Adventures in DevOps: Recent Episodes
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Pushkar Gopalakrishna, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Snap, previously Cruise and AWS, joins to explore why engineering organizations pivot away from Terraform and HCL toward Kubernetes-native tools even when they might not be better. We unpack how developer friction, copy-pasted control structures, and misaligned organizational incentives create massive tech debt—often forcing SREs to manually update infrastructure repositories for compliance, resulting in broken pipelines and severe operational friction.
We debate over the mechanics of Crossplane, detailing how its continuous reconciliation loop and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) allow teams to express cloud infrastructure as YAML alongside their application manifests at potentially the cost of async validation. Pushkar pulls back the curtain on how Cruise managed infrastructure at scale using a custom internal platform called 'Juno' to bootstrap GCP projects, repositories, and permissions, while leveraging Crossplane for application-level resources. We also dive into the dangers of using CI tools for continuous deployment, detailing a terrifying incident where a pipeline bug accidentally marked three production Kubernetes namespaces for deletion, and how moving to ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts helped prevent future outages for autonomous vehicles.
Finally, we touch on the realities of non-production environment isolation, testing against live APIs, and why platform teams must balance providing a seamless developer experience without stripping away developer accountability.
💡 Notable Links:
* Crossplane
* Podcast Guest Request for Principal Engineer — What work are you doing?
* Amazon Multi-level fullyment center for drones
* ✨ Episode: Terraform vs OpenTofu
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Books: The Murderbot Diaries
* Pushkar - DJI mini drone
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Co-Founder of Grafana Labs, Anthony Woods, joins to share his perspective on how open source solutions are thriving despite the deluge of pull requests being thrown at them through their open source repositories.
Most importantly, he outlines how observability is no longer being done by users looking directly at dashboards. The data rarely makes to LLMs or automation, it rarely makes sense even to humans looking at them, without the context. The context is critical component, and having a model that was built on the semantic concepts relevant to your use cases.
And of course we can't stay away from asking on the record the current state of security of open source repositories from a vendor side. Given how their was an inevitable incident with some of the Grafana open source repos, we dig in to figure out how they are dealing with the real world impacts of malware being spread throughout the ecosystem.
💡 Notable Links:
* Coinbase's ridiculous spend on observability
* Book: Crossing the Chasm
* Silicon Valley Show: Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog
* Shai Hulud — Grafana open source compromise
* Podcast Guest Request for Package Manager Security Expert
* ✨ Episode: Productivity
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Best Starfleet Captain: Pike
* Anthony - The Bitter Lesson
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As it turns out, the entire artificial intelligence boom is essentially running on Wikipedia's free labor, but while knowledge is free, physical server infrastructure definitely is not. We sit down with Moriel Shotlander, Principal Systems Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, to dissect how public systems survive an endless onslaught of high-volume AI scrapers and aggressive crawlers. Because 65% of the resource-heavy requests originate from automated bots, we explore how Wikimedia navigates this traffic without blocking legitimate users. We skip the approaches of IP-banning which doesn't work in practice and discuss actual mature architectural strategies, by focusing on the users' needs. From structured database dumps and high-volume enterprise APIs to rate-limiting and CDN caching trade-offs.
It's a mind-bogglingly complex ecosystem of open-source, a 25-year-old PHP monolith supporting over 900 distinct site instances across 300 languages and 11 unique projects. It's an immense engineering challenge to modernize infrastructure while serving 250,000 active volunteer editors who build custom workflows via Toolforge—Wikimedia's internal, open-source mini-AWS.
Finally, we have to tackle the philosophical divide between artificial statistical models and human creativity. Because LLMs are trained to predict the statistical mean, they inherently miss the edge cases where real human value, internationalization, and accessibility actually reside. And even if they did, we managed to squeeze out every last bit of AI creativity that early models had until what we are actually left with is the most boring result. We also commiserate over the gratuitous low-quality AI pull requests flooding open-source repositories, drawing parallels to the chaotic Hacktoberfest spam of years past.
💡 Notable Links:
* Frodo project - Source
* Book: The Platform Revolution
* Moriel's LLM experiments
* ✨ Episode:
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Video: Are all flags Drawable in PowerPoint
* Moriel - Audiobook: Dungeon Crawler Carl
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We are joined this week by Mark Hay, CTO and co-founder of TextQL and former lead of Text Classification Infrastructure at Meta, to uncover the hidden complexities behind massive-scale machine learning. Mark explains why the most crucial features for identifying abusive behavior, like drug dealers or scammers on Facebook and Instagram, rarely rely on the content itself but instead analyze the underlying behavioral graphs, such as abnormal friend requests or messaging patterns.
Of course we review the adversarial nature of spam detection, where bad actors constantly evolve from simple regex evasion to embedding messages inside images or even utilizing pure symbolic communication, like comparing different sized cucumber emojis to evade text filters. That requires diving into the evolution of database querying and the rise of the semantic layer. Mark unpacks why relying on raw LLMs to write complex SQL is a recipe for hallucinations, and how implementing a "correct by construction" semantic layer guarantees structurally sound queries by restricting outputs to a strictly defined configuration. However, this rigid structure fundamentally stifles the creative flexibility of LLMs.
Lastly, we can't avoid exploring the tension between these approaches and how new tools aim to bridge the gap by dynamically balancing raw SQL generation with structured ontological constraints, providing rapid time-to-value for analytical workflows. Finally, we discuss the controversial philosophical shift occurring within software engineering, particularly the tension between the "Don't Repeat Yourself" principle and "Locality of Behavior".
💡 Notable Links:
* ✨ Episode: Semantic Search
* ✨ Episode: Formal Verification
* ✨ Episode: Subjective Model Embeddings
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Article: I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days
* Mark - Hotel Room Exercise: Burpies
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We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word "quality." This time we are asking the age-old question: Who needs testers anyway? Pia and Warren discuss how to dismantle the toxic culture of isolated quality assurance.
We explore how the ghosts of waterfall development still haunt modern teams, creating silos where developers blindly throw unverified code over the wall and expect a separate QA department to magically inject quality. Included is the inevitable discussion on the psychological safety of hiding behind narrow job titles and why refusing to take collective ownership of a product is a guaranteed recipe for architectural failure.
Of course we can't adoiv commenting on the terrifying reality of replacing human intuition with automated hype. Pia shares a case study of a scale-up that aggressively pivoted to "full steam AI development," intentionally excluding both their Product Owner and QA from the entire experiment. Predictably, it did not end well, but we were able to laugh at the painful irony that an AI-accelerated project scheduled for four weeks ended up taking eight weeks, proving that simply generating code without human oversight just creates more sophisticated bottlenecks.
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Wason Selection Task on The Rest Is Science
* Pia - Book: The Culture Map
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We talk with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo about Semantic Web origins, dodging DDoS attacks, and the absolute horror of a database that randomly deletes its own files. He revisits how a 25-year-old master's thesis on the Semantic Web evolved into a massive spreadsheet-driven database builder. It's the one better Airtable alternative.
Rather than forcing non-technical users into complex two-layer SQL architectures, Ragic utilizes a highly flexible, graph-based data model. Achieving this performance meant abandoning traditional ORMs to build a custom graph indexing engine on top of Berkeley DB, a key-value store. This custom implementation came with brutal growing pains, including a terrifying bug that would randomly delete the wrong data files. To survive, Ragic's team shares with us just exactly how they had to hijack the internal implementation to avoid these sorts of problems.
When we get down to it, we review how they dealt with critical DDoS against their cloud providers, how they performed a cloud migration in just one weekend, and how they manage thousands of tenants on shared infrastructure.
💡 Notable Links:
* Berkeley DB
* ✨ Episode: Differences between single and multi-tenant architectures
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - DevOps Days conferences
* Jeff - Taroko National Park Taiwan
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Developers spend more than 50% of their time reading code, making it the single largest expense in software engineering. Despite this massive cost, the industry rarely discusses or optimizes how we read code. So we've brought in Tudor Girba, CEO at Feenk to help us rethink, just how software engineering should be done. Instead of relying on manual reading and generic text editors, teams must shift toward building deterministic, contextual tools to directly extract information and answer questions about their systems.
The suggested solution? Contextual and composable micro-tools writen by everyone focused on exposing just the right information at the right time. This creates the opportunity for structural interrogation of your solution.
And how many tools should we? We'll if one example of tool is testing, and 50% or more of your code can be tests, imagine what percentage of your software should be actually production related!
Most importantly, generic tools fall short, but where can we find how to build the right tools, listen in to find out....
