Noah and Steve dig into observability! What is it? Why is it important? How do you use observability to get a handle on your troubleshooting?
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13:00 Caller Dustin in TX
Bank is blaming new ISP for no online bill pay
Talk to the ISP
Take machine from home to church
Try tethering to your phone
Try a VPN
Could be multiple issues
28:00 Linux News Wire
Linus Prediction
The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/26/linux_6_rc7/)
Tech Radar (https://www.techradar.com/news/linux-60-should-be-with-us-very-soon)
BTRFS Kernel Improvements
Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Async-Buffered-Writes-6.1)
Habana Labs AI
Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Habana-Labs-Linux-6.1)
AMD DRM-Next
Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Gang-Submit-6.1)
Linux Foundation European Division
The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/linux_foundation_europe/)
Wolfi Undistribution
Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/09/22/wolfi-linux-undistro-software-supply-chain-security/)
700% Rise in Malicious Activity
Info Security Magazine (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/open-source-repository-attacks-700/)
Bipartisan Security Bill
HSGAC Senate Gov (https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/peters-and-portman-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-secure-open-source-software_)
HS Today (https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/cybersecurity/senators-introduce-open-source-software-security-act/)
BigCode
Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/26/hugging-face-and-servicenow-launch-bigcode-a-project-to-open-source-code-generating-ai-systems/)
Fundraiser for Kdenlive
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/kdenlive-devs-need-your-help-to-implement-nested-timelines-new-effects-panel)
Ventoy 1.0.80
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/ventoy-1-0-80-adds-secondary-boot-menu-now-supports-more-than-1000-isos)
0 A.D. Alpha 26
Gaming on Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/free-and-open-source-rts-0-ad-alpha-26-zhuangzi-is-out-now/)
Debian 12 Bookworm Installer
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/debian-gnu-linux-12-bookworm-installer-adds-windows-11-detection-new-arm-devices)
Ubuntu Security Updates
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-users-get-new-linux-kernel-security-updates-that-patch-15-vulnerabilities)
30:00 Listener Responds to USB Port - Hank
Try all the USB ports, including on the motherboard
32:00 Church Service Streaming - Jayson
Scale Engine (https://www.scaleengine.com/)
Low Price
Live and On Demand
"push streaming"
RTMP Streams
Your own CDN
Resi (https://resi.io/)
Requires proprietary box
VERY expensive
38:00 Main Segment
Observability
Figuring out what is going on in your system
Observability is not Monitoring/Metrics
3 Parts - Collect, Monitor, Analyze
You can't look for what you don't know
Tracing
Span - specific length of time in which something happens
Traces tell you where the problem is
Dynatrace (https://www.dynatrace.com/), Sumo Logic (https://www.sumologic.com/)
Learn More
Cantrel Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE)
McAllister Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTJSsBngao)
Google SRE Book
Jaeger Tracing (https://www.jaegertracing.io/)
Open Telemetry (https://opentelemetry.io/)
Example Trace Diagram
Example Trace https://i.imgur.com/yK2rPSu.png
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