Adventures in DevOps

Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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In this episode, we examine how the software industry is fundamentally changing. We're joined by our expert guest, Matt Edmunds, a long-time UX director, principal designer, and Principal UX Consultant at Tiny Pixls. The episode kicks, analyzing how early AI implementation in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) created rigid hiring processes that actively filter out the varied candidates who actually bring necessary diversity to engineering teams.

Of course we get to the world of "vibe coding", and revisit the poor LLM usage highlighted in the DORA 2025 report, exploring how professionals without traditional software engineering backgrounds are leveraging models to generate functional code.

Matt details his hands-on experience using the latest models of Claude Opus and Gemini Pro, successfully building low-level C virtual audio driver in 30 minutes drive by personal needs. We discuss the inherent challenges of large context windows, and coin the term "guest-driven development". To combat these hallucinations, Matt shares his strategy of using question-based prompting and anchoring the AI with comprehensive test files and documented schemas, which the models treat as an undeniable source of truth.

Beyond the code, we look at the broader economic and physical limitations of the current AI boom, noting that AI providers are operating at massive financial losses while awaiting hardware efficiency improvements.

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Warren - Book: Start With Why
Matt - Book: Creativity, Inc.

DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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We dive into the shifting landscape of developer relations and the new necessity of optimizing documentation for both humans and LLMs. Melinda Fekete joins from Unleash, and suggests transitioning to platform to help get this right by utilizing LLMs.txt files to cleanly expose content to AI models.

The conversation then takes a look at the June GCP outage, which was triggered by a single IAM policy change. This illustrates that even with world-class CI/CD pipelines, deploying code using runtime controls such as feature flags is still risky. Feature flags can't even save GCP and other cloud providers, so what hope do the rest of us have.

Finally, we discuss the practical implementation of these systems, advocating for "boring technology" like polling over streaming to ensure reliability, and conducting internal "breakathons" to test features before a full rollout.

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Warren - Show: Bosch - LA Detective procedural
Melinda - Wavelength - Party Game

The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment Metrics, and the Art of Deleting Code

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Dorota, CEO of Authress, returns to apply the US Supreme Court’s definition of obscenity to a scandalous topic: Engineering Productivity. In a world obsessed with AI-driven efficiency, Dorota and Warren argue that software development productivity has nothing to do with manufacturing "gizmos" and everything to do with feelings. They dismantle the factory-floor mentality that equates typing speed with value, suggesting instead that the most productive work often happens while staring out a train window or disassociating in the shower.

The conversation takes a dark turn into the reality of performance reviews. If productivity is subjective, how do you decide who gets promoted? Dorota proposes the "Resentment Metric"—ignoring Jira tickets in favor of figuring out who the team has secret concerns fo. They also roast the "100% utilization" fallacy, noting that a fully utilized highway is just a parking lot, and the same logic applies to engineering teams that don't schedule downtime for actual thinking.

Ultimately, they land on a definition of productivity that would make any optimizer proud: deleting things. If the best code is no code, then the most productive engineer is the one removing waste, deleting replicas, and emptying S3 buckets. The episode wraps up with a credit-card-sized transformer (it's a tripod) and a book recommendation on why your international colleagues might be misinterpreting your silence.

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Warren - Book: The Culture Map
Dorota - GEOMETRICAL Pocket tripod

Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Paul Conroy, CTO at Square1, joins the show to prove that the best defense against malicious bots isn't always a firewall—sometimes, it’s creative data poisoning. Paul recounts a legendary story from the Irish property market where a well-funded competitor attempted to solve their "chicken and egg" problem by scraping his company's listings. Instead of waiting years for lawyers, Paul’s team fed the scrapers "Project Yellow Brick Road": fake listings that placed the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in Dublin and the White House in County Cork. The result? The competitor’s site went viral for all the wrong reasons, forcing them to burn resources manually filtering junk until they eventually gave up and targeted someone else.

We also dive into the high-stakes world of election coverage, where Paul had three weeks to build a "coalition builder" tool for a national election. The solution wasn't a complex microservice architecture, but a humble Google Sheet wrapped in a Cloudflare Worker. Paul explains how they mitigated Google's rate limits and cold start times by putting a heavy cache in front of the sheet, leading to a crucial lesson in pragmatism: data that is "one minute stale" is perfectly acceptable if it saves the engineering team from building a complex invalidation strategy. Practically wins.

Finally, the conversation turns to the one thing that causes more sleepless nights than malicious scrapers: caching layers. Paul and the host commiserate over the "turtles all the way down" nature of modern caching, where a single misconfiguration can lead to a news site accidentally attaching a marathon runner’s photo to a crime story. They wrap up with picks, including a history of cryptography that features the Pope breaking Spanish codes and a defense of North Face hiking boots that might just be "glamping" gear in disguise.

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Warren - The North Face Hedgehog Gore-tex Hiking Shoes
Paul - The Code Book

Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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"Those memes are not going to make themselves."

Dorota, CEO of Authress, joins us to roast the 2025 DORA Report, which she argues has replaced hard data with an AI-generated narrative. From the confusing disconnect between feeling productive and actually shipping code to the grim reality of a 30% acceptance rate, Warren and Dorota break down why this year's report smells a lot like manure.

We dissect the massive 142-page 2025 DORA Report. Dorota argues that the report, which is now rebranded as the "State of AI-Assisted Software Development", feels less like a scientific study of DevOps performance and more like a narrative written by an intern using an LLM prompt. The duo investigates the "stubborn results" where AI apparently makes everyone feel like a 10x developer, where the hard results tell a different story. AI actually increases software and product instability — failing to improve.

The conversation gets spicy as they debate the "pit of failure" that is feature flags (often used as a crutch for untested code) and the embarrassing reality that GitHub celebrates a mere 30% code acceptance rate as a "success." Dorota suggests that while AI raises the floor for average work, it completely fails when you need to solve complex problems or, you know, actually collaborate with another human being.

In a vivid analogy, Dorota compares reading this year's report to the Swiss Spring phenomenon — the time of year when farmers spray manure, leaving the beautiful landscape smelling...unique. The episode wraps up with a reality check on the physical limits of LLM context windows (more tokens, more problems) and a strong recommendation to ignore the AI hype cycle in favor of a much faster-growing organism: a kitchen countertop oyster mushroom kit.

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Warren - The Maximum Effective Context Window
Dorota - Mushroom Grow Kit

Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here!

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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"My biggest legacy at Google is the amount of systems I broke." — Sam Goto joins the show with a name that strikes fear into engineering systems everywhere. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Chrome team, Sam shares the hilarious reality of having the last name "Goto," which once took down Google's internal URL shortener for four hours simply because he plugged in a new computer.

Sam gets us up to speed with Federated Credentials Management (FedCM), as we dive deep into why authentication has been built despite the browser rather than with it, and why it’s time to move identity from "user-land" to "kernel-land". This shift allows for critical UX improvements for logging in all users irrespective of what login providers you use, finally addressing the "NASCAR flag" problem of infinite login lists.

Most importantly, he shares why you don't need to change your technology stack to get all the benefits of FedCM. Finally, Sam details the "self-sustaining flame" strategy (as opposed to an ecosystem "flamethrower"), revealing how they utilized JavaScript SDKs to migrate massive platforms like Shopify and 50% of the web's login traffic without requiring application developers to rewrite their code.

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Warren - Book: The Platform Revolution
Sam - The 7 Laws of Identity and Short Story: The Egg By Andy Weir

Are we building the right thing?

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Elise, VP and Head of UX at Unleash, joins us to talk all about UX. Self identifying as probably "The annoying lady in the room" and a career spanning nearly 30 years—starting before "UX" was even a job title — joins us to dismantle the idea that User Experience is just about moving pixels around. Here we debate the friction between engineering, sales, and the customer. We get to the bottom of whether or avoiding end-user interaction, understand, and research is a career-limiting move for staff+ engineers. Or should you avoid forcing a world-class developer to facilitate a call with a non-technical user if it makes them uncomfortable?

Warren calls out the "Pit of Failure" often faced by teams as they seek to introduce feature flags. They can become a crutch, leading teams to push untested code into production simply because they can toggle it off—a scenario he calls the "pit of failure".

And Elise dives into a great story recounting her consulting days where a company spent a fortune on a branding agency that demanded conflicting "primary colors" for a mainframe application used 8 hours a day. Her low-tech solution to prove them wrong? Listen and find out, this episode is all about bringing UX to Engineering.

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Ladder of Leadership - Book: Turn the Ship Around!

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Warren - Growth.Design Case Studies
Elise - Paper on Generative UI: LLMs are Effective UI Generators

Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Warren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of technical debt in modern software engineering. Olga reveals a shocking statistic: without maintenance, cloud-native applications often cease to function within just six months. And from our experience, that's actually optimistic. The rapid decay isn't always due to bad code choices, but rather the shifting sands of third-party dependencies, which make up 80 to 90% of cloud-native environments.

We review the limitations of traditional Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) and the introduction of OpenRewrite's Lossless Semantic Trees (LSTs). Unlike standard tools, LSTs preserve formatting and style, allowing for automated, horizontal scaling of code maintenance across millions of lines of code. This fits perfectly in to the toolchain that is the LLMs and open source ecosystem. Olga explains how this technology enables enterprises to migrate frameworks—like moving from Spring Boot 1 to 2 — without dedicating entire years to manual updates.

Finally, they explore the intersection of AI and code maintenance, noting that while LLMs are great at generating code, they often struggle with refactoring and optimizing existing codebases. We highlight that agents are not yet fully autonomous and will always require "right-sized" data to function effectively. Will is absent for this episode, leaving Warren to navigate the complexities of mass-scale code remediation solo.

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Warren - Dell XPS 13 9380
Olga - Claude Code

AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month.

The conversation dives deep into "Agentic AI," where John predicts developers will soon become "managers of agents". But is it all hype? John and Warren debate the risks of too much automation (no, AI should not auto-merge your PRs) and the terrifying story of a SaaS built with "zero handwritten code" that immediately got hacked because the founder was "not technical".

The episode highlights John's jaw-dropping war stories from Disney, including a mission-critical hotel lock system (for 5,000+ rooms) that was running on a single MS Access database under a desk. It's a perfect, cringeworthy lesson in why "we don't have time to test" is the most expensive phrase in tech, and why we need a human in the loop. John leaves us with the one question we must ask of all new AI features: "Who asked for that?"

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Warren - Shokz OpenFit 2
John - Run Disney

Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are harsh and require a high level of rigor and discipline in the response process. Lawrence details the company's evolution, from running a monolithic Go binary on Heroku to moving to a more secure, robust setup in GCP, prioritizing the use of native security primitives like GCP Secret Manager and Kubernetes to meet the obligations of their growing customer base.

We spotlight exactly how a system can crawl GitHub pull requests, Slack channels, telemetry data, and past incident post-mortems to dynamically generate an ephemeral runbook for the current incident.Also discussed are the technical challenges of using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), noting that they rely heavily on pre-processing data with tags and a service catalog rather than relying solely on less consistent vector embeddings to ensure fast, accurate search results during a crisis.

Finally, Lawrence stresses that frontier models are no longer the limiting factor in building these complex systems; rather, success hinges on building structured, modular systems, and doing the hard work of defining objective metrics for improvement.

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Warren - Anker Adpatable Wall-Charger - PowerPort Atom III
Lawrence - Rocktopus & The Checklist Manifesto

The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga, celebrating the release of his book IT Dictionary. In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technology.

Adam shares how he started in the industry, long before DevOps was a coined term, focused on making systems safer and avoiding mistakes like accidentally dropping a production database. we review the infamous incidents of accidental database deletion, by LLMs and human's alike.

And of course we touch on the quintessential postmortems in civil engineering, flight, and survivorship bias from World War II through analyzing bullet holes on returning planes.

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Adam's book: IT Dictionary
Knight Capital: the 45 minute nightmare
Work Chronicles Comic: Will my architecture work for 1 Million users?

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Warren - Cuitisan CANDL storage containers
Adam - FUBAR

Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Jenna Pederson, Staff Developer Relations at Pinecone, joins us to close the loop on Vector Databases. Demystifies how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and also unexpected applications.

Jenna takes us beyond the buzzword bingo, explaining how vector databases are the secret sauce behind semantic search. Sharing just how "red shirt" gets converted into a query that returns things semantically similar. It's all about turning your data into high-dimensional numerical meaning, which, as Jenna clarifies, is powered by some seriously clever math to find those "closest neighbors."

The conversation inevitably veers into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Jenna reveals how databases are the unsung heroes giving LLMs real brains (and up-to-date info) when they're prone to hallucinating or just don't know your company's secrets. They complete the connection from proprietary and generalist foundational models to business relevant answers.

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Warren - HanCenDa USB C Magnetic adapter
Jenna - Keychron Alice Layout Mechanical keyboard (And get a 5% discount on us)

The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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This episode we are joined by Andrew Moreland, co-founder of Chalk. Andrew explains how their company's core business model is to deploy their software directly into their customers' cloud environments. This decision was driven by the need to handle highly sensitive data, like PII and financial records, that customers don't want to hand over to a third-party startup.

The conversation delves into the surprising and complex challenges of this approach, which include managing granular IAM permissions and dealing with hidden global policies that can block their application. Andrew and Warren also discuss the real-world network congestion issues that affect cross-cloud traffic, a problem they've encountered multiple times. Andrew shares Chalk's mature philosophy on software releases, where they prioritize backwards compatibility to prevent customer churn, which is a key learning from a competitor.

Finally, the episode explores the advanced technical solutions Chalk has built, such as their unique approach to "bitemporal modeling" to prevent training bias in machine learning datasets. As well as, the decision to move from Python to C++ and Rust for performance, using a symbolic interpreter to execute customer code written in Python without a Python runtime. The episode concludes with picks, including a surprisingly popular hobby and a unique take on high-quality chocolate.

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Warren - Switzerland Grocery Store Chocolate
Andrew - Trek E-Bikes

How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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We welcome guest Ang Li and dive into the immense challenge of observability at scale, where some customers are generating petabytes of data per day. Ang explains that instead of building a database from scratch—a decision he says went "against all the instincts" of a founding engineer—Observe chose to build its platform on top of Snowflake, leveraging its separation of compute and storage on EC2 and S3.

The discussion delves into the technical stack and architectural decisions, including the use of Kafka to absorb large bursts of incoming customer data and smooth it out for Snowflake's batch-based engine. Ang notes this choice was also strategic for avoiding tight coupling with a single cloud provider like AWS Kinesis, which would hinder future multi-cloud deployments on GCP or Azure. The discussion also covers their unique pricing model, which avoids surprising customers with high bills by providing a lower cost for data ingestion and then using a usage-based model for queries. This is contrasted with Warren's experience with his company's user-based pricing, which can lead to negative customer experiences when limits are exceeded.

The episode also explores Observe's "love-hate relationship" with Snowflake, as Observe's usage accounts for over 2% of Snowflake's compute, which has helped them discover a lot of bugs but also caused sleepless nights for Snowflake's on-call engineers. Ang discusses hedging their bets for the future by leveraging open data formats like Iceberg, which can be stored directly in customer S3 buckets to enable true data ownership and portability. The episode concludes with a deep dive into the security challenges of providing multi-account access to customer data using IAM trust policies, and a look at the personal picks from the hosts.

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Warren - The Shadow (1994 film)
Ang - XREAL Pro AR Glasses

The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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In a special solo flight, Warren welcomes Meagan Cojocar, General Manager at Pulumi and a self-proclaimed graduate of “PM school” at AWS. They dive into what it's like to own an entire product line and why giving up that startup hustle for the big leagues sometimes means you miss the direct signal from your users. The conversation goes deep on the paradox of open-source where direct feedback is gold, but dealing with license-shifting competitors can make you wary. From the notorious HashiCorp kerfuffle to the rise of OpenTofu, they explore how Pulumi maintains its commitment to the community amidst a wave of customer distrust.

Meagan highlights the invaluable feedback loop provided by the community, allowing for direct interaction between users and the engineering team. This contrasts with the "telephone game" that can happen in proprietary product development. The conversation also addresses the recent industry shift and then immediate back-peddling from open-source licenses, discussing the subsequent customer distrust and how Pulumi maintains its commitment to the open-source model.

And finally, the duo tackles the elephant in the cloud: LLMs, and extends on the earlier MCP episode. They debate the great code quality vs. speed trade-off, the risk of a "botched" infrastructure deployment, and whether these models can solve anything more than a glorified statistical guessing game. It's a candid look at the future of DevOps, where the real chaos isn't the code, but the tools that write it. The conversation concludes with a philosophical debate on the fundamental capabilities of LLMs, questioning whether they can truly solve "hard problems" or are merely powerful statistical next-word predictors.

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Warren - Rands Leadership Community
Meagan - The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier

FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:17:50 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, we dive into the world of FinOps, a concept that aims to apply the DevOps mindset to financial accountability. Yasmin Rajabi, Chief Strategy Officer at CloudBolt, joins us to demystify, as we acknowledge the critical challenge of bringing together financial accountability and engineering teams who often are not paying attention to the business.

The discussion further explores the practicalities of FinOps in the context of cloud spending and Kubernetes. Yasmin highlights that a significant amount of waste in organizations comes from simply not turning off unused systems and not right-sizing resources. She explains how tools like Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) can help, but also points out the complexities of optimizing across horizontal and vertical scaling behaviors. The conversation touches on "shame back reporting" as a way to provide visibility into costs for engineering teams, although the conversation emphasizes that providing tooling and insights is more effective than simply telling developers to change configurations.

The episode also delves into the evolving mindset around cloud costs, especially with the rise of AI and machine learning workloads. While historically engineering salaries eclipsed cloud spending, the increasing hardware requirements for ML and data workloads are making cost optimization a more pressing concern. Spending-conscious teams are increasingly asking about GPU optimization, even if AI/ML teams are still largely focused on limitless spending to drive unjustified "innovation". The conclude by discussing the challenges of on-premise versus cloud deployments and the importance of addressing "day two problems" regardless of the infrastructure choice.

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Warren - Lions and Dolphins cannot make babies
Aimee - The Equip Protein Powder and Protein Bar
Yasmin - Bone Broth drink by 1990 Snacks

The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:22:27 +0000

Get ready for a lively debate on this episode of Adventures in DevOps. We're joined by Brian Pontarelli, founder of FusionAuth and CleanSpeak. Warren and Brian face off by diving into the controversial topic of multitenant versus single-tenant architecture. Expert co-host Aimee Knight joins to moderate the discussion. Ever wondered how someone becomes an "auth expert"? Warren spills the beans on his journey, explaining it's less about a direct path and more about figuring out what it means for yourself. Brian chimes in with his own "random chance" story, revealing how they fell into it after their forum-based product didn't pan out.

Aimee confesses her "alarm bells" start ringing whenever multitenant architecture is mentioned, jokingly demanding "details" and admitting her preference for more separation when it comes to reliability. Brian makes a compelling case for his company's chosen path, explaining how their high-performance, downloadable single-tenant profanity filter, CleanSpeak, handles billions of chat messages a month with extreme low latency. This architectural choice became a competitive advantage, attracting companies that couldn't use cloud-based multitenant competitors due to their need to run solutions in their own data centers.

We critique cloud providers' tendency to push users towards their most profitable services, citing AWS Cognito as an example of a cost-effective solution for small-scale use that becomes cost-prohibitive with scaling and feature enablement. The challenges of integrating with Cognito, including its reliance on numerous other AWS services and the need for custom Lambda functions for configuration, are also a point of contention. The conversation extends to the frustrations of managing upgrades and breaking changes in both multitenant and single-tenant systems and the inherent difficulties of ensuring compatibility across different software versions and integrations. The episode concludes with a humorous take on the current state and perceived limitations of AI in software development, particularly concerning security.

