the end, we talk about Gerhard’s new beginnings at Dagger, where he gets to work with a world-class team and build the next-gen CI/CD. That’s right, Gerhard is now walking the Ship It talk all day, every day. If you want to watch him code live, you can do so every Thursday, in our weekly community session.

Kaizen!

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎧 Jerod tells our Elixir story on Beam Radio
PR #400 - Move assets to S3
PR #399 - 🎁 Auto-restoring K8s clusters for our 2022 setup
PR #395 - 🎁 CI/CD Lego set -Dagger for our 2022 CI/CD
Wireguard connects our GitHub Actions & Gerhard’s local dev to a remote Docker Engine running on Linux
🔈 Ship It #33 - Merry Shipmas!
🎧 Ship It #22 - It’s crazy and impossible - my guiding principles for finding a new team
🎙 Founders Talk #86 - Bringing observability superpowers to all - we have a lot in common with Honeycomb

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Haunted codebases & complex ops

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:30:00 -0800

This week we are talking to Robin Morero, the person behind fabled.se, a DevOps consultancy from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their motto is “move faster and prosper”, which Gerhard prefers to the initial “move fast and break things”.

Fabled works with startups primarily, and after 26 years, Robin has a few interesting insights to share. What do you think, are haunted codebases real? At what point do pull requests become harmful? What about k3s running on KVM as a simple starting point for production? If this reminds you of #7, and the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars, it’s no coincidence.

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Robin Morero – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
k0s - a single binary k8s with zero host dependencies
Open Application Model
Ship / Show / Ask - A modern branching strategy

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Go for the bananas

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 07:00:00 -0800

Gunnar Holwerda (Engineering Manager) and Tom Pansino (DevOps Team Lead) share with us a few stories about how the teams at opensesame.com manage AWS operational complexity. The first link in the episode show notes are the slides that Tom & Gunnar prepared for this conversation. Check them out as you hear us speak about the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre, and why you should always go for the bananas.

If you like this episode, and have a similar story to share, please reach out to us. We all love real-world stories that we can learn from, and perhaps contribute to.

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Tom Pansino – GitHub, LinkedIn
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🗂Account Bootstrap Intro and Setup
🗞AWS Account structure patterns
📄AWS Docs about multi account structure
📚Key Concepts from Team Topologies
Terraform VPC module that we were able to augment and leverage to deliver VPCs to all of our teams
📄Communication barriers in organizations and creating effective communication APIs

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Building fully declarative systems with Nix

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:30:00 -0800

Vincent Ambo –the person behind nixery.dev, tvl.fyi, and a former Google engineer– shares his take on monorepos, Nix, and fully declarative systems without any Flux, Argo or Kubernetes.

While the tooling is impressive, it’s the principles behind it that captivated Gerhard’s imagination. Vincent has a rather interesting take on the monorepository idea, including one change - one version - one deploy. There are a lot of interesting links in the show notes, including all the code that Vincent uses to manage infrastructure.

As a result of this conversation, Gerhard is running Nix on one of his Macs, and also started experimenting with his first NixOS production instance.

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Show Notes:

Nixery - just-in-time container images via the Nix package manager
Nixery: Improved Layering Design
Nix, The One Pager - (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language
NixOS - Reproducible builds and deployments
Tvix: We are rewriting Nix
Feature Request: Bring nix builds to buildkit
buildGo - an alternative Nix build system for Go
The Virus Lounge - TVL - build systems and monorepo socialising in the year of the pandemic
TVL Code Reviews
TVL Monorepo - Gerrit
Just One Single History - JOSH - combines the advantages of monorepos with those of multirepos
🗂One Minute Presubmits - Eric Burnett, Google - London Build Meetup 2019
Trustix: Solving trust in binary distribution and software builds
Trustix: Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches

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Keep on-call simple

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:00:00 -0800

Gerhard loves simple ideas executed well, which is why he is excited to be speaking today with Ildar Iskhakov & Matvey Kukuy about their startup Amixr, a.k.a. Grafana OnCall.

Ildar & Matvey started with a simple idea and a simple stack - Django, Celery, RabbitMQ & MySQL - all running on Kubernetes. Because they kept their main thing their main thing, and kept improving it every day for a couple of years, now your on-call can be simple too.

This is another Big Tent philosophy story with a Black Swan moment towards the end.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Announcing Grafana OnCall
Amixr, Matvey’s & Ildar’s startup that joined the Grafana family
Wikipedia - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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How I found my lost network packets

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:00:00 -0800

Today Gerhard shares the entire story behind his lost packets. He is talking with Drew Marshall, director at Trunk Networks and No One Internet, a Cloud Services Provider & ISP based in Sussex, UK.

