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On-Call Nightmares: Back in a New York Groove from 2020-05-08T16:49:05
Hey friends, it's been a while. I haven't been on-call, but I have been working on meeting tons of new people for new content for this podcast. I can't do it alone though. Would you like to be o...
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Episode 46 - Year in Review with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group from 2019-12-23T19:00:16
Well 2019 is just about done, that means one more podcast. This time I break format a bit and welcome on Corey Quinn. Corey and I take a look at how he founded the company and how they help peopl...
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Episode 45 - Kelsey Hightower - Google from 2019-12-19T16:16:15
It's the One Year Anniversary of On-Call Nightmares. When I set out to start this podcast, there were a few people on a list that i just felt I needed to speak to. I finally checked off the first...
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Episode 44 - Silvia Botros - Twilio from 2019-11-21T16:39:59
This week I chat with Silvia Botros also known as the @dbsmasher from Twitter. I learn about her experiences on-call for databases, motherhood and an affinity for breaking things. An awesome conv...
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Episode 43 - Damon Edwards - Rundeck from 2019-11-14T14:45:18
One of the best parts of attending DOES 2019 in Las Vegas was meeting so many of the leaders and innovators from the world of DevOps. Damon Edwards's work is extremely well known in the DevOps fie...
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Episode 42 - John Willis - Red Hat from 2019-10-31T14:20:09
The number 42 has a huge meaning for baseball fans. Jackie Robinson wore 42, Mariano Rivera wore 42 and now one of the greatest in DevOps, John Willis wears the On-Call Nightmares podcast episode #...
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Episode 41 - JJ Asghar - IBM from 2019-10-24T18:14:36
On-Call Nightmares returns to talk to the man from Texas who represents Big Blue, JJ Asghar. JJ and I discuss his start as a 15-year-old in technology and how on-call has morphed over the years. ...
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Episode 40 - Ryan Kitchens - Netflix from 2019-10-10T16:42:50
A big milestone, episode 40! This week I speak with Netflix SRE Ryan Kitchen about birds, DR and movies! Ryan Kitchens has been in a variety of positions in software over the past ten years all...
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Episode 39 - Daniel Bentley - tilt.dev from 2019-09-25T17:45:42
This week I speak with Dan Bentley of tilt.dev! Dan is a software engineer who's currently fixing microservice development as CEO of Tilt ( https://tilt.dev ). Before that, he was at Google for 1...
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Episode 38 - Gene Kim - IT Revolution from 2019-09-12T14:00
Live from DevOpsDays Portland, I speak with Gene Kim, Author of "The Phoenix Project" and the upcoming book "The Unicorn Project." When I started this podcast, one of my goals was to talk to Gene ...
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Episode 37 - Jason Schuster - Stratasan from 2019-09-05T15:47:10
The On-Call Nightmares Listener feedback system works! Without your stories I just cannot do this podcast. Thankfully, Jason Schuster reached out to share his experience in a 20 year career in te...
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Episode 36 - Michael Stahnke - CircleCI from 2019-08-29T14:19:52
Live from DevOpsDays Chicago! I meet up with Ops Veteran, Michael Stahnke as we discuss his career in technology. From the weird days of AIX systems all the way till his time now at CricleCI, Mic...
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Episode 35 - Mike Grayson - Paychex from 2019-08-22T14:28:10
Getting paid is a pretty dang important part of your job. Mike Grayson and the team at Paychex are working to make sure that the databases that handle that are always online. This week I catch up ...
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Episode 34 - Xander Grzywinski - Microsoft from 2019-08-08T14:37:44
X gonna give it to ya! Xander from the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes SRE Team joins me to talk about his history on-call and more! Xander is a Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft, he currently sl...
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Episode 33 - Ben Halpern - DEV Community from 2019-08-01T14:19:27
On-call can come in different shapes and sizes. Sometimes it's a group of developers who are attacking a problem to keep other developers afloat. That's what Ben Halpern and the team at the DEV C...
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Episode 32 - Matty Stratton - PagerDuty from 2019-07-25T14:15:55
This week I speak with my friend Matty Stratton as we discuss the hard times and the processes to make them better. Matty Stratton is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, where he helps dev and ops te...