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Warren - Scarpa Hiking shoes - Planet Mojito Suade
Aimee - Peloton Tread
Brian - Searchcraft and Fight or Flight

Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win?

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:38:00 +0000

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This episode dives into a fundamental question facing the DevOps world: Did Kubernetes truly win the infrastructure race because it was the best technology, or were there other, perhaps less obvious, factors at play? Omer Hamerman joins Will and Warren to take a hard look at it. Despite the rise of serverless solutions promising to abstract away infrastructure management, Omer shares that Kubernetes has seen a surge in adoption, with potentially 70-75% of corporations now using or migrating to it. We explore the theory that human nature's preference for incremental "step changes" (Kaizen) over disruptive "giant leaps" (Kaikaku) might explain why a solution perceived by some as "worse" or more complex has gained such widespread traction.

The discussion unpacks the undeniable strengths of Kubernetes, including its "thriving community", its remarkable extensibility through APIs, and how it inadvertently created "job security" for engineers who "nerd out" on its intricacies. We also challenge the narrative by examining why serverless options like AWS Fargate could often be a more efficient and less burdensome choice for many organizations, especially those not requiring deep control or specialized hardware like GPUs. The conversation highlights that the perceived "need" for Kubernetes' emerges often from something other than technical superiority.

Finally, we consider the disruptive influence of AI and "vibe coding" on this landscape, how could we not? As LLMs are adopted to "accelerate development", they tend to favor serverless deployment models, implicitly suggesting that for rapid product creation, Kubernetes might not be the optimal fit. This shift raises crucial questions about the trade-offs between development speed and code quality, the evolving role of software engineers towards code review, and the long-term maintainability of AI-generated code. We close by pondering the broader societal and environmental implications of these technological shifts, including AI's massive energy consumption and the ongoing debate about centralizing versus decentralizing infrastructure for efficiency.

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Comparison: Linux versus E. coli

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Warren - Surveys are great, and also fill in the Podcast Survey
Will - Katana.network
Omer - Mobland and JJ (Jujutsu)

Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:50:07 +0000

In this episode, Aimee Knight, an expert in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) whose experience hails from Paramount and NPM, joins the podcast to discuss her journey into SRE, the challenges she faced, and the strategies she employed to succeed. Aimee shares her transition from a non-traditional background in JavaScript development to SRE, highlighting the importance of understanding both the programming and infrastructure sides of engineering. She also delves into the complexities of SRE at different scales, the role of playbooks in incident management, and the balance between speed and quality in software development.

Aimee discusses the impact of AI and machine learning on SRE, emphasizing the need for responsible use of these tools. She touches on the importance of understanding business needs and how it affects decision-making in SRE roles. The conversation also covers the trade-offs in system design, the challenges of scaling applications, and the importance of resilience in distributed systems. Aimee provides valuable insights into the pros and cons of a career in SRE, including the importance of self-care and the satisfaction of mentoring others.

The episode concludes with us discussing some of the hard problems such as the on-call burden for large teams, and the technical expertise an org needs to maintain higher complexity systems. Is the average tenure in tech decreasing, we discuss it and do a deep dive on the consequences in the SRE world.

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The Adventures In DevOps: Survey
Warren's Technical Blog
Warren: The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Aimee: Sleep Token (Band) - Caramel, Granite
Will: The Bear Grylls Celebrity Hunt on Netflix
Jillian: Horizon Zero Dawn Video Game

Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:45:07 +0000

In this episode, we delve into the concept of MCP (Machine Control Protocol) servers and their role in enabling agent interactions. Gil Feig, the co-founder and CTO of Merge, shares insights on how MCP servers facilitate efficient and secure integration between various services and APIs.

The discussion covers the benefits and challenges of using MCP servers, including their stateful nature, security considerations, and the importance of understanding real-world use cases. Gil emphasizes the need for thorough testing and evaluation to ensure that MCP servers effectively meet user needs.

Additionally, we explore the implications of MCP servers on data security, scaling, and the evolving landscape of API interactions. Warren chimes in with experiences integrating AI with Auth. Will stuns us with some nuclear fission history. And finally, we also touch on the balance between short-term innovation and long-term stability in technology, reflecting on how different generations approach problem-solving and knowledge sharing.

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The Adventures In DevOps: Survey
Warren: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Gil: Constant Escapement in Watchmaking
Will: Dungeon Crawler Carl & Atmos Clock

No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:45:07 +0000

Warren talks with Nathan Goulding, SVP of Engineering at Vultr, about what it actually takes to run a high-performance cloud platform. They cover everything from global game server latency and hybrid models to bare metal provisioning and the power/cooling constraints that come with modern GPU clusters.

The discussion gets into real-world deployment challenges like scaling across 32 data centers, edge use cases that actually matter, and how to design systems for location-sensitive customers—whether that's due to regulation or performance. Additionally, there's talk about where the hyperscalers have overcomplicated pricing and where simplicity in a flatter pricing model and optimized defaults are better for everyone.

There's a section on nuclear energy (yes, really), including SMRs, power procurement, and what it means to keep scaling compute with limited resources. If you're wondering whether your app actually needs high-performance compute or just better visibility into your costs, this is the episode.

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Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:36:31 +0000

Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO and founder of Illumex, joins the crew to break down what it really means to make your data “AI-ready.” This isn't just about clean tables—it's about semantic fabric, business ontologies, and grounding agents in your company's context to prevent the dreaded LLM hallucination. We dive into how modern enterprises just cannot build a single source of truth, not matter how hard they try. All the while knowing that it's required to build effected agents utilizing the available knowledge graphs and.

The conversation unpacks democratizing data access and avoiding analytics anarchy. Inna explains how automation and graph modeling are used to extract semantic meaning from disconnected data stores, and how to resolve conflicting definitions. And yes, Warren finally coughs up what's so wrong with most dashboards.

Lastly, we quickly get to the core philosophical questions of agentic systems and AGI, including why intuition is the real differentiator between humans and machines. Plus: storage cost regrets, spiritual journeys disguised as inference pipelines, and a very healthy fear of subscription-based sleep wearables.

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The Adventures In DevOps: Survey
Warren: The Non-Computability of Intuition
Will: The Arc Browser
Inna: Healthy GenAI skepticism

Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System - DevOps 242

Thu, 29 May 2025 15:07:03 +0000

Sylvain Kalache, Head of Developer Relations at Rootly joins us to explore the new frontier of incident response powered by large language models. We dive into the evolution of DevRel and how we meet the new challenges impacting our systems.

We explore Sylvain's origin story in self-healing systems, dating back to his SlideShare and LinkedIn days. From ingesting logs via Fluentd to building early ML-driven RCA tools, he shares a vision of self-healing infrastructure that targets root causes rather than just restarting boxes. Plus, we trace the historical arc of deterministic and non-deterministic tools.

The conversation shifts toward real-world applications, where we're combining logs, metrics, transcripts, and postmortems to give SREs superpowers. We get tactical on integrating LLMs, why fine-tuning isn't always worth it, and how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) could be the USB of AI ops, but how it is still insecure. We wrap by facing the harsh reality of "incident vibing" in a world increasingly built by prompts, not people—and how to prepare for it.Picks

Warren: There is no AI Revolution
Sylvain: Incident Vibing and Rootly Labs SRE event on April 24th

Decentralized Chaos: Web3 Infra, NodeOps, and the Art of Blockchain Load Balancing - DevOps 241

Thu, 22 May 2025 19:08:04 +0000

This week, Paul Marston from Ankr joins the crew to unpack the madness that is modern blockchain infrastructure. From his wild career transition out of financial services into 24/7 node ops for Web3, Paul shares the brutal truth about uptime expectations, decentralization challenges, and why hard forks are more like enterprise schema upgrades with a community twist. If you've ever wondered why managing a blockchain node is like owning a temperamental pet server, this one's for you.

The team goes deep on the nitty-gritty of load balancing across dozens of chains, explaining why routing traffic to the “wrong” archive node could ruin your day—and how Ankr's custom load balancer is basically magic for JSON-RPC calls. Warren tosses out wild scenarios about encrypted data smuggling via blockchain, while Will confesses his angry typing habit (yes, it's back). The discussion gets even more fun with debates on innovation vs. rigor, Web2's forgotten best practices, and why testing in prod might not be such a dirty word after all.

But don't think it's all crypto and code. Paul shares battle-won wisdom from running over 100 chains across bare metal, giving us a peek at the operational sophistication and automation involved. From Terraform templates to Docker configs, he walks through the process of onboarding new chains and tuning for performance. The episode also touches on emerging risks like data exfiltration via public blockchains, and why AI (used wisely) might just be the sidekick DevOps always needed.

And of course memes, we talk a bit about this one: Tree Swing Product Development

Picks

Warren: Dvorak Keyboard Setup and Logitech K295
Will: Quirky Record Player from Miniot
Paul: Super Whisper - Voice Transcription Tool

Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela - DevOps 240

Thu, 15 May 2025 17:38:24 +0000

In this episode, Will and Warren welcome Adriana Villela — CNCF ambassador, Dynatrace advocate, and host of the Geeking Out podcast — for a wide-ranging conversation on observability in CI/CD pipelines. Adriana shares her journey from “On Call Me Maybe” to her own podcast, her work with OpenTelemetry, and why observability isn't just for SREs anymore.

The crew digs into how telemetry should be integrated across the software development lifecycle — from development to QA to production — and what that really looks like in modern teams. Adriana drops knowledge on CI/CD failures, distributed traces, and even how to bring observability to other parts of the business like recruiting and onboarding. She also explains how she got involved in the OpenTelemetry end-user SIG and what's next for the observability movement.

Things get persona as we trade war stories about SVN, terrible version control systems, reusable grocery bags, and the ethics of AI log parsers. Adriana closes with a powerful take: observability is a team sport, and the better we play it, the more effective — and environmentally conscious — our systems can become.Picks

Warren: Adventures In DevOps survey - How can we make it better for you?
Adriana: Bouldering — she recommends it both as a physical activity and a therapeutic mental reset, especially when traveling
Jillian: Expeditionary Force
Will: Iron Neck and Purpose & Prophet

Building Engineering Excellence with Ganesh Datta of Cortex - DevOps 239

Thu, 08 May 2025 02:12:59 +0000

In this episode, I (flying solo today!) sat down with Ganesh Datta, the CTO and co-founder of Cortex, to explore what it really means to drive engineering excellence at scale. And spoiler: it's not just about better dashboards or fancy developer tools—it's about treating software development like the competitive advantage it is.

We went deep into the why behind internal developer portals (IDPs) and how they're transforming platform engineering, developer experience, and organizational maturity. Ganesh shares how Cortex came to life—from being paged at 2am for a mystery Game of Thrones-named microservice (yep, we've all been there), to realizing that every other business function had a system of record—except engineering.

Key Takeaways:

IDPs are like CRMs for Engineering: Just as sales teams wouldn't function without a CRM, modern engineering orgs shouldn't be flying blind without a structured, centralized developer portal.
Engineering Excellence = Business Outcomes: Whether it's reliability, security, or platform efficiency, IDPs help codify best practices and align teams toward measurable goals.
Start Small to Win Big: You don't need to overhaul everything on day one. Start with a pain point you already know—like production readiness—and improve that incrementally.
SREs and Platform Engineers Love IDPs: Because it gives them the data, ownership visibility, and real-time checks they need, without the honor-system chaos.
Developer Experience is Just the Beginning: Tools like Cortex aren't just about dev productivity—they're about creating resilient, aligned, scalable engineering orgs.

We also geeked out about everything from naming services (“Brewer” for a feature extraction tool? Chef's kiss.) to the surprising power of reading 15 minutes before bed to improve sleep quality—yep, we went there!

If you're part of an engineering team (or leading one) and want to know how to move faster and smarter, this is the episode for you.

Modern DevOps Challenges: Automation, AI, and Scaling in 2025 - DevOps 238

Fri, 02 May 2025 15:27:37 +0000

Is AI making us more productive? And where's the value? That's the big debate in this episode as we sit down with Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp. Warp isn't just another terminal—it's an AI-powered reimagination of the command line. From replacing traditional terminal commands with English instructions to integrating AI-driven automation, Warp is pushing the boundaries of how we work. And finally we find out what Warren is using as a keyboard.

In this episode, we discuss the evolution of AI in DevOps, whether LLMs are truly intelligent or just glorified word predictors, and the existential question: will developers eventually be replaced? Warren remains skeptical, questioning the real ROI of AI tools, while Jillian embraces the potential for more accessibility and efficiency—especially if it means she doesn't have to type. Will and Zach counter with insights on the actual adoption of AI among developers and where the technology is heading.

As always, we wrap up with our Picks of the Episode, including an engaging sci-fi book, a thought-provoking AI philosophy experiment, a self-promotion plug, an academic research paper, and a medieval travel guide. Tune in for an episode full of sharp opinions, tech insights, and the ongoing war between efficiency and skepticism.

Picks

Matt Lea Discusses Cloud War Games and Elevating Everyday DevOps

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:00:07 +0000

We dive into the world of cloud architecture and engineering with a fascinating discussion led by our hosts Warren Parad and Will Button, and joined by our special guest, Matt Lea. Matt, hailing from Wisconsin, is the driving force behind innovative projects like CloudWarGames.com, a platform designed to enhance DevOps training and hiring through engaging problem-solving scenarios. As we explore his journey, from coaching gymnastics to developing digital training ecosystems, you'll discover how Matt's experiences shape his unique perspectives on technical challenges, team dynamics, and the ever-evolving landscape of cloud solutions. Whether you're curious about the technical intricacies of infrastructure or seeking inspiration for your own career path, this episode offers a captivating look at the intersection of technology, creativity, and human connections. So, sit back, relax, and get ready to explore the world of DevOps in a whole new way.

Optimizing Cloud Databases with novel algorithms

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:13:28 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Barzan Mozafari, MIT alum and University of Michigan professor, to explore how AI-driven automation is revolutionizing cloud database optimization. Barzan shares his experiences in bridging academia and industry, and how his work in AI-powered database tuning is reshaping cloud infrastructure efficiency.

We discuss the challenges of AI adoption in cloud computing, addressing concerns like implementation risks, security, and trust in autonomous agents. Barzan explains how machine learning models can optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and automate database management, freeing engineers from tedious manual tuning.

Additionally, we explore the future of AI in database systems, the evolving landscape of public and private datasets, and what the next decade holds for data-driven automation. Whether you're a DevOps engineer or a database architect, this episode is packed with insights into the intersection of AI and cloud technology.

🎯 Picks:

Warren - L8 Conference 2024 (Warsaw)
Barzan - Book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Jillian - Infinity Nikki (Open-world dress-up game)

Mastering Infrastructure as Code: Lessons from Matt Gowie's Consultancy Experience - DevOps 235

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:00:07 +0000

In this episode, our hosts Will Button, Warren Parad, and Jillian are joined by guest Matt Gowie from Masterpoint. Together, they delve into the complex world of infrastructure as code, discussing best practices, challenges, and the human side of consulting in the DevOps space. Matt shares his journey from software development to running his own consulting agency focused on Terraform and OpenTofu. The conversation covers everything from the nuances of using Terraform workspaces, the implications of large-scale infrastructure management, to the critical soft skills needed for a successful consulting career. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just venturing into DevOps, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical advice for navigating the ever-evolving landscape of technology.

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AI, law, and automation with John Maly - DevOps 234

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:40:00 +0000

In this episode hosts Warren Parad and Will Button sit down with John W. Maley, an attorney with a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, to discuss the fascinating intersection of AI and the legal system. John shares insights from his book "Juris ex Machina," a sci-fi exploration of a future where AI replaces humans in the jury system. The conversation dives deep into the current state and future potential of AI, touching on its overhyped status, potential vulnerabilities, and security concerns. As they navigate the topic of AI's integration in society, John, Warren, and Will explore riveting ideas about AI's role in the modern world and its implications in diverse fields, from dating apps to deepfake detection. Join us as we tap into the complexities and innovations of AI technology and ponder its future impact on society and the legal system.

🎯 Picks:
- Psycho-Pass
- Book: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Book: Juris Ex Machina
- TheraGun - Muscle Massager

The Impact of Open Source on Business and Development Practices with Daniel Loreto - DevOps 233

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:45:36 +0000

Hosts Warren Parad and Will Button dive into a compelling discussion with guest Daniel Loreto, founder and CEO of Jetify. The conversation revolves around innovative solutions in the DevOps world, particularly focusing on the use of Nix and DevBox to streamline developer environments. Daniel shares insights from his vast experience at prominent tech companies like Google, Airbnb, and Twitter, detailing how Jetify is leveraging AI and agents to enhance software development. The trio explores the challenges of reproducible development environments, the complexities of ML development, and the strategic benefits of open sourcing tools. Along the way, they touch on the impact of AI agents on the industry and the balance between innovation and practical application. Prepare for an engaging episode filled with technical insights and thoughtful reflections on the future of software development.

Exploring the Role of AI in DevOps

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:27:12 +0000

Join host Warren Parad, co-hosts Jillian and Will Button as they delve into a compelling conversation on the pervasive influence of AI across industries. Special guest Alex Kearns from Wiz shares his expertise on the real-world applications of AI, navigating through its rapid evolution and discussing both the opportunities and challenges it presents. From the impact of generative AI on business processes to intriguing ethical considerations, this episode provides valuable insights for professionals in the DevOps field. Tune in as the panel explores the dynamic relationship between technology, responsibility, and innovation, offering listeners a thought-provoking exploration of AI's role in shaping the future.

🎯 Picks:

Warren - Short Paper: Comparing genomes to computer operating systems
Will - Book: Juris Ex Machina
Jillian - Resourcely (Fraim)
Alex - Keychron K2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard + MX Master 3 Mouse

Real-World Testing: Insights from Rainforest QA Expert AJ Funk - DevOps 231

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:13:28 +0000

In today's show, we dive into the intricate world of quality assurance and testing strategies with our special guest, AJ Funk. AJ, a seasoned software engineer at Rainforest QA, shares his unique journey from playing professional baseball to developing cutting-edge QA solutions. Joining us are co-hosts Will Button and Jillian, along with fellow guest Matteo Collina.

AJ walks us through the evolution of quality assurance at Rainforest QA, emphasizing the importance of balancing confidence and velocity in testing. He highlights innovative approaches like using visual layers for testing, eliminating the need for extensive code-based tests, and explains how their no-code solutions empower teams to maintain high-quality standards efficiently.

From discussing the myth of 100% test coverage to the role of AI in QA, AJ and our hosts explore practical strategies for developers. We also touch on the importance of real-world testing environments, handling microservices, and tips for leveraging Rainforest QA's robust tools effectively.

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that covers everything from the basics of end-to-end testing to advanced QA practices, and even takes some entertaining detours into the personal lives of our speakers. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out in the tech industry, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss. Tune in for some expert advice, a few laughs, and a whole lot of valuable information!

AI-Powered Ads: How digital marketing is transforming

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000

Will is absent this week due to an infrastructure issue, so Warren and Jillian take the reins in a fascinating discussion with Hikari Senju, founder of Omneky. Hikari shares how AI is revolutionizing ad technology by automatically generating creative assets tailored to different audiences and platforms. His insights reveal how businesses can scale their advertising while maintaining brand consistency and reducing content creation costs.

The conversation explores the balance between automation and human oversight, the ethical implications of AI-driven marketing, and how the ad personalization technology is evolving. Hikari also dives into the infrastructure behind Omneky, discussing cloud-based AI deployment, model selection, and strategies for ensuring ad content stays fresh and relevant. If you've ever wondered how AI is reshaping the future of advertising.

