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13. Kaeffchen: Events, community, social, education, how to google correctly, chaos engineering


General

  • Agenda
  • Guests: Niclas Mietz, Carsten Köbke, Michael Friedrich, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Mario Kleinsasser
  • Next ☕ chat #14: 2020-08-19 - Agenda - KubeCon Kaeffchen

Highlights

  • KubeCon & Commit talks
  • Socializing on events is missing
    • Hallway tracks and open spaces to meet the community
  • Education tracks
    • Teach others how to get going
  • Use case stories which solved real problems
    • Learn the starting point of a problem solution
  • The “Why” Story
    • Add this to blog posts, docs, etc.
  • How to educate people
  • How to Google correctly?
    • Keywords, experience, tactics and share this with everyone
  • How to analyse an error message
  • Error culture with Chaos Engineering

Idea for next week:

  • Pick an issue/forum topic and google together working on a solution
    • Solve a problem with different languages or containers

Recording

Enjoy the session!

Insights

  • GitLab Commit Schedule
  • KubeCon Schedule
  • KubeCon & Commit talks
    • Community focus in tracks?
    • Too big?
    • Like FOSDEM and Froscon
  • Socializing on events is missing
    • How will the coming months go?
    • Smaller camps, meetups or still topic focussed conferences.
  • Education tracks
    • Coding labs for kids
    • Move young generation towards technology
    • How did you solve this? Share with others
    • GitLab WG
  • Use case stories which solved real problems
    • Science, not too much technology
    • Follow the thoughts
    • Get the starting point
  • The “Why” Story
  • How to educate people
    • Getting Started with CI/CD - exit 1 - fail, exit 0 - 💡
    • Feu’s How to teach Git/GitLab at Commit
    • Break down in smaller pieces - Kubernetes from the beginning
    • Braindump blog posts - do it more
    • Git for ages 4 and up
  • How to Google correctly?
    • We know how to combine words for the best results
    • Google correctly: Remove results with -
    • Nobody said the first search must be successful
    • Incognito tabs for searching
    • Open URL - watch the date, threshold
  • How to analyse an error message
    • Copy paste to Google
    • Haystack the stack trace
    • Wall of text
  • Live challenge
    • Search for something
    • Disaster topic
  • Error culture
    • Test drive a new topic until it is “dead” or “breaks”, then you are good to go
    • “Prepare for change, not for plan”
    • GitLab public problems - visible in GDoc and GitLab.com is down.
    • Chaos Engineering - AWS mit chaos region

Idea for next week:

  • Pick an issue/topic and try to research and solve it challenge for next time
    • Solve a problem with different languages or containers

News

Bookmarks


Date published: August 12, 2020

Tags: Gitlab, Culture, Events, Education, Google