Let's go back to AOL chat rooms

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.

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Featuring:

• Mandi Walls – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Executing cron scripts reliably at scale
• Influential women’s tech network shuts down unexpectedly

JDCO

Java, Data, Cloud, Other

• Casandra
• CouchDB
• VCL
• YuniKorn
• Cloudstack
• Flink
• Flume
• Ant
• Log4j
• Guacamole
• Pig
• Roller
• Brooklyn
• NuttX

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:00:52)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

3. The opener (00:03:21)

4. Welcome Mandi Walls! (00:19:17)

5. Getting started at AOL (00:20:18)

6. Tech stack 20 years ago (00:21:29)

7. Mandi's role in migration (00:24:09)

8. AOL's scale (00:25:45)

9. Let's be friends (00:28:48)

10. On-prem war stories (00:29:09)

11. Worst outage (00:31:18)

12. Team sizes (00:35:40)

13. Pagers and NOCs (00:36:40)

14. No AOL for teams (00:37:28)

15. Casual uses and flexibility (00:39:29)

16. Benefits of simple tools (00:41:55)

17. AOLserver? (00:44:47)

18. Tail end of AOL (00:47:39)

19. Collecting user data (00:50:47)

20. How do you scale on-prem? (00:54:54)

21. Learning from the past (00:56:59)

22. Forming good relations with other teams (00:57:53)

23. Thanks for joining us! (00:59:35)

24. Sponsor: Ladder Life Insurance (01:00:34)

https://ladderlife.com/changelog

25. The closer (01:02:23)

26. JDCO (01:03:57)

27. Outro (01:11:40)