We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more.

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• Michael has been feeling old
• We're using Vault and wondering about building kubernetes operators

Who is Dave McNeill?

• How did you first get into computers?
• How did you get your first job in tech?
• Where are you working now, What does your day to day job look like?

Quickfire Questions

• Vim, VSCode, or vibe coding in cursor?
• You can only code in one language for the rest of your life, what do you pick?
• Personal texting – preferred platform? Why? Why not whatsapp?
• Biggest user crime of making container images?
• Oldest piece of untouched software you’ve seen running in production?

Breaking Prod Leaderboard

Surely someone in Ops has seen something go wrong... with account balances?

Big Topics

Hot Takes, and what Dave thinks of them:

• "SRE is just re-branded Ops"
• "DevOps is Dead, Long Live Platform Engineering"
• "Programming Languages will become obsolete, English is the new programming language"
• "Disaster recovery training is just something google wrote in a book and nobody does it"

News

• * More supply chain attacks (wiz.io blog)
• Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion (helpnetsecurity.com)
• Amazon removing privacy options from Alexa (techspot.com)
• BYD have a car that charges in 5 minutes (The Guardian)

Recommendations

DevOps, Platform Eng, SRE

• The SRE Handbook (Free google book)
• A Tour of Go website
• Release It! (pragmatic prorammer bookshelf)
• Platform Engineering, Camille Fournier (O'Reilly)
• Wardley Mapping (YouTube)

Music

• Truthpaste :: Manchester Indie Pop :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory :: American singer-songwriter Alternative Album :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• The Bug Club :: Welsh indie energetic garage and punk :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube

TV

• Adolesence (Netflix)
• School Swap: UK to USA (Channel 4)

Podcast

• Steering Engineering

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