🎯 Picks:

Warren - Dune
Hikari - Accelerando
Jillian - Data Discovery with Dabble of DevOps AI

Simplifying DevOps - DevOps 229

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:12:58 +0000

Ready to show off your coding skills to the world? Not so fast. In this episode, Will and Jillian discuss why developers need to simplify their product with the end goal in mind—the customer. They share some awesome examples of how to do this, how you can win Future You's approval, and the steps to create a smooth user experience.
“I think it's a hard mental shift to say that my area of expertise shouldn't be visible in the product. But, you need to understand the end goal. My goal is to automate myself out of a job, then move on.”

Will Button

Jillian - Airflow and Strapi
Jillian - Non-techy: Harriet the Hamster Princess
Will - Until the End of Time by Brian Greene

Navigating Salesforce DevOps Challenges and AI Innovations - DevOps 228

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:56:00 +0000

In today's episode, Will and Jillian dive deep into the evolving landscape of Salesforce DevOps, joined by the experienced Vernon Keenan. This episode covers a range of critical topics including recent changes in Salesforce's AI product offerings and the complexities surrounding their pricing. Vernon takes us on his personal journey from telecom to pioneering a tax engine on Salesforce, leading to his current focus on Go and Kubernetes-driven DevOps solutions.
They unpack the challenges developers face with Salesforce's SFDX and metadata API, explore how companies like Capado, Flowsome, and Gearset are tackling these issues, and discuss innovative approaches from firms like Elements Cloud. The conversation also ventures into the realm of cognitive DevOps, AI-driven virtual employees, and the economic and societal impacts of these technologies. Additionally, they touch upon the shifting responsibilities in Salesforce management and the rising importance of CIOs in this space.
Whether you're grappling with Salesforce's limitations or seeking insights on how AI is transforming the DevOps field, this episode is packed with expert advice, industry insights, and forward-looking perspectives. Stay tuned, as they also address public policy concerns, the potential for job displacement, and the future of SaaS DevOps. Listen in and join as they navigate the future of technology and workforce transformation!

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LinkedIn: Vernon Keenan

Kubernetes Schema Validation Tools with Eyar Zilberman - DevOps 227

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools.The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.

Links

Picks

Jillian- GitHub | cloudposse/terraform-example-module
Jonathan- Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
Will- Paperlike

Gaining Stability with Rule Based Policies with Shimon Tolts - DevOps 226

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Shimon Tolts is the CEO datree.io. Shimon talks the panel through an outage he experienced while working for a previous employer. He breaks down the situation and the explains the types of misconfiguration that caused his outage and how these things can cause problems in other applications as well.

Links

Picks

Charles- Willow
Charles- Traeger Grills
Jeffrey- How to be most efficient in learning something new
Jeffrey- Don't fall into the trap of just buying cheap products
Shimon- daily.dev | All-in-one developer news reader
Will- The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

Balancing Technical Skills, Cultural Fit, and Overqualification in DevOps Hiring - DevOps 225

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Will, Warren, and Jillian dive deep into a riveting discussion that spans a myriad of topics, from hiring practices to the hidden impacts of plastics in our brain matter. They kick off with Jillian's intriguing Amazon affiliate link strategy, sparking a fascinating debate on monetization. As they navigate through Warren's shocking revelation about plastics in our brains, he also shares a crucial health tip: blood donation as a method to combat "forever chemicals." But that's not all—Jillian also offers a thought-provoking book recommendation that promises to be both profound and enlightening.
They explore the intricate balance between skills and cultural fit in hiring, sharing personal insights and strategies to ensure the right match within their teams. They hear about the importance of detailed job descriptions, cultural alignment, and the nuanced art of candidate rejection.
The episode takes a practical turn as Will and Jillian offer valuable advice for contractors, discussing hourly rates, contract work, and the critical role of setting non-technical requirements based on company culture.
Finally, they tackle the ever-important topic of leadership and decision-making in the evolving post-COVID engineering environment, encompassing the challenges of remote work, the significance of team fit, and strategies for managing uncertainty in startup life.
Don't miss out as they wrap up with light-hearted personal recommendations and crucial advice for thriving in tech roles, consulting, and contracting. Stay tuned for a comprehensive journey through DevOps challenges and solutions!

CI/CD Tools for Dummies - DevOps 224

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

We're not calling you a dummy, but you might be one if you don't listen to this episode. This time around, the gang discusses the do's and don'ts of choosing CI/CD tools, including how to safety migrate between them, why super-specialized tools are getting extremely popular this year, and the ONE component that makes or breaks a tool.
In This Episode
1) The TWO questions you need ask BEFORE you choose your tools (and why there's no “one size fits all”)
2) How to safely migrate from one tool to another
3) Why super-specialized CI tools are getting more popular in 2022
4) Want to know what makes a CI tool worthwhile? Ask if it has THIS single component and you're off to a great start

Picks

Jillian- Wheel of Time Book Series
Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie 1979)
Will- The Devil and the Blacksmith
Will- Acuity Eyedrops

Streamlining DevOps: Managing with Epics for Clearer Priorities - DevOps 223

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode, they explore the realms of DevOps management and team dynamics. Will is joined by Warren and Jillian to delve into the challenges and strategies involved in transitioning from a ticket queue system to using epics for task management. They discuss how this shift prioritizes objectives, enhances team focus across global time zones, and improves communication with product teams.
The conversation also touches on documenting processes, managing support work, and the importance of adaptability and transparency within organizations. From humorous anecdotes about technical issues to practical advice on handling resistance from higher-ups, the episode is packed with real-world examples and expert insights. Tune in to learn how to better align stakeholder priorities, balance planned and unplanned work, and foster a more efficient and cohesive DevOps team.

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From Doha to New Hampshire: Embracing Change and Unpacking the 2024 Dora Report - DevOps 222

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jillian returns to the podcast after a significant move from Doha, Qatar to a quaint town in New Hampshire. She shares her experiences of adjusting back to life in the U.S., both personally and professionally. The discussion delves into the logistics and emotional aspects of relocating internationally—what it's like leaving behind furniture deemed disposable overseas, starting fresh with new purchases, and dealing with unexpected challenges along the way.

Additionally, they talk about the Dora metrics and the emphasis on why measuring these metrics is crucial for understanding DevOps efficiency within organizations. They also dive into the importance of setting hypotheses when attempting organizational changes. And discuss the challenges faced by companies who fail at measuring progress post-experimentation.

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Navigating Secrets Management Complexities and Future Authentication Trends - DevOps 221

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Will, Warren and Jillian dive into the complexities of secrets management and developer productivity with our esteemed guest, Brian Vallelunga from Doppler. Join them as Brian shares his journey from facing security challenges at Uber to founding Doppler, an innovative solution aimed at transforming how developers handle secrets.They delve into the critical importance of secrets management, Doppler's unique approach to making security practices not only essential but enjoyable for developers, and the future of authentication with identity-based methods. Brian also offers valuable advice on integrating security from day one and discusses the hurdles and necessities of secure secret management.

Tune in as they explore the evolving landscape of security standards, the impact of SOC 2 compliance, and the balance between immediate security fixes and long-term stability using tools like Terraform. They also touch on personal experiences with data security, practical tips for safeguarding information, and a touch of light-heartedness with fun picks from our hosts.

Don't miss this engaging conversation filled with practical insights, expert advice, and a visionary look at the future of secure development practices.

Socials

LinkedIn: Brian Vallelunga

Strategies for Startups: Navigating Certification, Layoffs, and the Evolving Tech Job Market - DevOps 220

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:08:51 +0000

Today, we have a dynamic discussion lined up with Will and special guest, Ben Johnson, the CEO of Particle 41. In this episode, they delve deep into the evolving landscape of the tech industry, from incentivizing certifications to the current economic conditions affecting startups.
Ben shares his insights on the importance of experience and specialized knowledge, advocating for a system that prioritizes certifications as objective measures of learning. Will critiques the education system and proposes an apprenticeship model as a solution to existing gaps.
The conversation also navigates the complexities of the modern job market, the impact of layoffs, and the startup ecosystem's challenges due to economic constraints. We explore innovative paths like personal entrepreneurship, brand building, and creating niche software solutions.
Ben and Will also debate the merits of generalism versus specialization, the use of AI in development, and the strategic value of certifications. Plus, we'll touch on the transformative potential

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LinkedIn: Ben Johnson

From Core DevOps to Management: Balancing Technical Skills and Soft Skills in High-Stakes Environments - DevOps 218

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Will and Warren dive deep into the world of career longevity and adaptability in the fast-evolving tech industry. They explore the often-overlooked importance of staying with a project long enough to understand and resolve complex issues, and how job dissatisfaction can be a tool for negotiation rather than a cue to immediately move on.
They touch on early career experiences and the shift towards specialization, echoing advice from past guest Kelsey Hightower. Warren also shares his intriguing perspective on the value of early career terminations, the necessity of soft skills, and the challenges of expanding teams. The conversation will unfold to reveal a balanced view on the evolution from hands-on engineering to management roles, the continual learning required to stay relevant, and the often humorous realities behind career transitions.
Listen in as they discuss scaling career paths, the nuances of job switching, and the criticality of balancing technical and business acumen. They also delve into the personal facets of tech careers, from dealing with burnout to the idea of retirement, all while sharing our thoughts on professional books and the lessons they impart. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a seasoned developer, or someone navigating the complexities of the tech industry, this episode promises a wealth of knowledge and a dose of humor to keep you engaged.

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End-of-Year Preparation and Considerations for Software Engineering Teams - DevOps 217

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, Warren and Will dive into the difficulties of coordinating between marketing and engineering teams, particularly around handling increased traffic and sales during the holiday season. The discussion covers the importance of auditing code and looking for potential issues or technical debt at the end of the year. The hosts also explore strategies for pitching and justifying technical projects or rewrites to management, emphasizing the need to frame them in terms of business impact. They conclude by reflecting on the value of stepping back from day-to-day tasks at the end of the year to gain a broader organizational perspective.

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Picks

Will - Half-Life: Alyx

How Mastermind Groups Can Transform Your DevOps Career - DevOps 216

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Will and Warren dive deep into the world of Mastermind groups and their impact on career success within the DevOps landscape. They explore the origins of mastermind groups from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" and debate why a staggering 99% of them might be ineffective, according to Will. Warren shares his own experiences and expresses his curiosity about what truly makes such groups effective.
They also draw intriguing parallels between accountability in mastermind groups and emergency preparedness in aviation, emphasizing the importance of ingrained habits and continuous skill development. From military training insights to the challenges of creating genuine, trust-filled mastermind groups, we'll cover it all.
Additionally, they touch on the broader aspects of professional growth—public speaking, networking, mentorship, and the evolving dynamics of teamwork. Plus, don't miss on practical tips on forming mastermind groups and fostering meaningful professional relationships. Tune in for an episode packed with valuable insights, compelling analogies, and shared experiences that can help you navigate and succeed in your career!

Picks

Warren - The Formula
Will - Onyx

Enhanced API Management for Modern DevOps Practices - DevOps 215

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, Will Button and Warren are joined by special guest Eyal Solomon, co-founder of Lunar.dev. This episode dives deep into pressing DevOps topics like the complexities of Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions and the intricacies of the API economy. They explore the challenges of API management, the importance of visibility and monitoring in API consumption, and strategies to prevent issues like rate limiting and billing surprises.

Eyal shares his journey from infrastructure optimization to specializing in API management, highlighting how Lunar dot Dev helps companies handle API quotas, security, and performance through their innovative platform. We also delve into integrating AI within APIs, managing API costs, and the rising trend of AI agents.

Join them as they dissect the importance of combining storytelling with educational insights in various content forms, from books to YouTube channels. Learn how running can be a form of meditation and problem-solving, and get top book recommendations from our hosts. Whether you're dealing with API challenges or looking to optimize your DevOps practices, this episode is packed with valuable insights straight from the experts. Don't miss out!

Links

Lunar.dev

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LinkedIn: Eyal Solomon

AI in DevOps: Managing Non-deterministic Workflows and Ensuring Model Lineage and Transparency - DevOps 214

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Today, Will and Warren dive into the intersection of DevOps and AI with our special guest, Görkem Ercan, CTO of Jozu and a seasoned expert in developer tools and DevOps. In this episode, they explore the practical applications and challenges of integrating Machine Learning into DevOps workflows, utilizing real-world examples like global shirt distribution and the US Army's sizing issues. They also discuss the critical role of psychological safety in successful teams, the surprising origins of the webcam, and the remarkable engineering feats of the Voyager spacecraft.
Moreover, they unpack the intricacies of AI model management, confronting issues like non-deterministic outcomes, data drift, and the need for a unified control plane to handle complex, dynamic environments. They touch on the rise of internal AI management, the innovative use of sentiment analysis in customer support, and the surprising interest from consulting firms in AI-driven solutions.

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Achieving Engineering Excellence: Training, Innovation, and the Cloud - DevOps 213

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, Warren, Will, and guest Markus Thurner, the director of technology at Vista dive deep into the world of DevOps with an exciting lineup of discussions about engineering excellence, the fast pace of technological innovation, and the ever-present need for balance between training and production.

Together, they explore how practice makes perfect in software development, drawing from analogies like the Brazilian soccer player practicing with brain diodes. They talk about the costs and benefits of training engineers, managing cloud expenses, and the evolving landscape of on-premise versus cloud data centers.

They dig into the importance of challenging the status quo, the complexities of operational versus capital expenditures, and best practices for writing scalable code. Whether you're curious about the latest in Kubernetes and AWS ECS, or just looking for some practical advice on continual learning and improvement, this episode has something for everyone.

Plus, stay tuned as they share personal recommendations, from the best gaming tablets for those long flights to must-listen podcasts and even a Metallica song that ties back to a gripping World War I tale.

This packed episode concludes with a thoughtful discussion on engineering excellence, and how teams can find balance, define their metrics, and drive both innovation and quality in their projects.

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LinkedIn: Markus Thurner

Incident Response Essentials: From Postmortems to Communication Strategies - DevOps 212

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, Warren, Will, and special guest Falit Jain dive deep into the intricate world of incident management and response, drawing from rich experiences at tech giants like Amazon and Disney. They explore real-life scenarios, including Amazon's complex debugging challenges with over 150 engineers maintaining their detail page, and the high stakes of live streaming events at Disney.\

Join them as they discuss the crucial aspects of effective incident response, from the importance of familiarity with systems and the role of on-call processes to the value of communication and meticulous postmortems. They also deep-dive into cultural influences from leadership, the balance between new feature launches and system stability, and the significance of metrics like mean time to resolution and error budgets.

Socials

LinkedIn: Falit Jain

Picks

Warren - Radical Focus
Will - The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

Manipulating Language Models for Real-World Applications in DevOps - DevOps 211

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, they dive deep into the world of AI and prompt engineering with our dynamic panel of experts, featuring Anthony Spiteri. He shares their fascinating journey over the past 18 months, manipulating language models like ChatGPT to achieve remarkable results. They explore the intriguing development of a location-based app for finding the European delicacy, Black Pudding, and dive into the complexities of using AI for mentorship, accountability, and even fitness.
Join them as they uncover the technical intricacies of building apps with AI, the philosophical questions surrounding AI's future, and the growing importance of prompt engineering. They also touch on critical issues of data security, the ethical implications of AI, and the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this episode is packed with insights and stories that you won't want to miss. So, grab your headphones and get ready to explore the cutting edge of DevOps and AI!

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Balancing Security and Scalability in DevOps - DevOps 210

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, they dive deep into the intricate world of DevOps and the nuances that drive its continuous evolution. This episode brings you into a thought-provoking conversation featuring Michael Cade, Global Field CTO at Veeam Software. Join them as they explore a wide array of topics, from the controversial practice of intentional data leaks as an advertising strategy to the intricate details of Michael's groundbreaking "90 days of DevOps" project. This initiative, which began in 2022, has grown to feature 91 sessions and contributions from a spectrum of subject matter experts, aiming to enrich our understanding of varied DevOps topics. Michael brings fascinating insights into cloud-native data management and the challenges of integrating databases with Kubernetes.
They delve into the critical aspects of business continuity, data backups, and the shared responsibility model for platforms like GitHub while emphasizing the importance of security measures such as multi-factor authentication. The episode also covers the evolution of programming languages in DevOps, the significance of physical and digital note-taking for task management, and the personal balance between professional responsibilities and physical activity.
The discussion extends to the mentorship challenge within the DevOps community, the importance of creating and sharing valuable content, and the role of storytelling in simplifying complex technical concepts. Whether you're interested in hearing about the use of various cloud platforms, the behind-the-scenes of Michael's career at Veeam, or tips for achieving work-life harmony, this episode has something for everyone. So, plug in your AirPods Pro 2, lace up your running shoes, and get ready to be inspired by another exciting journey into the world of DevOps.

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Bridging Cloud and App Development with Elad Ben-Israel - DevOps 209

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, they dive deep into the evolving landscape of cloud infrastructure and developer experience. Join our host, Warren and Will and Eli Ben Israel—former AWS and Microsoft engineer and co-founder of Wing—as they explore the challenges and innovations in DevOps.
In this episode, Eli shares pivotal insights from his journey at Amazon, revealing that despite advanced tools like CDK, building on the cloud remains fraught with difficulties. They dissect the cognitive barriers developers face in understanding cloud mechanics and the need for greater access and autonomy in cloud development.
Discover the transformative potential of the Wing project, designed to abstract cloud complexities and enhance developer productivity by providing a seamless, cloud-agnostic platform. They also touch upon the importance of good API design, the intriguing philosophy behind Kubernetes, and how projects like Wing promise to simplify and scale cloud development.
As they navigate through infrastructure challenges, community building in open-source projects, and the shift from Slack to Discord, this episode promises a wealth of knowledge for both seasoned DevOps professionals and curious newcomers.
Stay tuned for technical insights, book recommendations, and a journey through the future of cloud development on **Top End Devs**!

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Redefining Platform Success: Balancing Metrics, Developer Satisfaction, and Cognitive Load - DevOps 208

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Warren delves into this episode featuring an engaging conversation with David Stenglein, a seasoned industry expert with over 20 years of experience. In this episode, they shed light on the pitfalls of hiring product managers amidst hype cycles, urging a shift towards a product mindset that prioritizes user pain points and tangible value. They critique traditional metrics like DORA and ENPS, discussing their limitations and the need for better communication and alignment on business-level metrics.
They explore the complexities of platform adoption, from Kubernetes to Docker, and the challenges of managing modern technologies. David emphasizes the importance of striking a balance between innovation and practicality, while Warren delves into the cognitive load and the necessity of higher-level abstractions. With discussions ranging from the evolution of software platforms, and the transformative potential of WebAssembly, to the nuances of user-driven platform development, this episode is packed with valuable insights for every developer navigating the fast-evolving tech landscape. So, tune in as they dissect the future of platform development and the delicate dance between innovation and efficiency.

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Integration Platforms: Prismatic's Strategy for Seamless SaaS Connectivity - DevOps 207

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 04:58:00 +0000

In this episode, Warren and Will delve deep into the intricate world of DevOps and SaaS integrations, featuring insights from special guest Michael Zuercher from Prismatic. Throughout the discussion, they talk about the challenges legacy companies face in updating their massive infrastructure and how Prismatic is revolutionizing SaaS integrations with its innovative approaches. They explore the significance of flexible and reliable integration platforms, learn about the evolution of farming technology, and take a closer look at the long tail of customer needs in the tech industry.
Moreover, the experts take on the complexities of handling large data files and API integrations, including the persistent issues of idempotency, pagination, and rate limiting. Additionally, they discuss leadership and market strategies, with book recommendations and personal anecdotes enriching our tech talk. Tune in as they uncover how Prismatic is crafting tools to simplify the integration process, reduce reliance on core developers, and help businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Get ready for an episode filled with technical expertise, practical advice, and a few surprises along the way!

