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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steven Murawski and Geoff Dalgas about DSC & Stack Overflow

News

  [PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)

  [Registration is now open for the PowerShell Summit 2014](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/home/event/PSNA2014)

  [PowerShell Hero program](https://powershell.org/2013/09/20/nominate-your-powershell-hero/)

  As mentioned on the show there are still plans for [Winter Scripting Games](https://powershell.org/2013/09/24/the-new-look-of-the-scripting-games/) events

  PowerShell.org it looking for [ebook curators](https://powershell.org/2013/09/23/seeking-curators-for-powershell-ebooks/)

  PhillyPosh is [turning one](https://powershell.org/2013/09/17/philadelphia-meeting-october-3rd-2013/)!

  The Charlotte PowerShell user group is [meeting October 3rd](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-monthly-meeting-3/2013-10-03/), 2013

  [Podcasting for Cancer](http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/podcasting-for-cancer)

Interview

Guests - Steve Murawski, Geoff Dalgas

Links

  [http://stackoverflow.com/](http://stackoverflow.com/)

  [http://stackexchange.com/](http://stackexchange.com/)

  [https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc](https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc)

  [http://velocityconf.com/velocityny2013/public/schedule/detail/30114](http://velocityconf.com/velocityny2013/public/schedule/detail/30114)

  [http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833](http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833)

  [http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/)

  [https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC](https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC)

  [http://www.vagrantup.com/](http://www.vagrantup.com/)

Chatroom Buzz-

<11ScriptWarrior> ## Do they use splunk to data mine those logs?

<0logicaldiagram> ## What “provider” do you use for IIS?

<10Neptune443> ## Can you expand on the pull setup? TechNet docs are just wrong and the DSC-service in R2 RTM seems to be pretty much broken out of the box.

<11ScriptWarrior> ## Well plus by automating you are taking human error out of the deployment process

<0logicaldiagram> ## Do you have one .Net application for all the StackExchange “sites”?

<11ScriptWarrior> ## So is that like VM Snapshots?

<0halr9000> ## how do you make a provider?

<11ScriptWarrior> ## Just out of curiosity what brand of hardware do you use at Stack?

<11ScriptWarrior> ## What do you use to monitor the servers?  Dell OpenView?  SCOM?

<0logicaldiagram> ## Any real-user monitoring?

<11ScriptWarrior> ## Why not use SCOM?

<10Neptune443> ## Can you quickly run through what you need to do to package up both configurations and providers for the pull server?

 https://pssat005.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount

This book helped some in explaining devops: http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO

 http://powerscriptinglive.blogspot.com/

Did you guys see my blog today: Fun and Games with PowerShell: http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/09/19/fun-and-games-with-powershell/

36 days until PowerShell Saturday 005 in Atlanta: http://powershellsaturday.com/005/

http://stackoverflow.com/

 https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc

 http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833

 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/ <- me

 https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC

 http://imgur.com/2MFgP23 <– our entire web tier for Stack Exchange

 http://www.vagrantup.com/

 http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/index.html

 http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm  #15

 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-datacenter-migration/ <– my boy has been doing datacenters for awhile

they sure are:  https://twitter.com/SuperDalgas/status/379721652516691968

 http://blog.serverfault.com/2013/09/05/homegrown-devops-tools-at-stack-exchange/

 http://www.opencompute.org/  « Should look at these servers

 http://velocityconf.com/velocityny2013/public/schedule/detail/30114

 http://www.amazon.com/The-Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884270610 ?

The Question - Geoff

  Geoff Dalgas: superhero - The Hulk

  Steve - book: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt