Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps   /     Let's go back to AOL chat rooms

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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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with Mandi Walls
Duration
1:12:34
Publishing date
2024-04-27 22:00
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https://changelog.com/shipit/101
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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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Deeplinks to Chapters

0 This is Ship It!
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1157 Welcome Mandi Walls!
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1218 Getting started at AOL
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1289 Tech stack 20 years ago
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1449 Mandi's role in migration
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1545 AOL's scale
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1728 Let's be friends
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1749 On-prem war stories
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1878 Worst outage
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201 The opener
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2140 Team sizes
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2200 Pagers and NOCs
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2248 No AOL for teams
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2369 Casual uses and flexibility
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2515 Benefits of simple tools
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2687 AOLserver?
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2859 Tail end of AOL
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3047 Collecting user data
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3294 How do you scale on-prem?
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3419 Learning from the past
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3473 Forming good relations with other teams
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3575 Thanks for joining us!
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3634 Sponsor: Ladder Life Insurance
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3743 The closer
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3837 JDCO
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4300 Outro
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52 Sponsor: FireHydrant
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