💡 Notable Links:
* ✨ Episode: IDE & Copilot & Critical Thinking
* Book: Moldable software development
* Wardley Map
* Guest Request: Formal Verification
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - The real stuff: Underwood Ranches Sriracha
* Tudor - The beaches of Normandy
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Welcome back to another hopefully, relief from architectural existential dread. This week, we've pulled in Seth Eliot from Arpio, (Ar-Pi-O, RPO, get it?), to dive headfirst into the beautiful, deeply expensive illusion that migrating your legacy infrastructure to a major hyperscaler magically grants it instant immortality. It doesn't. We break down the shared responsibility model for resilience, which was conveniently cribbed straight from the security model, and analyze how the foundational promise of automated fault isolation boundaries routinely crumbles.
From cloud providers sticking multiple "independent" availability zones inside the exact same physical building, to multi-AZ cascading anomalies, to regional power grid failures, it's clear your provider's abstractions aren't nearly as resilient as their marketing slides suggest.
Discussed within is the "Thundering Herd" phenomenon, that can't be ignored even when the failover clusters are designed correctly. From cross-organization KMS re-encryption loops to the horror of fragmented application logs across CloudFront edge regions, at the end of the day, true resilience isn't achieved by forcing your engineering team to implement features, it's about architecting your baseline, confidentiality for the inevitability of production burning to the ground.
💡 Notable Links:
* ✨ Episode: Eat your security vegetables
* ✨ Episode: Matt vibecodes
* ✨ Episode: on DNS and isolation
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: Moldable software development
* Seth - Lockpick set
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This week's adventure tackles the absolute absurdity of modern enterprise infrastructure, where a single company can easily find itself running multiple different CI/CD platforms due to unchecked mergers and acquisitions. We've brought in Chris Farris, AWS Security Hero and consults with companies via Securosis. And dig deep to find the security cracks and philosophize about the real world impacts of tech debt in the AI age.
Management rarely prioritizes standardization, leaving security teams to defend a chaotic swamp of mixed cloud providers, GitHub repositories, and nostalgic on-prem Bitbucket instances. We define this accumulated technical debt not as some abstract concept, but as literal potholes on the infrastructure Autobahn—annoying speed bumps that permanently damage velocity and set organizations up for an inevitable disaster. We contrast this with the evolution from old-school sysadmins cutting their fingers on rack screws to modern engineers spinning up entire architectures with a few lines of code, noting that the ease of deployment has far outpaced our willingness to clean up our own mess.
The crisis is only accelerating now that the cost of writing code (but not having to maintain it) is rapidly approaching zero. While letting an AI agent autonomously build a website or manipulate an AWS sandbox over a single Saturday afternoon sounds magical, it creates a terrifying volume of unreviewed, context-devoid software. Compounding this systemic frailty, massive cloud provider layoffs mean the crucial institutional memory and human operational experience required to survive are walking right out the door. We expose the fundamental flaw of modern agentic tooling: they completely lack fine-grained access control, operating on a dangerous all-or-nothing identity model. Until autonomous agents are engineered with actual conscience, consequence, and common sense, security teams will continue fighting a losing battle against a digital supply chain.
💡 Notable Links:
* Chris' Article on AI Tech Debt
* Breaking Open Source: Malus - Article
* Vercel Security Incident
* ✨ Episode:
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Rick & Morty S02 + S03
* Chris - Risky Business: The latest actually good cybersecurity news
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We grabbed Donald Nguyen, co-founder and CTO at Corvic, to discuss the absurd complexities of enterprise data and multimodal inference. We explore how organizations habitually hoard mountains of useless, "dead" data just out of the sheer fantascy that someone might ask for it later. We highlight the fundamental disconnect where data collectors using tools like Airbyte and Kafka speak a completely different language than the business consumers analyzing it in Excel.
True scale isn't just about managing petabytes; it's the absolute nightmare of extracting subjective business meaning from flat PDFs and invoices. In the deep-end of vector embeddings, we're challenging translating data into a different semantic universe requires imposing a heavy business bias. Auditors and artists will view the exact same invoice completely differently, meaning your embedding model selection is incredibly subjective to the business context.
The industry's desperate search for actual AI success stories beyond basic workflow automation is still ongoing as we laugh—and cry—at the reality that companies are likely budgeting 50% of an engineer's salary for LLM token usage, effectively enabling product managers to burn cash on infinite loops to generate prototype code. Reasonable or unreasonable?
And lastly, we tackle the existential dread of securing autonomous AI agents. Because fine-grained access control for agent actions is basically an unsolved fantasy, we must treat their execution environments as entirely untrusted, relying on rigid sandboxes like AWS Firecracker VMs. Prompt injection attacks are an inevitable flaw of the transformer architecture, and the industry's best defense mechanism seems to be wrapping models inside of other models to validate the outputs. It is quite literally turtles all the way down, and the winner of enterprise security is simply the organization that manages to put one more turtle ahead of the attackers.
💡 Notable Links:
* Kuuk Thaayorre Aboriginal Tribe - Cardinal Directions
* ✨ Episode: Generating automatic integrations at scale
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Dr. NEMO: Clockwise circle pit
* Donald - Book: InvestiGators
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Down to business with GitHub's Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, where we try to untangle the existential dread of modern software development. It includes the sheer absurdity of managing a platform that officially crossed the one billion commit mark in 2025. Currently absorbing a completely unreasonable 275 million commits per week, GitHub's technical debt is naturally showing its age under the weight of AI agents aggressively creating pull requests. And with company's own copilot advocating for more, we explore the daily reality of being the internet's punching bag during an outage, and how the "Tiny Wins" buy back developer affection by still shipping the critical features.
Which of course is a small signal in the sea of the industry's collective identity crisis: vibe coding and the valley of AI-generated garbage. Discussed is one suggested solution of strongly typed languages which are skyrocketing in popularity because we desperately need rigid guardrails to babysit the hallucinated code our non-human agents are frantically pushing to production. Things have gotten so dire that we commiserate on missing the good old days of Stack Overflow, where instead of a chatbot agreeably telling you your terrible idea is great, a grumpy human engineer would just ruthlessly roast your architecture honestly.
💡 Notable Links:
* Cassidy's post on Typed Language
* Fermat's Last Theorem
* Cassidy's newsletter
* Book: 4-Hour Work Week
* ✨ Episode: Typed Languages
* ✨ Episode: Vibecoding
* ✨ Episode: Productivity Isn't Real
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: The Light Eaters
* Cassidy - Obsidian Offline Wiki
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Founder of Bespinian and long-time cloud solutions architect, Lena Fuhrimann, sits down with us to clarify the widespread confusion around serverless architecture. We discuss how serverless is often incorrectly equated solely with Function as a Service (FaaS), when it actually represents a broader spectrum on the abstraction ladder—including managed AI inference, container platforms, and databases.
Lena shares her early career traps of building a fragmented landscape of sixty "nano-services" and explains why starting with a well-architected monolith and progressively breaking out microservices based on distinct resource or lifecycle requirements is a much saner approach. Then we shift to drivers behind cloud migrations, emphasizing that the primary financial benefit of serverless isn't necessarily shrinking the monthly cloud provider bill, but rather optimizing your most expensive resource: engineering time. By offloading mundane infrastructure patching to the cloud provider, teams can focus entirely on delivering tangible business value to customers. But cost is still there too.
We also explore the psychological challenges of adopting new paradigms, sharing a fascinating story of bridging the gap for a VM-loving engineer by introducing immutable infrastructure concepts through Packer and Ansible before fully transitioning them to containers. And of course we tackle the dreaded topic of "cold starts" and why complex workarounds—like building custom Lambda warmers to periodically call APIs—often defeat the core benefits of reduced total cost of ownership.
💡 Notable Links:
* Bespinian
* Book: Drive — Motivation 3.0
* ✨ Episode: Typed Languages, Haskell, and building monoliths
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Better thank coffee: Himmelstau tea
* Lena - Home Assistant open source project and Awtrix Clocks
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We sit down with Ian Duncan, senior staff engineer on the stability team at Mercury, to discuss the delicate balance of choosing your tech stack and the implications. That means explore the concept of the novelty budget or frequently known as "Choose Boring Technology". It emphasizes why companies should carefully spend their innovation tokens on things that actually move the needle, rather than reinventing the wheel.
Mercury leverages simple technology like Postgres and EC2 instances alongside high-innovation bets like Haskell and Nix to maintain stability. The conversation unpacks the hidden complexities of over-relying on standard tools, sharing a cautionary tale about using a Postgres table as a massive queuing system until it consumed all the database resources and caused login failures. To solve architectural scaling without descending into nanoservice madness, we jump to discussing monolithic build systems. By leveraging hermetically sealed, modular build targets, teams can achieve massive parallelism and avoid endless local rebuilds while maintaining a single coherent view of the codebase.
