Pointer: What Current & Future Engineering Leaders Read

2020 Learnings, 2021 Expectations

- Chris Short

Trends
DevOps

tl;dr: Chris evaluates his 2020 predictions, and lays out his thoughts for 2021 - 5G and Edge will have significant impact, ARM will have a bigger 2021, live streaming becomes the norm, and the Developer Educator becomes a title.

featured in #220

Type In The Exact Number Of Machines To Proceed

Infrastructure
DevOps

tl;dr: When an enterprise has tooling allowing for changes to many machines simultaneously, by a simple shell command, errors happen. The author finds it helpful to prompt the person, before running the command, to manually enter the exact number of machines that will be affected.

featured in #214

We Can't Send Email More Than 500 Miles

- Trey Harris

Entertaining
DevOps

tl;dr: Trey gets a call from the Chairman of The Statistics Department at the college campus he was working at and is told: "we can't send mail more than 500 miles."

featured in #191

Deploys At Slack

- Michael Deng Jonathan Chang

Slack
DevOps

tl;dr: "We had to invest in greater visibility and reliability in order to accommodate the amount of work being done. This post will outline our process and a few of the major projects that got us to where we are."

featured in #180

(A Few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way

- Jan Schaumann