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Maintaining and Curating Resources for Optimal DevOps Practices - DevOps 206

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In this episode, they delve into the intricacies of DevOps implementation with our insightful hosts and key guest, Marius Stanca. They share invaluable perspectives on the continuous learning nature of DevOps, the evolving toolkit, and the essential roadmap for organizations. Highlighting the critical need for understanding problems before adopting DevOps solutions, the conversation covers practical experiences, automation strategies, and effective resource management.
They also discuss the misuse of terms like "agile" and "DevOps" and the importance of eliminating waste through lean principles, citing "The Toyota Way." Moreover, they reflect on the challenges of starting with DevOps, noting the high-quality, minimal-effort maintainability of resources. They explore the automation of everyday tasks, leveraging tools like GitHub and GitLab, and the necessity of adapting to evolving technologies.
Marius Stanca introduces the "awesome DevOps" repository, a collaborative resource collection meticulously vetted for DevOps and SRE relevance. Navigating through topics such as team structuring, the simplification of workflows, the perpetual struggle of innovation in DevOps, and the use of GPT in generating source code, this episode is packed with expert advice and humorous insights. Tune in as we bridge the gap between theory and practical execution, providing a rich roadmap for your DevOps journey!
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Docker and Container Optimization: Strategies for Efficient DevOps - DevOps 205

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In this episode, the panel together with our guest, Galen Marchetti dives deep into tackling some of the most pressing challenges in the DevOps world. They unpack the hurdles of blue-green deployments, feature flags, and the necessity of parallel execution for smooth production rollouts. They explore the complexities of testing changes in production, managing containerization, and optimizing build speeds with multistage Docker builds.
Listen to engaging discussions about kurtosis—a powerful tool for creating development environments—and its impact on projects like Ethereum, as well as the broader implications for open-source contributions. From humorous anecdotes about using VIM in production to thoughtful reflections on the trauma of production errors, this episode covers it all.
Plus, get book recommendations, music picks, and tips on the latest tools from our speakers! Don't miss out on these valuable insights and entertaining banter from the frontline of DevOps.

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Navigating AI in DevOps and Beyond with Kelsey Hightower - DevOps 204

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we have a special guest Kelsey Hightower, exploring the intersections of music, technology, and personal growth. They delve into AI advancements and their significance in DevOps. From Google Maps to large language models, they discuss AI as a tool to complement human expertise, emphasizing professional growth and innovation within the tech industry. Guest Kelsey Hightower shares his career journey, underlining the importance of starting at entry-level, continuous learning, and a growth-focused mindset.They also explore balancing innovation with stability, rewatching classic movies, and the personal joys of retirement.

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The NetData Impact: Transforming Real-Time Monitoring and Observability in Modern Tech Operations - DevOps 203

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Today, Will is flying solo as he sits down with Costa Tsaousis, the founder and CEO of NetData. Costa shares the story behind the development of NetData, a groundbreaking monitoring tool that provides high-fidelity, real-time, and automated monitoring without data smoothing.
As they delve into the conversation, Costa discusses the remarkable growth and engagement of NetData, emphasizing the vibrant community and the significance of open-source contributions. They also explore efficient data compression and integration with Systemd Journal, highlighting the benefits of distributed data collection.
Furthermore, they discuss the challenges of proving the value of data for commercial purposes and the goal of providing better service at a lower cost. Costa also unveils the innovative approach to monitoring and observability, showcasing the simplicity and efficiency of NetData compared to industry-standard solutions.
So, join Will and Costa as they dissect the development, capabilities, and future roadmap of NetData, offering valuable insights into the world of DevOps and infrastructure monitoring. Stay tuned to explore the journey of NetData and the revolution it brings to the industry.

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NetData

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The DevOps Balancing Act: SaaS Security, Business Impact, and Technical Expert Career Paths - DevOps 202

Thu, 30 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Warren and Will embark on a thought-provoking journey through the world of DevOps, security, team dynamics, and career progression. They discuss the hidden implications of domain names, the importance of security certifications, and the complexities of leading a tech team, weaving in personal experiences and insights. With an emphasis on aligning technical work with overarching business goals, they explore the challenges and rewards of managing software development and infrastructure. From the nuances of SaaS provider selection to the impact of AI on small teams, this episode offers a captivating exploration of modern tech practices and their far-reaching implications.

Picks

Warren - DevOpsDays Zurich 2024
Warren - Veritasium
Will- FIRST TIME HEARING LYNYRD SKYNYRD "Free Bird"

Navigating AWS Complexities and Product Management Challenges - DevOps 201

Tue, 28 May 2024 08:46:53 +0000

Jose Diaz-Gonzalez is the creator is Dokku. They delve into the world of DevOps with a focus on security, open source contributions, and managing permissions in AWS. In this episode, they discuss the challenges and complexities of open-source projects, the importance of verifying the integrity of packages, and the implications of using unauthorized software. They also touch on the upcoming DevOps Days Zurich conference and share insights on evaluating platform features, addressing customer needs, and minimizing tech debt in product management.
Join them as they explore explore topics ranging from data storage services to container technologies, and the journey of maintaining open-source projects. They share their experiences, challenges, and valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps. Stay tuned for a deep dive into the nuances of DevOps, security considerations, and the fascinating world of cloud hosting providers.
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The Evolution of Platform Engineering with Luca Galante - DevOps 200

Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Luca Galante is the Product and Growth at Humanitec. In today's episode, they dive deep into the world of platform engineering and DevOps, discussing the challenges, innovations, and best practices in the field.
They discuss the need for clear problem-solving in platform engineering, the importance of reference architectures, and the upcoming PlatformCon event. From the concept of a minimum viable platform approach to measuring success and the pivotal role of communication and customer feedback, this episode covers a wide range of topics essential for anyone involved in platform engineering and DevOps.

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Observability in DevOps: AI, Networking, and Marketing Insights - DevOps 199

Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Rosalind Whitley is the Director of Product Marketing at Kentik. They dive deep into the world of technology, DevOps, and everything in between. In today's episode, they have an in-depth conversation about the complexities of marketing for technical products, particularly in the context of network observability and DevOps. They discuss the challenges of conveying emotions and authentic messaging in marketing, as well as the evolving expectations of the consumer in today's fast-paced digital landscape. They also explore the impact of technology on modern corporations, the role of AI in network monitoring, and the significance of building a supportive community within the developer space. Join them for a vibrant discussion on technical marketing, network observability, and the intersection of technology and business.

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Maximizing App Security with Apiiro - DevOps 198

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Yonatan Eldar is the Co-Founder and CTO at Apiiro. They discuss the evolution in application security strategies, the importance of using the right tools for the job, and the significance of prioritizing and contextualizing security issues for developers. They touch on various aspects of security, including the potential vulnerabilities in code, understanding attack vectors, and managing the inventory of software and services for security. Additionally, they delve into the importance of marketing and educating teams about security and the potential malicious tactics used in the aftermath of security incidents.

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Apiiro | Secure your development and delivery to the cloud

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LinkedIn: Yonatan Eldar

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Warren - TLDR newsletter
Will - PlatformCon

Navigating Work Patterns and Internal Tool Reliability in Engineering Teams - DevOps 197

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Pete Fritchman is a Senior operations and site reliability engineer. They delve deep into the world of development, operations, and everything in between. They explore the complexities of measuring the true cost of ownership, the challenges of work patterns in infrastructure, and the nuances of internal tool reliability. They share their firsthand experiences and provide valuable insights into observability, SLOs, and internal application performance. They also take a fascinating turn into the realm of gaming, drawing parallels between game challenges and real-world work patterns. Get ready for an engaging, informative, and thought-provoking conversation that will leave you with a fresh perspective on the intricacies of the ever-evolving tech landscape.

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Rethinking Database Management: Automation, Innovation, and Changing Roles in DevOps - DevOps 196

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Tyson Trautmann is the Vice President of Engineering at Fauna. They delve into the dynamic world of software development and database management. They have a candid discussion about the challenges and benefits of using specific databases for analytical workloads, the influence of automation on traditional roles like database administrators, and the evolving landscape of modern application architectures. Tyson Trautman shares his insights on topics ranging from the trend towards automation using declarative schema for continuous delivery to the database, to the innovative design of Fauna's distributed transaction engine. With a mix of humor, personal picks, and valuable industry knowledge, this episode is set to inspire and inform.

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The Future of Database Administration - DevOps 195

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Lukas Fittl is the Founder of Pganalyze. They delve into the latest developments and challenges in the world of DevOps and technology. They discuss the evolving role of database administrators (DBAs), focusing on the challenges of optimizing database performance, specifically addressing slow queries in Postgres databases. The conversation highlights the need for visibility and understanding of database performance, as well as the development of Pganalyze, a startup aimed at improving Postgres performance. Tune in to gain insights into the changing landscape of DBAs and the complexities of database optimization in today's technology-driven world.

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The Role of AI in DevOps: Observability, Security, and Efficiency - DevOps 194

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Andreas Grabner is the DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, DevRel for CNCF Keptn, CNCF Ambassador, and PurePerformance Podcast host. They dive into the world of DevOps, platform engineering, and the latest developments in technology. In this episode, they explore the impact of AI in DevOps, the significance of observability tools, and the potential security risks associated with AI-generated code. They delve into the challenges of running open-source projects in containers and the importance of using commercial solutions to solve complex engineering problems. They also discuss the evolution of software engineering education, the role of platform engineering in enterprise-scale DevOps, and the necessity of understanding underlying mechanisms and optimizing for specific use cases. Join them as they explore the cutting-edge technologies and industry insights that are shaping the future of DevOps and platform engineering

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Adaptable Databases and Effective Data Integration in Modern DevOps Environments- DEVOPS 193

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Mike Bowers is the Chief Architect at FairCom Corporation. They delve deep into the world of DevOps and database management. They explore the complexities and challenges of maintaining multiple databases in the cloud, the evolving role of database administrators, and the impact of open-source software on database management. They share insights into the shift in database administration roles, the importance of security in database management, and the need for support and infrastructure when bringing in new databases. They also touch on the nuances of NoSQL databases, the value of specializing in database architecture, and the benefits of using the right tools for database tasks. Join them as they unpack the intricacies of database management in today's ever-evolving technological landscape.

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CSS Design Patterns

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Unraveling Tech Challenges: DevOps Reflections, and Welcoming Warren - DevOps 192

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The Adventures in DevOps podcast welcomes Warren Parad as the newest host. Together with Will, they dive into a wide range of topics, including technology advancement, disaster recovery, open source, mentorship in the software engineering field, and the intersection of technology and business. They share their experiences and insights on implementing tools, managing risk, and understanding the financial impact of technology investments. Join them as they explore the complexities of the tech industry and the importance of continuous learning and adaptation. Stay tuned for an engaging and informative discussion with our knowledgeable speakers as they share their real-world experiences and valuable insights.

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Navigating DevOps Challenges with Cory O'Daniel - DevOps 191

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Massdriver. They dive into the world of DevOps, technology decisions, and the challenges of working with Ops teams. In this episode, they explore the frustrations and bottlenecks of integrating external databases, the humorous side of help desk horror stories, and the impact of AI on software engineering. Cory shares his insights on scaling Ops, the evolving nature of cloud infrastructure, and the changing landscape of employment in the tech industry.

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Environment as Code ft. Adarsh Shah - DevOps 190

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Adarsh Shah joins the Adventure to discuss building out Environment as Code which goes beyond just Infrastructure as Code which defines your servers and networking.Environment as Code provides a way to define an entire component of your environment and connections between pieces. It emphasizes loose coupling and allows teams to deliver an environment for their applications.

How To Prepare For An Interview - DevOps 189

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.

More Security Breaches in the World - DevOps 188

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey Groman takes the reins and walks Chuck and Will through the latest and greatest security breaches out on the internet.He also walks them through how to operate to avoid being caught by several of these issues.Specifically, he explains the Microsoft issue in the print spooler and the breach of Kaseya and what the implications are within the wider world.

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Charles- Sea Lion Fins
Charles- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
Charles- Atlas Shrugged
Jeffrey- Micro-Resilience
Will- The Oxygen Advantage

Bridging Processes and Improving Incident Management - DevOps 187

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Drew Stokes is a Senior Engineering Manager at PagerDuty. Drew and Will engage in a deep dive into incident management. Through the discussion, explore the complexities and challenges of incident management, emphasizing the critical role it plays in organizational performance and customer trust. Join them as they unravel the nuances of incident management and its profound influence on the software development landscape.

The Evolution of Disaster Recovery Strategies in Modern Cloud Environments - DevOps 186

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Sagi Brody is a seasoned technologist and CTO at Opti9. They share insights on disaster recovery strategies, the importance of effective documentation, and the challenges of managing resilience in the cloud. They discuss the need for standardized tools and processes, the impact of technological advancements on traditional strategies, and the increasing complexity of multi-region and multi-cloud setups. With a focus on practical experiences and industry trends, this episode provides valuable perspectives on the evolving landscape of DevOps and the essential skills needed to navigate it effectively. Tune in to gain valuable insights into managing resilience, disaster recovery, and the importance of clear and accessible documentation in the world of DevOps engineering.

Understanding the Role of Metering in Cloud Operations and Business Growth - DevOps 185

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Puneet Gupta is the CEO and founder of Amberflo.io. They explore the fascinating realm of metering and usage-based pricing in the cloud industry. They share insights into the challenges and innovations in transitioning to new methods and the significance of metering as a separate service for accurate and consistent monitoring and billing. Dive into this captivating discussion as they discuss the evolution of software, the foundation of AWS services, and the crucial role of metering in cloud technology.

Standing Out in the Job Search Process - DevOps 184

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

With the current economic downturn, companies big and small are facing layoffs, hiring freezes, and altering job offers. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will share their decades of industry knowledge on various strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process.
In this episode…

Having a public profile
Listing your projects on your resume
Sharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities
Knowledge options
Leveraging social media
Stack Overflow
Soft skills

Security in CI/CD Pipelines: Strategies and Best Practices for DevOps Teams - DevOps 183

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Ori Mankali is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akeyless Security. They delve into the critical intersection of DevOps and security. They explore the complex realm of maintaining security while optimizing operational efficiency in software development. Tune in to learn about the important role of security in the CI/CD pipeline and how organizations can enhance their security posture while maintaining operational efficiency.

Salesforce DevOps: Enabling Digital Transformation in the Cloud - DevOps 182

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jack McCurdy is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate at Gearset. They dive into the world of Salesforce DevOps. They discuss the challenges and benefits of implementing DevOps practices in a Salesforce environment. From the cultural shift required to the importance of automation and version control, they explore the unique considerations of DevOps in the Salesforce ecosystem. Tune in to learn how organizations can effectively streamline their Salesforce development processes and enhance their delivery capabilities.

Evaluating Jobs and Job Offers - DevOps 181

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey, Will, and Chuck dive into the question "How do you know whether or not you want to take a job?" during and after the interview.The discussion ranges through what to ask employers, knowing what you want from the job, and how to determine before and after the interview whether the job offer is a good fit for you.

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Charles- Atlas Shrugged
Will- beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro Over-Ear Studio Headphone

System Initiative and DevOps Evolution - DevOps 180

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Adam Jacob is the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative. He shares insights on the reconceptualization of DevOps and the importance of rethinking the entire system to achieve better outcomes. They explore System Initiative's groundbreaking new approach to DevOps, featuring a simulation of infrastructure and applications using digital twins and a hypergraph of functions. They also delve into the importance of collaboration in DevOps workflows and the need for a burst of creativity and innovation in the field.

DevOps Toolkit with Viktor Farcic - DevOps 179

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Viktor Farcic is a developer advocate at Upbound. He joins the show to talk about his YouTube channel, "DevOps ToolKit". They also talk about their professional careers and experiences. He talks about being a content creator and a developer, among many more.

Software Supply Chain Security with Neatsun Ziv - DevOps 178

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Neatsun Ziv is the Co-Founder & CEO of OX.Security. He begins by talking about the changes in "software supply chain security" over the years, what is is all about, what it offers to its users, the problem it solves, and many more!

Building for Disaster Resilience - DevOps 177

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Doug Neumann is a career software engineer. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about disaster recovery. He begins by explaining the difference between "building high availability and disaster recovery". He also talks about how this impacts your system and how it will make you resilient to any trouble or error you might experience. They also dive into the process of implementing it, and many more!

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LinkedIn: Doug Neumann

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The World of Linux: From Debian to Ubuntu, Fedora to CentOS - DevOps 176

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan, Jillian, and Will join this week's panelist episode. They dive into the world of operating systems, server security, Docker images, and even some book recommendations. They share their experiences with Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Amazon Linux, discussing the pros and cons of each for both desktop and server use. Moreover, they explore the nuances of different platforms, the importance of security, and the impact of personal preferences in the world of software development.

Apache Arrow with Matt Topol - DevOps 175

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Matt Topol is the Staff Software Engineer at Voltron Data and the Author of "In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow". He joins the show to talk about his book. He begins by explaining what Apache Arrow is, its benefits & advantages, how it works and many more!

A Cloud Platform: Koyeb with Yann Léger - DevOps 174

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Yann Léger is the Co-Founder and CEO at Koyeb. He joins the show to talk about Koyeb. It is a developer-friendly serverless platform that allows you to deploy all kind of services. He begins by talking about its advantages, its benefits, and why he decided to create another cloud platform. He also dives into how it works, its difference from other companies and many more!

Connecting with the DevOps Community with Rohit Ghumare - DevOps 173

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Rohit Ghumare joins Jonathan to discuss his involvement in the DevOps community in India and his role as an organizer for DevOps Days Bangalore. Rohit shares insights into the active DevOps community in India, with regular meetups and conferences happening in different cities. He also provides details about the upcoming DevOps Days India conference, including the preparations and expected number of attendees and speakers.

Mastering DevOps: The Art of Technical Proficiency & Communication - DevOps 172

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Kyler Middleton is a Hashi Ambassador and AWS Community Builder. They dive into the captivating world of DevOps and explore the importance of technical expertise combined with effective communication skills. Kyler shares valuable insights on topics ranging from building a robust skillset to the challenges and responsibilities of security engineers. Moreover, they uncover the secrets to achieving developer velocity, integrating automation into workflows, and understanding the foundational knowledge in networking. They navigate the complexities of the cloud environment and explore the transformative nature of technical and computer skills.

From Hack to Holistic: Firsthand Experiences and Knowledgeable Interactions in DevOps - DevOps 171

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

David Linthicum is an Enterprise Technology Thought Leader and Visionary, Cloud Computing and Generative AI Expert/Pioneer, Educator, and Business Leader. They delve into the world of DevOps and explore various aspects of it. They discuss the benefits of working for a small consulting firm, the importance of learning from experienced individuals, and the risks of over-reliance on AI in software development. They also touch on the emerging discipline of FinOps, the integration of security into every stage of the software development process, and the challenges of building efficient and secure systems.

Testing and Development in the Data Domain with Pete Hunt - DevOps 170

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Pete Hunt is the CEO of Elementl. Jonathan, Jillian, Will, and Pete dive into the world of DevOps and explore the challenges faced by engineering teams in the ever-evolving landscape of cloud technology and open source. From misalignment between individual engineers and company goals to the struggles of managing complex systems like Airflow, we'll be discussing it all. Take a closer look at the latest advancements in data pipeline scheduling and the need for a higher-level approach. Additionally, they discuss the importance of open source and the dynamics of working with venture capitalists.