Gerhard’s Vodafone ISP gateway was losing packets, and recording some of the previous episodes used to be challenging as his internet connection would cut out up to 10 seconds at a time, multiple times per recording session. He was convinced that his Unifi Dream Machine Pro was not the issue. Drew helped Gerhard realise that it actually was. Not only has Gerhard’s DNS latency improved by 3x, but he can now fail-over between two WAN connections. And because nothing beats a real-world experiment, you can guess what is coming in this episode 😉

You will find latency & packet loss graphs, speed test runs, and a few other interestings in the show notes. We hope that they inspire you to setup a better home network. Most importantly, may you find your humble & brilliant Drew.

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Show Notes:

Gerhard’s issue with ISP gateway timeouts
Vodafone UK Community: Periodic 100% packet loss
Fair Internet Report: Trunk Networks
nefilim/pinger - simple network latency and packet loss monitor using Grafana and Prometheus
Grafana dashboard: Internet-QoS.json
MikroTik 5009UG text config export

ISP gateway timeouts - Unifi UDM Pro PPPoE - The initial problem in a screenshot ISP gateway timeouts - Vodafone PPPoE - This is what the ISP-provided router experience looks like ISP gateway timeouts - MikroTik RB2011 PPPoE DNS latency with MikroTik RB5009 on Vodafone Gerhard's MikroTik RB5009 setup Gerhard's Unifi setup Gerhard's Unifi network topology Vodafone speedtest with MikroTik RB5009 - Primary connection Trunk Networks speedtest with MikroTik RB5009 - Backup connection Gerhard's MikroTik RB201...

Where is the cloud native App Store?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:30:00 -0800

In our first 2022 episode, Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks, is talking to Gerhard about going fully remote, what a great team looks like, and GitOps. While you may have heard of GitOps, now is a good time to check out opengitops.dev.

The most interesting part of today’s conversation is the missing cloud native App Store. While Apple revolutionised the world with the App Store and the iPhone, we don’t yet have something similar for cloud native apps. You may be thinking “But what about OperatorHub?”, or all the Helm registries out there? The registry fragmentation, operator deprecations and lack of curation are not what people have in mind when they think App Store. But there is more to it, so let’s hear how Alexis thinks about this.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

What is GitOps?
What is OpenGitOps?
🎬 Creating the Enterprise App Store - GitOpsCon NA 2021 Keynote
🎬 GitOps Maturity Model - GitOps Days 2021
How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
Notes on GitOps potential role in compliance
🎬 A Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with GitOps at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN

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🎄 Merry Shipmas 🎁

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 04:00:00 -0800

Merry Shipmas! This is our special Christmas episode which sums up two months of very early mornings and a few late nights. After many twists and turns, stuff which didn’t work out, as well as pleasant surprises, this is what we ended up with:

🎁 PR #395 - CI/CD Lego set with Guillaume de Rouville & Joel Longtine
🎁 PR #396 - Continuous CPU profiling with Frederic Branczyk
🎁 PR #399 - Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters with Dan Mangum & Muvaffak Onuş

While we initially intended to have five Christmas presents in total, only three got delivered in time. We planned, worked hard and eventually shipped the best we could just in time for this special Christmas episode. Our hope is that the latest additions to our changelog.com GitHub repository will help you just as much as they will help our 2022 setup.

🎄Merry Shipmas everyone! 🎄

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Joel Longtine – Website, GitHub, X
Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
Dan Mangum – Website, GitHub, X
Muvaffak Onuş – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎁 PR #395: CI/CD Lego set
🎁 PR #396: Continuous CPU profiling
🎁 PR #399: Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters

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Crossing the platform gap

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:45:00 -0800

In 2014 Gerhard joined CloudCredo, a startup co-founded by Colin Humphreys, Paula Kennedy & Chris Hedley. They stuck together through two acquisitions: Pivotal & VMware. This year, Colin, Paula & Chris co-founded Syntasso, the Platform-as-a-Product startup.

Today they all get together to talk about about what it takes to build a platform team, why Team Topologies is a good conversation starter and why a curated blend of off-the-shelf, composed, and self-created services are required in any organisation operating at scale.

Your hunch is right, all of them used to share the same Pivotal London office with Tammer Saleh, our guest from episode 31. Chris used to win all table tennis matches without even breaking a sweat, and today Gerhard gets his comeback. Touché!

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Paula Kennedy – Website, X
Chris Hedley – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Crossing the Platform Gap
🎬 Crossing the Platform Gap - DevOps Enterprise Summit US 2021 (requires free account to watch)
Kratix is a framework for building Platform-as-a-Product

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Is Kubernetes a platform?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:45:00 -0800

Tammer Saleh, founder of SuperOrbital and former VP of Engineering at Pivotal, is joining Gerhard to talk about table tennis, remote work, and challenges that teams have with K8s.

Some years ago, both Tammer & Gerhard used to work in the same London office on CloudFoundry, and nowadays they are both into Kubernetes. Tammer and the SuperOrbital team are deeply experienced in this topic, and they help teams at companies like Bloomberg, Shopify, and federal U.S. agencies tackle hard Kubernetes and DevOps problems through engineering and training.

