RUN MODE is the official podcast from Power/mation designed to explore the ever-evolving world of industrial automation in-depth.
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During this weekly podcast, J. Ray and Clay assault your ears with their dulcet tones and whatever candy they're chomping on.
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Two DevOps engineers sharing their hands-on experience, a dash of knowledge, a bit of brainstorming, and having fun along the way.
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The DFX podcast is an ongoing conversation about making, CNC fabrication and micro scale manufacturing from the perspective of three solo makers and their occasional guest hosts. Co-hosted by Winston Moy (@winstonmakes), Ed Kramer (@ekramer3) and Chris Lee (@chrislee.design).
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E4: Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous? A Case for Robotics in Manufacturing
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Welcome to RUN MODE, an industrial automation podcast hosted by Terry Busch. In this episode, Terry moderates a discussion with JD Teter, a robotics expert; Jeff Johnson, a safety expert; and Al Rausch, the president of Power/mation. Recorded live at the grand opening of our new fulfillment center in St. Paul, Minnesota, our expert panel discusses …
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Send us a text In this episode we talked about k8s nodes monitoring and as always, found ourselves going way beyond Links - https://dotenvx.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressopsBy Omer Hamerman & Meir Gabay
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E3: Developing the Next Generation of Technical Sales Engineers
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In this episode, we sit down with some of our talented Technical Sales Associates (TSAs) to explore their journeys from recent college graduates to key players in industrial automation. Terry Busch interviews TSA alumnus and program leader, Andrew Jagger, along with current TSAs Adam Bohn, Cody Branch, and Mikal Hofstad. Discover how the program eq…
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E2: How Reliable is Your Power with Ameer Ratrout
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In this episode, Terry Busch dives deeper into Power/mation's product offerings including sensing and inspection, connectors and cabling, logic control and visualization, robotics, pneumatics, enclosures, machine safety, and motion control. Terry also touches on pertinent industry news examining the correlation between automation and artificial int…
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E1: Why Automation Matters with Stephen Leeds
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Join Terry Busch, a seasoned business development manager for logic controls, IIoT, and motion, as he hosts an insightful discussion with Stephen Leeds, a senior account manager at Power/mation, on the evolution of high-tech automation, a brief history of the company, and why automation is crucial for the United States and globally.…
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Send us a text This week we had a debate around how AI is moving forward, the outlook on engineering jobs and how we use it daily as time progresses. Links: - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/ - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: …
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed S3 from different angles: tiering, signed links, potential risks, and awkward situations people found themselves in. Links: https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/third-party-software/others/configuring-an-amazon-web-services-static-site-to-use-cloudflare/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/Dev…
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed K8s from scratch with some analogies and then more advanced topics: Links: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-up-and/9781491935668/ https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184 https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/redis-license-open-source/ https://unit42.paloaltone…
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Send us a text This week we talked bout all-things-caching. What it is, where to implement, the risks the tips and everything else on our minds. Links https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods Omer's newsletter - https://newsletter.omerxx.com Host single page app caching - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/host-single-page-ap…
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Send us a text This week we played the roles of a consultant and a customer and discussed a real world problem and approaches to understanding it and then solving it. Links https://everything.npm.lol/ https://clerk.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops…
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Send us a text This week we talked about automating processes. Any process. whether pipelines, scripts or beyond. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation https://www.mixo.io/ https://pocketbase.io/ https://wails.io/ https://github.com/unfor19/tfcoding Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https…
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Send us a text This week we discussed main announcements that were interesting to us and we thought are worth mentioning and discussing Links: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/esp…
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#39 - DevOps Leave Managers, Not Companies
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Send us a text This week we discussed communication with, and as managers. Relationships within devops teams and outside it. How we asses it when looking for a job, while hiring or when managing teams. Links: The post Omer mentioned: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373 JSON Resumee - https://jsonresume.org resume-cli - https://github.com/jsonresum…
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Send us a text This week we talked about when is it a good time to make changes in systems and how! Links: Post: https://blog.danslimmon.com/ Topeaks Twitter: https://twitter.com/devopstopeaks Git CTF: https://www.mrnice.dev/ctf/ Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/ a4 terminal: https://www.a4term.com/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Ome…
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Send us a text This week we discussed a very interesting paper from Google, released just a few months back on modern cloud applications and the way they can be deployed. Links: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90osDkqZt0 https://github.com/ServiceWeaver/weaver https://serviceweaver.dev/ Mei…
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Send us a text This week we talked about AI and how we use it and are evolving with the different tools out there. From using latest GPT options to running local models. Links: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl https://ollama.ai/ https://pinokio.computer/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.…
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Send us a text Hi! This week it's just Omer again, waiting and hoping for better quieter times. Discussing yet again serverless instantiations vs containers, why serverless is special, where does it fit and what is an actual valid use case. In terms of links: Newsletter: https://newsletter.omerxx.com Hackthebox: https://hackthebox.com Wargames: htt…
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Send us a text Hi folks, I hope this episodes find you well, safe and in good health. This is not a standard episode and it is my short attempt at normality in these crazy days we're all going through. I hope you find some escape and maybe catch something new. Links: Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's revised webite: https://omerxx.com Omer's …
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Send us a text This week we talked about soft skills, based on our conversation from last week (Ep #32) it was important for us to cover a topic that's often ignored - communicating ideas, reviews and so on. Links https://mistral.ai/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops…
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#32 - Your first day as a DevOps engineer
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Send us a text This weeks we discussed how to approach a new position / consultation gig. What do you tackle first? How do you map things out? This is based both on our experience (naturally), with the important aspect of us being consultants for quite a few years before moving into fulltime positions on larger companies. Links: https://github.com/…
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed something we deal with occasionally - understanding a problem or a pain, thinking of a solution, and then implementing this as a tool or a product. We share some tips that can help out when starting to build, both from the engineering side but also from Ops perspective. Links https://zellij.dev/ Meir's bl…
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#30 - News Flash - Hashicorp is going closed source?
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Send us a text Hashicorp left a rather cryptic announcement last week about future releases start using the BSL license, which may have huge implications to many businesses around the world. Links: https://twitter.com/HashiCorp/status/1689733106813562880 https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq https://twitter.com/iamvlaaaaaaad/status/1690039537370824…
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#29 - News Flash - AWS charging for IPv4 & Tel Aviv's new region
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Send us a text This week we took a break from best practices and procedures and talked about some hot news - AWS starting to charge for public IPv4 addresses - what should you do? How to mitigate, when does it start etc. The other topic was Israel's shiny new region, pricing, reasons to use and some AC considerations if you ever decide to build you…
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Send us a text What's the perfect CI/CD pipeline? What is even CD? How do we implement our own and what we see as the holy grail "perfect" flow? That's our topic for this week Links: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/ https://www.runatlantis.io https://k8sgpt.ai https://12factor.net Meir's blog: …
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Send us a text This week we discussed Chaos Engineering, where did it come from, what it means, how can you incorporate it into daily work and plans. Links https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero https://principlesofchaos.org/ https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/llama-2-foundation-models-from-meta-are-now-…
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Send us a text This week we talked about the services you don't normally hear when it comes to AWS: LightSail, Rekognition, Kafka, Open search, Prometheus and many more! Links: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc https://cupogo.dev https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/14xyido/the_gorilla_web_toolkit_project_is_being_revived/ Meir's blog: https://m…
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Send us a text This week we talked about yet another undiscussed (kidding) buzz word - "DevSecOps". What is it? Where did it come from? What falls under the category? Things mentioned: https://helix-editor.com/ https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: h…
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Send us a text This week we went on a small adventure discovering the K8s control plane components as well as the node resource. We shared background, experience, and as usual - went too far with stories ;) Links: https://chirper.ai/ https://medium.com/prodopsio/an-8-minute-introduction-to-k8s-94fda1fa5184 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overvi…
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Send us a text This week we discussed whether "ops" engineers should know how to code, and if so, to what degree. We went into languages, frameworks, when and if should you start as a junior. We shared our views on everything around "Dev" as it relates to "Ops" when it comes to actual positions within a software company. Things mentioned: The Grand…
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Send us a text Is Amazon dropping serverless? What was the trigger to the huge backlash on serverless and microservices of the past few weeks? We discussed AWS's blog post, DHH comments, Kelsey Hightower response and more! Amazon's Prime Video moving away from serverless: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-aud…
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Send us a text This week we had the pleasure of discussing EC2! The basic building block of AWS has so much going on around it so we made an effort keeping it short (did not do all that well if you compare to previous episodes 😉) Links: EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2 The SSM plugin for AWS CLI (Using SSM connect from a teminal) Golang Telegram bot …
