SSH Chain
This has potentially interesting uses and can be somewhat effective at covering your tracks. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but in a convenient package. https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ssh-chain...
View ArticleOn Being a Senior Engineer
A very apt take on the profession, particularly the cultural component. Below is a great quote as well. The “why” piece is absolutely critical to success, regardless of how menial the task might seem....
View ArticleAWS outage
AWS had another outage last week and they posted their analysis of the event. There were a few things that really jumped out at me. Granted, it’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, not to mention...
View ArticleTechnology divide
A couple of articles surfaced in the last few days, which describe the tech operations of Obama and Romney campaigns. It’s hard to put a number on the advantage that Obama had on the tech side, but...
View ArticleSkills gap in IT security
The article tries to explain why companies have trouble hiring security pros. Some good items in there, but I think it misses the larger point. Too many companies simply don’t understand what they need...
View ArticleDo Things that Don’t Scale
I was reading the latest Paul Graham essay: “Do Things That Don’t Scale” and it got me thinking about devops, infrastructure automation and why “tools” teams fail. I am sure I am suffering through a...
View ArticleGo Language
It’s a relatively new language that came out of Google a few years ago. I’ve been playing around with it and trying to learn some of the basics. There some things that are very attractive about Go, not...
View ArticleDevops at RedHat
Observations on the challenges that guys at Red Hat had when implementing devops in their organization. I like their focus on communication and on having an MVP for a single dev team as a...
View Articledocker at devo.ps
Not a bad post on how these guys use docker. http://devo.ps/blog/docker-dos-and-donts/
View ArticleReview: Devops in Practice
I read Devops In Practice by O’Reilly. It’s more like a booklet, but I am not sure how they categorize it. Either way, it’s not a bad read. It’s authored by Paul Reed and talks about devops experiences...
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