Why do companies need Kubernetes in the first place? Which are the right reasons for choosing it? Is Kubernetes a platform? Gerhard’s favourite: we are doing Kubernetes wrong, but it works better than when we were doing it right, so what’s up with that? This last one was a lot of fun, and we left the entire minute of laughter in at your request. Enjoy!

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Show Notes:

Comparing The Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Vision of DevOps
Evaluating Kubernetes Behavior during Resource Exhaustion
AWS Nitro Enclaves on EKS
A Modern Cloud Vocabulary: Declarative (vs Imperative), Convergence, Idempotence & Immutability
UNIX Programming by Example: runit

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Kaizen! Are we holding it wrong?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:15:00 -0800

This is our third Kaizen episode in which Adam, Jerod & Gerhard talk about GitOps the wrong way, ask questions with Honeycomb and realise that they must be holding the CDN wrong, and the effort that has been going into moving all changelog.com static files from regular volumes to an S3-like object store. If you like a good yak shake, listening to this one is a lot more fun than doing it.

Gerhard is most excited about the Ship It Christmas gifts that we have been preparing for you. While GitHub Codespaces is not going to be part of the upcoming Christmas special episode, today’s talk covers why investing in a Codespaces integration is worth it.
Changelog #459 and Backstage #20 are related to this topic.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

What is GitOps?
Fastly log streaming to Honeycomb
Honeycomb Kubernetes Starter Pack
newsletter links-proxy encodes special urls - issue #394
Changelog #459
Backstage #20
GitPod - Always ready to code
GitHub Codespaces - Blazing fast cloud developer environments
SPOILER: shipit-christmas-gifts

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Find the infrastructure advantage

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0800

Zac Smith, managing director Equinix Metal, is sharing how Equinix Metal runs the best hardware and networking in the industry, why pairing magical software with the right hardware is the future, and what Open19 means for sustainability in the data centre. Think modular components that slot in (including CPUs), liquid cooling that converts heat into energy, and a few other solutions that minimise the impact on the environment.

But first, Zac tells us about the transition from Packet to Equinix Metal, his reasons for doing what he does, as well as the things that he is really passionate about, such as the most efficient data centres in the world and building for the love of it.

This is a great follow-up to episode 18 because it goes deeper into the reasons that make Gerhard excited about the work that Equinix Metal is doing. This conversation with Zac puts it all into perspective.

By the way, did you know that Equinix stands for Equality in the Internet Exchange?

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Zac Smith – Website, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Open 19 - Open Hardware for The Rest of Us
🎧 Ship It! #18: Bare metal meets Kubernetes
Equinix Metal’s 2021 Swings and Misses
The Liquid Cooling Imperative
Why It’s Harder to Get a Server Into Sydney than a Satellite Into Space?
Five Predictions for Hardware in 2021
Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
🎬 Proximity User Conference

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What does good DevOps look like?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:30:00 -0800

This week Gerhard is chatting with Romano Roth, Head of DevOps at Zühlke, a company founded by Gerhard Zühlke in 1968. Nowadays they help companies all over the world build, ship and run anything from factory robots, to AI assistants in complex regulatory environments, and even medical devices that perform autonomous robotic surgery.

When Romano is not leading a team of 30 software engineers that specialise in operations, infrastructure and cloud, he is one of the organisers of DevOps Days Zürich, and also the DevOps Meetup group, which is how Gerhard and Romano met in 2019.

Having started his career as a .Net developer back in 2002, Romano had his fair share of dev and ops challenges, and he always enjoys seeing real business value delivered continuously in an automated way. In recent years, Romano’s perspective broadened, and now he sees DevOps realities across many companies. If you are curious about what good DevOps looks like, and what are the real challenges, then Romano has some good insights for you.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎟Make Your System Observable - BETA
DevOpsDays Zürich 2021 - 🎬Videos & 📸Pictures
DevOpsDays Zürich 2022
🎬 What are the top DevOps trends in 2021?
🎬 Participatory Budgeting Financing in the 21st Century

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OpenTelemetry in your CI/CD

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:15:00 -0800

In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Cyrille Le Clerc, Product Manager Lead on Observability at Elastic, and Oleg Nenashev, Principal Engineer at CloudBees.

It all started with Oleg’s tweet back in July, in which he was promoting Akihiro Kiuchi’s work on Jenkins monitoring with OpenTelemetry. This was done in the context of Google’s Summer of Code - a link to Akihiro’s demo is in the show notes.

As you may remember from episode 20, instrumenting our changelog.com pipeline is on Gerhard’s mind, and this conversation helped him clarify a few things. If you are thinking of instrumenting your CI/CD pipeline with OpenTelemetry, this episode is for you.

