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PRACTICAL OPERATIONS PODCAST

A pragmatic podcast discussing Systems, Operations and Scaling with a focus on
real world use cases and solutions to common problems.

Hosted by Breandan Dezendorf, Breandan Dezendorf has 20 years of operations
experience, a degree in Journalism and has managed monitoring and alerting
systems for every company he's ever worked for. Ken Mink, Ken Mink has spent 30
years as a Unix Administrator and Developer. He started out on AIX and HP-UX in
the early '90s. Ken finally started using Linux in 1994 while working at
Gateway. Since then he's bounced between doing development, administration,
later HPC administration, and now DevOps. While Ken has recently spent time
handling very large HPC and database clusters, he really enjoys small SBCs. Ken
is also a long time user of MythTV. Jack Neely, Jack Neely has been in
operations for close to 20 years and finds solutions through code. Experience in
configuration management, time series based metrics, and automating platform
deployments for large companies. and Jarod Watkins. Jarod Watkins has over 12
years experience in operations at small companies and startups. Automation and
infrastructure as code are his specialty.

Practical Operations is a pragmatic podcast about the difference between running
your IT organization the "Right Way" and the Practical Way. Your hosts talk
about the theory of small to web scale operations and DevOps and then discuss
how to get the most out of these tools in practice.

Your hosts Breandan Dezendorf, Ken Mink, Jack Neely, and Jarod Watkins have over
70 years of IT experience. Practical experience in small companies and research
groups of only a handful of people to large multinational technology companies,
cloud providers, and major universities. We practice operations.


EPISODE 137 - AMIN ASTANEH

June 28, 2023

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Where we have Amin Astaneh on as a guest to discuss DevOps transitions, culture,
consultancies and how to move forward in this career.



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EPISODE 135 - RESISTING AUTOMATION

March 27, 2023

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Where we discuss people’s tendencies to resist automation of tasks, for whatever
reason.



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EPISODE 134 - CHATGPT

March 13, 2023

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Where we ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the dangers of trusting AI tools to
be correct.



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EPISODE 133 - SHADOW IT

July 25, 2022

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Where we discuss how damaging Shadow IT can be, how to identify it, how to think
about it, and some strategies for getting rid of it.



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EPISODE 132 - HOLLYWOODOS - THE NET

April 18, 2022

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Where look at Hollywood’s inability to get technology in movies even remotely
correct… this time, we’re talking about “The Net”, a 1995 Sandra Bullock movie,
where so many things are just… wrong.



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EPISODE 131 - COVID, BURNOUT, AND THE GREAT RESIGNATION

March 8, 2022

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Where we discuss the longer term effects of Covid, burnout, and The Great
Resignation.



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EPISODE 130 - VSCODE AND CLOUD IDES

February 22, 2022

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Where we discuss another thing that is eating the world - Visual Studio Code. We
also talk about IDEs in general.



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EPISODE 129 - BEYONDCORP

January 24, 2022

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Where we discuss setting up a zero-trust network access policy - what Google
referrs to as “BeyondCorp”.



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EPISODE 128 - 2021 HOW WE HAVEN'T MISSED YA

December 31, 2021

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Where we discuss the end of 2021 and what we expect in 2022.



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EPISODE 127 - SCALING HUMANS

December 12, 2021

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Where we discuss how to scale things when the human element is the limited
capacity.



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