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Make sure your actual, physical cabling within a network matches a predefined plan. This technical deep dive will allow you the opportunity to follow along and learn. Think of it is a mini-introductory-talk-workshop kind of event.
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News

Lot of projects are growing up around Docker, which means the need for solid extensions points has been a hot topic recently. Powerstrip is an interesting approach that allows for prototyping extensions today, the following posts demonstrate using two docker-related projects together.
https://clusterhq.com/blog/powerstrip-prototype-docker-extensions-today/
http://weaveblog.com/2015/01/29/powerstrip-weave-a-docker-networking-extension/

A useful blog post for anyone starting to investigate containers, focusing on the organisational barriers to entry, including the need to think about: Storage, Failover, Delivery model, Release strategy, Ownership, Patching, Support and Licensing.
http://blog.xebialabs.com/2014/12/31/8-questions-need-ask-microservices-containers-docker-2015/

Prometheus is a new open source monitoring system, designed for a modern microservices architecture. This post explains the problems with current tools and demonstrates the power of the integrated query language for all data collected.
https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring-at-soundcloud
http://prometheus.io/

A nice run down of the existing common frameworks being used for service discovery, including a summary of zookeeper, etcd, consul and eureka from Netflix.
http://www.simplicityitself.com/learning/getting-started-microservices/service-discovery-overview/

An interesting view on the changing role of QA folks in agile development teams. Focuses on social pressures that can lead to relationships that don’t function as well as they could - just being on the same team isn’t enough.
http://blog.anandvishwanath.in/2015/01/painful-truth-about-agile-qa-in.html

Jobs

Expensify is hiring Operations Engineers to develop and support our growing infrastructure. Help us keep our high-availability, distributed, transactional environment running smoothly and securely. At Expensify, we do our best every day to ensure your expense reports don’t suck!
http://we.are.expensify.com/

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Events

It’s that time of year again and SCALE and DevOps Day LA are coming up at the LAX Hilton in February. SCALE is also co-hosting Devops Day LA as well as a Puppet Camp this year.

SCALE Feb 18th to 22nd Puppet Camp Feb 19th Devops Day LA Feb 20th

The organisers have kindly provided a discount code that will will reduce the price for the full registration by a huge 50%. Use the code DEVWK when registering.
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/devops-day-la-0

Tools

Comcast is a tool designed to simulate common network problems like latency, bandwidth restrictions, and dropped/reordered/corrupted packets. Very handy for testing distributed systems under non-ideal network conditions.
https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast

Toxiproxy is another tool for simulating network errors for testing purposes. It provides a proxy with an API, which allows for altering the network conditions cleanly. The example gives you a great idea of what’s possible.
https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

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