January, 2014
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Jan 14
Continuous Deployment… or Annoy-ment?
For episode 35, the crew takes a look at a core component of continuous delivery: the application update mechanism. We talk a bit about our collective experiences supporting update paths, how some of the players in our industry conduct their updates, and whether or not that’s actually good for customers, or it’s just a myth we hear parroted constantly. We also take a look at a couple of case studies related to continuous delivery transformations, and some myths around the implementation details of continuous delivery, ultimately trying to figure out, whether it’s customers, engineering teams, release teams, or ops teams, are the way we do updates today:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a (bunch of!) tool tips!
Or, download Episode 35, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
- 1:28 – News & Views
- GMail and Google Apps taken offline for a few hours, due to a configuration glitch
- The Onion piles on Google’s pain
(削除) Yahoo (削除ここまで)Hotmail user receives thousands of emails an hour, possibly due to this bug- Docker raises 15ドル million in latest investment round
- Attackers using unencrypted Windows crash dumps to craft exploits
- Among other things, Windows knows what devices, including your phone, you plug into your PC
- The rise of the “USB condom“
- Developer creates interactive map of the Github universe
- 9:58 – Main Segment: Continuous Deployment… or Annoy-ment?
- The original complaining tweet about bad Roku updates
- Does continuous deployment equal continuous customer disappointment?
- Customers don’t want new features?!
- Microsoft “upgrades” user machines to remove software…
- Paul’s thoughts on Tim Bray’s thoughts on updates
- 52:54 – Tool Tip
- ChefConf in April
- Config Management Camp EU in Belgium in February
- Configuration Management DevRoom at 2014 FOSDEM
- Monitorama coming to Portland in May in 2014
- Mountain West DevOps in Salt Lake City in March
- Check out devopsconferences.com for a more conferences
Tool Tip
Youssuf introduces us to jq (not “jk!”)
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What’s your opinion, as a customer, on constant updates? Silent updates?
What application architecture and testing issues have you run into while trying to adopt continuous delivery?
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Jan 14
Infrastructure As A Service… You’re Responsible For
To ring in 2014, the panel discusses some of the core elements of release engineering infrastructure for all sorts of applications, from web services to shipped-software. We talk about the challenges of coming into a new environment and having to support an existing infrastructure, a few methods for changing taking the infra over and starting to really own, and the components every build and tool infrastructure needs to address to be considered “operationalized.” We revisit some topics we’ve discussed in previous shows, but it’s always a good checklist to run through to see if you’ve got them covered in:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a (bunch of!) tool tips!
Or, download Episode 34, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
- California is being a bit of a jerk about the weather
- 1:41 – News & Views
- Redhat and CentOS teaming up; questions abound about the future of the project; GigaOM weighs in
- OpenSSL’s website hacked! (finger pointing abounds)
- Bazaar developer shares his thoughts on having worked on it for years, as the project seemingly winds down
- Facebook picks Mercurial over Git to move to and discusses what they needed to do to scale it out
- 14:35 – Main Segment: Infrastructure As A Service… You’re Responsible For
- Redesigning the pipeline: not just good advice for airspace…
- 54:10 – Tool Tip
- Paul reflects on hashing algorithms
- ChefConf 2014 in April; call for presenters open.
- Config Management Camp EU in Belgium in 2014
- Configuration Management DevRoom at 2014 FOSDEM
- Monitorama coming to Portland in May in 2014
Tool Tip
A sort of “tool tip of tool tips,” Scott Hanselman offers suggestions for developers and power users in the 2013 update to his ultimate tool list for Windows.
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What other items/services do you find are critical in your infrastructure?
What experiences have you had coming into a new environment and having to support a legacy build infrastructure?
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Music for this episode courtesy of Joe Toscano.
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