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Episode 31 - Jason Yee - Datadog from 2019-07-18T15:43:33
Datadog Dash was this week which meant I was lucky enough to catch up with my friend, Jason Yee. We discuss his time in tech, measuring everything and a lot more! Jason is a technical evangelist ...
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Episode 30 - Tim Yocum - InfluxDB from 2019-07-11T13:28:33
Episode 30 is a waterfall of information you'll soak up and learn a ton from. Things get a bit wet and wild for Tim in this episode of On-Call Nightmares! A great discussion about a long history ...
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Episode 29 - Molly Struve - Kenna Security from 2019-07-03T13:29:47
This week's conversation is with Molly Struve of Kenna Security! We discuss her path to tech, how her team worked to fix their on-call rotation and more! Molly Struve is the Lead Site Reliability...
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Episode 28 - Jason Hand - Microsoft from 2019-06-27T20:08:23
This week my homie supreme, Jason Hand joins me on On-Call Nightmares. We talk monitoring, SRE and getting in the van. Jason has spent the last 5 years connecting with technologists around the wo...
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Episode 27 - Joseph Marhee - Packet from 2019-06-13T14:06:37
This week, I bring a friend from a past job to share his insights on observability and other aspects of a weird life in technology. This is one of my favorite chats because Joe is one of my favori...
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Episode 26 - Jacquelyne Grindrod - MedStack from 2019-06-06T13:35:11
This week I speak with Jacquie of MedStack! We get insights into how her career started including a nightmare where she's thrown right into the fire. Jacquie has worked in FinTech, media, and is c...
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Episode 25 - Quintessence Anx - Logz.io from 2019-05-30T13:13:07
Live from DevOpsDays Toronto, I meet up with my fellow DevRel road warrior, Quintessence Anx of Logz.io. Quintessence bring years of experience and compassion to her role. Quintessence is a champ...
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Episode 24 - Nathen Harvey - Google from 2019-05-23T14:36:57
Live from ChefConf 2019, I talk with Nathen Harvey about outages, lunch and a life spent in technology. This was one of my favorite podcast interviews because Nathen is one of my major influence...
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Episode 23 - Rich Burroughs - Gremlin from 2019-05-16T15:26:47
This week we speak with Gremlin's Community Manager, Rich Burroughs, on his time on-call. We discuss power outages, active-active datacenters and other perspectives from a long career in technolog...
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Bonus Episode - Jay Gordon -"bits of //build, Overcoming Failure" from 2019-05-09T18:40:30
Bonus! ME!!! I spoke at Microsoft's community event "bits of //build" about overcoming failure. This is a culture talk I have been working on that really focuses on my personal road through fail...
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Episode 22 - Mike Julian - The Duckbill Group from 2019-05-09T14:16:24
This week I get a chance to speak to someone who just wants to save you some money on your cloud bills. Mike shares some great stories and gives insight to what he and Corey Quinn are working on a...
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Episode 21 - Arup Chakrabarti - PagerDuty from 2019-04-25T11:08:18
Who wakes up the people who get woken up for on-call? The folks at PagerDuty are responsible for providing pager notifications to teams across the globe. In this interview I talk with Arup Chakra...
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Episode 20 - Nick Maludy - Encore Technologies from 2019-04-18T14:30:54
LET'S GET WEIRD. LET'S GET WEIRD. LET'S GET WEIRD. This week we talk with Nick Maludy of Encore Technologies on some "weird on-prem" he managed when working as a Defense Contractor. Nick brings...
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Episode 19 - Shayon Mukherjee - Intercom from 2019-04-11T14:10:42
You know that little box on the lower bottom of the window you see that asks you if you need help on websites? Well Shayon is part of the team that keeps that online for businesses across the plan...
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Episode 18 - Phoummala Schmitt - Microsoft from 2019-04-04T13:35:59
You get opportunities in tech to work with some of the best people in the world. I got that opportunity when I joined Microsoft, that's where I met the Exchange Goddess! We discuss family, work a...