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Oleg Nenashev – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Oleg’s tweet that started this discussion
🎬 CDF GSoC 2021 - Jenkins Remote Monitoring - Akihiro Kiuchi
The ecosystem of CI / CD tools that integrates in #OpenTelemetry - Cyrille
OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
🎬 Tracing Your Jenkins Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and Jaeger
🎬 Embracing Observability in Jenkins with OpenTelemetry - Cyrille Le Clerc, September 2021
DevOps World 2021 - watch all sessions on-demand
Jenkinsfile Runner roadmap - Discussion
jenkinsci/opentelemetry-plugin
The OpenTelemetry Maven Extension
Ansible OpenTelemetry Plugin

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Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 2

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 12:00:00 -0700

In the second set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021, Gerhard and Liz Rice talk about eBPF superpowers - Cilium + Hubble - and what’s it like to work with Duffie Cooley.

Jared Watts shares the story behind Crossplane reaching incubating status, and Dan Mangum tells us what it was like to be at this KubeCon in person. Dan’s new COO role (read Click Ops Officer) comes up.

David Ansari from VMware speaks about his first KubeCon experience both as an attendee and as a speaker. The RabbitMQ Deep Dive talk that he gave will be a nice surprise if you watch it - link in the show notes.

Dan Lorenc brings his unique perspective on supply chain security, and tells us about the new company that he co-founded, Chainguard. How to secure container images gets covered, as well as one of the easter eggs that Scott Nichols put in chainguard.dev.

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David Ansari – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Dan Lorenc – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Liz Rice, Cilium

Jared Watts & Dan Mangum, Crossplane

David Ansari, first KubeCon talk

🎬 RabbitMQ on Kubernetes Deep Dive - David Ansari, VMware - KCNA 2021

Dan Lorenc, Chainguard

🎬 Sigstore: How We Started, Where We Are, Where We are Headed - Bob Callaway & Dan Lorenc - KCNA 2021
sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
Chainguard - Applying Zero-Trust principles to supply chain security

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Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 1

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0700

This is Gerhard’s first set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021.

William Morgan shares with us some of the finer Linkerd details, such as the underlying security theme, why native Kubernetes objects are preferable to more CRDs, and the joy of meeting team members in person.

Frederic Branczyk speaks about Parca, a new continuous system profiling tool that uses eBPF to help you understand what is happening on your hosts.

Andrew Rynhard gives us a great Talos OS and Kubespan perspective, and shares some really good follow-up videos on these topics.

The last conversation is with David Flanagan - you know him as Rawkode - about new beginnings. It’s only been less than two months since we’ve had him in episode 18, and he kept really busy. Caleb, his 3 weeks old baby boy, was the youngest attendee at this conference, and some talks made him sleepy, so good job everyone.

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William Morgan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
Andrew Rynhard – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

William Morgan, Linkerd

Frederic Branczyk, Parca

What Does the Future Hold for Observability? - Tom Wilkie & Frederic Branczyk - KubeCon EU 2019
parca.dev - start profiling in seconds - Introducing Parca
Frederic’s new coffee machine, one of his secrets for shipping new Parca features quickly
Polar Signals Careers - a careers page to use for inspiration
On Building Company Culture

Andrew Rynhard, Talos OS

Talos is a modern OS for Kubernetes
🎬 COSI: The Common Operating System Interface - Steven Borrelli & Andrew Rynhard - KubeCon EU 2021
🎬 Playing with KubeSpan at home - Andrey Smirnov - Setting up KubeSpan on Talos 0.13 for a hybrid home cluster: QEMU VMs, Raspberry Pi 4 and AWS Graviton instances
🎬 Managing bare-metal Kubernetes with Sidero

David Flanagan, new beginnings

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Connecting your daily work to intent & vision

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:45:00 -0700

This week Gerhard is talking with Arnaud Porterie, founder of EchoesHQ, a new utility that measures and communicates engineering activity.

They start by re-creating the 60 seconds Y Combinator pitch, and then shift focus to what it was like to get EchoesHQ off the ground. Next, they tackle something which is always on Gerhard’s mind: Why is it important to connect our daily engineering activity to intent?

Before EchoesHQ, Arnaud used to run the core team and the open source project at Docker, and combined with other engineering leadership roles that he held for over a decade, he kept encountering misalignment that was preventing organisations from making meaningful progress. Let’s hear why EchoesHQ might just be a great way of addressing this.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

EchoesHQ in one tweet: Photo 2
Echoes HQ on Product Hunt
The ticketing conundrum
Here’s some lesser-known products we use on a daily basis at @Echoes_HQ which deserve a shoutout
I turned 0x26 yesterday and I cannot wait to build this
How Docker broke in half
🎬 Start with why - How great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound 2009
🎸 Pink Floyd - Echoes (Remastered)

EchoesHQ - September 2021 screenshot

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A universal deployment engine

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:15:00 -0700

In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Sam Alba, Docker’s first employee, and Solomon Hykes, the Docker co-founder. Together with Andrea Luzzardi, they are the creators of Dagger, a universal deployment engine that trades YAML for CUE, and uses Buildkit as the runtime.