Everything you Need to Know about Salt with Nicholas Hughes - DevOps 169

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Nicholas Hughes is the CEO of EITR Technologies. He joins the show to talk about "Salt". Salt is used for deploying, configuring, and managing complex IT systems. He begins by explaining what Salt is, its useful features, advantages, and why he loves it. He also shares the difference between salt and other similar frameworks. Moreover, he talks about its process, set up, how it is being implemented, and many more!

DevOps Approach to Software Supply Chain Security - DevOps 168

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Neatsun Ziv is the Co-Founder & CEO of OX.Security. He joins the show to discuss software supply chain security, attack techniques, and lessons learned from previous major supply chain attacks. Moreover, he explains the role that DevOps play in software supply chain security.

Metify.io with Mike Wagner - DevOps 167

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Mike Wagner is the Co-Founder & CEO of Metify.io. He joins the show to talk about his company, career experience working with data centers, and infrastructure. He also tackles the bare metal servers and how this is being utilized in his company. Moreover, they dive into Metify's infrastructure and operations tool for managing and provisioning servers, and many more!

DevOps: Everything You Need to Know with Mirco Hering - DevOps 166

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Mirco Hering is a Global DevOps Practice Lead, IT Transformation & Delivery Lead, CIO Advisor, Blogger, Author, and Public Speaker. He is the author of "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise". He starts off by deriving his own definition of DevOps. He also dives into some approaches used for DevOps, managing a DevOps team, challenges he faces and possible solutions, and many more!

DevOps and NeuronSphere with Brian Greene - DevOps 165

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Brian Greene is the CTO of Neuron Sphere. He begins by talking about his career progression and some of his achievements. He dives into designing medical devices from a developer's perspective. Additionally, he talks about his company and many more!
Links

Neuron Sphere - Platform Engineering for Data

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LinkedIn: Brian Greene

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Brian - Robot Framework
Jillian - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: King, Stephen
Jonathan - The Big Con
Jonathan - Cup o' Go

AWS vs GCP - DevOps 164

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan and Will join this week's panelist episode to talk about AWS and GCP. They begin by sharing their experiences with using them and the specific services that they use. Additionally, they also discuss the difference between AWS & GCP and its useful features.

What You Should Know About ChatGPT - DevOps 163

Thu, 18 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jillian and Jonathan join this week's panelist episode to talk about ChatGPT. They begin by sharing their thoughts and experiences when using it. Additionally, they tackle its benefits and how it helps them write and understand codes.
On YouTubeWhat You Should Know About ChatGPT - DevOps 163

What it Takes to be a DevOps Engineer - DevOps 162

Thu, 11 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Lane Wagner is the Founder of Boot.dev. He joins the show to talk about his blog post, "Are You a DevOps Engineer if You Aren't Writing Code?". They begin by outlining their personal definitions of what a DevOps and a DevOps Engineer mean to them.

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Tradologics: Cloud Platform for Trading with Ran Aroussi - DevOps 161

Fri, 05 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Ran Aroussi is a software developer, data hacker, financial tinkerer, algorithmic trader, quant researcher, technology geek, creator of several popular Python libraries, and founder of Tradologics. He joins the show to talk about "Tradologics". He begins by providing an overview of his company and the services that they provide to its clients.

Building Zeet with Johnny Dallas - DevOps 160

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Johnny Dallas is the CEO and Co-founder of Zeet. He joins the show with Jonathan and Will to talk about his company and his journey as a developer. He begins by sharing how he became a developer and his experience of building Zeet. Moreover, he talks about the services they provide in Zeet and how their customers can benefit from them.

Approaches on Cost Effectiveness with Omer Hamerman - DevOps 159

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Returning guest, Omer Hamerman is the Principal DevOps Engineer at Zesty. He joins the show to discuss cost optimization. He dives into the company's strategies on how they reduce cost and share his experience when it comes to managing it. Moreover, he talks about identifying methods that impact cost optimization and application performance.

Platform Engineering with Luca Galante - DevOps 158

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Luca Galante runs products at Humanitec and is a writer for Platform weekly. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about Platform Engineering. He starts off as he explains "Platform Engineering", its concept, and its impact on the DevOps community today.

Stream Processing with Chris Cooney - DevOps 157

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Chris Cooney is a Developer Advocate who works at Coralogix. He joins the show to talk about "Stream Processing and Why it's so Important for Observability". He begins by explaining what is stream processing and its significant role.
On YouTubeStream Processing with Chris Cooney - DevOps 157

Where DevOps and ML Meet - DevOps 156

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Hosts of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, Jillian Rowe and Jonathan Hall, join Ben and Michael on this week's episode crossover. They talk about the intersection of ML and DevOps. They dive into the concepts and differences between ML and DevOps. Additionally, they talk about how ML ideas may be applied to DevOps principles and vice versa.

DevOps as a Service with Benjamin Johnson - DevOps 155

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Johnson is the CEO and Founder of Particle41. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about his company. He starts off as he shares his journey in establishing and maintaining Particle41. Additionally, he talks about how they use DevOps as a service and how they meet their client's needs.

What's the Tea With Max Howell - DevOps 154

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Max Howell is the creator of Home Brew and is the CEO of Tea. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about Tea, the next-generation, cross-platform package manager. He starts off with an overview of his career path as an entrepreneur and corporate employee. Moreover, He shares how he was able to develop Tea and what it is all about.

Game Development With Dori Exterman - DevOps 153

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Dori Exterman is the CTO at IncrediBuild. He joins the show to talk about the gaming industry and further explain their company, " IncrediBuild". He explains the prerequisites, production process, and DevOps process for creating games. Moreover, they also tackle the factors that affect game development.

The Benefits and Drawbacks of gRPC and Rest - DevOps 152

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan and Will join this week's panelist episode to talk about the difference between gRPC and Rest. They go into detail about each of their advantages and disadvantages as well as the issues they resolve.

Serverless in Production With Erez Berkner - DevOps 151

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Erez Berkner is the CEO and Co-Founder at Lumigo. He joins the show to talk about, "Lessons Learned From Running Serverless In Production For 5 Years". He begins the program by elaborating on his personal interpretation of Serverless. Moreover, he dives into the five important lessons he learned from running serverless workloads.
About this Episode

Observability strategy
Use multiple AWS accounts
Securely load secrets at runtime
Follow the principle of least privilege
Optimize cold starts

Is Your Team Mature ? - DevOps 150

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan and Will join this panelist episode to tackle team maturity in a company. They discuss their point of view on team maturity when it comes to testing codes and creating new projects. Additionally, they discuss competence in terms of managing one's job and approaching problems.

A DevOps Engineer's Insider Guide - DevOps 149

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Leon Wright is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Pet Circle. Omer Hamerman is the Principal DevOps Engineer at Zesty. They join the show alongside Will to talk about the similarities and differences between AWS and GCP in DevOps. Additionally, they discuss their experiences working and launching projects as DevOps Engineers for their respective companies.
About This Episode

Deployment Tools For AWS
Deployment Tools For GCP
Pros and Cons of Serverless
Serverless Functions

Cyber Security With Nir Valtman - DevOps 148

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Nir Valtman is the Co-Founder and CEO at Arnica. It is a behavior-based software supply chain security platform for DevOps. He joins Jonathan and Will to introduce his company. , He talks about some of the issues and challenges they encountered and how they overcame them. Moreover, they also tackle security tools in Software Development.

Open-Source Software & Its Maintainability With Warren Parad - DevOps 147

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Warren Parad is the CTO at Authress. It is a User authorization API for software makers. He joins the show to talk about Open-source Software. He explains how open-source software is used in enterprise organizations, what functions it serves, and what trade-offs and difficulties come with it.
About This Episode

Difference between open-source and SaaS
Pros and cons of Open-source
Open-source libraries

Key Takeaways From Conferences - DevOps 146

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan, Jillian, and Will join this week's panelist episode as they talk about conferences. Will starts off as he talks about his inputs from the last conference that he recently attended. Additionally, the panel talks about each of their own experiences and key learning from the different conferences.
On YouTubeKey Takeaways From Conferences - DevOps 146

SwampUp: Investments Unlimited with John Willis - DevOps 145

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Join Chuck Wood as he hosts this week's DevOps episode to do an Interview with John Willis. He has worked in the IT management industry for more than 3 decades. He has written 11 books, and "The DevOps Handbook" is one of them. He joins the show to talk about another book he co-authored, " Investments Unlimited". Additionally, he explains how they were able to come up with the idea for the book and What the reader should anticipate from the book.

Organizing Data Workflows With Prefect - DevOps 144

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Anna Geller is the Lead Community Engineer at Prefect. She joins the show with Jillian and Jonathan to discuss her article, "Scheduled vs. Event-driven Data Pipelines — Orchestrate Anything with Prefect and further explains the company she works for, "Prefect". It is a company that helps users coordinate their workflows. Moreover, she discusses the many advantages Prefect may provide to its users.
About This Episode

Importance of Prefect
Different problems that Prefect can solve
Scheduled vs. Event-driven Data Pipelines

SwampUp: Advancing Your Security With JFrog & Upgrading with JFrog Connect - DevOps 143

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Join Chuck Wood as he hosts this week's DevOps episode to do another Interview with a SwampUp speaker, Nati Davidi. He currently manages JFrog's security division in Israel and established Vdoo a Startup Company that is acquired by JFrog. He joins Chuck to talk about some important things to know about Security. Additionally, Nati offers some advice on how to safeguard your apps and keep hackers from accessing them.
For the second part of this episode, Chuck Wood interviews Yoav Landman. He is the Founder and CTO of JFrog. He joins Chuck on the show to talk more about JFrog Connect.JFrog Connect is the first Plug&Play, ready-to-use, device management platform for connected products. He also explains how it works and how developers can benefit from it.

Learning How To Learn - DevOps 142

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

As a developer, you should “Focus on solving business problems rather than technical expertise”. The panel joins the show to talk about Will's YouTube video, “Don't Do DevOps”. They offer their advice on how to advance with your career and expertise when a certain tool, framework, or language you're focused on is suddenly not your company's focus. As new developers grow in their careers, they also share tips on how to specialize in a particular area and learn the "basics" especially when you're starting your career.

SwampUp: Process for Fixing System Issues & Delivering Integrations Efficiently - DevOps 141

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Join Chuck Wood as he hosts the DevOps episode this week to do an interview with one of the SwampUp speakers. SwampUp is an in-person DevOps event organized by JFrog. Fernando Babadopulos is an Eternal software developer, serial entrepreneur, and speaker. He is also the Co-Founder at the tail.digital. He talks about a plugin that they developed, how it works and how developers can benefit from it.
About this Episode

All about JFrog's X-ray Integration
How the plugin resolves system issues
Process of creating a plugin

For the second part of this episode, Chuck Wood interviews other SwampUp speakers. Eli Aleyner and Sergei Egorov are both the Co-founders of AtomicJar. The goal of AtomicJar is to create developer-friendly tools that will improve automated testing.

About This Episode

The basics of Integration Testing
All about Test Containers
Test containers' benefit to developers

User Management - DevOps 140

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

As a Developer, How do you manage the users that can access the system? Jonathan and Will share some pointers and approaches on how you can protect your system or account from being accessed by multiple or anonymous users.

About this Episode

Different Infrastructure as code tools
Ways how to manage group permission
Advantages of Single Sign-on
2 Factor Authentication

How To Get My Way - DevOps 139

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Getting your ideas across can be difficult for a new person on the job or even a seasoned professional. Join in as the panel tackles different strategies for communicating ideas and “How to get your way”. They also share their experiences on how to handle the team when they encounter problems.
About this Episode

Ways how to communicate with your team when you have different ideas
Techniques on how to influence your team

How to Protect Yourself From Third-Party SAAS Apps - DevOps 138

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

When you're working on the web, there will also be a high chance for you to experience hacking. Jillian and Will talk about third-party data providers and discuss the reason why you might get hacked when using these providers.
About this Episode

What is a Third-Party SAAS Application
Different ways how to protect yourself from the third-party data applications
How to protect your data from getting breached

Learning With Tech - DevOps 137

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Each learner uses different methods in order to obtain a certain knowledge or skill. In this episode, Jonathan and Jillian relate to the listeners as they share their techniques and strategies when learning new things. They also tackle about the variety of mediums they use, different online learning platforms, and getting certifications and taking online courses.

Where Do Bugs Come From? - DevOps 136

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Jonathan and Will don their exterminator suits and talk about zombies, podcast automation, and where bugs come from.
- How design and architecture choices can lead to bugs
- Siloed teams solving similar problems with different implementations
- Context of code in peer-review
- Types of testing that can reduce and catch bugs
- Deadlines that force shipping code despite readiness
- Leaving breadcrumbs for future-you

DevOps In A Blockchain World - DevOps 135

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Vince Reed, Director of DevOps at Polygon Technology, a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without ever sacrificing security. They discuss how to build and scale a company that has grown from 40 to over 600 employees in 36 countries in the last year, implementing frameworks, communication, automation, security, and much more.

In this episode...- Addressing the unknown challenges of scaling and securing blockchain networks
- What skills are the same in blockchain as other industries
- What skills are unique to blockchain compared to other industries
- Building open source software
- The future of Blockchain and DevOps
- Working at Polygon- Building a remote-first company

Serverless Platforms and WASM with Connor Hicks - DevOps 134

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital's capabilities, and everything in-between.

In this episode…

WebAssembly on the server
The “edge” and edge computing
Security, performance, portability
WASM in the cloud limitations
Virtualized sandboxes
Alternatives to edge computing
Writing in other languages
What is the learning curve of the security model?
Suborbital's capabilities and language support

Helm for Kubernetes with Matt Butcher - DevOps 133

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes that helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Matt Butcher, core creator of Helm, joins the show today to share about his experience building and implementing the program.

In this episode…

Web, WebAssembly, and Kubernetes in the web browser
Helm, the Kubernetes package manager
Why Go was selected for Helm
Regrets and mistakes with Helm
Maintaining interest in open source projects
What is upcoming for Helm
The future of cloud computing and WASM

Observability and Serverless Intelligence Platforms with Aviad Mor - DevOps 132

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Aviad Mor is the CTO and co-founder of Lumigo, a serverless intelligence platform that helps developers understand and troubleshoot serverless applications. Today on the show, Jonathan Hall interviews Aviad to discuss observability within DevOps and the future of serverless.

In this episode…

Observability and Lumigo
Linux Kernel
MRTG tool
Managing distributed systems
What is “serverless”?
Tracing optimization
Onboarding with Lumigo
Black boxes and Kubernetes
Observability tools

Endless Possibilities with WebAssembly with Taylor Thomas - DevOps 131

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

WebAssembly is a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs to interface software for facilitating interactions between programs and their host environment. Today on the show, WebAssembly expert Taylor Thomas shares his insights into WebAssembly and the endless possibilities for which it allows.

In this episode…

What is WebAssembly
Practical application for WebAssembly
Building WebAssembly in cloud vs. browser
Gain support from all major browsers
Resources for building WebAssembly
Run times and optimization
Serverless and WebAssembly
Where to get started

Transforming from DevOps to DevSecOps - DevOps 130

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

With recent high-profile software supply chain breaches and President Biden's Executive Order to improve the nation's cybersecurity, there is an increase in the urgency for businesses and governments to move to DevSecOps. How shall your enterprise integrate security with its DevOps process? Today on the show, Will Kelly outlines his approach to transforming from DevOps to DevSecOps.

In this episode…

What is DevSecOps?
Startups vs large enterprises
First steps to making changes internally
Common pitfalls with security
Advocating for security
Software supply chain security

Application Security Challenges with Harshit Chitalia

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption has developers shipping code faster than ever and security is struggling to keep up. How do you ensure secure deployment while still maintaining speed with releasing applications? Today on the show, Harshit Chitalia, CTO & Founder at Tromzo shares his industry insights related to application security and applicable ideas on what developers can start trying today.

In this episode…

Navigating application security for developers
How to keep track of security issues
Shift left vs. shift right
Security automation
Tracking security processes
Security solutions and tools

Connect with Harshit Chitalia

LinkedIn: Harshit Chitalia

Links

The Future of Intelligent Monitoring and Alerting with Ava Naeini - DevOps 129

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Ava Naeini shares about her patent pending intelligent engine tool that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems. The panel discusses what this new platform can do and how it can help enhance developers with distributed systems.

In this episode…

The main challenges with testing distributed systems
Developing confidence within your systems
Performance testing models
Monitoring and performance testing gaps
Inclusive technical specs
Pulse Operations (company)
Current similar tooling options
Production data analytics
Accuracy and data exposure

The GitOps Framework with Tanmay Bhat - DevOps 128

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. Today on the show, Will and Jonathan interview Tanmay Bhat to discuss the GitOps framework, advantages and disadvantages, and favorite tools.

In the episode…

GitOps vs CDIC automated deployment
GitOps vs infrastructure as code
Who should use GitOps?
Favorite tools and recommendations
Getting started with GitOps
Flux and RODC
Pitfalls with GitOps

Connect with Tanmay via email: tanmaybhat24@gmail.com

DevOps and Log Management - DevOps 127

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Logging in today's DevOps landscape has become more difficult than ever. DevOps needs visibility into workloads that security, development, and operations teams collaboratively manage and provide. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will discuss various strategies to logging and log management and what you can start implementing today.

In this episode…

Who owns the logging process?
Lack of strategy in logging
Building the library
Debugging and error management
Following structured logging patterns
Basic monitoring
Building dashboards vs 3rd party services

Personal Branding as a Developer with Pavan Belagatti - DevOps 126

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Top Dev Ops global influencer, award-winning tech writer, and developer advocate Pavan Belagatti joins the show today to share the importance of personal branding as a developer, plus tactical strategies you can implement today.

In this episode…

How to get started and get noticed
Building your brand through networks
Benefits of building a brand
Writing tech articles to get an edge
Utilizing Google alerts
Refining your thoughts and communication delivery

The Pull Request Paradox with Yishai Beeri - DevOps 125

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

You just finished some code that can have a positive impact on your customers, and you are motivated to release it as quickly as possible, but your team members are also incredibly busy working on their own code. This conflict is The Pull Request Paradox. Today on the show, the panel interviews Yishai Beeri to share his insights on how to manage this paradox and the best PR strategies you can implement today.

In this episode…

Where do pull requests come from
Collaborating and empowering developers
Differentiating and managing PR lanes
The ship show ask model
Optimizing pull requests
Rule based models

The Intersection of Data and DevOps - DevOps 124

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, the panel discusses the intersection of data and DevOps, including various topics such as data warehousing, analytics, and source data, DVC and AWS Batch, and Snowflake integrations.

In this episode…

Data warehousing
Analytics with source data
Data Version Control (DVC)
AWS Batch
Production database schemas
Real time data
Snowflake integrations

Standing Out in the Job Search Process - DevOps 123

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Having a public profile
Listing your projects on your resume
Sharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities
Knowledge options
Leveraging social media
Stack Overflow
Soft skills

Modern Updates to CDIC Deployments - DevOps 122

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss the latest tools they have been using for CDIC deployments. Specifically, they discuss the Next.js framework, which allows DevOps teams to provide richer application experiences without relying as much on backend infrastructure. That shift has implications for everything from the amount of network bandwidth consumed to the performance of web applications. Moreover, within the Next.js family, the Vercel platform employs caching, routing, and a React framework to optimize application performance.

Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure - DevOps 121

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Managing uptime is critical for customers and it can be a powerful customer activity that connects engineers to the value that customers receive from your product, however it can also be a heavy source of burnout for engineers. Brian Scanlan with Intercom has created a volunteer management infrastructure that increases the efficiencies of on-call engineers while also reducing the inherent disruptive nature to the job. Today on the show, the panel interviews Brian about his process and architecture to this on-call management infrastructure.

In this episode…

The on-call burden
Alarm management
Escalation paths
Incentives for the volunteer teams
Deployment processes
Improving standards and expectations
Human centric vs. machine centric

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Metrics with Dave Mangot - DevOps 120

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team operationalize the Accelerate State of DevOps Report, surveying over 32,000 professionals worldwide in the DevOps industry. Dave Mangot joins the show today to share how he leverages these metrics to improve companies within their technology organizations.

In this episode…

DORA metrics
Speed and quality
Monoliths vs. microservices
Uptime and failure rates
Mean time to recover
Deployment frequencies
Production monitoring

How to Navigate the Job Market in DevOps - DevOps 119

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Jonathan shares about the new job offer he received and the progression we went through to navigate the process. Jonathan, Will, and Jillian also discuss the various aspects of the current DevOps job market, starting a new job, and how you can grow in your career.

In this episode…

Stack overflow and blogposts
What do you do when you first start?
Contracting gigs
Social life in the workplace vs. financial transaction
Single points of failure

Elements to Make an App DevOps Ready - DevOps 118

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Will talks about his latest project, Trustified.io and the steps he is considering to make it DevOps ready. Will and Jonathan discuss creating the dev environment, standardized logging, CI/CD, health checks, standardized reporting dashboards, configuring the app, database migration tools, user management, and ORMs.

Elements to Make an App DevOps Ready:

Creating the dev environment
Standardized logging
CI/CD
Health checks
Prometheus
Standardized reporting dashboards
Configuring the app
Database migration tools
User management
ORMs

Anti-Patterns in DevOps - DevOps 117

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:50:00 +0000

An anti-pattern is a pattern that you use to fix a short-term problem at the expense of your long-term goals. The insidious thing about anti-patterns isn't that they don't work or fail outright, but that they work in the short term while causing long-term failure and pain. Today on the show, Jonathan, Jillian, and Will discuss the various anti-patterns and cargo culting in software engineering, including password management, team structures, mean time to recover, and docker files management.

In this episode…

What is cargo cult software engineering?
Favorite anti-patterns
Password management
Team structure and silos
Mean time to recover
Docker files management

Deployment Strategies - DevOps 116

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss deployment strategies, including rolling strategy, blue-green patterns, canary deployments, feature flags, and progressive delivery. They also discuss backward compatibilities and rollback and rollforward deployment strategies, plus share their current picks of the week.

In this episode…

Kubernetes orchestration
Blue-Green deployment patterns
Canary deployments
Feature flags
Progressive delivery
Backward compatibility
Rollback deployment
Rollforward deployment

Universal Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi - DevOps 115

Thu, 26 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Imagine being able to program the cloud and bridge the Dev and Ops divide with cloud. Pulumi is a universal infrastructure as code platform that allows you to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices. Today, Jonathan and Will discuss all the ins and outs of Pulumi.In this episode…

What is Pulumi and how does it work?
Is Pulumi replacing tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform altogether?
What is the learning curve?
What languages is Pulumi limited to?
When would you not use Pulumi?
What are the processes for implementation?

Progressions Through Programming Languages - DevOps 114

Wed, 18 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Do I need to learn how to write code? What are the types of program languages required in DevOps? What are the pros and cons of each? Will, Jonathan, and Jillian discuss the progressions through programming languages and their insights and opinions with each. Learn about Bash, Go, Perl, Python, Python 2, Python 3, JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Ruby, and Java. At the end, they provide their final concluding thoughts and share their top picks.

Delivering Business Outcomes, Not Just Metrics - DevOps 113

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

How do you align engineering outcomes to business goals? On the show, Hersh Tapadia, Adam Dahlgren from Allstacks talk about value stream intelligence and how you can generate guiding insights for product stakeholders across engineering projects and tools so you can shape better outcomes and deliver stronger value. In this episode…

“Metrics are just table stakes”
Metrics vs feelings driven management
How to evolve the conversation from data collection to value creation
Understanding the why behind the work to retain engineers
The “dining table problem”
How do engineering teams respond to this approach?

Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift - DevOps 112

Wed, 04 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Enjoy this philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry. Eric Tank joins the show and shares his perspective on how to “develop for deprecation”. Building a code that is documented, tested, monitored, and deployed is important, but can you easily pass it off to someone else, or be able to walk away from the code it entirely? Johnathan joins by saying that “software is never done until it's deleted.” They finish the discussion referencing apprenticeship models and how accountability in this way could parallel other industries.

Infrastructure as code and Amazon CDK - DevOps 111

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Have you considered the significance of infrastructure as code and its importance in the industry? Will, Jillian, and Jonathan deep dive into this topic, plus discuss Amazon CDK and current frameworks and tools for the best workflows.

Building and Organizing DevOps Teams - DevOps 110

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Jillian, Jonathan, and Will break down the process of building a DevOps team. They address the breadth of skills from writing skills to provisioning cloud and server resources. They also dive into organizing human and other resources to successfully build and grow a DevOps team.

Is Kubernetes Right for You? - DevOps 109

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Everyone and their mother is talking about Kubernetes, but there's something you need to know. In this episode, the gang talks about the TRUTH around Kubernetes for most scenarios.In This Episode1) The BIGGEST reason NOT to use Kubernetes
2) If you've started Kubernetes, watch out for THIS common pitfall
3) How to leverage Kubernetes' customization capability and feel confident in scaling without pieces falling through the cracksBe a guest on the show!
https://go.oncehub.com/adventuresindevops

Protecting Your Database with Adam Kamor

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In a world of fake data and security breaches, where do you go? In this episode, Charles chats with Adam Kamor from Tonic.ai, the fake data company that mimics your production data to keep your databases secure. “It's a little control knob, allowing you to turn the dial between privacy and utility. That's what Tonic.ai does.”
- Adam Kamor In This Episode1) How to prepare your infrastructure for the real world and keep your transformations simple
2) The Do's and Don'ts of acquiring EXCELLENT data sets
3) Why most security questions are GARBAGE and won't protect your customersLinks

Twitter: Tonic.ai ( @tonicfakedata )

Special Guest: Adam Kamor.

50 Shades of DevOps - DevOps 108

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Is your DevOps title “hip”? What does it mean? Does it matter? In this episode, the gang discusses the fundamental differences between dev ops positions based on “hipness”, as well as if it actually matters in today's world. In This Episode 1) What the “hipness” of your job means (and if you should care)
2) Why all of these positions refer back to this ONE important idea
3) The BEST advice to get started in dev ops (and how to not get confused with all of these fancy titles)

To Reconfig or Not to Reconfig? - DevOps 107

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Will needs some developer therapy, and maybe you do, too. In this episode, Will talks about reconfig issues he's having with a client, and his loyal compadres help him find the light at the end of the tunnel. It may NOT include Airflow, though. Sorry, Jillian.In This Episode1) What you NEED to look for to know if reconfiguration is the right answer for your…situation
2) Your No-B.S. guide to reconfiguring without making your client hate you
3) How to implement charts and other visual aids to help you and the client stay in sync

AWS and IAM with Stephen Kuenzli - DevOps 106

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Ready to add another tool to your toolkit? In this episode, the squad sits down with AWS connoisseur, Stephen Kuenzli. They lay out how to make integrating IAM a breeze, the EXCITING future of AWS, and why AWS hasn't asked you this ONE question that, frankly, you should have asked already. “Even if you think you know AWS one Day 1, it's changed on Day 2. It's important to simplify how you access these resources.”
- Stephen Kuenzli In This Episode1) How AWS makes integrating IAM a breeze (with some really cool encryption tricks!)
2) Why AWS hasn't asked you this ONE important question (and why you should!)
3) The BEST resource libraries to keep you feeling confident and in control (even if you're new to AWS)
4) What the exciting future of AWS looks like for 2022 and beyond

Server-less DevOps with Allen Helton - DevOps 105

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Ready to pull the plug and go server-less? Hold your horses. In this episode, the DevOps fellows sit down with Allen Helton, a developer knows all about server-less ops. They discuss the biggest pros and cons for going server-less, why you HAVE to start with the big “A” to keep everything neat, and the NUMBER ONE mistake developers make when trying server-less for the first time. “ServerOps engineers are just as important as DevOps engineers are. There's a lot of crossover.”
- Allen Helton In This Episode1) The HUGE pros for going server-less in 2022 (and why it doesn't have to be too different from traditional DevOps)
2) Why server-less ops MUST start with the big “A” to keep everything tidy
3) The NUMBER ONE mistake traditional devs make when trying out server-less for the first time
4) How to learn Sever-less Ops efficiently and NOT overwhelm yourself (even if you're a beginner)

CI/CD Tools for Dummies - DevOps 104

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

We're not calling you a dummy, but you might be one if you don't listen to this episode. This time around, the gang discusses the do's and don'ts of choosing CI/CD tools, including how to safety migrate between them, why super-specialized tools are getting extremely popular this year, and the ONE component that makes or breaks a tool.In This Episode1) The TWO questions you need ask BEFORE you choose your tools (and why there's no “one size fits all”)
2) How to safely migrate from one tool to another
3) Why super-specialized CI tools are getting more popular in 2022
4) Want to know what makes a CI tool worthwhile? Ask if it has THIS single component and you're off to a great start

How to be a Digital Nomad - DevOps 103

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Love the nomad lifestyle but not sure how to pull it off? You're in luck! In this episode, the panelists discuss their personal experiences working (and sometimes living) remote. They cover how to generate leads and book clients consistently, why the “multiplier effect” is HUGE for making your new ideas lucrative, and the ONE reason you don't need revolutionary ideas to find success.In This Episode

What the panelists all learned from being digital nomads (and if it's right for you)
How the panelists generated leads and booked clients while traveling abroad (and the apps they used to keep their income steady)
Why the “multiplier effect” is the KEY to making your new idea lucrative
The reason you DON'T need revolutionary ideas to find success (and the strategy to keep readers coming back for more)

Dos and Don'ts of Blockchain - DevOps 102

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

We've been hearing about blockchain and Web3 for years now, but its heyday is sooner than you think. In this episode, Will and Jonathan discuss why NOW is the time to dig into blockchain, how those in Dev Ops can approach these new technologies (and not get overwhelmed), and what Jonathan learned from a, well, “crazy” interview.In This EpisodeWhy RIGHT NOW is the time to understand block chain (it's not a fad anymore!)
How Dev Ops peeps should think about and approach blockchain (free resources!)
The KEY difference between blockchain and crypto
What Jonathan learned from an oddball interviewer (and the ethics of blockchain in general)

How to prepare for an interview - DevOps 101

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.

100 Episodes of DevOps - DevOps 100

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Jillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022.

Simplifying DevOps - DevOps 099

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Ready to show off your coding skills to the world? Not so fast. In this episode, Will and Jillian discuss why developers need to simplify their product with the end goal in mind—the customer. They share some awesome examples of how to do this, how you can win Future You's approval, and the steps to create a smooth user experience.“I think it's a hard mental shift to say that my area of expertise shouldn't be visible in the product. But, you need to understand the end goal. My goal is to automate myself out of a job, then move on.”

Will Button

In This Episode:
Jillian shares a killer example that should inspire all DevOps people to simplify their process
As a programmer, you want to tell the customer how great your programming is, right? Hold on…Will shares a different perspective
How Will approaches his programming that avoids all customer confusion and creates a seamless experience
What Jillian believes is MORE important than learning how to code (sometimes)
Why you need these TWO things that will earn Future You's approval🎯 Picks:Jillian's
Techy: Airflow and Strapi
Non-techy: Harriet the Hamster Princess Will's
Until the End of Time by Brian Greene Connect with Will and Jillian:Jillian: https://twitter.com/jillianerowe
Will: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willbutton/

Acronyms in DevOps and the Different Kinds of Ops ft. Daniele Fontani - DevOps 098

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Daniele Fontani joins the Adventure to discuss the different kinds of Ops like NoOps, AppOps, etc. He makes fun of the different ways that people try to extend DevOps into other types of movements and why the different focuses may or may not be appropriate ways to manage resources.Panel

Will Button
Jonathan Hall

Special Guest

Daniele Fontani

Does Scrum belong in DevOps? - DevOps 097

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Will and Jonathan have a conversation about whether or not you can use Scrum with DevOps. They also discuss different alternatives to Scrum and how you can use them instead of Scrum or whether Scrum is the best fit.Panel

Jonathan Hall
Will Button

What Certificates Should I Get? - DevOps 096

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The Adventures in DevOps crew discuss the various certificates that exist and which ones you may or may not want to consider getting.They talk about whether you need one in the first place and the value that different markets place on the certificates.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Dev vs DevOps: Which Will You Choose? - DevOps 095

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Jillian, Jonathan, Will, and Chuck discuss where the line is between Development and DevOps and what the difference is. They also get into the value of each and when crossover is likely to occur.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Starting DevOps at Work - DevOps 094

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The panel puts their heads together to talk about how to bring DevOps practices into a work situation based where they're not implemented. They discuss the various pro's and con's of specific practices and how to get people on board with adoption.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Deconstructing the Minimum Viable Continuous Deployment - DevOp 093

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The panel jumps in and discusses the Minimum Viable Continuous Deployment from the manifesto on the web and discuss where they agree and disagree with the requirements listed there and clarify some of the ideas in the document.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Scaling Your Applications with Kafka and Scaling Kafka ft. Abhinav Dhasmana - DevOps 092

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.Panel

Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Shimon Tolts
Will Button

Guest

Abhinav Dhasmana

How to Get Started with DevOps - DevOps 091

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Will and Jonathan jump in this week to discuss how to get started with a career in DevOps and how companies can get things started at your company with DevOps.They discuss the pitfalls of outsourcing your devops and how DevOps should be working within your application space and within your organization.Panel

Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Azure Infrastructure as Code with Henry Been and Erwin Staal - DevOps 090

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Henry Been and Erwin Staal join the adventure to discuss Microsoft's options for defining infrastructure as code on Microsoft's Azure cloud offerings.They walk the panel through setting up ARM templates and using the Bicep language to specify how your infrastructure gets set up , run, and managed.35% discount code- poddevopsadv20.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Shimon Tolts

Guest

Erwin Staal
Henry Been

Networking Across Clouds with Kubernetes ft. Alex Feiszli - DevOps 089

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Guest

Alex Feiszli

Manning's LiveProjects and Cloud Optimization ft. Troy Dreier and Andres Sacco - DevOps 088

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Troy Dreier joins the adventure to discuss Manning's LiveProjects platform where developers can work through exercises and learn the things they need to just-in-time.Andres Sacco is one of the authors on LivePlatform and joins the adventure to discuss cloud optimization and his experience building a LiveProject showing people how to optimize their cloud setup.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Shimon Tolts

Guest

Andres Sacco
Troy Dreier

Open Source and DevSecOps ft. Will Kelly - DevOps 087

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Will Kelly is a technical writer who joins the adventure to discuss bridging the gap between open source, development, and DevOps. He explains the personal and technical skills needed to help folks understand the need for using Open Source software and how developers and DevOps practitioners can communicate about the security concerns around complimentary practices of the two groups with the realms of their jobs.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Will Button

Guest

Will Kelly

Do DevOps Engineers Need to Know How to Code? - DevOps 086

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Adventures in DevOps panel take over and discuss whether or not DevOps Engineers need to know how to code.The panel offers their perspectives on the pros and cons of knowing how to code and the limitations placed on DevOps Engineers who don't know how to code and the tradeoffs of spending time on code versus other skills that can pay off for your customers.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jillian Rowe
Will Button

DevOps for Development Environments ft. Yitaek Hwang - DevOps 085

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Yitaek Hwang joins the adventure to discuss how he sets up development environments using well-understood open source tools that allow developers to understand and troubleshoot their own setups.This also allows devops to manage these setups in ways that mirror production.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Will Button

Guest

Yitaek Hwang

Kubernetes Schema Validation Tools with Eyar Zilberman - DevOps 084

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools.The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.Panel

Jillian Rowe
Jonathan Hall
Will Button

Guest

Eyar Zilberman

Environment as Code ft. Adarsh Shah - DevOps 083

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Will Button

Guest

Adarsh Shah

Continuous Deployment Without Automated Tests ft. Jonathan Hall – DevOps 082

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Hall joins the Adventure this week to discuss the advice he gives to clients to start continuous deployment before they have automated tests around their code.He explains why he starts here and the power of having a continuous deployment system. He, Will, and Chuck go into how to set it up and the pro's and con's of the approach and how it fits into a larger DevOps practice.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Will Button

Guest

Jonathan Hall

Visibility and Orchestration in Software Delivery ft. Yishai Beeri - DevOps 080

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Yishai Beeri joins the Adventure to talk about ways that we can communicate and coordinate to deliver great software.This holds both within development teams and between development teams and DevOps teams.Panel

Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Yishai Beeri

Essential Infrastructure as Code - DevOps 079

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Rosemary Wang joins the adventure to dive into a discussion on what Infrastructure as Code is and how to begin thinking about what it is and how it goes together.She focuses on maintainability, security, and reliability.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Guest

Rosemary Wang

More Security Breaches in the World - DevOps 078

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Evaluating Jobs and Job Offers - DevOps 077

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Gaining Stability with Rule Based Policies with Shimon Tolts - DevOps 076

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Guest

Shimon Tolts

The Power for UniKernels with Ian Eyberg - DevOps 075

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Ian Eyberg jumps on with the panel to discuss the uses and origins of UniKernels. He and the panel discuss how to set them up and where they fit into your infrastucture conversations.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Guest

Ian Eyberg

DevOps in BioInformatics with Jillian Rowe - DevOps 074

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Jillian Rowe specializes in setting up AWS clusters for collecting and analyzing bioinformatics data. She's worked with several companies to set up "virtual labs" where they can use Data Science techniques and Machine Learning to analyze and understand the data they collect from their studies.This episode walks through a lot of the approach she uses to communicate with her customers and deliver solutions that provide them with the information needed to do their jobs.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Guest

Jillian Rowe

Things a DevOps Engineer Needs to Know - DevOps 073

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Will and Jeffrey discuss the things that DevOps Engineers need to know. If you're diving into DevOps, you're probably wondering what skills do you need to know?Also, how much of the skill you need to have is technical versus non-technical. People skills and soft skills verus hard typing and at-the-keyboard skills.If you're in DevOps, these are the things you need to learn or the gaps you need to fill.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

How to Conquer Your AWS Costs with Yann Stoneman - DevOps 072

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Yann Stoneman joins the adventure to talk about the tools and approach he uses to cut AWS costs for his customers. The panel chimes in with how they track costs on AWS as well and what they do when they realize costs are creeping up.They then dive into Yann's story going from Juilliard to FreeCodeCamp to AWS Certifications to working full time as an AWS consultant.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Will Button

Guest

Yann Stoneman

What is DevOps, Anyway? with Will Button - DevOps 071

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Will Button returns to discuss the roots and meanings of the DevOps movement with Caleb, Chuck, and Jeffrey.They take on the idea that DevOps is the infrastructure department and dissect the ideas pulled from the Agile and other movements that fed ideas into the DevOps movement.They also go over leadership and other requirements that empower DevOps personnel to excel in their jobs and take their careers and companies to new levels.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Will Button

Grafana Labs with Matthew Helmke - DevOps 070

Thu, 27 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Matthew Helmke is a Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs. He helps companies and people track metrics and alerts around their data to understand what is going on in the systems and information that they manage.He walks Caleb and Jeffrey through the process of understanding systems and data to draw a picture that describes their systems and integrations so they can make better decisions and handle events that occur.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Matthew Helmke

Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes on Bare Metal with Andrei Kvapil - DevOps 069

Thu, 20 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Andrei Kvapil joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes with Jeffrey Groman.Andrei breaks down how he and his company needed to set up Kubernetes to manage their blade server setup and how they wound up running Kubernetes in Kubernetes to gain the characteristics they needed.Panel

Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Andrei Kvapil

The Theft and Recovery of Perl.com with Brian D. Foy - DevOps 068

Thu, 13 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened.He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to you and how to make it easy to recover when things do go wrong.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Brian D. Foy

DevOps for Developers with Will Button - DevOps 067

Thu, 06 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

In a lot of ways, DevOps folks are essentially Developers. They encode infrastructure and processes often using code. This episode with Will Button dives into how Developers can jump into DevOps by learning the ropes of what they're coding against and the problem sets solved by DevOps. This show also goes into how to communicate and collaborate between development and DevOps.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Will Button

Getting Amazing Personal Productivity with Mason McLead - DevOps 066

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Mason McLead is the CTO at Software.com. Software.com is a toolset that measures developer productivity and helps developers be more productive. He discusses the things that are likely the Achilles heel to your productivity and a few simple things you can do to make sure you're working efficiently.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Mason McLead

DevOps 065: Code Reviews with James Donohue

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

James Donohue is a developer at the BBC (British Broadcasting) and explains the new way that they approach code reviews in his division. He also explains the ins and outs of how they communicate about code and the different purposes that code reviews can serve within an organization. Jeff, Caleb, and Chuck also chime in with their experience with code reviews and other similar approaches in security and DevOps.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Caleb Fornari
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

James Donohue

How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.Panel

Charles Max Wood

Guest

Jason Weimann

DevOps 064: Software Dependencies: Do you Know What's Lurking in your Software?