We also advocate for separating management tools from primary systems by utilizing dedicated control planes, and touch on the rising popularity of durable execution frameworks like Temporal to handle resilient workflows. And it turns out Ian might be a bigger advocate of microservices that he thought!
💡 Notable Links:
* Ian's blog
* Book: Blah Blah Blah
* Using Innovation Tokens
* Novelty budget
* Buck2
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
* Ian - Band - Gloryhammer
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We explore the past and AI-driven future of Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Posse's Erik Osterman, discussing various IaC traumas. Erik maintains the world's largest repository of open-source IaC modules. Looking back at the dark ages of infrastructure, from the early days of raw CloudFormation and Capistrano to the rise and fall of tools like Puppet and Chef, we discuss the organic, messy growth of cloud environments. Where organizations frequently scale a single AWS account into a tangled web rather than adopting a robust multi-account architecture guided by a proper framework.
The conversation then shifts to the modern era of rapid integration of infrastructure development. While generating IaC with large language models can be incredibly fast, it introduces severe risks if left unchecked, and we explore how organizations can protect themselves by relying on Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) and predefined "skills". The hopeful goal of ensuring autonomous deployments are compliant, reproducible, and secure instead of relying on hallucinated architecture.
Finally, we tackle the compounding issue of code review in an age where developers can produce a year's worth of engineering ~~slop~~ progress in a single week.
💡 Notable Links:
* Atmos framework
* Checkov - IaC Validation
* Code Rabbit
* ✨ Episode: Agent Skills
* ✨ Episode: All about MCPs
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Project Hail Mary
* Erik - Everybody's free to wear sunscreen & Book: The 10X Rule
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We sit down with Jaikumar Ganesh, Head of Engineering at AnyScale, to explore the intricacies of heterogeneous compute. He unpacks the growing CPU/GPU divide, detailing how ML pipelines require precise orchestration — using CPUs for data reading and writing while leveraging expensive, massive-die GPUs for chunking and embedding.
Warren brings the insight that, with AI agents rapidly changing how software is created, building is now a requirement of the business-focused team. And our guest shares how sales and marketing departments are increasingly using tools like Cursor and Claude to develop their own workflow automations. We discuss the challenges that this shift begs: what is engineering really doing for us?
JK emphasizes that the core responsibility of the engineering organization is reliability. While anyone can generate code, running stable production software requires the deep "battle scars", robust observability, and meticulous release processes that only a dedicated engineering team can provide.
That results in needing to find the right talent. But, finding the talent to maintain this critical infrastructure isn't easy, which is why JK advocates for highly creative hiring strategies. He shares incredible success stories of bypassing traditional recruiting by running hiring ads in foreign-language movies at local movie theaters and setting up booths at social food festivals to find uniquely qualified candidates.
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Archer's Don't Fire Volleys
* JK - Book: The Explorer's Gene
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In this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern infrastructure. We examine how cloud platforms like Azure function as "building blocks". Which of course, can quickly become overwhelming without the right instruction manuals. To bridge this gap, one potential solution we discuss is the emerging reliance on AI "skills"—specialized markdown files. They can give coding agents the exact knowledge needed to deploy poorly documented complex open-source projects to container apps without requiring deep infrastructure expertise.
And we are saying the silent part outloud, as we review how handing the keys over to autonomous agents introduces terrifying new attack vectors. It's the security nightmare of prompt injections and the careless execution of unvetted AI skills. Which is a blast from the past, and we reminisce how current downloading of random agent instructions to running untrusted executables from early internet sites. While tools like OpenClaw purport to offer incredible automation, such as allowing agents to scour the internet and execute code without human oversight, it's already led us to disastrous leaks of API keys. We emphasize the critical necessity of validating skills through trusted repositories where even having agents perform security reviews on the code before execution is not enough.
Finally, we tackle the philosophical debate around AI productivity and why Dorota's LLMs raise the floor and not the ceiling is so spot on. The standout pick requires mentioning, a fascinating 1983 paper titled "Ironies of Automation" by Lisanne Bainbridge. This paper perfectly predicts our current dilemma: automating systems often leaves the most complex, difficult tasks to human operators, proving that as automation scales, the need for rigorous human monitoring actually increases, destroying the very value that was attempting to be captured by the original innovation.
💡 Notable Links:
* Agent Skill Marketplace
* AI Fatigue is real
* Episode: Does Productivity even exist?
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Paper: Ironies of Automation (& AI)
* Dan - Tool: SkillShare
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How much do you really know about the protocol that everything is built upon? This week, we go behind the scenes with Simone Carletti, a 13-year industry veteran and CTO at DNSimple, to explore the hidden complexities of DNS. We attempt to uncover why exactly DNS is often the last place developers check during an outage, drawing fascinating parallels between modern web framework abstractions and network-level opaqueness.
Simone shares why his team relies on bare-metal machines instead of cloud providers to run their Erlang-based authoritative name servers, highlighting the critical need to control BGP routing. We trade incredible war stories, from Facebook locking themselves out of their own data centers due to a BGP error, to a massive 2014 DDoS attack that left DNSimple unable to access their own log aggregation service. The conversation also tackles the reality of implementing new standards like SVCB and HTTPS records, and why widespread DNSSEC adoption might require an industry-wide mandate.
And of course we have the picks, but I'm not spoiling this weeks, just yet...
💡 Notable Links:
* Episode: IPv6
* SVCB + HTTPS DNS Resource Records RFC 9460
* Avian Carrier RFC 1149
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: One Second After
* Simone - Recommended diving locations in Italy and Wreck diving projects
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We are joined by Daan Boerlage, CTO at Mavexa as we tackle the long-awaited arrival of IPv6 in cloud infrastructure. Here, we highlight how migrating to an IPv6-native setup eliminates public/private subnet complexity and expensive NAT gateways natively. As well as entirely sidestepping the nightmare of IP collisions during VPC peering.
Beyond the financial savings of ditching IPv4 charges, we explore the technical superiority of IPv6. Daan breaks down just how mind-bogglingly large the address space is, and focuses on how it solves serverless IP exhaustion while systematically debunking the pervasive myth that NAT is a security feature. We also discuss how IPv6's end-to-end connectivity, paving the way for next-generation protocols like QUIC, HTTP/3, and WebTransport.
The episode rounds out with a cathartic venting session about legacy architecture, detailing a grueling nine-year migration away from a central shared database that ironically culminated in a move to Salesforce. Almost by design, Daan recommends his pick, praising its intuitive use of signals and fine-grained reactivity over React. And Warren's pick explores storing data in the internet itself by leveraging the dwell time of ICMP ping packets.
💡 Notable Links:
* FOSDEM talk on the internet of threads
* Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Harder Drive: what we didn't want or need
* Daan - SolidJS
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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 "guess-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.
💡 Notable Links:
* Oatmeal on hating AI Art
* Episode: DORA 2025 Report
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: Start With Why
* Matt - Book: Creativity, Inc.
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* Diátaxis - Who is article this for?
* Fern - Docs Platform
* CloudFlare - Feature Flag causes outage
* AWS - Graceful degredation
* Building for 5 nines reliability
* Episode: Latency is always more important than freshness
* Episode: DORA 2025 Report
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Show: Bosch - LA Detective procedural
* Melinda - Wavelength - Party Game
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* DevOps Episode: DORA 2025 Report
* Research: Happy software developers solve problems better
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: The Culture Map
* Dorota - GEOMETRICAL Pocket tripod
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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.
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - The North Face Hedgehog Gore-tex Hiking Shoes
* Paul - The Code Book
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* AI as an amplifier truism fallacy
* DORA 2025 Report
* DevOps Episode: VS Code & GitHub Copilot
* Where is the deluge of new software - Impact of AI on software products
* Impact of AI on Critical Thinking
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - The Maximum Effective Context Window
* Dorota - Mushroom Grow Kit
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* HSMs + TPM in production environments
* Get involved: FedCM W3C WG
* The FedCM spec GitHub repo
* TPAC Browser Conference
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Book: The Platform Revolution
* Sam - The 7 Laws of Identity and Short Story: The Egg By Andy Weir
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* Ladder of Leadership - Book: Turn the Ship Around!
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Growth.Design Case Studies
* Elise - Paper on Generative UI: LLMs are Effective UI Generators
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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.
