Episode 387: Private Cloud Building Blocks

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We bring in Amy Marrich to break down the building blocks of OpenStack. There are nearly an overwhelming number of ways to manage your infrastructure, and we learn about one of the original tools.

Plus a few warm up stories, a war story, and more.

Special Guest: Amy Marrich.

Links:

• James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing
• Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing — I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is the one on how the planning process for engineering has worked since the early years of Uber.
• Say hello to Kata Containers — Kata Containers bridges the gap between traditional VM security and the lightweight benefits of traditional Linux containers.
• Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers — Here's another story about broken things with some of the details changed just a little. If it sounds familiar, it's probably because your company also did it at some point.