Pulled into a meeting… with the customer

Just want to ask you all how common it is, and how you’d react to being pulled into a meeting, to then have a client grill you about the performance of the service.

This happened a week ago. I was asked by delivery to join a meeting discussing why a customers SaaS app was so slow.

I joined the meeting, and almost straight away I was being asked about issues. OK fair enough, we have problems, let’s fix them. As the meeting went on, I started to question who this person was. I naively thought delivery had put me in front of a colleague that I hadn’t yet met. It was not a colleague.

20 minutes in, after repeatedly stating “we need more info to take a look at this , please send us this data”, I felt myself getting more annoyed. My colleague who was also on the call, didn’t say a word.

I left the call pretty unimpressed and quite frankly pissed off.

Who else has had this happen to them?

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Why is NewRelic so bad?

Really, I hate it. We had datadog before, but we were enforced to use NewRelic. We are currently migrating and I have to say that I really hate it. The docs have so many dead links, it’s a nightmare. Then the NewRelic explorer crashing. A SaaS app crashing in the browser was something I have never seen before. Then this whole pixie thing. I was excited at first, but none of the queries work. Seriously. I hate NewRelic.

https://redd.it/11prydv
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Made a CLI tool for Markdown URL format check in Github repos

Hi.

Made a tool (called GMUV) which checks brokenURL's in Markdown format for public Github repos. Output can be stored to file or as a console output. Marketplace action is available. To those who wants to see execution example - click here.

https://redd.it/11ps81u
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Git repository tags as a source in terraform module

As a source in terraform module we're using our own github repository with specific tag. That looks something like that:

provider "aws" {
profile = "default"
region = "us-east-1"
}

module "iam" {
source = "[email protected]:path/to-repo.git?ref=0.0.8"
name = "foo"
naming = "bar"
}

I want to make changes in terraform code that is tagged as 0.0.8 so can I push it as 0.0.8 tag or is it not possible and I should bump the tag to 0.0.9 for example?
If the answer is yes (make changes, update the tag to 0.0.9 and use that as a source) what to do with other tags that we're not using yet but will be using them in the near future - update those and bump the tags?
Another question - what is the purpose of master/main branch then?

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Are your product teams able to operate their services effectively without your assistance?

Hello all! 🙂 I'm building a new service for DevOps, SREs, and product teams. The product is designed to help product/dev teams run their services and handle incidents with less SRE/DevOps support.

In my case, it has been difficult to guide teams on how to operate their services due to various reasons, such as a lack of cloud knowledge and permission issues.

I wonder if there are others who also struggle to enable their teams to operate their services with confidence. If you face any problems related to this, would you please share your case?

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Where are you all?

There is a piece of advice I have seen work over and over again and I am not seeing it repeated here. If you want to do something find a way to be around people already doing that thing.

People talk about tutorials a job advice which is great and we should all obviously be learning from those sources. However, I would love to know where to meet people in this career field to arrange to have quick conversations/coffee chats with to just get the opportunity to talk about the details of their careers and lives. Are there any forums or groups where people like me could find other people locally in the field?

https://redd.it/11pz3br
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Tools to help developers do their own monitoring/maintenance?

There are two issues my department’s facing: 1) when something goes down in production, we get a phone call from a client and have to scramble to figure it out. Usually it gets picked up quickly but sometimes it takes hours for the team to dig through stack traces. Are there solutions for this, esp at the network level? 2) We’re encouraging dev teams to be even more responsible for their own code in production, to the point where they should do their own monitoring. Are there services you’ve used that lower the barriers for least common denominator developers (esp front end) to do some of their own ops?

https://redd.it/11pxet4
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Working with microservices

My current company does not use microservices (because there’s genuinely no need) but i always been fascinated in working with it. I feel majority of other companies whenever i look at their requirements always have “experience with microservices “ and i feel it may put me at a disadvantage.Is there a certain side project or something that can help me understand it and help me whenever i do want to apply to these companies. I know i can ask Google but i l like talking to fellow devops redditors (feels more of a human interaction lool)

https://redd.it/11ppf3r
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Help guys...........

I am new to DevOps. Currently I am working with Azure DevOps. How can I learn CI/CD YAML Scripting for Azure DevOps? I am not getting any material other than the official documentation from Microsoft.
Is there any way to learn it efficiently? Cause I have been reading the documentation for the past 1 week🥴. Got to know many things but I don't how I am going to put that in practical.