💡 Notable Links:
* DevOps Episode: We read code
* DevOps Episode: Dynamic PRs from incidents
* OpenRewrite
* Larger Context Windows are not better
🎯 Picks:
* Warren - Dell XPS 13 9380
* Olga - Claude Code
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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?"
Notable Facts
* Impact of AI on Critical Thinking paper
* LLMs raise the floor not the ceiling
* DevOps Episode: How far along with AI are we?
Picks:
* Warren - Shokz OpenFit 2
* John - Run Disney
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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.
Notable Facts
* Cloud Secrets management at scale
* Episode: Solving Time Travel in RAG Databases
* Episode: Does RAG Replace keyword search?
Picks:
* Warren - Anker Adpatable Wall-Charger - PowerPort Atom III
* Lawrence - Rocktopus & The Checklist Manifesto
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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.
Notable Facts
* Adam's book: IT Dictionary
* Knight Capital: the 45 minute nightmare
* Work Chronicles Comic: Will my architecture work for 1 Million users?
Picks:
* Warren - Cuitisan CANDL storage containers
* Adam - FUBAR
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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.
Notable Facts
* Episode: MCP: The Model Context Protocol and Agent Interactions
* Crossing the Chasm
Picks:
* Warren - HanCenDa USB C Magnetic adapter
* Jenna - Keychron Alice Layout Mechanical keyboard
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.
Notable Facts
* Fact - The $1M hidden Kubernetes spend
* Giraffe and Medical Ruler training data bias
* SOLID principles don't produce better code?
* Veritasium - The Hole at the Bottom of Math
* Episode: Auth Showdown on backwards compatible changes
Picks:
* Warren - Switzerland Grocery Store Chocolate
* Andrew - Trek E-Bikes
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.
Notable Links
* Fact - Passkeys: Phishing on Google's own domain and It isn't even new
* Episode: All About OTEL
* Episode: Self Healing Systems
Picks:
* Warren - The Shadow (1994 film)
* Ang - Xreal Pro AR Glasses
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 early 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.
Notable Links
* Veritasium - the Math that predicts everything
* Fact - Don't outsource your customer support: Clorox sues Cognizant
* CloudFlare uses an LLM to generate an OAuth2 Library
Picks:
* Warren - Rands Leadership Community
* Meagan - The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
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.
Picks
* Warren - Lions and Dolphins cannot make babies
* Aimee - The Equip Protein Powder and Protein Bar
* Yasmin - Bone Broth drink by 1990 Snacks
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.
Picks
* Warren - Scarpa Hiking shoes - Planet Mojito Suade
* Aimee - Peloton Tread
* Brian - Searchcraft and Fight or Flight
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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.
Links:
* Comparison: Linux versus E. coli
Picks
* Warren - Surveys are great, and also fill in the Podcast Survey
* Will - Katana.network
* Omer - Mobland and JJ (Jujutsu)
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.
Picks* 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
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.
Picks:* The Adventures In DevOps: Survey * Warren: The Magicians by Lev Grossman * Gil: Constant Escapement in Watchmaking * Will: Dungeon Crawler Carl & Atmos Clock
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.
Picks* The Adventures In DevOps: Survey * Warren: Jetlag: The Game * Nathan: Money Heist (La Casa de Papel)
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.
Picks
* The Adventures In DevOps: Survey
* Warren: The Non-Computability of Intuition
* Will: The Arc Browser
* Inna: Healthy GenAI skepticism
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
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
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
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.
In this episode of DevOps 238, we sat down with Zach Lloyd to dive into what’s really happening in the world of modern DevOps—from automation and AI to scaling systems and maintaining team culture in fast-paced environments.
We talked about the evolving role of DevOps engineers, the shift toward platform engineering, and why tool sprawl is becoming a bigger issue than ever. Zach shared some powerful real-world lessons on implementing CI/CD pipelines, avoiding burnout in high-pressure environments, and how teams can stay aligned without drowning in Slack notifications or endless dashboards.
One of our favorite takeaways? The idea that simplicity and communication still beat out fancy tooling—every time. We also touched on emerging trends like AI-assisted deployments, observability, and what DevOps might look like in 2026 and beyond.
If you’re navigating legacy systems, scaling rapidly, or just trying to keep your team sane and productive, this episode’s packed with insights you won’t want to miss.
- Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book)
- Dabble of DevOps AI Data Discovery Tool
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking (Research Paper)
- Granola AI Meeting Notes
- A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages (Book)
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.
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.
Picks:
* DevOps Days Zurich - Systems Thinking at Authress
* Dabble of DevOps AI Data Discovery Tool
* Dungeon Crawler Carl
* Shear Comfort Seat Covers
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
Hosts Warren Parad and David Kimura 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.
In this engaging episode of Top End Devs, join host Warren Parad, co-host Jillian, and interviewer Will Button as they delve into a compelling conversation on the pervasive influence of AI across industries. Special guest Alex Kearns from UberTask Consulting 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.
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Welcome to another exciting episode of Top End Devs! 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!
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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.
Links
* DevSecOps: An open source story
* LinkedIn: Will Kelly
* Twitter: Will Kelly ( @willkelly )
Picks
* Charles- PodcastBootcamp.io
* Charles- JavaScript Picks
* Charles- Ready Player Two
* Charles- Masters of Doom
* Charles- Leviathan Wakes
* Will Button- Office Space
* Will Button- Joe Rogan Experience #1428 - Brian Greene
* Will Kelly- The Wire
* Will Kelly- Ted Lasso
* Will Kelly- Opensource
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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 - Airflow and Strapi * Jillian - Non-techy: Harriet the Hamster Princess * Will - Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
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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!
Socials
* LinkedIn: Vernon Keenan
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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
* Why you need to use Kubernetes schema validation tools
* A Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Schema Validation
* Datree.io
* Eyar Zilberman - DEV Community
* LinkedIn: Eyar Zilberman
* Twitter: Eyar Zilberman ( @eyarzilb )
Picks
* Jillian- GitHub | cloudposse/terraform-example-module
* Jonathan- Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
* Will- Paperlike
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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
* datree.io
* Twitter: Shimon Tolts ( @shimontolts )
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
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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!
Socials
* LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
* LinkedIn: Warren Parad
* LinkedIn: Will Button
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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
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
* LinkedIn: Warren Parad
* LinkedIn: Will Button
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
* LinkedIn: Will Button
* LinkedIn: Warren Parad
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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
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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
Socials
* LinkedIn: Ben Johnson
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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.
Links
* Adventures in DevOps - Devchat.tv
* Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
* Devchat.tv | JSJ 357: Event-Stream & Package Vulnerabilities with Richard Feldman and Hillel Wayne
* Malicious code found in npm package event-stream downloaded 8 million times in the past 2.5 months
* GitHub | The Node Security Platform
Picks
* Caleb- Have a plan to mitigate damage if someone is able to get inside your network. Don’t just secure the public side of your technical infrastructure, make sure your internal security as just as strong as your external security.
* Charles- Dev Heroes Accelerator | Devchat.tv
* Charles- The Umbrella Academy | Netflix
* Charles- Personal Retreat
* Jeffrey- Asset management: Know and document where all of your digital assets reside. Whether servers, VMs, EC2 instances, and all of your structured and unstructured data.
* Jeffrey- You can’t secure what you don’t know about
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Warren Parad
* LinkedIn: Will Button
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Warren Parad
* LinkedIn: Will Button
Picks
* Will - Half-Life: Alyx
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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
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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
Socials
* LinkedIn: Eyal Solomon
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Görkem Ercan
* Gorkem Ercan
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Markus Thurner
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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
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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!
Socials
* LinkedIn: Anthony Spiteri
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: Michael Cade
* Michael Cade
* GitHub: @MichaelCade
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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!
Socials
* LinkedIn: Elad Ben-Israel
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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.
Socials
* LinkedIn: David Stenglein
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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!
Socials
* LinkedIn: Michael Zuercher
* prismatic.io/
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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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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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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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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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* LinkedIn: Costa Tsaousis
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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* LinkedIn: Andreas Grabner
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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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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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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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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.
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Links* Infrastructure as Code: Principles, Patterns, and Practices * zLifecycle * Conference Talk: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Effective Infrastructure as Code * Talk Abstract: From Infrastructure as Code to Environment as Code: Challenges scaling IaC and how to resolve them * Challenges scaling Infrastructure as Code * CompuZest * LinkedIn: Adarsh Shah * Twitter: Adarsh Shah ( @shahadarsh )
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Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
1. Having a public profile
2. Listing your projects on your resume
3. Sharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities
4. Knowledge options
5. Leveraging social media
6. Stack Overflow
7. Soft skills
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Links* Dagster * GitHub: Dagster
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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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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.
