S4E14: "The Way You Do the Things You Do"

Posted 2019-09-02 03:59
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In this episode, we go into our specific areas of focus (our “roles”), what we would be interested in pursuing given the chance, etc.

Paden is now known as “Patches”.

• Just the Tip
• Notes
• 15 Clams
• Errata
• Music

Just the Tip

• Paden talks about Nethogs (which we talk about a bit in S2E16).
  • Basically, viewing live usage of bandwidth consumption.

Notes

Starts at 17m32s.

I was drinking a Hoegaarden White. Paden was drinking Diet Dr. Pepper and water. Jthan was drinking Bulleit.

• Our roles (and something we’d like to explore in the future)
  • Jthan mostly does storage and compute clusters.
    • He also does some minor work in deployments/config management.
    • He’d like to explore ZFS storage roles more, but…
    • If he had to change, he’d rather do monitoring and infrastructure.
    • He wants to write monitoring in Golang (sidenote, fuck Golang, their binaries are huge and they’re a PITA to build/distribute. GTFOH with that “bUt It’S jUsT a BiNaRy bullshit.).
  • Paden mostly handles patches/updates. (That’s why he’s now “Patches”.)
    • He’d be interested in pursuing infosec as a career
    • …But even changing companies would mean he would lose the rapport he has with his current boss (which he doesn’t want to lose).
  • I do a lot – trying to make our infra more uniform.
    • I write a lot of “glue” between services. I also write things sometimes like this.
    • I deal with high-level escalations (usually with our corporate clients’ engineers).
    • If I had to switch specialty/focus, I’d go with either low-to-mid deployments (PXE/iPXE, UEFI hacks, Kickstart, etc.), identity management (preferably using LDAP via OpenLDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS, etc.), or system management/interaction/automation via Python.

15 Clams

In this segment, Jthan shares with you a little slice of life. The title is a reference to this video. (2m16s in)

Starts at 50m0s.

Jthan is having struggles with Saltstack.

Errata

• No, Jthan, bananas DO ripen more slowly when separated.
• DDLG is actually Daddy Dom, Little Girl.
• No, Jthan, that is NOT the definition of a pouch.
• Not only does Jthan not read the docs, he can’t YAML to save his life (even though he’s a YAML fanboy).

Music

Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four