Why? Because we should stop rewriting the same application deployment logic in scripts, makefiles or continuous delivery configuration. That’s right, this is the YAML vaccine that we have all been waiting for.

Gerhard believes that one day, Dagger will become just as meaningful for application delivery, as Docker is today for application code.

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Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Dagger docs - request early access via dagger.io
Introducing Buildkit - 2017 - Tõnis Tiigi
Learn about CUE’s theoretical basis and what makes it different
🎙 CUE: Configuration superpowers for everyone | GoTime #163
🎬 Hands-on Introduction to Dagger | Rawkode Live
🎙The Return of Docker/Dagger’s Solomon Hykes | POPCAST #75

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It's crazy and impossible

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:00:00 -0700

Today we have a very special episode, where Gerhard gets to share his favourite learnings from Steve Jobs. If it wasn’t for his determination to build a better personal computer, Gerhard would have most likely continued with a career in physics.

We know what you’re thinking: it’s crazy and impossible to interview Steve Jobs, but on his 10th memorial anniversary, Gerhard was determined to combine the things that Steve said with his passion for computers, automation, and infrastructure.

Live your life and ship your best stuff because there’s nothing like the present.

Thank you, Steve.

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Steve Jobs – Website
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Apple - Remembering Steve
MIT - 100 Years of the Quantum
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington State
Mac OS 9
iMac G3
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
“Bicycle for the Mind” - Medium blog post by Steven Sinofsky
Understanding the GitHub flow
Start with why - How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek, TEDxPugetSound
Ship It! #16 - Optimize for smoothness not speed with Justin Searls
Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast - Medium blog post by Michael Fisher
The Mythical Man-Month
kelseyhightower/nocode
Changelog #459 - Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
NeXTSTEP
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 1947 - 2011
Steven C. Wheelwright
Jony Ive

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Learning from incidents

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:00:00 -0700

Things go wrong all the time. We all make mistakes. And that is okay. What is not okay, is to think that it won’t happen, or that there will be someone else around when it does. In that moment, it doesn’t matter who wrote that module, package or microservice. But there is a better way to think about this, and there is an approach that makes people actually look forward to incidents.

It all starts with thinking of incidents as opportunities to learn, and then share those learnings with everyone, so that you can all improve. In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Stephen Whitworth and Chris Evans, incident.io co-founders, and former Staff Engineers at Monzo.

They get it, we get it, and now you can get it too.

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Stephen Whitworth – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Linear - The issue tracking tool you’ll enjoy using
Loom - Record quick videos of your screen and cam
incident.io - Product Roadmap
CircleCI - Continuous Integration and Delivery
Heroku - Cloud Application Platfrom
Incidents are for everyone - Stephen’s favourite blog post
Learning from incidents - Formula 1 - Chris’ favourite blog post
Why more incidents is no bad thing - Gerhard’s favourite blog post

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Kaizen! Five incidents later

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0700

This is our second Kaizen episode, where Adam, Jerod & Gerhard talk about changelog.com improvements since episode 10. OK, so Gerhard deleted the DNS API token. Not only did he take the time to understand how that happened, so that he could actually learn from his mistake, but now we have a system in place so that we can share learnings from incidents. By the way, these are publicly available in our #incidents Slack channel.

A great & unexpected thing that happened since we recorded this episode, is Jerod fixing 99% of all the errors that were happening in prod. The top error was the broken Twitter auth - sorry Matt - which was a result of us upgrading to OTP 24 a few months back. Episode 3 show notes include a YouTube stream which captures it all.

We wrap up this episode by each of us sharing the improvements that we would like to do until our next Kaizen. You heard it from Adam first: Ship It Driven Development

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

changelog.com PR#378
Oban: Robust job processing for Elixir
changelog.slack.com #incidents
Incident.io: Our incidents platform
DNSimple: Our DNS provider
Fastly: Our content delivery network
Linode - Connectivity Issue - US-East (Newark)
Linode - Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine
Linode Global Infrastructure
Sentry: Our error tracking
Jerod: This is what happens when @gerhardlazu…
Founderstalk #80: Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases
🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
🎬 Live Debugging the Changelog’s Production Kubernetes | Rawkode Live, September 2021

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Real-world implications of shipping many times a day

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:25:00 -0700

This week Emile Vauge, founder & CEO of Traefik, joins Gerhard to share a story that started as a solution to a 2000 microservices challenge, the real-world implications of shipping many times a day for years, and the difficulties of sustaining an inclusive and healthy open-source community while building a product company.

Working every day on keeping the open-source community in sync with the core team was an important lesson. The second learning was around big changes between major versions.