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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 YouTube
What You Should Know About ChatGPT - DevOps 163
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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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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.
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Bruce A. Tate is a Founder at Groxio, Elixir Expert, and a Technical Author. He joins the show alongside Charles Max Wood to talk about his book, "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks". He also delves into some of the preparations and anticipations that come with reading the book.
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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.
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- Johnny - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- Jonathan - Safety Razor 34C
- Will - Polygon zkEVM
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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.
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- Jonathan - The Book
- Omer - No Rules Rules
- Omer - Introducing Whisper
- Will - Born to Run
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Jason Weimann is a Developer and Instructor. He returns to the show with Chuck to talk about video game creation. He shares his experiences as a developer and dives into his courses wherein he gives beginners and aspiring developers a walk-through of the world of creating games.
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Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction.
On YouTube
How Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS
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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 YouTube
Stream Processing with Chris Cooney - DevOps 157
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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.
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- Porkbun.com | DevOps
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- Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership
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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.
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- Porkbun.com | DevOps
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- Benjamin - Atomic Habits
- Jonathan - Cup o' Go
- Will - We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
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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.
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- Jonathan - For the Love of Go (2023) — Bitfield Consulting
- Max - GPT Friends
- Will - Gingerdead Man vs Evil Bong
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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.
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- Dori - The Way of Zen
- Jonathan - The Man Who Broke Capitalism
- Will - Half-Life: Alyx on Steam
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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.
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- Jonathan - RESTful Web APIs
- Will - All Austin Powers Movies - IMDb
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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
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- Chuck's Resume Template
- Developer Book Club starting
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- Lessons Learned From Running Serverless In Production For 5 Years
- LinkedIn: Erez Berkner
- Twitter: @erezberkner
Picks
- Erez - The Godfather (1972) - IMDb
- Jonathan - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
- Jonathan - Cup o' Go
- Will - Therabody | World-Leading Wellness Solutions
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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.
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- Jonathan - Boldly Go
- Will - Best Note Taking App
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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
Sponsors
- Chuck's Resume Template
- Developer Book Club starting
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Links
- There Is No Such Thing as a DevOps Engineer | by Davin | Nov, 2022 | Medium
- No one should write Terraform. Reflecting upon zwischenzugs insightful… | by Leon Wright | Medium
- Pulumi
- Serverless: Develop & Monitor Apps On AWS Lambda
- Atlantis
- LinkedIn: Omer Hamerman
- OMER HAMERMAN
- GitHub: techman83
- Techman83's Blog
- Twitter: @0merxx
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- Omer - Cloud Native Buildpacks
- Will - My Book "THE METAVERSE"
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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.
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- Chuck's Resume Template
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Links
- Arnica | Software supply chain security on autopilot
- Nir Valtman
- Twitter: @ValtmaNir
- LinkedIn: Nir Valtman
Picks
- Jonathan - George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
- Nir - Good to Great
- Will - Leadership Strategy and Tactics
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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
Sponsors
- Chuck's Resume Template
- Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
- Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership
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- Jillian - Dabble of DevOps
- Jillian - Wings of Fire
- Jonathan - A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
- Jonathan - #0063 - Jonathan Hall - implementing continuous delivery
- Warren - Dark Matter
- Warren - The Formula
- Will - A Christmas Horror Story (2015) - IMDb
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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.
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- Jillian - Spack - Spack
- Jillian - Sinister Magic
- Jonathan - Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value
- Jonathan - Tiny DevOps episode #50 Jonny Williams — What is Delivery Management?
- Will - Yubico | YubiKey Strong Two Factor Authentication
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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.
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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
Sponsors
- Chuck's Resume Template
- Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
- Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership
Links
- Scheduled vs. Event-driven Data Pipelines — Orchestrate Anything with Prefect
- prefect.io
- Medium: Anna Geller
- LinkedIn: Anna Geller
- Twitter: @anna\_\_geller
- Prefect Community | Slack
Picks
- Anna - Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) - IMDb
- Anna - Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - IMDb
- Jillian - American Thanksgiving
- Jillian - prefect.io
- Jillian - Watch The Dragon Prince | Netflix Official Site
- Jonathan - transistor.fm
- Jonathan - Jonathan Hall / Transistor.fm Go SDK · GitLab
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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.
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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
Sponsors* Chuck's Resume Template * Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin * Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership
Picks* Jonathan -Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 * Jonathan - Finite and Infinite Games * Will - asana * Will - Bearmax Massage Gun
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Focus Blocks Bundle" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis. Mani has read 1,000's of productivity books over the last several years and has formulated a methodology for getting more done, but found that he lacked the discipline to follow through on his plans. The he found the one thing that kept him on track and made him so productive that he is now getting all of his work done and was able to live the life he wants. Chuck also weighs in on how Mani's technique has worked for him and allows him to spend more time with his wife and kids, run a podcast network, and a nearly full time contract. Join the episode to learn how Chuck and Mani get into a regular flow state with their work and consistently deliver at work.
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.
Topics Discussed* 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
Sponsors* Chuck's Resume Template * Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin * Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership
Picks* Jillian - Standing Desks * Will - LOOBANI Dog Paw Protector
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.
Sponsors* Top End Devs
* Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks* Jillian- His Dark Materials | Official Website for the HBO Series * Jonathan - Commitment: Novel about Managing Project Risk * Jonathan - Star Trek: Lower Decks (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb
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
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Picks* Jonathan- Transistor.fm * Will- DevOps For Developers * Will- Account Factory for Terraform
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 companySponsors* Top End Devs
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PicksWill* Max Headroom * Warp.dev * The Network State | Balaji Srinivasan
Jonathan* A World Without Email | Cal Newport * Podcast - Cal Newport
Vince* Do The Hard Things First | Scott Allen * What If | Randall Munroe
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* LinkedIn: Connor Hicks
Picks* Connor- Arm VMs on Compute | Compute Engine Documentation | Google Cloud * Jonathan– Boldly Go * Jonathan– 14-inch IPS HD computer monitor * Will– Crypto Steel Wallet
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* GitHub - helm/helm: The Kubernetes Package Manager * Open Source Summit 2022: Keynote, Finicky Whiskers, and a Pizza Party | Fermyon Technologies (@FermyonTech) * How to Think About WebAssembly (Amid the Hype) | Fermyon Technologies (@FermyonTech) * Fermyon Technologies * LinkedIn: Matt Butcher * Twitter: @technosophos
Picks* Jonathan- Boldly Go * Matthew - Tiny Go * Matthew- Notion - One workspace. Every team. * Will- Cryptonomicon * Will- Fairy Tale
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Lumigo - Serverless Monitoring and Troubleshooting Platform * Monitoring Cloud Native Microservices - Lumigo * LinkedIn: Aviad Mor * Twitter: @AviadMor
Picks* Aviad- Islands in the Stream * Jonathan- A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Why WebAssembly Belongs Outside the Browser * Cloud Native Wasm Day North America | Linux Foundation Events * WebAssembly Components and wasmCloud Actors: A Glimpse of the Future * GitHub: thomastaylor312 * Twitter: @_oftaylor
Picks* Jonathan- This Is Your Mind on Plants * Taylor- Star Trek: Lower Decks (Official Site) Watch on Paramount Plus * Will- THINKERS Notebook - Transform your ideas from paper to the cloud
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Launching a DevOps to DevSecOps transformation * LinkedIn: Will Kelly * Twitter: @willkelly
Picks* Jonathan – Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure - DevOps 121 * Jonathan- What Pickles Can Do for Your Health * Will Button – Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering * Will Kelly – Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making * Will Kelly – #opentowork and available for new job opportunities
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Pulse Operations * LinkedIn: Ava Naeini
Picks* Ava- Intelligent Diagramming | Lucidchart * Jonathan- GitHub - jesseduffield/lazygit: simple terminal UI for git commands * Will- Best Portable Teleprompter for Smartphones
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* GitHub: tanmay-bhat * Twitter: @Tanmaybhat98
Picks* Jonathan- Technology Connections * Jonathan- Join the American Red Cross to Sound the Alarm. Save a Life. * Tanmay- ElectroBOOM * Will- Drive | Daniel H. Pink
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks* Jonathan – Sentry.io * Jonathan- Files · master · Jonathan Hall / Ale · GitLab * Will- The Network State: How To Start a New Country
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Pavan Belagatti - Developer Advocate - Harness | LinkedIn
Picks* Jonathan – Sentry.io * Jonathan- Agile Tour Vienna 2022 * Jonathan – Dynamic Reteaming * Pavan- Harness | The Modern Software Delivery Platform - CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs & more * Will- The Network State: How To Start a New Country * Will- Building a Second Brain
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* LinkedIn: Yishai Beeri * LinearB
Picks* Jonathan- Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams * Will- Building a Second Brain * Yishai- Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - IMDb
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks* Jillian- iD Tech | Summer Coding Camp & Online Tech Programs for Kids & Teens * Jonathan- The Timeless Way of Building * Will- ShouldeRök™
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…
1. Having a public profile
2. Listing your projects on your resume
3. Sharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities
4. Knowledge options
5. Leveraging social media
6. Stack Overflow
7. Soft skills
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks* Jonathan- Commitment - the book | Commitment - the book * Will- Building a Second Brain
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.
