Deploying on a Friday

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.

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Featuring:

• Michael Gat – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Interview

• Mainframe blog post
• SCaLE 21x talk
• Changelog #1 with Cameron Seay
• Changelog #2 with Cameron Seay

Outro

• Facebook research
• Google research
• Amazon research
• Netflix research
• Microsoft research
• Disney Animation research
• Pixar research
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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章节

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:52)

https://coder.com/

3. The opener (00:04:34)

4. Michael ran everything (00:12:52)

5. Defining a mainframe (00:14:26)

6. Modern data centers vs mainframes (00:15:39)

7. Old is new again (00:17:24)

8. Offsite servers (00:20:10)

9. Most companies suck... at infra (00:22:53)

10. Sponsor: Neon (00:25:18)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

11. Why push on Fridays? (00:28:58)

12. Fortnite update hype (00:31:56)

13. Saturdays after deploying (00:35:16)

14. User spike (00:36:04)

15. Stock exchange as paper (00:38:58)

16. Michael's training experience (00:41:24)

17. Leaky extractions (00:47:27)

18. Where to reach out (00:50:41)

19. Sponsor: Retool (00:51:10)

https://retool.com/changelog

20. The closer (00:54:12)

21. Where to find white papers (00:55:42)

22. Outro (01:04:16)