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It has been ages since the last show but the crew returns for our first 2023 episode. Winston, Chris and Ed catch up on what each is doing these days, the future of US manufacturing and shop goals for the year. Available now on Apple Podcasts (link in bio), Spotify and Google Podcasts. Or stream directly from https://dfxpodcast.efk3.com . #dfxpodca…
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed S3, which is not all that "simple"! Policies, web hosting, tiering, smart tiering, Glacier, Cloudfront, indexing and MORE! Links and things mentioned: S3 search and access throughput with prefixes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.html URL shortener with S3 redi…
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#19 - IAM: Identity and Access Management
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Send us a text This week we discussed AWS IAM, on the infrastructure level, application level, what are users, roles, profiles, permission sets, temporary credentials and MORE! Links promised: SSO Sync for Google to AWS SSO: https://github.com/awslabs/ssosync Tools / Experience of the week: Omer mentioned "nocode": https://github.com/kelseyhightowe…
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed all-things VPC! From the very basics of structure and best practices, deep down to wiring the internals, hacks tips and lots of other stuff. Things we mentioned: Omer's list of K8s ingress controllers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit#gid=907731238 M…
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Send us a text We talked about container from the ground up! Is it only Docker in the space (no!). What are they for, why they're also incredible for local work, how we like to work with them. Why they're amazing for production purposes and can be found everywhere. Meir talked about his experience with Nest.js (Omer: I'm definitely adding a +1 here…
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Send us a text This week we talked about backups, what do they mean to us, how do we apply it as a principle, what it boils down to and more. Enjoy listening! In the tools section Omer mentioned Testcontainers: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go Neovim remote container: https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers Meir…
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed "scale". What does it mean in the context of operations / devlopment, but also in regards to management and internal systems. We talked about empowering engineers to make decisions, prepare systems for you joiners but even more importantly preparing systems to scale to handle additional load and company g…
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Send us a text This week we talked about Git! The version control all (most) of us are using daily. How did it start? What's with the name? What should developers know? Have you ever wondered how to delete stuff form the root of the tree? Maybe how to pin point a commit that introduced a bug? We had a fun chat around functionality, productivity, do…
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Send us a text We discussed AI and ChatGPT, how (and if) we're using in our daily work. What we think it's good for and what not so much, and we see this world progressing and evolving! Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressopsBy Omer & Meir
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Send us a text In this episode we covered Observability! From log collection through metric time-series, through the systems they're stored and to analyzing the data, coming up with insights, and understanding system and application behavior! Experience / Tool of the week: Meir mentioned working with Make - the evergreen scripting tool that support…
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Send us a text In this episode we talked about FinOps. What is it, but beyond the buzz, what does it mean to be financially aware. What are good systems to put in place, metrics to track, tools to use and concepts to adopt. Trivy: https://www.aquasec.com/products/trivy/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram chann…
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Send us a text Serverless is one of those topics we can have an entire season just surrounding this one architecture option. We tried packing as much as possible to one short talk but we can (should?) probably do another follow up talk about advanced Serverless options we didn't touch this time. We started off talking about how it is perceived by m…
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Send us a text This week we brought up the recently promoted and latest-buzz: Platform Engineering. What is it? How does this differ from DevOps / SRE? What does it actually mean? Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressopsBy Omer & Meir
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Send us a text In this episode we discussed all-things application security; from scanning, to designing with security in mind, through OWASP and sources of information we feel engineers in the world of dev / ops should be aware of and familiar with! We talked about: OWASP Top 10 - https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten Git leaks - https://github.co…
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Send us a text In our 7th episode we discussed all-things cloud-security: NACLs, security groups, VPCs, usage of public and private subnets, secure tunneling, whats important to keep an eye on, and which layer is used and when! Things mentioned: AWS, K8s, Network security, VPC, Subnets, routing, secure access, running in private networks Links as p…
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Send us a text In this episode of DevOps Topeaks, we discussed what DevOps actually is (spoiler alert: not a job title) and which qualities we're looking for in DevOps candidates. We also talked about our approach to picking up new technologies and consume information in a world of constant stream of data. We hope you enjoy! Meir's blog: https://me…
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Send us a text In this episode to DevOps Topeaks we discussed how we think CI runners should be handled; where they should run, how, and ways to secure, scale and manage them efficiently. As usual we drifted into further topics like cleaning container images, saving disk space, efficient use of cache, secure connection to instances with SSM rather …
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Send us a text In this session of #topeaks, we talked about how to choose a container orchestrator. We compared the local development process across different container orchestrators, when to choose a proprietary solution vs a standalone K8s, and dabbled with getting into Hashicorp's Nomad and the why's Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog:…
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