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams - Vercel * Jenkins * Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework
Picks* Jonathan – Agile Tour Vienna 2022 * Will- All You Zombies * Will- Pulumi - Universal Infrastructure as Code
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…1. The on-call burden 2. Alarm management 3. Escalation paths 4. Incentives for the volunteer teams 5. Deployment processes 6. Improving standards and expectations 7. Human centric vs. machine centric
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Intercom's On-Call Strategy to Avoid Engineer Burnout [2021] * 10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace) - Inside Intercom * Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe * Brian Scanlan * Twitter: @brian_scanlan * LinkedIn: Brian Scanlan
Picks* Brian- speedtapefilms * Jonathan- Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra * Will - ThirdWeb.com
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…1. DORA metrics 2. Speed and quality 3. Monoliths vs. microservices 4. Uptime and failure rates 5. Mean time to recover 6. Deployment frequencies 7. Production monitoring
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Links* Mangoteque - Get good at delivering software℠ * The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations * DevOps Solutions | Google Cloud
Picks* Dave- An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding * Jillian- Twitter: @PayGapApp * Jonathan - Toothpowder is better than toothpaste
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
Sponsors* Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks* Jonathan - (Reverse Pick) Looking for a Terraform for Drip configuration tool. Does this exist? If so, email jonathan@jhall.io. * Jillian- Appsmith | Build & self-host internal tools * Jillian - Workspaces for Mac * Jillian- Setapp | The best apps for Mac in one suite * Will- The Power of Go: Tools - Bitfield Consulting * Will - Trustified.io
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
Sponsors
- Top End Devs
- Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks
- Jonathan- 49" CHG90 QLED Gaming Monitor Monitors - LC49HG90DMNXZA
- Will- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- Will- Trustified.io
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
Sponsors
- Top End Devs
- Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
- Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks
- Jillian - AWS ParallelCluster 3
- Jillian- Data Version Control · DVC
- Jillian- Bioanalyze project
- Jonathan- Nest Cam
- Jonathan - Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
- Will- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information
- Will - Trustified.io
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 Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jillian - AWS ParallelCluster 3 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/moving-from-v2-to-v3.html) Jillian- Data Version Control · DVC (https://dvc.org/) Jillian- Bioanalyze project (http://docs.bioanalyze.io/) Jonathan- Nest Cam (https://store.google.com/product/nest_cam_indoor?pli=1&hl=en-US) Jonathan - Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912) Will- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information (https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720) Will - Trustified.io (https://trustified.io/)
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 Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jonathan - A Radical Enterprise (https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Enterprise-Pioneering-High-Performing-Organizations/dp/1950508005) Will - Let’s Go Further (https://lets-go-further.alexedwards.net/#packages) Will - Skyrim – Music and Ambience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ou1pl0XNRs)
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? Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com/) Picks Jonathan- LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NALVCmcmL5ntpV0thoH6w) Will- The Murph Challenge (https://themurphchallenge.com/)
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. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links How to program with Bash: Syntax and tools (https://opensource.com/article/19/10/programming-bash-syntax-tools) The Go Programming Language (https://go.dev/) The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org (https://www.perl.org/) Welcome to Python.org (https://www.python.org/) JavaScript.com (https://www.javascript.com/) Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/) Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/) Ruby (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/) Java | Oracle (https://www.java.com/en/) Picks Jillian- The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (https://amzn.to/3lrUtCt) Jonathan- Obviously Awesome (https://amzn.to/3Lx7aGS) Jonathan- neverworkintheory.org (https://neverworkintheory.org/) Jonathan- The Tiny DevOps Guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UfX0EgUWlcdQ2RDsq_fcA) Will- Learning Go (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-go/9781492077206/) Will- DevOps for Developers (https://devopsfordevelopers.io/)
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? Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links How did we get here? The Complex Journey to Value Stream Intelligence (https://www.allstacks.com/blog/the-journey-to-value-stream-intelligence) New Engineering Performance Industry Benchmarks — What does good look like? (https://www.allstacks.com/blog/engineering-performance-industry-benchmarks-what-does-good-look-like) Podcasts - Check out episode 37 (https://lnkd.in/dhCHF7Z) LinkedIn: Allstacks (https://www.linkedin.com/company/allstacks/) Twitter: Allstacks ( @allstacksapp ) (https://twitter.com/allstacksapp) Twitter: Adam Dahlgren ( @adamdahlgren ) (https://twitter.com/adamdahlgren) Twitter: Hersh Tapadia ( @hershtapadia ) (https://twitter.com/hershtapadia) Picks Adam- Follow influencer Geoffrey Moore (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyamoore/) Hersh- The Boys in the Boat (https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/books/the-boys-in-the-boat/) Jillian- The Social Conquest of Earth (https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Social-Conquest-of-Earth/) Will- The Workshop Survival Guide (https://www.amazon.com/Workshop-Survival-Guide-educational-workshops/dp/1071344374) Special Guests: Adam Dahlgren and Hersh Tapadia.
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. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links Evolutionary Design Without* Tests (https://pubmob.com/offerings/jbrains-evolutionary-design-without-tests/) Mastering Evolutionary Design - Jonathan Hall (https://jhall.io/archive/2021/11/16/mastering-evolutionary-design/) Twitter: Erik Tank ( @eriktank ) (https://twitter.com/erik_tank) Picks Eric- GitHub: ajeetdsouza/zoxide (https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide) Jillian- Get an elliptical for health and exercise Jillian- BookBub (https://www.bookbub.com/welcome) Jonathan- Razer Kiyo Pro Streaming Webcam (https://www.razer.com/streaming-cameras/razer-kiyo-pro) Jonathan-Jonathan Hall's Boldly Go YouTube Channel Will- Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com/) Special Guest: Erik Tank.
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. Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jonathan- Kivick CLI Tool – Jonathan created a Go Driver tool that allows you to do a replication from file system to CouchDB instance. Jonathan- How to Automate Anything (https://jhall.io/archive/2021/03/23/how-to-automate-anything/) Jillian- Dash overview (https://plotly.com/dash/) Jillian- His Dark Material Book Series (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Materials-Yearling-3-book-Boxed/dp/0440419514) Will- Open AI.com (https://openai.com/) Will- DevOps Roadmap for 2022 (https://devopsfordevelopers.io/roadmap/)
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. Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Picks Jillian- Appsmith | Build & self-host internal tools (https://www.appsmith.com/) Jonathan- A Radical Enterprise (https://amzn.to/3k4irDc) Will- Why putting a pane of glass on a pile of sh*t doesn’t solve your problem (https://platformengineering.org/blog/why-putting-a-pane-of-glass-on-a-pile-of-shit-doesnt-solve-your-problem)
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 Episode 1) 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 cracks Be a guest on the show! https://go.oncehub.com/adventuresindevops Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Picks Jillian- Data Microservices in Apache Spark using Apache Arrow Flight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9HC9y3MDA) Jillian- TALES OF ARISE | Official Website (EN) - Bandai Namco (https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tales-of/tales-of-arise) Jonathan- Kubernetes is the future of DevOps... or is it? (https://jhall.io/archive/2021/12/11/kubernetes-is-the-future-of-devops...-or-is-it/) Jonathan- Allen Edmonds: Men's Shoes | Dress, Casual, Boots & More (https://www.allenedmonds.com/) Will- The YouTube Formula by Darrel Eves (https://amzn.to/3DOwnKA)
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 Episode 1) 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 customers Links Twitter: Tonic.ai ( @tonicfakedata ) (https://twitter.com/tonicfakedata) Special Guest: Adam Kamor.