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Best architecture to deploy odoo

i need to deploy instances of Odoo for different clients, what is the best Architect using docker kuberenets on eks using eksctl. what is in my mind is like a main odoo instance that i can duplicate for clients or push the updates to all the clients and a staging odoo that i can push to the main after the update

https://redd.it/11orjov
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Monitoring System to Company

Which one is better for monitoring IT system like Servers,application,Network, SAN, NAS ? I would like know community opinion :) Best regards

View Poll

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IAC templates and artifact repositories

Should your IAC templates (cloudformation/terraform) be pushed to your artifact repository alongside your application code in your CI/CD pipeline?

Or is this not necessary, where only app deployments should be pushed as a deployable package to your artifact repo?

https://redd.it/11nr7yj
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Worst devops/dataops platform?

I am looking for the absolute worst platform in terms of integration with tools like terraform or kubernetes, or doing ci/cd, the problem is you only ever find praise when googling. So I would like to ask you guys, what do you think are the absolute worst devops platforms, and why? Feel free to share stories if you like, I would be very interested.

https://redd.it/11q6c95
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Resume review, in my first SRE position

Hi, I come from a non-CS background, have had my first SRE position for 9 months, trying to move into a new company to improve my salary conditions.

I have applied to around 50-100 companies, only had one callback and it didn't get far as I had to be a US Citizen (I have unconditional US work authorization)

I am working on getting my first AWS certification, but in the meantime maybe more experienced people could tell me some tips to improve my CV? Is there anything particularly bad? Or just not enough good things? Location is US East coast, I am looking for on-site in my area as well as remote all over the US.

Link: https://imgur.com/a/rD1Jym7 . I just noticed the repetition in "maintain" on the first sentence, I will update that.

Thank you

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Survey Relation between scrum and devops.

Hello. I am looking for people familiar with Scrum or Devops. I'm doing my thesis and I need feedback on the challenges of implementing DevOps in organizations with scrum. It is a short survey and you will help me a lot! thank you!


https://forms.gle/etE3nJ2CnRL9M8gRA

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how does prometheus monitor elasticSearch? e.g. if I want to alert on a host publishing a certain event

hi, I've got winlogbeats shipping to ES, Prometheus scraping some sites and I'd like to get Prom scraping ES, so I can alert when one of my hosts e.g. publishes a low disc space event (2016).

I'd expect my es:9200 host to have a /metrics endpoint, but it doesn't (neither does my kibana:5601 port). So, please can you tell me how this fits together?

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MacOS X Linux

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to move from a Data Engineer role to a DevOps role and of course I've been studying it on my own for a while now.

The thing is, I currently have a Mac M1, do you guys think it's better to have a Linux based machine for studying DevOps in general?

And yes, I did try using VMs but VMs in general are really bad in M1 chips still...

https://redd.it/11nkxyv
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Pipeline Bitbucket

Good evening! Can anyone give me a hand?

I'm trying to create a very basic pipeline (yml file) in Bitbucket that, when a Pull Request is approved and merged from the platform, the pipeline runs and reflects the changes from the repository on the test server and restarts the APP (I have a Ubuntu Droplet on D.Ocean).

Assuming that the repository variables are created and everything related to the connection between Bitbucket and the Test VM is OK.

This example to create and copy a file works:

pipelines: default:

\- step: name: Testing Host script:

\- echo "test" >> test.txt

\- scp test.txt $[email protected]:./

But it doesn't work when I try to do these steps:

1. Connect to the Droplet
2. Enter the APP folder
3. Execute Git Pull
4. Restart the APP with pm2

Example yml file:

pipelines:

pull-requests:

'**':

\- step:

name: Update & Restart App

script:

\- ssh $DROPLET_USER@$DROPLET_IP "cd app_folder_name && git pull && pm2 restart app_number"

This is an example of what I'm trying to do. I've attached a screenshot of the error:
https://ibb.co/NmQpY4B
I'm sure this is not the most efficient and organized way to do those 4 simple steps. I appreciate your time and reading.

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Update: I unstuck my career

A month ago I posted that I was a part of a sinking ship startup and wasn't getting any traction with other startups in terms of interviews. A lot of my experience is "old school" like running and tuning non-containerized linux infra. It turns out my experience in government has very good overlap with large enterprise. Ended up getting an amazing offer from a F100, will finally crack 200k TC. Also I announced I was leaving my startup 2 days before SVB collapsed hahahaha.

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Thoughts about Honeycomb?

Anyone here using Honeycomb.io for tracing/APM? I'm trying to do some due diligence on it. Curious to hear what you think of the product, and what you particularly like and dislike.

https://redd.it/11qh2t8
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Anyone use Lua as a scripting language?

Interested in if it’s used and if so in what context.

https://redd.it/11qhxrr
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