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Episode 17 - Andy Fleener - SportsEngine from 2019-03-28T15:31:26
Get your playbook and have the stats ready, we're talking with Andy Fleener of SportsEngine this week. Andy is a Humanist, Systems Thinker, New View Safety Nerd, Sr. Platform Operations Manager ...
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Episode 16 - Eric Sorenson - Puppet from 2019-03-20T21:45:21
Ever wonder what it was like to do dial-up support hosting in Hawaii? Well this is the damn episode you've waited for your whole life. After 16 years working as a systems/network administrator in...
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Episode 15 - Andrew Clay Shafer - Pivotal from 2019-03-14T14:35:48
The Conscientious Developer There are great ways to think of how to attack the on-call situation even if you aren't in an on-call rotation. By being a conscientious developer and taking that extr...
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Episode 14 - JD Trask - Raygun from 2019-03-07T02:39:32
Welcome back to OCN! I this time I chat with CEO of Raygun, JD Trask. One of the cool parts of this podcast is meeting people from all over the world who have had some experience on-call, JD does...
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Episode 13 - Damian Schenkelman - Auth0 from 2019-02-28T16:16:30
Welcome back to another podcast about downtime! Once again we meet with another technologist who's building a new product and getting it out to the world. This time we meet Damian of Auth0 who's ...
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Episode 12 - Baron Schwartz - VividCortex from 2019-02-21T16:36:16
Content Warning: This episode does contain some graphic description of the work done by an EMT - if you find this troubling you may want to check out another episode! On this episode, I speak with...
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Episode 11 - Sam Phippen - Google from 2019-02-14T15:48:52
On this edition, Sam shares with me some scary moments from his time at DigitalOcean. Sam tells the tale of a database table that was dropped. https://blog.digitalocean.com/update-on-the-april-5t...
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Episode 10 - J. Paul Reed - Everywhere and Nowhere ;-) from 2019-02-07T16:17:33
In this episode, Jay and J. Paul Reed discuss the need for on-call practices and incident response in the world of software release engineering. Paul shares some great stories, including how the Wo...
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Episode 9 - Charity Majors - Honeycomb.io from 2019-01-31T14:56:24
Infrastructure Week, Episode 2! Charity and Jay sit down for a discussion on her career and a deep dive into a database incident. You'll get some interesting thoughts on how monitoring has chang...
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Episode 8 - Melissa Palmer - Veeam from 2019-01-28T19:12:17
Does this VM bring me joy? Melissa is Product Strategy Technologist at Veeam and an information technology infrastructure enthusiast, with a focus on virtualization, security, and emerging technol...
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Episode 7 - Jamesha"Jam"Fisher - Splice from 2019-01-24T12:53:13
Jamesha "Jam" Fisher is an infrastructure engineer at Splice. Jamesha has worked in the tech industry for over 15(!) years, with a special interest in security. Graduating with a degree in informat...
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Episode 6 - Adam Jacob - Board Member at Chef Software from 2019-01-17T15:12:17
Ride The On-Call Lightning with Adam Jacob Adam Jacob is a Board Member, CTO and founder of Chef. Adam joins us this week to discuss his world as an on-call engineer. Find out what happens when ...
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Episode - 5 - Kolton Andrus - Gremlin Inc from 2019-01-10T15:28:49
Fear, Chaos and Pain Common subjects in the Christopher Nolan Batman films, especially when the Joker appears. How do we avoid the moments of fear, chaos and pain in real time? By preparing for ...
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Episode 4 - Tanya Janca - Microsoft from 2019-01-03T15:54:24
There's on-call in nearly every aspect of the tech industry, in this episode we will focus on Security. Tanya Janca is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft, specializing in application and cloud ...
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Episode 3 - Chris Short - Red Hat from 2018-12-27T17:00:12
Chris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines including systems, security, networks, and DevOps engineering and advocacy across...
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On-Call Nightmares Podcast - Episode 2 - Dan Maher - Datadog from 2018-12-20T18:03:07
Welcome to the first full-length episode of The On-Call Nightmares Podcast. Dan is a veteran of the original dotcom bubble and has since worked in a variety of environments from start-ups to globa...
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On-Call Nightmares Episode 1 - Preview from 2018-12-19T22:10:22
A quick preview of what's to come!
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