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) Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Links Shades of DevOps Roles (https://i.redd.it/3mcdo795sgh81.jpg) Picks Jillian- Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins (https://amzn.to/3wdAiyR) Jonathan- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World (https://amzn.to/3qfgrLZ) Jonathan- A Radical Enterprise (https://amzn.to/3ijt9Vn) Will- The Mom Test (https://amzn.to/3JoLHPU)
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 Episode 1) 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 Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Picks Jillian- Dash Overview (https://plotly.com/dash/) Jillian- ShinyProxy (https://www.shinyproxy.io/) Jonathan- Ozark | Netflix series (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552) Jonathan- Continuous Delivery - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/ContinuousDelivery?app=desktop) Will- DevOps Roadmap 2022 (https://devopsfordevelopers.io/roadmap/)
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 Episode 1) 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 Sponsors Tonic.ai (https://www.tonic.ai/?ref=adventuresindevops) Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Links Effective IAM for Amazon Web Services (https://www.effectiveiam.com/) Picks Jillian- Support your local book on crowd funding websites! (be gentle on your wallet) Jonathan- Will Button — The Inside Scoop on Teaching DevOps (https://podcast.jhall.io/episodes/will-button) Jonathan- Panama Hats (https://panamahats.co.uk/) Stephen- Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick (https://amzn.to/3sCticI) Stephen- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick (https://amzn.to/3sE2g4K) Will- Acuity Eyedrops Will- Effective IAM for Amazon Web Service (https://www.effectiveiam.com/) Special Guest: Stephen Kuenzli.
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 Episode 1) 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) Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links Ready, Set, Cloud! (https://www.readysetcloud.io/) Picks Allen- Wyze Noise-Cancelling Headphones (https://wyze.com/wyze-headphones.html) Jillian- Dabbleofdevops (https://www.dabbleofdevops.com/) Jonathan- Jabra Elite 75t (https://www.apac.jabra.com/bluetooth-headsets/jabra-elite-75t) Will- DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/) Will- Forest (https://www.forestapp.cc/) Will- Rob Walling — Does "DevOps" Matter to Investors? (https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tiny-devops/rob-walling-does-devops-62qWjK3egB1/) Special Guest: Allen Helton.
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 Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jillian- Wheel of Time Book Series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time) Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel (https://amzn.to/3suVTiU) Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/) Jonathan- All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie 1979) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078753/) Will- The Devil and the Blacksmith (https://www.netflix.com/watch/80239565?source=35) Will- Acuity Eyedrops
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) Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jillian- LUSH cosmetics Jillian- Airstreams and NOT cities Jillian- Kindle Jonathan- Merino wool for the BEST clothes Jonathan- Duluth Trading Company (https://www.duluthtrading.com/) Jonathan- MEI Voyager Backpack Will- Dr. Bronner's, 18-in-1 Hemp Pure-Castile Soap, Peppermint (https://shop.drbronner.com/products/peppermint-pure-castile-liquid-soap) Will- The 4-Hour Workweek (https://amzn.to/3J0n8bz) Will- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (https://amzn.to/3HtmiDS)
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 Episode Why 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) Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links The craziest interview ever - Jonathan Hall (https://jhall.io/archive/2021/08/23/the-craziest-interview-ever/) Picks Jonathan- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Debt%3A+The+First+5000+Years&qid=1643334909&s=books&sr=1-3) Jonathan- “Bad Hair Day” by Weird Al (https://amzn.to/3r649Go) Will- The Tim Ferris Podcast with Naval Ravikant and Chris Dixon (https://tim.blog/2021/10/28/chris-dixon-naval-ravikant/)
Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresdevops&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Jonathan- The Daily Commit - Jonathan Hall (https://jhall.io/daily/) Jonathan- Healthy Software Developer (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfe_znKY1ukrqlGActlFmaQ)
Jillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Picks Charles- OptOutPrescreen.com (https://www.optoutprescreen.com/) Charles- Forbidden Desert | Board Game | BoardGameGeek (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/136063/forbidden-desert) Charles- Forbidden Island | Board Game | BoardGameGeek (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island) Charles- Author | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/author) Jillian- Supabase (https://supabase.com/) Jillian- refine (https://refine.dev/) Jonathan- Bullshit Jobs (https://amzn.to/3qoeqgT) Shimon- GitHub: datreeio/datree (https://github.com/datreeio/datree) Will- DevOps For Developers (https://devopsfordevelopers.io/) Will- Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (https://amzn.to/3fkXTnw)
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 (https://airflow.apache.org/) and Strapi (https://strapi.io/) Non-techy: Harriet the Hamster Princess (https://amzn.to/3q2Ru6K) Will’s Until the End of Time by Brian Greene (https://amzn.to/339TAsn) Connect with Will and Jillian: Jillian: https://twitter.com/jillianerowe Will: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willbutton/
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 Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial (https://raygun.com/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=adventuresangular&utm_campaign=devchat&utm_content=homepage) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) PIcks Jonathan - Bugaboo Stroller (https://amzn.to/3Fm9dva) Will - Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday (https://amzn.to/3FmAopB) Special Guest: Daniele Fontani.
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He and Mani talk about the 3 primary things that add momentum to your business and help you keep the momentum up when setbacks come your way.
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Special Guest: Mani Vaya.
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
Sponsors
- Top End Devs
- Coaching | Top End Devs
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
Sponsors * Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks * Charles- Roxley Games Steampunk Rally Fusion * Charles- Xero * Charles- Stimulus * Charles- BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working * Jillian- Bioinformatics on AWS - Youtube * Jillian- Memory of Fire * Jillian- The Homeward Bounders * Jonathan- "Ship Better Code Faster" course ( Coupon Code - BLACKFRIDAY2021 ) * Jonathan- Why people believe they can’t draw - and how to prove they can | Graham Shaw | TEDxHull * Will- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant * Will- O'Keefe Music Foundation - YouTube
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He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.
He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.
The trick? Deep Work!
Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.
Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."
Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
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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
Sponsors * Top End Devs * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks * Charles- Traeger Grills® - The Original Wood Pellet Grill * Charles- Campfire * Charles- Donut * Charles- Author | Top End Devs * Charles- Shadow Hunters | Board Game | BoardGameGeek * Jillian- Strapi * Jonathan- Failure Is Not an Option * Will- Working Effectively with Legacy Code * Will- DIY DevOps Projects to build DevOps skills NOW! - YouTube
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
Sponsors * Top End Devs * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Coaching | Top End Devs
Picks * Charles- Shadow Hunters | Board Game | BoardGameGeek * Charles- Campfire * Jillian- Dragonbreath * Jillian- Bath & Body Works * Jonathan- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow * Jonathan- Lexx * Will- Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions * Will- DIY DevOps Projects to build DevOps skills NOW! - YouTube
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv
Links * Tiny DevOps
Picks * Charles- DigitalOcean * Charles- Top End Devs * Charles- Become an Author | Top End Devs * Charles- Coaching | Top End Devs * Charles- Viscounts of The West Kingdom * Jillian- WEBTOON * Jonathan- Tiny DevOps * Jonathan- HUGO * Will- The Libby App
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Level Up | Devchat.tv
Links * How to setup Kafka cluster for 15K events per second on AWS using Docker | by Abhinav Dhasmana | ITNEXT * Abhinav Dhasmana - Medium * GitHub: Abhinav Dhasmana ( abhinavdhasmana ) * Twitter: Abhinav Dhasmana ( @ADhasmana )
Picks * Abhinav Dhasmana- Twitter: Dr. Rhonda Patrick ( @foundmyfitness ) * Jillian- Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind * Jillian- Data Science Deployed * Jonathan- Lifespan * Jonathan- Veritasium - YouTube * Shimon- The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator * Shimon- GitHub | datreeio/datree * Will- The Linux Programming Interface
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Shimon:
- Shimon Tolts | AWS Community
- Twitter: Shimon Tolts ( @shimontolts )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
Special Guest: Abhinav Dhasmana.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv
Picks * Jonathan- How to learnDevOps - Jonathan Hall * Will- Until the End of Time * Will- Are Dockerfiles good enough?