The journey from Travis CI to Circle CI, then to Semaphore CI and eventually GitHub Actions is an interesting one. The automation tools inspired by the Mymirca ant colony is a fascinating idea, executed well. There is more to discover in the episode.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Traefik documentation & build GitHub Actions workflows
mixtus creates PRs with documentation changes
structor creates multiple versions of a Mkdocs documentation
The Mymirca colony
Announcing Traefik Proxy 2.5

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Bare metal meets Kubernetes

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:00:00 -0700

In this episode, Gerhard talks to David and Marques from Equinix Metal about the importance of bare metal for steady workloads. Terraform, Kubernetes and Tinkerbell come up, as does Crossplane - this conversation is a partial follow-up to episode 15.

David Flanagan, a.k.a. Rawkode, needs no introduction. Some of you may remember Marques Johansson from The new changelog.com setup for 2019. Marques was behind the Linode Terraforming that we used at the time, and our infrastructure was simpler because of it!

This is not just a great conversation about bare metal and Kubernetes, there is also a Rawkode Live following up: Live Debugging Changelog’s Production Kubernetes 🙌🏻

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David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
Marques Johansson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

David’s tweet that made this episode happen
This is how Gerhard met Marques
Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service!
Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
Equinix Metal Crossplane provider and Terraform provider
Kubernetes Cluster API
Fly.io: The 5-hour CDN
🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
🎬 Klustered #11 - Kris Nova & Thomas Strömberg

#7 Why Kubernetes? was mentioned, as well as the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars Wikman.

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Docs are not optional

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 08:15:00 -0700

On this week’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Kathy Korevec, former Senior Director of Product at GitHub, and now Vercel’s Head of Product. Docs play an essential role in GitHub Actions, and Gerhard’s experience has proven that. Building, testing, and shipping code with GitHub Actions works better because of their excellent docs. However, the docs that Kathy pictures are not what you are imagining. She explains it best in her post, Maybe it’s time we re-think docs, which is what started this whole conversation.

The bottom line is, just as you wouldn’t ship untested code, shipping code without documentation is not optional. Today’s conversation with Kathy explains why.

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Optimize for smoothness not speed

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0700

This week Gerhard is joined by Justin Searls, Test Double co-founder and CTO. Also a 🐞 magnet. They talk about how to deal with the pressure of shipping faster, why you should optimize for smoothness not speed, and why focusing on consistency is key. Understanding the real why behind what you do is also important. There’s a lot more to it, as its a nuanced and complex discussion, and well worth your time.

Expect a decade of learnings compressed into one hour, as well as disagreements on some ops and infrastructure topics — all good fun. In the show notes, you will find Gerhard’s favorite conference talks Justin gave a few years back.

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Show Notes:

⭐️ Justin is giving the keynote at this year’s Reliable Web Summit. The topic is why distrust is at the heart of a lot of the issues we discussed and how to build trust as an individual, small team, and organization. ⭐️

It all started with this Tweet
5 for 5000: Find your Leading Indicators
🎬 The Selfish Programmer
🎬 Running a business, demystified
🎬 How to program
The most impressive Olympic event I’ve seen out of Tokyo so far

Justin Searls: If you’re a programmer and you’re happy with the work you’re doing, you’re growing in the ways you want, and you feel pushed to do your best work as opposed to work the most hours, congratulations! That’s all too rare.

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Assemble all your infrastructure

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:30:00 -0700

In this episode, Gerhard follows up on The Changelog #375, which is the last time that he spoke Crossplane with Dan and Jared. Many things changed since then, such as abstractions and compositions, as well as using Crossplane to build platforms, which were mostly ideas.

Fast forward 18 months, 2k changes, as well as a major version, and Crossplane is now an easy choice - some would say the best choice - for platform teams to declare what infrastructure means to them. You can now use Crossplane to define your infrastructure abstractions across multiple vendors, including AWS, GCP & Equinix Metal. The crazy ideas from 2019 are now bold and within reach. Gerhard also has an idea for the changelog.com 2022 setup. Listen to what Jared & Dan think, and then let us know your thoughts too.

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Jared Watts – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Cloud-native chaos engineering

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:30:00 -0700

In today’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Uma, CEO and co-founder of ChaosNative, as well as Karthik, CTO and also a ChaosNative co-founder. They talk Chaos Engineering and Litmus.

Chaos Engineering is not just for super SREs. It is not meant to prevent outages. And, it is not just about hardware. Chaos Engineering is about testing how reliable your systems are. It’s meant to show you how things fail, including when other dependent systems fail - think cascading failures. This is a good way to discover inconvenient truths about that beautiful code that you wrote. Everything fails, and great insights are to be found when it does.

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Karthik Satchitanand – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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A monorepo of serverless microservices

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 11:00:00 -0700

In this episode, Gerhard talks to his Skyhook Adventure friends: Alan Cooney, Saul Cullen & Wycliffe Maina. They are the ones that introduced Gerhard to the world of serverless in the context of Amazon Web Services. Gerhard shared his experience with remote work, how to ship software with confidence and consistency, and what to look for in infrastructure as code.