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories.Panel

Caleb Fornari
Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman

DevOps 063: Chaos Engineering with Mikolaj Pawlikowski

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Mikolaj Pawlikowski wrote a book about Chaos Engineering. His book is a practical guide to using the tools to test your infrastructure. He's a tech lead at Bloomberg running Kubernetes. He walks us through the various tools and techniques for making sure that your systems will stand up to things that can destabilize them by scripting different failure scenarios.Panel

Charles Max Wood

Guest

Mikolaj Pawlikowski

Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

DevOps 062: Behind the SolarWinds breach

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In this week's episode, Charles Wood interviews Jeffrey Groman. They discuss how SolarWinds was breached, what it means going forward and lessons learned for protecting your business from attacks.Panel

Charles Wood
Jeffrey Groman

DevOps 061: How to be a Top 5% DevOps Engineer

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

In this week's episode, Jeffrey Groman and Charles Wood discuss what makes a top 5% engineer, and how to get there. We cover the gamut of technical skills, soft skills, giving back, and producing content.Panel

Charles Wood
Jeffrey Groman

DevOps 060: How to Have Everything at Your Fingertips Next Time Things Break

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Charles Wood and Jeffrey Groman are joined by Phil Wilkins, author of Unified Logging with Fluentd to talk about logging, infrastructure, monitoring and how to get started.Panel

Charles Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Phil Wilkins

DevOps 059: Speed bumps moving to a DevOps culture

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey Groman and Chuck Wood are joined this week by Caleb Fornari of StartOps. We discuss people, process and technology that all need to be addressed as you go down the path towards DevOps.Panel

Chuck Wood
Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Caleb Fornari

DevOps 058: Core Kubernetes with Chris Love

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Chris Love is the co-author of Core Kubernetes. Chris and his co-author Jay recognized that there's a general lack of knowledge of the internals of and what makes up Kubernetes. Other resources cover the concepts and basics of how to deploy on Kubernetes, but the problems people run into sometimes exist one layer down in Kubernetes. Chris leads the adventure along the ways that you can get to know the internals and control plane of Kubernetes.Panel

Henry Jewkes
Joe Stevens

Guest

Chris Love

DevOps 057: Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions with Jeffrey Smith

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Jeff Smith's book is full of practical ways to implement good DevOps practices within our teams, especially in the case where one might not have the flexibility to make sweeping organizational changes. He shares his wisdom and experience regarding building DevOps organizations and instilling culture into our teams.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes

Guest

Jeffrey Smith

DevOps 056: Building Successful Platform Teams with Ivan Krnic

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Ivan Krnic and the DevOps panel discuss the role of the platform team and where the idea comes from. They discuss why an organization should are about and pay attention to their platform teams. They dive into the ins and outs of building a platform team within various organizations.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes

DevOps 055: Deeper Dive Into Implementing DevOps In Your Organization

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps,Henry Jewkes and Jeffrey Groman discuss roles, teams, specialties and culture as the relate to implementing DevOps.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes

DevOps 054: The Mythical DevOps Engineer with Alessandro Diaferia

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:00:00 +0000

At some organizations, a DevOps engineer is expected to be superman: a systems engineer, release manager, security expert, platform developer, and so much more. In this weeks episode, the panel discusses with Alessandro Diaferia what it really means to have a role in DevOps, how to grow a culture of DevOps, and the power of adding measurement to your release process.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Joe Stevens
Henry Jewkes

Guest

Alessandro Diaferia

DevOps 053: When Raccoons Attack! with Robert Merget

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panel is joined by Robert Merget, a PhD student at Ruhr-University Bochum and Maintainer of TLS-Attacker. He joins us to talk about Racoon Attack, a timing vulnerability in the TLS specification that affects HTTPS and other services that rely on SSL and TLS. He will walk us through how it works, and what you should do to protect your organization.Panel

Joe Stevens
Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Robert Merget

DevOps 052: Getting Involved In The Kubernetes Community with Guinevere Saenger PT2

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

This is a continuation of last week's episode of Adventures in DevOps. Guest Guinevere Saenger continues to talk more about the Kubernetes open source community, and how Github has adopted Kubernetes as a platform. In the discussion, we discuss how teams communicate and collaborate and leverage container technology in order to get new features out quicker and more effectively.Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Guinevere Saenger

DevOps 051: Getting Involved In The Kubernetes Community with Guinevere Saenger

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Guinevere Saenger from the Github team joins us to talk about the Kubernetes open source community, and how Github has adopted Kubernetes as a platform. In the discussion, we discuss how teams communicate and collaborate and leverage container technology in order to get new features out quicker and more effectively..Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Guinevere Saenger

DevOps 050: Oracle Cloud: Attracting Developers Through Cloud Native Tools with Ram Kailasanathan

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, our guest Ram Kailasanathan joins the panelists as he walks us through the design decisions that Oracle has made in building out its cloud infrastructure to compete with behemoths like AWS and Azure..Panel

Charles Max Wood
Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes

Guest

Ram Kailasanathan

DevOps 049: DevOps, Open Source, and OpenShift with Chris Short

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Chris Short joins us this week for another episode where we discuss OpenShift and the new OpenShift.tv streaming media channel he has been orchestrating for the past few months since conferences and client site visits have been nixed.Panel

Jeffrey Groman

Guest

Chris Short

DevOps 048: Two DevOps Old Dogs Sharing Tricks with JJ Asghar

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Tyler Bird and special guest JJ Asghar discuss what makes them passionate about both the technology and the culture of DevOps as two old souls who've never met chat like old friends because of their shared experiences in the DevOps world.Panel

Tyler Bird

Guest

JJ Asghar

DevOps 047: Multi-Cloud Kubernetes: Challenges and Solutions with Joe Stevens

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:01:00 +0000

While you may not need to seamlessly manage your Kubernetes containers across multiple cloud providers, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from understanding the challenges of doing so. Our guest Joe Stevens walks us through the steps his company Ascend had to work through in order to support customers across AWS, Azure and GCP..Panel

Jeffrey Groman
Henry Jewkes

Guest

Joe Stevens

DevOps 046: Why DevOps Fails with Anupam Kulkarni & Aniruddha Bhagwat

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps isn't failing organizations, organizations are failing DevOps. Special guests Anupam Kulkarni (CEO) & Aniruddha Bhagwat (Marketing Director) from iauro systems (iauro.com) join host Tyler Bird to highlight where organizations are failing DevOps and discuss the process that works for them. P.S. it can work for you too.Panelists

Tyler Bird

Guests

Anupam Kulkarni
Aniruddha Bhagwat

DevOps 045: Measurement, Metrics, and Monitoring

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Developer Operations is a data driven endeavor, but how do you avoid drowning in noise? In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panelists discuss the metrics that matter, how we approach separating information from noise, and when a simple number fails to tell the whole story.Panelists

Jeff Groman
Henry Jewkes
Scott Nixon

DevOps 044: Organizing for DevOps

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panelists discuss how companies can organize for greatest DevOps success. They dive into team structures and patterns, how an organization can embrace the principles of DevOps rather than just it's practices, and where project management lives in today's agile world.Panelists

Jeff Groman
Henry Jewkes
Scott Nixon

DevOps 043: Testing in Production with Talia Nassi

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, we discuss testing in production of Split Software - when it is necessary, why it is necessary, and how to do it safely.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Jeff Groman
Tyler Bird

Guest

Talia Nassi

DevOps 042: Risk Posture Drift and Immutable Security with Sachin Aggarwal

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Sachin Aggarwal of Accurics walks us through his latest startup which is focused on helping to secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by identifying risk and policy violations, and fixing them on the fly.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Jeff Groman
Tyler Bird

Guest

Sachin Aggarwal

DevOps 041: Modern Release Management with Henry Jewkes

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31thHenry Jewkes of Split.io takes panelists of Adventures in DevOps through phased and feature flagged releases, measuring releases, the anatomy of a release platform, and how CI and release management can help prevent developer burnout.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Jeff Groman
Tyler Bird

Guest

Henry Jewkes

DevOps 040: Liquid Software – what is it, and why we need it with Baruch Sadogursky

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31thBaruch Sadogursky of JFrog takes panelists of Adventure in DevOps through the concepts of continuous updates or liquid software and highlights good patterns and antipatterns along the way.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Jeff Groman
Tyler Bird

Guest

Baruch Sadogursky

DevOps 039: Controlling the Digital Landscape with Tobias Kunze

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventure in DevOps, the panelists is joined by special guest Tobias Kunze, founder of OpenShift. They discuss Glasnostic which helps you see the global environment in real-time, to gain insights that allow you to react and fix problems as they emerge.Panelists

Tyler Bird
Jeff Groman

Guest

Tobias Kunze

DevOps 038: Chasing Unicorns and Narwhals with The Unicorn Project

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Adventures in DevOps panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Jeff Groman discuss The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim and how it's lessons apply to real world organizationsPanelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Jeff Groman

DevOps 037: Monitoring your applications with Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Panelist Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Guest Björn Rabenstein discuss Prometheus - where it came from, the problems it solves, and how it can help you operate applications in a complex world.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Guest

Björn Rabenstein

DevOps 036: An Overview of MicroK8s, Charmed K8s, and Other Ubuntu Infrastructure Tools with Alex Chalkias

Tue, 26 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The panelists talk to Alex Chalkias, a product manager at Ubuntu, about tools and services Ubuntu has developed for managing containers, Kubernetes, telco workflows, live updating, and much more!Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon

Guest

Alex Chalkias

DevOps 035: Rapid Infrastructure Automation with AWS CDK

Tue, 19 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Panelist Scott Nixon, DevOps Automation Engineer at Stelligent, leads the Nell and Tyler in a discussion about AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). They discuss the evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code on AWS from using the SDKs, CloudFormation, and now CDK.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon
Tyler Bird

DevOps 034: Digital Darwinism - How Digital Transformation is Evolving Business with Joe Garber

Tue, 12 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Join panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Scott Nixon, Tyler Bird, and special guest Joe Garber to discuss what a digital transformation is, how it's different from company to company, where to start your transformation and what to do when it gets hard, as well as how organizations across industries are harnessing AI/ML to power their transformations. Also hear us discuss why a digital transformation is never “done” and why that is a good thing!Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Tyler Bird
Scott Nixon

Guest

Joe Garber

DevOps 033: I Know What You Did Last Session with Ev Kontsevoy

Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The panelists speak with Ev Kontsevoy of Gravitational about SSH'ing into infrastructure, how we've tried to secure it in the past, and what works better both for securing and auditing SSH access today.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Tyler Bird
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Ev Kontsevoy

DevOps 032: Where Does Security Fit In a DevOps World with Jeffrey Groman

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey Groman is a CyberSecurity expert. He joins the panel to answer our questions and lead a discussion on the basics of security as it applied to DevOps. We start out with a discussion on breaking down silos and making security everyone's job.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Tyler Bird
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Jeffrey Groman

DevOps 031: DevOps, Monitoring, and Cloud Management with Matt Watson

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Matt Watson is the CEO and Founder at Stackify. This episode dives into his thoughts and approach to devops, application management, and performance using cloud native tools including Kubernetes.Panelists

Charles Max Wood
Tyler Bird

Guest

Matt Watson

DevOps 030: 15 Years of Ubuntu with Martin Wimpress

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Adventures in DevOps' guest, Martin Wimpress, is the engineering director for Ubuntu Desktop, Snapcraft and Developer Advocacy at Canonical the company behind Ubuntu. He speaks about Ubuntu, the OS for most public cloud workloads as well as the emerging categories of smart gateways, self-driving cars and advanced robots.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon
Tyler Bird

Guest

Martin Wimpress

DevOps 029: Kublr, Enterprise Infrastructure Reliability, and Self-Healing Nodes with Slava Koltovich

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Slava works at Kublr. They're focused on helping the Enterprise manage the Cloud Native environments. They help those companies manage their Kubernetes infrastructure. Most of their customers are in the financial sector and wind up managing access and security. Slava talks about the challenges and solutions for providing these sorts of tools and managing infrastructure in this way.Panelists

Charles Max Wood

Guest

Slava Koltovich

DevOps 028: Chaos Engineering with Gremlin Executives

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventure in DevOps, the guests speak about the future of software development and reliable systems. They relate this to Chaos Engineering and why more organizations should be doing it.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Tyler Bird

Guests

Tammy Butow
Kolton Andrus
Matt "Forni" Fornaciari

DevOps 027: Quest for Frictionless DevOps with Brent Schroeder from SUSE

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Brent Schroeder is the global CTO at SUSE. The discussion begins with a discussion around the open source and devops culture at SUSE. It branches into participation in the CloudFoundry and Cloud Native Computing Foundations. The overarching thing is going beyond development into bringing the Ops into DevOps and removes the friction between Dev and Ops.Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Brent Schroeder

DevOps 026: Implementing Event-driven Microservices with Nikhil Barthwal

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Nikhil Barthwal works at Google on Serverless products on Google Cloud Platform. He joins the panel to talk about Implementing Event Driven Microservices. He starts with defining what Microservices are and motivations to move from Monolithic to Microservices. He then dives into distributed data in Microservices and problems associated with it. He goes into details of using Domain Driven Design for partitioning data and solutions to keep data consistent & querying scattered data.Panelist

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon

Guests

Nikhil Barthwal

DevOps 025: Oracle Cloud with Bob Quillin

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Bob Quillin is Vice President of Oracle Cloud Developer Relations. He joins the Adventure to talk about the direction of Cloud computing and what's new and upcoming in the Oracle cloud.Panelist

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood

Guests

Bob Quillin

DevOps 024: Monitoring Multi-Cloud Environments with Sean Porter | Sensu

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Sean Porter is the CTO and co-founder of Sensu Inc. Sensu is a project that helps cloud native devops engineers track issues across the cloud and multiple clouds. He gives us the story of where Sensu came from and how it is used now.Panelist

Charles Max Wood

Guests

Sean Porter

DevOps 023: Tools for Issues Resolution with Troy McAlpin and Tobias Dunn-Krahn

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Troy and Tobias work at xMatters providing tools that help devops engineers manage things when they go wrong. Their tools at xMatters provide information that makes is easier to track down problems. Running a service like xMattters also allows them to become experts in how workflows should go to empower people to fix issues.Follow UpCloud on Twitter: @UpCloudFollow Troy on Twitter: @TmcalpinxmConnect with Tobias on LinkedIn Panelist

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood

Guests

Troy McAlpin
Tobias Dunn-Krahn

DevOps 022: Debugging Multi-Layer or Multi-Node Applications with Or Weis

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Or Weis is the CEO of Rookout. He walks us through the problems of tracking bugs through multiple layers, services, and nodes. He talks about how to aggregate, sort through, and intelligently use the information provided from each of your infrastructure nodes to find problems in your applications. This is the cure for logging FOMO.Panelist

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon

Guests

Or Weis

DevOps 021: The Ideal Pipeline with Stephen Chin

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Stephen Chin. Stephen runs developer relations at JFrog. Stephen starts by sharing what JFrog has to offer and their most recent announcements. Including their new free version of Aritfactory. Charles and Stephen consider the biggest trends to emerge in 2019 and speculate on what's going to be big in 2020. This leads them into a discussion about security and inheriting vulnerabilities from packages. They share examples of vulnerabilities in code being exploited. Stephen shares how JFrog helps with identifying and fixing vulnerabilities in code. Stephen shares the characteristics found in the ideal pipeline. It needs to be highly flexible so that it will work for every team and every project. It needs to give you a single source of truth and account for security. He explains how to get started with JFrog and what is included in the free version. Panelist

Charles Max Wood

Guests

Stephen Chin

DevOps 020: Kui with The IBM Cloud Research Team

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Priya Nagpurkar, Paul Castro and Nick Mitchell. They all work for IBM and are here to talk about their new DevOps tool Kui. They start by explains what the IBM cloud research team is all about and what motivates them. Their goal is to make programming on the cloud as easy as possible. They share past tools that they have made for this goal. Charles asks the guests about the future of Kubernetes and DevOps. They explain why Kubernetes is so popular and what makes it a powerful tool. Kui is built mostly on Kubernetes. They discuss the evolution of DevOps tools. They compare CLIs and browser-based consoles and explain why people gravitate towards CLIs. Kui lets developers have the best of both worlds.The guests walk Charles though different scenarios of getting started with Kui. The workflow of using Kui inside an established Kubernetes cluster is discussed. They also explain how to move over from a VPS easily with Kui. They explain how Kui betters the developer experience. They go over the features that make developers DevOps experiences easier. They end by discussing how to get started in Kui if developers are new to Kubernetes.Panelist

Charles Max Wood

Guests

Priya Nagpurkar
Paul Castro
Nick Mitchell

DevOps 019: DevOps Next Generation with Lance Albertson

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Lance Albertson. Lance Albertson works for the Oregon State Open Source Lab. The lab is a program at the Oregon State University that provides the infrastructure to open source projects. The program works with graduate students who walk away with valuable hands-on experience in DevOps. Lance starts by explaining how they choose graduate students and what their experience looks like working for the lab. Lance explains what they provide for the open source projects they support. He says they provide anything within reason and gives examples of some of the projects they are supporting. The panel asks about their hardware set up and Lance explains that they have a physical data center. He shares details of some of the hardware donated over the years. The panel asks how much work is managed by the students. Lance explains how open source projects can reach out to them and how they are chosen. Nell Shamrell-Harrington works for Chef and asks Lance how their Chef project is coming. Lance shares some of the work he has been doing on their exciting project. Finally, he tells the listeners how they can contribute to the lab. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon

Guest

Lance Albertson

DevOps 018: How We Killed DevOps? with Adam Nowak

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the pane interviews Adam Nowak. Adam is a part of the DevOps team at Netguru. He joins the panel today to share his DevOps transformation story. Adam starts by explaining the title he chose for today's episode. He also shares his definition of DevOps.Adam explains the age-old story of a misunderstood DevOps team that was overworked and underappreciated. The organization grew but the DevOps team didn't scale with it, leaving them with piles of tickets and everyone else wondering what was taking so long. The panel commiserates with Adam and shares some of their own similar stories. Reaching out to others to help solve the problem, Adam found that many DevOps teams had and are experiencing the same problem. He found help from others in the DevOps space and recommended books. His team started by making their work more visible. To do this they streamlined their communication and published documentation. Next, they made more focused goals. Instead of trying to do everything and never meeting their goals they chose a couple things to work on and focused on that. Another change they made was to diversify their meetings, projects, and initiatives; they brought in people from all the teams to collaborate, making the projects even better. The panel discusses the importance of empathy in the workplace and in life. Most people are trying their best and probably have a reason for doing the things that they are doing. Instead of treating others as if they are incompetent, talk them and discuss the reasons behind their actions and decisions. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Adam Nowak

DevOps 017: Improving User Experience by Logging with Grant Schofield

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode Adventures in DevOps, the panel interviews Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of Infrastructure at Humio. He being by discussing the growth of logging and logging tools. Grant explains the business value of logging and analytics. He shares some real-life examples of how longing helped gain insight into the user experience. The panel wonders how Humio takes the data gathered in the logs and separate out specifics of user experience. Grant explains that by aggregating all data in one place Humio uses the logs, tracing and other metrics to draw conclusions about user experience. He shares some of the conclusions that can be drawn from that data and explains that the conclusions all depend on what you are looking for. The panel discusses how tracing traditionally works and asks Grant what process Humio uses to good sampling. Grant explains that sampling is a good way to save on costs and depends on how much indexing is taking place. He explains that knowing when to sample is very important if you want an accurate sample. Compliance concerns are the next topic the panel discusses with Grant. He explains what Humio does to remain compliant and keep user info safe and private. The panel moves on to discuss index-free logging. Grant explains how index-free logging works. He explains how fast it is and how easily clients can retrieve their data. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Grant Schofield

DevOps 016: Kubernetes as Infrastructure Abstraction with Oleg Chunikin

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Oleg Chuninkin, CTO of Kublr. Oleg starts by explains what Kublr is all about and how he got the idea of using Kubernetes as an infrastructure abstraction. He and the Kublr team were trying to decide the most productive way to think of Kubernetes. Oleg advocates for using Kubernetes locally and shares how you can then orchestrate your architecture so you can see what it will do in productions. Charles breaks down a few of the ideas Oleg shares. Oleg explains how the portability of Kubernetes can be used and shares recommendations with the panel on how to run a Kubernetes in a lightweight way. The panel asks Oleg about the pressure for a cloud independent service and how these effects application requirements. Oleg shares some resources in answer. Moving on the panel considers Olegs comment about the layered architectural approach. Oleg outlines the layered architectural approach and explains what he means by layered. He explains the benefits of this approach. Panelists

Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood

Guest

Oleg Chunikin

The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:00:00 +0000

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DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0000

This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his whole career spanning about 12 years. He is also the author of Shiplane. John made Shiplane after working with Docker for a while and getting fed up with some features not being as he wanted them to be. The panelists begin the discussion with going over John's talk “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, where he covers three camps of developers namely pioneers, settlers, and townsfolk and the panelists go into detail about these camps. They also talk about how docker and Shiplane fit into this idea. John shares that Shiplane is a tool that converts docker-compose yaml files into production-ready docker deployments. John details more of how shiplane came about, the problems it solves, how it works, and how it helps users to cross knowledge barriers. He also shares how Shiplane provides customizability as it will give the user everything they need but lets them choose the pieces they want. The panelists also discuss what websites are running Shiplane as well as some of the support that Shiplane has. Currently it does not support Kubernetes but John is working on it. Chuck then asks John what the use case is for running Shiplane. They discuss specifically whether Shiplane is used locally, or as a SAAS service and why it is the way it is. Nell then asks John what his hopes are for the future of Shiplane. John would like to have Kubernetes capability added within a year. If someone wants to get involved with Shiplane they can do so by trying it out, reaching out to him on his discord server, and helping him find edge cases. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon
Charles Max Wood

Guest

John Epperson

DevOps 014: Continuous Delivery With Julian Fahrer

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Julian Fahrer is a software engineer with a systems administration and operations background. He currently works at Hover and is helping them move towards continuous delivery. Nell opens up the discussion by asking Julian to explain what continuous integration and continuous delivery are. He shares that continuous integration revolves around having testing and automation around the code being pushed to ensure that it works and conforms to standards. Continuous delivery feeds off of the concept of continuous integration and is the ability to deploy to any environment at any point in time. Chuck puts these ideas together by saying that continuous delivery and continuous deployment is about making sure that it's possible to deploy at any time and actually doing so. The next topic covered by the Adventures in DevOps panelists is how to handle apprehension around having a continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Julian shares that big cultural changes are required to make CI/CD successful. They share that a lot of organizations are nervous about code with breaking changes immediately being deployed. One way to handle this vulnerability is by hiding features behind feature flags so that only certain people, for example the QA team, will have access to the feature.They share why an organization would want to change to a continuous delivery pipeline and some real world examples that they have experiencedChuck asks what some prerequisites are for a CI/CD pipeline. Scott says that one thing that needs to happen is backfilling areas of the application that previously did not have tests and expanding the testing coverage of the system. Julian shares that these prerequisites depend on how changes are made and shares some specific examples of what that entails. Nell asks what it takes for an organization to be able to do continuous delivery. Julian shares that it is mostly process driven. They establish some rules such as shortening the lifetime of development branches and improving how they are deployed. They also have a discussion on how integration tests should come about and who should write them. Julian mentions that you want to empower people and give them the tools they need to succeed. They then cover some of the work that Julian has done with Hover and some of the details of the continuous delivery environment he is building and the steps they took to begin moving towards that workflow.The topic then moves to dependency management. Nell asks Julian how he approached dependencies in his applications. Julian details how his usage of containers and specific tools helped him. For external environments he says that a database is required and that it would help to have standards for managing dependencies. They share how the current development culture is to give the QA team enough time to test a feature before it goes out. With a CI/CD environment, feature flags can be used to gradually roll out a changes and if a certain users needs a specific set of features then an individual environment can be spun up for their use case. The panelists share some thoughts on environments setup and production best practices and tooling. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon

Guest

Julian Fahrer

DevOps 013: Application Monitoring Using RED With Dave McAllister

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

This episode of Adventures in Devops features Dave McAllister. Dave has an extensive background in open source starting in 1994 working with early versions of Linux. He thrives on the concepts of emerging technologies and being able to innovate things. He also loves understanding what people are doing with emerging technology. The discussion opens up by introducing the topic of multi-dimensional monitoring in RED. Dave gives us an introduction into RED as a subset of google's SRE Golden signals. RED stands for rate, errors, and durations and is a concept that is designed for working with micro services. The DevOps panelists discuss concepts such as saturation and how to ensure correct results from their micro services using the RED concepts as well as some best practices for managing micro services. Nell asks about the scope of RED and whether it works with the big picture of what the micro service is doing. Dave shares that the scope of RED pertains to both. RED helps with observability and how to get the right signals out of all the noise and how to respond once the correct signals are found. He shares that RED should be a set of metrics in a dashboard that can be aggregated. He explains that RED gives the user a way of grouping data together and helping them to normalize functionality and find trends. The next topic covered by the DevOps experts is how to map the metrics seen in RED to the user experience. Dave explains how RED monitors the users activity and can put together metrics based on what they're doing. Using RED to follow user metrics will help to identify trends in where users will have issues and identify problem areas. Using micro services with RED introduces a level of granularity that can be monitored to help improve the performance of the application and improve scaling. RED helps with these improvements most notably by improving reaction time once a problem is found to help correct it as soon as possible. The panelists discuss some real world examples and how real world activities and human tendencies can alter patterns seen in the monitoring. Dave points out that one of the strongest recommendations he can make about RED is its ability to start simple and scale upwards as needed. The panelists then go on to discuss the human aspect of RED, how a team would react to changing, and how RED really requires a true DevOps team to reach its full potential. The panelists then share experiences they faced earlier in their careers as developers and how RED could have helped them. Nell brings up the idea of service meshes and how RED applies to them. Dave starts by introducing some problems in micro services and service meshes and the opportunity that exists for RED to come in and help solve those problems. He explains how service meshes in micro services give you duration that you don't have to implement. They finish with covering the usage of Kubernetes operators. Panelists

Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Guest

Dave McAllister

DevOps 012: Containerizing an Application

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panelists talk about how to containerize an app in a container using services such as Docker or Kubernetes. Charles mentions that he is wanting to host a Ruby on Rails application and Scott has experience with web deployments in Python and Django. They share that regardless of the languages and technologies used, the principles behind deploying a containerized application are the same.The next topic covered by the DevOps panelists is how to create containerized instances using Docker. The discussion centers on creating the container instances on a network and best practices that can be used for managing and maintaining them. The DevOps panelists cover the difference between an internal network deployment and what is needed to push a containerized application to a cloud instance using Kubernetes, Docker, DigitalOcean, or another service. Scott asks Charles if he is using a good CI/CD (continuous integration/ continuous delivery) mechanism, to which Charles shares that he is using Cloud 66 for its ease of use. When it comes to storage, they discuss whether to use the cloud services storage option or using a container to run a Postgres engine. They also go over the best way to run the shell commands for configuring their environment.The topic then moves to security and asset management when using Docker. Charles mentions that he tries to avoid putting API keys or other secrets into the Docker file and Scott shares how he uses a secrets management platform such as AWS Parameter Store, AWS Secrets Management, and others. They discuss the benefits that are provided by secrets management platforms. The DevOps panelists also talked about how a CI/CD platform can help with the portability of a containerized applicationCharles asks Scott how to begin with helping someone who wants to take their existing application and containerize it using the Docker approach. Scott responds with describing how he would look at where there application is and help them configure their containerized instance and set it up on a container service such as Docker or Kubernetes. Scott mentions that the strength of moving an application to a container service helps the application to scale up and down as needed. The container model helps a team to locally replicate their CI/CD model and be able to test it locally before the application is pushed to the cloud instance.The panelists talk about reverse proxies for pushing a Ruby on Rails app. Chuck prefers nginx and Scott emphasizes that it is important when pushing to production to spend some time verifying that the reverse proxy configuration is correct and won't expose the application in a way that it shouldn't be. Chuck shares that the use of a cloud platform such as GCP (Google Cloud Platform) of Microsoft Azure reduces the overhead with configuring containers and building images so that when he hands it off to the platform, it will take care of a large part of the setup including creation of the reverse proxy. Panelists

Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon

DevOps 011: Let's Talk Agile

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about Agile. Nell starts the discussion by mentioning that Agile came out of the Scrum movement and gives a brief history of how it started. She reads out the Agile Manifesto, and Scott explains what it is. They agree that “move faster slowly” can be considered as a motto of Agile. Scott talks about the testing aspect of it from a philosophical perspective, and Nell chimes in with comparison to how things were being done in the past versus now.They discuss the 12 principles behind the Agile manifesto. One - Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Two - Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage, basically valuing learning and improvements. Three - deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months with a preference for a shorter time scale, the focus being on the code being in a working state. Four - Business people and developers should collaborate daily through the project. Scott elaborates on the point further, and shares his experience where it was challenging to work with the business side of the project.Five - Build projects around motivated individuals, give them the support they need and trust them to get the job done, trust being the most important factor here. Six - The most efficient method of conveying information is having a face-to-face conversation, here the panelists provide a counter-argument that in the era of online platforms and remote work, this is not necessarily essential. Seven - Working software is the primary measure of progress. Eight - Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. ‘Sustainable' is key here, avoiding overworking and burnout is important anyday. Nine - Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. This means doing the full set of code reviews and tests and still deploy software quickly and making sure that it doesn't break things, if it does, it has to be rolled back.Ten - Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential. This highlights the need for focus in the product, and not writing a lot of code that could eventually be unusable. Eleven - The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. Panelists talk about people involved in open source projects as an example of such self-organizing teams, where they work on their own schedule and have great interest in what they are building. Twelve - At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. Retrospectives, reflecting where you are, how the team works together and documenting results as some sort of a learning exercise, are some of the practical examples of this.Nell then talks about the three layers of Agile infrastructure by Patrick Debois - considered as the father of DevOps. These constitute of technical - the hardware and software, project - the process that introduces changes in the environment, and the operations - the process of keeping the environment working.They state that we can build effective technology if we can relate to each other as humans, and discuss how Agile is perceived in certain controlled environments, if it's possible in an Agile fashion and still have prescriptive solutions. They end the show with picks.Panel

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Scott Nixon

DevOps 010: What Makes a 10x Engineer

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Episode Summary
On this week's Adventures in DevOps, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn't define what a 10x engineer is.Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity. Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made.When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 10x engineer may be hired as a 2x engineer, but it is the employer that turns them into a 10x engineer.Overall, Chuck believes these tweets are asinine because it's impossible to measure what makes a 10x engineer in the first place, and hiring a person that fits the attributes in the list would be toxic to your company.Panel

Charles Max Wood

DevOps 009: Learning DevOps

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Episode Summary
In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about getting started with DevOps and learning its principles and technologies. Lee and Scott mention that they share a similar journey, initially starting as system administrators and working their way into DevOps. Nell says that she was a Ruby and .NET developer before learning cloud technologies such as Heroku, Chef, and Docker.To someone with a programming background wanting to get into DevOps, Lee highly recommends three books - The Practice of System and Network Administration, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services - Volume 2, and Time Management for System Administrators. He mentions that they are technology-agnostic and help in understanding what is really going on in the system. Scott stresses on the importance of understanding basic networking, linux systems and commands, bash scripting and knowing the core fundamentals and interactions of the underlying systems. He suggests going for online resources, tutorials and boot camps which are plenty nowadays and easily accessible as well.Nell advises listeners to pick a cloud provider such as Digital Ocean and learn the basics by working with it, which can later be applied to any other cloud provider. She also recommends learning programming languages to get a good software development foundation. The panelists talk about working on specific projects and getting hands dirty rather than traditional learning, to enhance their DevOps skills.Nell explains how they implement the 'learning by doing' concept at work. She mentions that understanding how virtual machines and physical servers work is crucial before moving on to learning about containers. Lee suggests Vagrant - a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments, as a good resource for the same. They caution that while it is important to learn things during our time off, self-care and setting healthy boundaries is paramount. It is ok to take longer to learn something given that DevOps as a whole can be extremely complex, and working in a non-pressure environment can be very beneficial. They recommend Ops School for beginners which is a comprehensive program aimed at people who want to get into operations engineering.They then share their insights on monitoring and how to get started with it. Lee recommends the book Practical Monitoring, and Sensu - a monitoring event pipeline, as good starting points.DevOps can be considered as a technical as well as a cultural movement. To that effect, they discuss where should people start learning the associated cultural elements. Nell recommends reading the books - Effective DevOps, and The Phoenix Project and Crucial Conversations. Lee advocates going old school with the writings of Richard Stallman, and books of the 80s and 90s such as The Art of C Programming. They mention that conversational skills and dealing with people are critical skills in today's work environments. Scott recommends Google's Site Reliability Engineering books which have a lot of great stuff to build a solid foundation and are also free to read online.Finally, they talk about how to keep learning and expanding knowledge. Some effective suggestions discussed include extensive practicing, working professionally, solving business problems, building expertise in programming, and attending DevOps Days events and Linux Users groups. They end the episode with picks.Panel

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Lee Whalen
Scott Nixon

DevOps 008: Disaster Recovery

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps 007: Monitoring in a Technical Environment

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps 006: All Things Cloud with Bob Quillin

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps 005: Chef Explained

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

DevOps 001: What is DevOps?

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Panel

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Lee Whalen
Scott Nixon

Episode Summary
Welcome to the first episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast! The panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Principal Engineer at Chef Software, Lee Whalen - Principal Engineer and President at Fuzzy Logic Tech, and Scott Nixon - Founder at Cloud Mechanics, kickstart the show by introducing themselves and their work. They begin the discussion by attempting to answer the fundamental question - What really is DevOps? They discuss at length the intersection of DevOps with cloud native computing. They talk about what it means to implement the DevOps way of working, what factors does it depend on, the importance of having a DevOps measuring index to make its deployment successful, prioritizing disaster recovery especially for startups, and the security concerns associated with DevOps deployment in general. This being the first episode, they discuss what they would each like to cover in the future episodes and come up with interesting topics. Picks

DevOps 002: Castigated by Containers

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Panel

Nell Shamrel-Harrington
Lee Waylin
Scott Nixon

Episode Summary
Nell is a principal engineer at Chef, Lee runs the DevOps consulting team Fuzzy Logic Systems, and Scott runs Cloud Mechanics consulting. The topic of today's podcast is containers. They begin by defining what a container is, with each sharing their own definition. Containers aren't really new, they're just a hot topic because companies like Docker made them easier to use and has brought them into the mainstream. The panelists agree that containers are not for storing data, only for running applications, but that data can be mounted to a container. This is one of the biggest beginner mistakes. They discuss situations that are conducive to the proper use of containers. Containers are best added to mature and large scale projects. They discuss the pros and cons of Kubernetes. The panel gives advice on how to start using containers, suggesting new users start by containerizing one thing at a time rather than trying to do it all at once. They remind listeners that if you want something to stick around for each deploy, it should not be in the container itself because containers are temporary. They talk about how to create a container, good patterns and anti-patterns found when using containers. They discuss possible security concerns with anti-patterns in containers. They finish by talking about other container orchestrators and how to get traffic to Docker boxesLinks

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DevOps 003: The Tool Chain Crisis with Priyanka Sharma

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Panel

Charles Max Wood
Lee Whalen
Scott Nixon

Joined by Special Guest: Priyanka SharmaSummaryPriyanka Sharma gives an intro to the tool chain crisis; the panel shares their perspective on the crisis and where they see this problem. The panel considers how to solve this problem and Priyanka outlines a solution. She gives examples of how to start the data modeling process she believes will help solve this crisis along with suggesting guard rails for developers. The panel discusses this solution and considers how this will work in startups and smaller companies compared to well-established companies with their own tooling. Priyanka shares how to overcome the “we invented it here” syndrome. The panel considers how to choose the tools and the criteria to follow when considering tools. The panel asks Priyanka about The Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Priyanka explains how it works and how projects are submitted and chosen. She shares where she thinks the DevOps industry is going and how the true promise of DevOps can only be reached by putting it in the hands of developers. The panel ends with a discussion on developer compensation problems, an increase of workloads and the benefits and need for remote work. 🎯 Picks:
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Charles Max Wood:

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The Expanse

Special Guest: Priyanka Sharma .

DevOps 004: Blameless culture and Reliability with Ashar Rizqi

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Panel

Charles Max Wood
Scott Nixon
Lee Whalen

Joined by Special Guest: Ashar RizqiSummaryAshar Rizqi, co-founder and CEO of Blameless, Inc., shares his approach to taking an unreliable system and making it reliable. The panel discusses the importance of maintaining a blameless culture. Ashar explains what an error budget is and principles to use when creating an error budget. The panel considers the benefits of using an error budget. What to measure and how to measure for reliability are considered and the panel discusses how to manage the data received. Ashar explains the importance of cultures and how this affects reliability. The panel asks Ashar about Blameless, Inc; Ashar explains what they are all about, what they do and what types of companies need Blameless, Inc.🎯 Picks:
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Special Guest: Ashar Rizqi.