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DevOps Topeaks#47 - Monitoring Kubernetes NodesSend us a textIn this episode we talked about k8s nodes monitoring and as always, found ourselves going way beyondLinks - https://dotenvx.com/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-07-2754 minDevOps Topeaks#46 - Modern AI & Engineering JobsSend us a textThis week we had a debate around how AI is moving forward, the outlook on engineering jobs and how we use it daily as time progresses.Links: - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/- https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-05-091h 09DevOps Topeaks#45 - The Glorious S3Send us a textIn this episode we discussed S3 from different angles: tiering, signed links, potential risks, and awkward situations people found themselves in.Links:https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/third-party-software/others/configuring-an-amazon-web-services-static-site-to-use-cloudflare/https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/getting-started-cloudfront-overview.htmlhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/network-load-balancers-now-support-security-groups/https://coolify.io/https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-05-021h 00DevOps Topeaks#44 - K8s is a KindergartenSend us a textIn this episode we discussed K8s from scratch with some analogies and then more advanced topics:Links:https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-up-and/9781491935668/https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/redis-license-open-source/https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-brief-xz-utils-cve-2024-3094/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-03-311h 05DevOps Topeaks#43 - Caching!Send us a textThis week we talked bout all-things-caching. What it is, where to implement, the risks the tips and everything else on our minds.Linkshttps://github.com/charmbracelet/modsOmer's newsletter - https://newsletter.omerxx.comHost single page app caching - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/host-single-page-applications-spa-with-tiered-ttls-on-cloudfront-and-s3/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-01-2541 minDevOps Topeaks#42 - Realtime DevOps ConsultationSend us a textThis week we played the roles of a consultant and a customer and discussed a real world problem and approaches to understanding it and then solving it.Linkshttps://everything.npm.lol/https://clerk.com/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-01-1450 minDevOps Topeaks#41 - Auto(no)mationSend us a textThis week we talked about automating processes. Any process. whether pipelines, scripts or beyond.Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomationhttps://www.mixo.io/https://pocketbase.io/https://wails.io/https://github.com/unfor19/tfcodingMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2024-01-0539 minDevOps Topeaks#40 - ReInvent 2023 RecapSend us a textThis week we discussed main announcements that were interesting to us and we thought are worth mentioning and discussingLinks:https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorphttps://aws.amazon.com/opensource/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-12-2945 minDevOps Topeaks#39 - DevOps Leave Managers, Not CompaniesSend us a textThis week we discussed communication with, and as managers. Relationships within devops teams and outside it. How we asses it when looking for a job, while hiring or when managing teams.Links:The post Omer mentioned: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373JSON Resumee - https://jsonresume.orgresume-cli - https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-cliChatGPT - DevOps Description DynamizerOur Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaksMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-2744 minDevOps Topeaks#39 - DevOps Leave Managers, Not CompaniesThis week we discussed communication with, and as managers. Relationships within devops teams and outside it. How we asses it when looking for a job, while hiring or when managing teams.Links:The post Omer mentioned: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373https://jsonresume.orgresume-cli: https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-cliOur Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaksMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-2744 minDevOps Topeaks#38 - Squeezing the LemonSend us a textThis week we talked about when is it a good time to make changes in systems and how!Links:Post: https://blog.danslimmon.com/Topeaks Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaksGit CTF: https://www.mrnice.dev/ctf/Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/a4 terminal: https://www.a4term.com/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-1749 minDevOps Topeaks#37 - The Solution for MicroservicesSend us a textThis week we discussed a very interesting paper from Google, released just a few months back on modern cloud applications and the way they can be deployed.Links:https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90osDkqZt0https://github.com/ServiceWeaver/weaverhttps://serviceweaver.dev/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-1054 minDevOps Topeaks#36 - Evolving with AISend us a textThis week we talked about AI and how we use it and are evolving with the different tools out there. From using latest GPT options to running local models.Links:https://github.com/fathyb/carbonylhttps://ollama.ai/https://pinokio.computer/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-0638 minDevOps Topeaks#36 - Evolving with AIWe talked about AI and how we evolve with it. What's new, how we use, how we think it should be used etc.Links:https://pinokio.computerhttps://ollama.aihttps://github.com/fathyb/carbonylSecurity UnfilteredCyber Security can be a difficult field to not only understand but to also navigate....Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Gaming BlenderHave you ever wanted to design your own video game?Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: ht...2023-11-0640 minDevOps Topeaks#35 - Containers vs Serverless, Again?Send us a textHi! This week it's just Omer again, waiting and hoping for better quieter times.Discussing yet again serverless instantiations vs containers, why serverless is special, where does it fit and what is an actual valid use case.In terms of links:Newsletter: https://newsletter.omerxx.comHackthebox: https://hackthebox.comWargames: https://overthewire.org/wargamesTopgrade: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgradeGTFO bins: https://gtfobins.github.ioMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-11-0316 minDevOps Topeaks#34 - Unstable TimesSend us a textHi folks, I hope this episodes find you well, safe and in good health.This is not a standard episode and it is my short attempt at normality in these crazy days we're all going through. I hope you find some escape and maybe catch something new.Links:Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's revised webite: https://omerxx.comOmer's newsletter: https://newsletter.omerxx.comhttps://quickchart.iohttps://fly.iohttps://www.cookiecutter.ioYou can find me at:omerxx@gmail.comhttps://t.me/omerxxMe...2023-10-2710 minDevOps Topeaks#33 - Soft SkillsSend us a textThis week we talked about soft skills, based on our conversation from last week (Ep #32) it was important for us to cover a topic that's often ignored - communicating ideas, reviews and so on.Links https://mistral.ai/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-10-0649 minDevOps Topeaks#32 - Your first day as a DevOps engineerSend us a textThis weeks we discussed how to approach a new position / consultation gig. What do you tackle first? How do you map things out?This is based both on our experience (naturally), with the important aspect of us being consultants for quite a few years before moving into fulltime positions on larger companies.Links:https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorghttps://www.pulumi.comMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-09-2954 minDevOps Topeaks#31 - How to build a new projectSend us a textIn this episode we discussed something we deal with occasionally - understanding a problem or a pain, thinking of a solution, and then implementing this as a tool or a product. We share some tips that can help out when starting to build, both from the engineering side but also from Ops perspective.Linkshttps://zellij.dev/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-09-0154 minDevOps Topeaks#30 - News Flash - Hashicorp is going closed source?Send us a textHashicorp left a rather cryptic announcement last week about future releases start using the BSL license, which may have huge implications to many businesses around the world.Links:https://twitter.com/HashiCorp/status/1689733106813562880https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faqhttps://twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1690039537370824704?s=20https://twitter.com/0merxx/status/1690321901120307202?s=20https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/bram_moolenaar_obituary/https://taylor.town/-10xMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-08-1245 minDevOps Topeaks#29 - News Flash - AWS charging for IPv4 & Tel Aviv's new regionSend us a textThis week we took a break from best practices and procedures and talked about some hot news - AWS starting to charge for public IPv4 addresses - what should you do? How to mitigate, when does it start etc.The other topic was Israel's shiny new region, pricing, reasons to use and some AC considerations if you ever decide to build your own data center!Linkshttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/identify-and-optimize-public-ipv4-address-usage-on-aws/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2023-powered-by-aws-all-the-numbers/https://github.com/casey/justhttps://dagger.io...2023-08-0445 minDevOps Topeaks#28 - The Perfect PipelineSend us a textWhat's the perfect CI/CD pipeline?What is even CD?How do we implement our own and what we see as the holy grail "perfect" flow?That's our topic for this weekLinks:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/https://www.runatlantis.iohttps://k8sgpt.aihttps://12factor.netMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-07-301h 03DevOps Topeaks#27 - Chaos EngineeringSend us a textThis week we discussed Chaos Engineering, where did it come from, what it means, how can you incorporate it into daily work and plans.Linkshttps://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velerohttps://principlesofchaos.org/https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/llama-2-foundation-models-from-meta-are-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-07-2140 minDevOps Topeaks#26 - AWS Niche ServicesSend us a textThis week we talked about the services you don't normally hear when it comes to AWS: LightSail, Rekognition, Kafka, Open search, Prometheus and many more!Links:https://github.com/AlDanial/clochttps://cupogo.devhttps://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/14xyido/the_gorilla_web_toolkit_project_is_being_revived/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-07-1540 minDevOps Topeaks#25 - DevSecOpsSend us a textThis week we talked about yet another undiscussed (kidding) buzz word - "DevSecOps". What is it? Where did it come from? What falls under the category?Things mentioned:https://helix-editor.com/https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.htmlhttps://github.com/kubernetes/autoscalerMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-07-0739 minDevOps Topeaks#24 - Kubernetes: Under the HoodSend us a textThis week we went on a small adventure discovering the K8s control plane components as well as the node resource. We shared background, experience, and as usual - went too far with stories ;)Links:https://chirper.ai/https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-06-3043 minDevOps Topeaks#23 - The "Dev" in DevOpsSend us a textThis week we discussed whether "ops" engineers should know how to code, and if so, to what degree. We went into languages, frameworks, when and if should you start as a junior. We shared our views on everything around "Dev" as it relates to "Ops" when it comes to actual positions within a software company.Things mentioned:The Grand Budapest Hotelhttps://github.com/spf13/cobrahttps://github.com/spf13/viperhttps://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: h...2023-06-1648 minDevOps Topeaks#22 - Serverless BacklashSend us a textIs Amazon dropping serverless? What was the trigger to the huge backlash on serverless and microservices of the past few weeks?We discussed AWS's blog post, DHH comments, Kelsey Hightower response and more!Amazon's Prime Video moving away from serverless: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90DHH blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-59625580Pprof (Go profiling): https://github.com/google/pprofDex: https://dexidp.io/docs/kubernetes/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-06-0945 minDevOps Topeaks#21 - EC2: Elastic Compute CloudSend us a textThis week we had the pleasure of discussing EC2!The basic building block of AWS has so much going on around it so we made an effort keeping it short (did not do all that well if you compare to previous episodes 😉)Links:EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2The SSM plugin for AWS CLI (Using SSM connect from a teminal)Golang Telegram bot API - https://github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-apiGORM: The Golang ORM - https://gorm.io/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://ome...2023-04-2848 minDevOps Topeaks#20 - S3: Simple Storage ServiceSend us a textIn this episode we discussed S3, which is not all that "simple"!Policies, web hosting, tiering, smart tiering, Glacier, Cloudfront, indexing and MORE!Links and things mentioned: S3 search and access throughput with prefixes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.htmlURL shortener with S3 redirect functionhttps://github.com/ducaale/xhhttps://thebrowser.company/https://brave.com/https://minbrowser.org/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-04-1938 minDevOps Topeaks#19 - IAM: Identity and Access ManagementSend us a textThis week we discussed AWS IAM, on the infrastructure level, application level, what are users, roles, profiles, permission sets, temporary credentials and MORE!Links promised:SSO Sync for Google to AWS SSO: https://github.com/awslabs/ssosyncTools / Experience of the week:Omer mentioned "nocode": https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocodeMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-04-0134 minDevOps Topeaks#18 - VPC: Virtual Private CloudSend us a textIn this episode we discussed all-things VPC!From the very basics of structure and best practices, deep down to wiring the internals, hacks tips and lots of other stuff.Things we mentioned:Omer's list of K8s ingress controllers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit#gid=907731238Meir's stack for this week: https://nestjs.com & https://vitejs.devMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-03-2436 minDevOps Topeaks#17 - ContainersSend us a textWe talked about container from the ground up!Is it only Docker in the space (no!).What are they for, why they're also incredible for local work, how we like to work with them.Why they're amazing for production purposes and can be found everywhere.Meir talked about his experience with Nest.js (Omer: I'm definitely adding a +1 here, Nest is amazing!): https://nestjs.comOmer mentioned Neovim's collaboration plugin: https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvimMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's...2023-03-1729 minDevOps Topeaks#16 - BackupsSend us a textThis week we talked about backups, what do they mean to us, how do we apply it as a principle, what it boils down to and more.Enjoy listening!In the tools section Omer mentionedTestcontainers: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-goNeovim remote container: https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containersMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-03-0233 minDevOps Topeaks#15 - ScaleSend us a textIn this episode we discussed "scale". What does it mean in the context of operations / devlopment, but also in regards to management and internal systems.We talked about empowering engineers to make decisions, prepare systems for you joiners but even more importantly preparing systems to scale to handle additional load and company growth!Tools mentioned:Omer mentioned https://score.devMeir mentioned https://github.com/GAM-team/GAMMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-02-2433 minDevOps Topeaks#14 - GitSend us a textThis week we talked about Git! The version control all (most) of us are using daily.How did it start? What's with the name? What should developers know?Have you ever wondered how to delete stuff form the root of the tree? Maybe how to pin point a commit that introduced a bug?We had a fun chat around functionality, productivity, do's and don'ts.Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-02-1128 minDevOps Topeaks#13 - ChatGPTSend us a textWe discussed AI and ChatGPT, how (and if) we're using in our daily work. What we think it's good for and what not so much, and we see this world progressing and evolving!Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-02-0331 minDevOps Topeaks#12 - ObservabilitySend us a textIn this episode we covered Observability! From log collection through metric time-series, through the systems they're stored and to analyzing the data, coming up with insights, and understanding system and application behavior!Experience / Tool of the week:Meir mentioned working with Make - the evergreen scripting tool that supports application builds (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)Omer suggested Just (https://github.com/casey/just) as the modern Rust alternative Omer's findings:Since Jan 2023 AWS offer CloudTail Lake for querying logs rather than having to export them with a...2023-01-2731 minDevOps Topeaks#11 - FinOpsSend us a textIn this episode we talked about FinOps. What is it, but beyond the buzz, what does it mean to be financially aware. What are good systems to put in place, metrics to track, tools to use and concepts to adopt.Trivy: https://www.aquasec.com/products/trivy/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.ilOmer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops2023-01-2226 min