At the heart of Skyhook Adventure are adventure trips, and 2020 was not a good one for this business. As you can already tell, code and infrastructure was not the biggest challenge for this team. Having said that, serverless, microservices, a monorepo and the event-based architecture played a big part in successfully navigating the challenges.

This is a story about what happens when a good team allows itself to be guided by solid experience and keeps doing the right thing, long-term. It’s fun, real, and it applies to many.

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Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

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Alan Cooney – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
Saul Cullen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Wycliffe Maina – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Skyhook Adventure - the end-result that this team ships many times per day
📚Welcome to the Experience Economy (the book that @saulgcullen mentioned)

The skyhookadventure.com 2021 setup:

AWS Lambda - serverless functions
AWS Event Bridge - serverless events
AWS DynamoDB - serverless document based database
AWS CDK - infrastructure as code
Vercel - server-side rendered frontend hosting
GitHub - version control
GitHub Actions - continuous delivery
Split - feature flags
Drip - email marketing

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Grafana’s "Big Tent" idea

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 07:30:00 -0700

Gerhard talks to Tom Wilkie, VP of Product for Grafana Labs. They talk about Loki, Tempo, and how can Grafana Cloud offer such a generous free tier. The solution is in the Cortex architecture, which was used in Loki and in Tempo too. Yes, Tom is the Cortex co-author. We recommend that you listen to this episode in combination with episodes 3 and 11. That’s the best way to get a more complete picture of the topics that we discuss today.

Lastly, would you like to watch Gerhard & Tom pair-up and build Grafana dashboards like pros? Tom has this really interesting approach that Gerhard would like to learn too. We can either have a live YouTube stream, or record and then publish the video. Let us know your preference via our Changelog Slack, or just plain Twitter.

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Honeycomb's secret to high-performing teams

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:45:00 -0700

Gerhard talks with Charity Majors, ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io about high-performing teams, why “15 minutes or bust,” and how we should start using Honeycomb in our own monolithic Phoenix app that runs changelog.com. There is just one step, and it’s actually really simple!

They also talk about how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to learn about Honeycomb, which is one of Gerhard’s favorite questions. As for key take-aways, deploying straight into production is really important, but not as important as optimising for humans - which are not replaceable cogs, that learn and share their learnings continuously. That is the secret to making things easy and happy for everyone.

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Charity Majors – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

📚 Observability Engineering (Early Release) - Free download
🎬 The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too
What is Observability?
Define SLOs
Kubernetes is complicated
rubygems.org Fastly logs in Honeycomb
RDS Performance Degradation – Postmortem 2018
o11ycon 2021 videos
hnycon 2021 keynote

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Kaizen! The day half the internet went down

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:00:00 -0700

Kaizen means “change for the better”, continuous improvement in this context. Failure is essential to learning, but how do we learn as a team? The simplest thing is to regularly dedicate time for taking a step back, talking about what works & what doesn’t, maybe writing some of it down, and eventually deciding what we should improve next. I intend to make every 10th Ship It! episode a Kaizen one.

This is the first one when we talk with Adam and Jerod about the things that we want to improve in our setup over the next few months. We talk about how the June Fastly outage affected changelog.com, how we responded that day, and what we could do better. We discuss multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and the next sensible and obvious improvements for our app. Let us know via Slack or Twitter what learnings are valuable to you so that we can produce the best content for you.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

What does Kaizen mean? (Wikipedia)
Fastly 8th of June outage took offline The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC and Changelog. Slack, Amazon, Stackoverflow and many others were also affected
This is how it all started
@danhett becomes famous on Twitter because of this tweet
WIRED: What really went down when the internet went down
BLOOMBERG: What Is Fastly and Why a Slew of Websites Went Offline

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What is good release engineering?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:00:00 -0700

This week we talk with Jean-Sébastien Pedron, RabbitMQ and FreeBSD contributor, about the importance of good release engineering for core infrastructure. Both Jean-Sébastien and I have been part of the Core RabbitMQ team for many years now. We have built some of the biggest CI/CD pipelines (check the show notes for one example), wrote and shipped some great code together, while breaking and fixing many things in the process.

We have been wrestling with today’s topic since 2016. Jean-Sébastien has some great FreeBSD stories to share, as well as an interesting perspective on shipping graphic card drivers. Oh, and by the way, it’s probably our fault why your remote car key stopped working that afternoon. It will all make sense after you listen to this episode.

