On-Call Nightmares Podcast
Being on-call in a tech team can lead to some interesting stories. On this podcast we'll talk to a variety of people from the world of technology, discuss their experiences in on-call and find out some nightmares they survived. Hosted by Jay Gordon - Twitter @jaydestro
Episodes
May 8, 2020 • 1 min
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 on the podcast?
Reach out!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnCallNightmare
Email: oncallnightmares@gmail.com
The commitment for your story is under 35 minutes and you'll have a lasting testimony of your experience on-cal...
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December 23, 2019 • 36 mins
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 people save money on their AWS bills. Then Corey and I take a dive into some of the topics that impacted the cloud in 2019. A fun conversation to end 2019!
Corey is the Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. Corey specializes in ...
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December 19, 2019 • 34 mins
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 name I had on the list. Episode 45 is a conversation with Google Principal Developer Advocate, Kelsey Hightower.
Kelsey Hightower is a Technologist working at Google while learning in public.
https://twitter.com/kelseyhig...
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November 21, 2019 • 34 mins
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 conversation with an incredible person.
Silvia Botros is a Sr Principal Engineer at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When...
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November 14, 2019 • 30 mins
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 field and I was lucky enough to discuss his history during this interview.
Damon Edwards is a Co-Founder of Rundeck Inc., the makers of Rundeck, the popular open source Operations Management Platform. Damon has spent over 15 year...
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October 31, 2019 • 36 mins
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 #42! Learn from John's past, his present and his future at Red Hat. We got together at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas to chat about all things DevOps and a lil Yankees baseball (not much). By far one of the most ...
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October 24, 2019 • 41 mins
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.
JJ works at IBM on the IBM cloud as a Developer Advocate. He’s focusing on the IBM Kubernetes Service trying to make companies and users have a successful on boarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem.
He lives and grew up in Au...
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October 10, 2019 • 33 mins
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 allowing him to experience the good and the bad, the amazing and the bizarre. As an SRE with a film degree, he currently works at Netflix on the CORE team, focused on ensuring availability. The background of the team spans inciden...
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September 25, 2019 • 33 mins
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 11 years and then Twitter, working on tools for devs and tools for non-developers. He's opened for The Who and has checks from Donald Knuth.
Transcript: https://aka.ms/AA64hk6
https://tilt.dev
https://twitter.com/dbentle...
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September 12, 2019 • 35 mins
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 about his own experiences in IT, thankfully this trip to DevOpsDays in PDX helped that happen. Cameos by Jennifer Davis, Matty Stratton, Jason Yee and Terri Haber!
Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author...
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September 5, 2019 • 28 mins
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 technology. Share in his nightmare on this latest episode!
Transcript: https://aka.ms/AA606at
Jason's Bio:
After graduating with a BFA in theater design in 2000 I landed my first job admiring HPUX servers. I took a low ba...
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August 29, 2019 • 30 mins
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, Michael has plenty of great stories.
Special cameos by Jason Yee and Joshua Zimmerman (our laugh track).
Michael Stahnke is VP of Platform Engineering at CircleCI. Prior to this role, he was at Puppet running engineering for P...
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August 22, 2019 • 30 secs
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 with Mike Grayson who's been a great advocate for the database ops community.
Mike is a Senior Database Engineer specializing in DevOps, MongoDB, and Apache Kafka based out of Rochester, New York. He is a MongoDB Master and sp...
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August 8, 2019 • 35 mins
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 slings containers on Azure Kubernetes Service. Previous to Microsoft, he did all the things with retail tech at both Starbucks and Target. You are always welcome to send him your favorite cat pictures.
@XanderGrzy
https://gi...
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August 1, 2019 • 42 mins
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 Community are up to.
Founder of DEV, Canadian, generalist software developer who writes a lot of Ruby.
Transcript: https://aka.ms/AA5r8ja
https://dev.to/ben
https://twitter.com/bendhalpern
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July 25, 2019 • 50 mins
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 teams advance the practice of their craft and become more operationally mature. He collaborates with PagerDuty customers and industry thought leaders in the broader DevOps community, and back when he drove, his license plate actu...
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July 18, 2019 • 34 mins
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 at Datadog, where he works to inspire developers and ops engineers with the power of metrics and monitoring. Previously, he was the community manager for DevOps & Performance at O'Reilly Media and a software engineer at Mon...
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July 11, 2019 • 41 mins
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 in tech, the things you just can't plan for and more.
Tim is an engineering manager at InfluxData with over 20 years of experience. His technical interests include high-performance, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructur...
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July 3, 2019 • 33 mins
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 Engineer at Kenna Security. She joined Kenna in 2015 and has had the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging aspects of Kenna’s code base. This includes scaling Elasticsearch, sharding MySQL databases, and creating...
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June 27, 2019 • 44 mins
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 world on ideas related to balancing system and service reliability with the speed and agility required in today's digital world.
Previously at VictorOps, Jason authored four books on the subjects of Site Reliability Engineerin...
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