Fork Around And Find Out

Justin Garrison & Autumn Nash

Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems.

  1. Building Trust with Sean Goedecke

    AUG 16

    Building Trust with Sean Goedecke

    What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we all need to remember why we were hired. Links: https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

    1h 4m
  2. Cooling Infrastructure with Ellie Ford

    JUL 16

    Cooling Infrastructure with Ellie Ford

    https://fafo.fm/store This Episode has a full spread of FAFOFM topics. Ellie has a breadth of knowledge across cloud, on-prem, hardware, and—of course—Kubernetes. We dive into some of the new hardware available as well as the importance of hardware to train the next generation of engineers. A full cycle of interests we think you'll love. 🧡 Links https://ellie.fmhttps://bsky.app/profile/ellie.fmhttps://devzero.iohttps://www.cloudlab.us/https://github.com/clastix/kamaji https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/

    1h 9m
  3. Creating YAML with Ingy döt Net

    JUN 18

    Creating YAML with Ingy döt Net

    Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS.   Note: sorry about the audio issues in this episode. We did our best to clean it up. Links: https://helmys.org/https://yamlscript.org/https://exercism.org/https://yamlscript.org/ingydotnet/

    1h 5m
  4. Writing bugs with K.S. Bhaskar

    MAY 23

    Writing bugs with K.S. Bhaskar

    It's easy to talk about everything when you've been writing software for half a century. Bhaskar has some amazing insights from his impressive career building software using everything from punch cards to AI. If you like learning about the past to understand the future, this is an episode you don't want to miss. Links YottaDB https://yottadb.com

    59 min
  5. MCPing in the Open with Angie Jones

    APR 25

    MCPing in the Open with Angie Jones

    Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech. Links Angie's website: https://angiejones.techGoose https://github.com/block/gooseAngie's Modern Day Mashups talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXq5qu55U

    58 min
  6. Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela

    APR 18

    Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela

    After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior engineers to make our senior engineers better. Links Bluefin wallpapers https://github.com/ublue-os/packages/tree/main/packages/bluefin/wallpapersJustin’s talk with balloons and a spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mWGaBawR8Adriana on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adrianamvillela.bsky.social

    1h 14m
  7. Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot

    APR 11

    Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot

    Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode. Links Seth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliotarpio https://arpio.io/services/EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-clusterDisaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.htmlDisaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience

    1h 2m
  8. Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper

    APR 4

    Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper

    Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if they wanted to offer the best cloud experience they could. Jake tells us how they accomplished the move in 9 months, why the built their own orchestrator, and what they’re working on next. Check out Railway at https://railway.com/ and their blog at https://blog.railway.com. Specifically read the post discussed in this episode. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one

    1h 4m
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Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems.

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  • Creator
    Justin Garrison & Autumn Nash
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Justin Garrison & Autumn Nash
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