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Featuring:

Jean-Sébastien Pedron – GitHub
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

FreeBSD release engineering
Netflix and FreeBSD: Using open source to deliver streaming video
List of products based on FreeBSD
Darktable
Mesa
Erlang hot code reloading:
- Appup cookbook
- Target system principles

RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline in 2020 - each square is either a test suite, build or publish step

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Cloud Native fundamentals

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0700

Why Cloud Native? What are the guiding principles that you should keep in mind as you are choosing a project from the Cloud Native Landscape? How do you build & ship an app in a Cloud Native way? Katie Gamanji, Ecosystem Advocate @ CNCF and former cloud engineer for American Express, Condé Nast and Microsoft, joins Gerhard to cover these topics in the context of the Cloud Native Fundamentals course that she developed. 15,000 students have already enrolled, and the initial feedback has been great. Tune in if you want to know why you should too, how to do it and when the course will become available for free.

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Katie Gamanji – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

How this episode started
Cloud Native Application Architecture - Course Syllabus
15k students enrolled
KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2021 registrations are open
ArgoCD is the continuous deployment system mentioned in our conversation

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Why Kubernetes?

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Lars Wikman (independent Elixir/BEAM software consultant) why sometimes a monolith running on a single host with continuous backups and a built-in self-restore capability is everything that a small team of developers needs. That’s right, no Kubernetes or microservices. After 2 years of running changelog.com, a Phoenix monolith, on Kubernetes, what do I think? Join our discuss and find out!

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Featuring:

Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🎬Follow-up YouTube stream
Post-mortem: 10 years in the vertical: Part 1
Beam Bloggers Webring
Litestream - Continuously stream SQLite changes to an object store
Teaching Elixir & other videos
Live stream - PromEx w. Alex Koutmos
Regular Programming, conversations about software development and programming
BEAM Radio - Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem

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Money flows rule everything

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 04:00:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ian Miell, author of Docker in Practice as well as Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way. They talk about being comfortable with the uncomfortable, focusing on the tech while keeping a holistic view of the business. Following the money flows is key. Ian explains this concept really well, and Gerhard feels fairly confident you will be better off if you pay attention. Let us know in the comments!

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Featuring:

Ian Miell – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Follow-up 📖If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance

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The foundations of Continuous Delivery

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:00:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery and the inventor of the Deployment Pipeline. Today, most of us ship code the way we do because 25 years ago, Dave cared enough to drive the change that we now call CI/CD. He is one of the great software engineers: opinionated, perseverant & focused since the heydays of the internet. Dave continues inspiring and teaching us all via his newly launched YouTube channel, courses and recent books. The apprentice finally meets the master 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️

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LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

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Dave Farley – Website, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Continuous Delivery, the YouTube Channel (new video every Wednesday)
Continuous Delivery, the course
Continuous Delivery, the staple book
Continuous Delivery Pipelines, the new book
Dave Farley’s blog
TDD Quiz
Dave Farley on Twitter

Gerhard’s favourite CD videos, in order of preference:

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OODA for operational excellence

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:00:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ben Ford, former Royal Marine and founder of Commando Development, about the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act). Shipping is just a small part of it. The OODA loop that you know is probably the wrong one. We explore Mission & Command, Situational Awareness and a few other practices that will help you deal with complexity as you code and ship. As a former Royal Marine Commando, Ben learned these skills the hard way, and then refined them over many years as a software engineer. Check out the diagrams in the show notes - they are a work of art and precision.

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Ben Ford – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Ben's OODA remake of John Boyd's original Ben's representation of OODA - my favourite 💙 The OODA diagram that is easiest to remember

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Elixir observability using PromEx

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 28 May 2021 05:20:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Alex Koutmos about Elixir observability using PromEx. Why do we need to understand how our setup behaves? What is PromEx and where does PromEx fit in changelog.com?

Bonus! Tune in to our LIVE Friday evening deploy 😱 of Erlang 24 for changelog.com. Check the show notes for a link on YouTube. 🍿

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Alex Koutmos – Website, GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

prom_ex - an Elixir Prometheus metrics library built on top of Telemetry
Grafana Agent
Alex’s hex.pm packages
My.Thoughts v1
Beam Radio

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Shipping KubeCon EU 2021

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 28 May 2021 05:10:00 -0700

This week on Ship It! Gerhard is joined by Constance Caramanolis, Principal Engineer at Splunk and former maintainer of Envoy Proxy, and Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source at Cisco & self-proclaimed Caesar of Systems. Constance and Stephen are the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chairs. Join us to find out what happens before and after KubeCon gets shipped.

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Constance Caramanolis – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Stephen Augustus – X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Kubernetes Community on GitHub

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Introducing Ship It!

Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash — Fri, 28 May 2021 05:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Ship It! This is a new show from Changelog about shipping software - and all the details, challenges, and problems that surface. Changelog SRE Gerhard Lazu is taking us on a journey into the world of shipping code, infrastructure, ops, and the people making it happen.

Shipping is near and dear to every developers’ heart. We do it every day. It’s the essential first step. You have to ship it to share your ideas with the world. New episodes ship weekly.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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