Microsoft Redux With Liam Bennett, Brandon Olin, Reuben Dunn, Glenn Sarti, and Chris Hunt
Posted on Thursday, Jan 26, 2017
Show Notes
DevOps Cafe w/ Jeffery Snover - Linux is docs based, Windows is API based
Check Outs
Liam
- James Turnbull Terraform Book
- Black Mirror - My latest show to binge watch
Brandon
Reuben
- Paramore, aka Brighter - My goto reference implementation for understanding how to write robust “microservices” that gives you options
- https://serilog.net/ & https://getseq.net/ Logging is the “new” debugging…
- Phil Haack - Be the scientist
Glenn
- neo4j Graph database- Works on Windows too!
Free OReilly ebook on graphdatabases - Flow Perth create unique events in the technology community bringing skilled volunteers and not-for-profits together
Chris
- I’m a big fan of GitKraken. I can actually do some useful things with Git without spending a couple hours reading man pages.
- termeter - A Go app for “rendering” ascii graphs in the console.
Trevor
- Blue Raspberry Portable mic I’m looking at getting, tired of lugging the Yeti around (much like the 17” laptop I abandoned for my Surface)
- Factorio - super fun collaboration game
- pvpgn open source classic Battle.net + Westwood server, got it running- trying to stand it up inside habitat now
Matt
- Maybe weird to talk about Apple-only app on the Microsoft show, but I’m now enamored with Bear Writer - just a nice markdown notes thing.
- I’m kind of obsessed with Golang now - the go Fundamentals Pluralsight course by Nigel Poulton was pretty dang rad
Guests
Liam Bennett
Building other people’s infrastructure @ Claranet. Previously at OpenTable. Making windows do things and hating it less as a result. Sometimes talks about things like config management and devops.
Brandon Olin
Lead Systems Engineer at Columbia Sportswear focusing on automation, configuration management, monitoring, and general technologies to drive the business forward.
Reuben Dunn
Reuben Dunn is the DevOps Practice Lead at Fraedom - a payment, expense and travel SaaS platform. Reuben is influencing a transformation around continuous learning, scientific experimentation and Fraedom’s newly formed SRE team. Reuben started in the Windows Ops space cutting his teeth on a DEC server running NT Server 3.51, before moving into development roles after needing to script users into AD. In the development roles, he found himself doing the build & deploys, then found belonging in the DevOps Space. Reuben is passionate about a sustainable transformation for DevOps in the windows space.
Reuben enjoys life with his wife and 4 kids on a rural section in the south-east of Auckland. Reuben is also the lead organiser for DevOpsDays Wellington which ran earlier this year.
Glenn Sarti
Glenn Sarti, originally from Perth (Western Australia), has recently moved with his family to Portland to work at Puppet. He has spent well over a decade as a Windows Client and Infrastructure engineer, with a heavy focus on automation and infrastructure software development. Glenn was also a co-organizer for the DevOps meetup in Perth and has spoken at his local Dot Net, Java and DevOps and meetups.
Chris Hunt
Chris is a Windows Platform Engineer at Ticketmaster and the author of PoshSpec - a PowerShell module that aids in writing infrastructure tests with Pester. He co-organizes the Northern Virginia PowerShell User Group. You can find him talking about Mocking All The Things at the 2017 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit in Bellevue, WA.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
Trevor Hess
Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.
Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.
Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.
