Tom @ nycdevops meetup on Tuesday!
I'll be the speaker at this month's NYC DevOps meetup. My topic is about reforming the operations side of DevOps in a new talk called "My Operations Reform Checklist". Topic: My Operations Reform...
View ArticleLISA '18: Save on LISA registration!
LISA this year is in Nashville, TN, Oct 29-31, 2018. The full schedule is up! Registration is open! Three things you should know: This year Usenix LISA will be 3 days long, instead of the usual 7. This...
View ArticleI'll be at All-Day-DevOps: Free registration!
https://www.alldaydevops.com/ All Day DevOps is a global event held on the internet. 24 hours of talks, over 100 speakers, all streaming over the Internet. 17-Oct-2018 Registration is free! I will be...
View ArticleSREs with Windows experience? (NYC-area)
My team at Stack Overflow is looking to hire SREs with Windows experience, particularly administration of Microsoft SqlServer. If you are a system administration looking to move into more of an SRE...
View ArticleGoogle Authenticator tips
Things you might not have known about Google Authenticator: Copy and paste If you press and hold the 6-digit number, it puts it in your cut and paste buffer. Re-order the list If you click the pencil...
View ArticleTaryn's SQL upgrade blog post
Cheers to my coworker Taryn for her blog post about how she did an extremely complex series of 30 Microsoft SqlServer upgrades. If you've seen the film "Apollo 13", there's a scene where they have to...
View ArticleUnderstanding your competition is a culture
Disclaimer: I haven't worked at Google for 5+ years so this kind of story is probably outdated. I mean, how could Google not have fixed this problem in the last 10 years? In 2008 I was on a business...
View ArticleEricsson/O2 outage root cause announced
Was the root cause of the O2 outage really an expired certificate? Why wasn't the "root cause" any of these? Certificate expiration not monitored Certificate renewal process complex so that everyone...
View ArticleDevOpsDays-NYC nearly sold out! Register soon!
http://dod.nyc for details. DevOpsDays-NYC is Jan 24/25, 2019. Don't miss it!
View ArticleApril NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a tamper-evident CI/CD system
The April nycdevops Meetup is Thursday, April 18. Doors open at 6:30pm! https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/260294692/ NOTE: The meetings are now on THURSDAY. Title: How to build a tamper-evident...
View ArticleNext nycdevops meetup: Kubernetes Informers (Wed, June 19)
Robert Ross (a.k.a. Bobby Tables) will be the speaker at the next nycdevops meetup on Wed, une 19, 2019. Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/ NOTE: Different...
View ArticleDemo Data as Code
My newest article for acmQueue magazine is called Demo Data as Code: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3355565
View ArticleNovember nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack
Irina Tishelman from Sonatype will present a talk "Automate or Die - DevSecOps in the Age of Software Supply Chain Attacks" at the November 14, 2019 nycdevops meetup. The meetup meets at the Stack...
View ArticleDevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!
DevOpsdays NYC is happening March 3-4, 2020. The Call For Participation (CFP) is now open! If you have any ideas that you want to share with the local community please submit your talks using the link...
View ArticleGet your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!
DevOpsDays is about 2 weeks away! Commencing on Tuesday, March 3 and lasting for 2 days, this is the best NYC-area DevOps conference you can attend. The speaker lineup is very impressive (if I say so...
View ArticleCome work with me at Stack Overflow!
We're hiring! Come join my team at Stack Overflow, Inc. and help maintain one of the most visited websites on the internet! SREs with a Linux and web hosting focus (load balancers, Redis, web servers,...
View ArticleTime management for political sysadmins
Can you put me in contact with the "tech team" of a political campaign? I am offering my "time management for sysadmins" training pro-bono to any Dem or anti-Trump digital team, sysadmins, devops team,...
View ArticleBook: Become Ansible by Josh Duffney
My coworker Josh Duffney launches his self-published book on Ansible today! Congrats and I wish great success! Crawl, walk, run, sprint your way through learning Ansible with "Become Ansible"! Visit...
View ArticleAdarsh Shah on "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" (September...
Come one, come all! nycdevops does its first virtual meetup! All are invited! Speaker: Adarsh Shah Topic: "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" Time: Thursday, September 17, 2020, 5-630 PM Link:...
View ArticleOct 15 NYC DevOps Meetup: "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering" by...
This month's nycdevops meetup speaker is Nathen Harvey of Google, who will give a talk titled "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern) Please...
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