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Level Up | Devchat.tv
Links * Azure Infrastructure as Code: With ARM templates and Bicep * Twitter: Erwin Staal ( @erwin_staal ) * Twitter: Henry Been ( @henry_been )
Picks * Charles- The Art of Impossible * Charles- X: Multiply Your God-Given Potential * Charles- Family Tree * Erwin- The 6-Minute Diary * Jillian- Amulet Book Series
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Shimon:
- Shimon Tolts | AWS Community
- Twitter: Shimon Tolts ( @shimontolts )
Special Guests: Erwin Staal and Henry Been.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv * PodcastBootcamp.io
Links * GitHub | gravitl/netmaker * GRAVITL * GRAVITL - YouTube * LinkedIn: GRAVITL
Picks * Alex- Norm Macdonald * Alex- ITNEXT * Charles- Tribe of Millionaires * Charles- How to Make Sh*t Happen * Charles- God and Money * Charles- Leviathan Wakes * Charles- GrooveFunnels * Charles- Riverside.fm * Jillian- Terraform Registry * Jillian- Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS - EKS * Jillian- Jupyterhub and RShiny Cluster with Autoscaling Dask on EKS * Jillian- HPC on AWS with Batch * Jillian- AWS EFS on EKS * Jillian- Bioinformatics Docker Images - Jupyterhub, RStudio and Dask * Jonathan- Commitment * Will- The Institute * Will- Mind-Reach * Will- Use docker compose to build and debug Node.js Express applications 10 minutes
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
Special Guest: Alex Feiszli.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * PodcastBootcamp.io
Links * Minimize Costs in Cloud-Based Microservices * Twitter: Troy Dreier ( @TDreier ) * Twitter: Andres Sacco ( @AdsChosen )
Picks * Andres- Microservices Patterns * Andres- Cloud Native Patterns * Charles- Masters of Doom * Charles- How to Make Sh*t Happen * Charles- The Road Back to You * Troy- 168 AWS Services in 2 minutes
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Shimon:
- Shimon Tolts | AWS Community
- Twitter: Shimon Tolts ( @shimontolts )
Special Guests: Andres Sacco and Troy Dreier.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv * PodcastBootcamp.io
Links * DevSecOps: An open source story * LinkedIn: Will Kelly * Twitter: Will Kelly ( @willkelly )
Picks * Charles- PodcastBootcamp.io * Charles- JavaScript Picks * Charles- Ready Player Two * Charles- Masters of Doom * Charles- Leviathan Wakes * Will Button- Office Space * Will Button- Joe Rogan Experience #1428 - Brian Greene * Will Kelly- The Wire * Will Kelly- Ted Lasso * Will Kelly- Opensource
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
Special Guest: Will Kelly.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * PodcastBootcamp.io
Picks * Charles- Top End Devs * Charles- PodcastBootcamp.io * Charles- Rhythm of War * Jillian- AWS and SAS * Will- Knative * Will- ShouldeRok
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv * PodcastBootcamp.io
Links * Kubernetes StatefulSet Initialization with Unique Configs per Pod * LinkedIn: Yitaek Hwang * Twitter: Yitaek Hwang ( @yitaekhwang )
Picks * Charles- Will Button * Charles- The Chosen * Charles- Top End Devs * Will- GitHub |derailed/k9s * Will- How to Negotiate a Bigger Salary Even If You've Never Negotiated Before (in tech) * Yitaek- Yitaek Hwang - Medium * Yitaek- Manifest
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Yitaek Hwang.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * PodcastBootcamp.io
Links * Why you need to use Kubernetes schema validation tools * A Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Schema Validation * Datree.io * Eyar Zilberman - DEV Community * LinkedIn: Eyar Zilberman * Twitter: Eyar Zilberman ( @eyarzilb )
Picks * Jillian- GitHub | cloudposse/terraform-example-module * Jonathan- Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games * Will- Paperlike
Contact Jillian:
- GitHub: Jillian Rowe ( jerowe )
- LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe
- Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Contact Jonathan:
- Jonathan Hall
- GitHub: Jonathan Hall ( flimzy )
- Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Eyar Zilberman.
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.
Panel * Will Button
Guest * Adarsh Shah
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Level Up | Devchat.tv
Links * Infrastructure as Code: Principles, Patterns, and Practices * zLifecycle * Conference Talk: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Effective Infrastructure as Code * Talk Abstract: From Infrastructure as Code to Environment as Code: Challenges scaling IaC and how to resolve them * Challenges scaling Infrastructure as Code * CompuZest * LinkedIn: Adarsh Shah * Twitter: Adarsh Shah ( @shahadarsh )
Picks * Adarsh- Toyota Books * Will- A Guide to the Good Life
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Adarsh Shah.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * Jonathan Hall * Twitter: Jonathan Hall ( @TinyDevOps )
Picks * Charles- Quick Spit * Charles- Devchat.tv/levelup * Jonathan- Accelerate * Jonathan- Irish Tweed Caps and Hats * Will- The DevOps Career Guide
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Jonathan Hall .
Jeffrey asked Chuck before the episode what he was planning for Devchat.tv. Chuck started answering and since the guest had answered, Chuck answers with the overall direction for Devchat.tv. If you want to join in, email chuck@devchat.tv.
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Jeffrey Groman
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Picks * Charles- Xero * Charles- Profit First * Charles- YNAB * Charles- The Prosperous Coach
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * Asynchronous Communication Is The Future For Dev Teams * DevInterrupted * Stop Telling Devs What To Do w/ Dana Lawson of GitHub - Spotify * One Metric to Rule them All: Cycle Time | Yishai Beeri CTO, LinearB - Community Tel Aviv - Q1 Meetup * WorkerB Developer Automation From LinearB * LinearB * LinkedIn: LinearB * Twitter: LinearB ( @LinearB_Inc ) * LinearB | Facebook * LinkedIn: Yishai Beeri * Twitter: Yishai Beeri ( @yishaibeeri )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Special Guest: Yishai Beeri .
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * Essential Infrastructure as Code * Scaling Infrastructure as Code to Improve Delivery & Maintain Security - YouTube * Testing HashiCorp Terraform * Workshop: Exploring Policy as Code for Cloud Infrastructure - YouTube * HashiCorp Presents at Security Field Day 5 * Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Infrastructure * LinkedIn: Rosemary Wang * GitHub: Rosemary Wang ( joatmon08 ) * Twitter: Rosemary Wang ( @joatmon08 )
Picks * Jeffrey- Eco Dual-Motor Adjustable Height Sit/Stand Desk * Rosemary- Essential Infrastructure as Code * Will- Evodesk
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Rosemary Wang.
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.
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Jeffrey Groman * Will Button
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Charles- Sea Lion Fins * Charles- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry * Charles- Atlas Shrugged * Jeffrey- Micro-Resilience * Will- The Oxygen Advantage
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
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.
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Jeffrey Groman * Will Button
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Picks * Charles- Atlas Shrugged * Will- beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro Over-Ear Studio Headphone
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
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.
He explains how to set up rules and policies that allow people to move fast without breaking things and without getting in the way.
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Jeffrey Groman * Will Button
Guest * Shimon Tolts
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * datree.io * Twitter: Shimon Tolts ( @shimontolts )
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 * Will- Daily Stoic
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Shimon Tolts.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * The History of Software Infrastructure - YouTube * Dynamically Changing the Memory Layout of a Rust Unikernel in Google Cloud on every HTTP Request - YouTube * From the Ground Up: How We Built the Nanos Unikernel - Will Jhun, NanoVMs, Inc. * DEVSECOPS Talks #29 -Unikernels are here * NanoVMs Let You Run Your Apps Faster and Safer with Unikernels * Nanos * NanoVMS * Twitter: NanoVMs ( @nanovms ) * LinkedIn: Ian Eyberg
Picks * Charles- Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil * Charles- Harbor Freight Tools * Charles- Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words * Ian- Closer to Truth * Jeffrey- Oscillating Power Tools * Will- Kettlebell
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Ian Eyberg.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * Bioinformatics Solutions on AWS * LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe * Twitter: Jillian Rowe ( @jillianerowe )
Picks * Charles- Psycho-Cybernetics * Charles- 2,4-D Herbicide * Jeffrey- WEN * Jillian- Being Outside * Will- Increment: Containers
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Jillian Rowe.
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Jeffrey- Bell Forest * Will- Never Split the Difference
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * How I Conquer My AWS Costs * Recession-Proof Your AWS Cloud * LinkedIn: Yann Stoneman * Twitter: Yann Stoneman ( @yannstoneman )
Picks * Caleb- Cloudcraft - Draw AWS diagram * Caleb- diagrams.net * Charles- When you see something that you disagree with, take a deep breath and let it go. * Charles- Masters’ Swim Teams * Will- Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer * Yann- The Pragmatic Programmer * Yann- Caffeine
Contact Caleb:
- CTO at The StartOps Group
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Contact Will:
- DevOps For Developers
- Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Special Guest: Yann Stoneman.
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.
First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways.
Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes.
Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator.
Panel * Charles Max Wood
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * DevOps For Developers * Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Picks * Charles- Who Not How * Jeffrey- The Phoenix Project * Jeffrey- Beyond the Phoenix Project * Will- Kelsey Hightower fireside chat at DevRelCon San Francisco - YouTube
Contact Caleb:
- CTO at The StartOps Group
Contact Charles:
- Devchat.tv
- DevChat.tv | Facebook
- Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Special Guest: Will Button.
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.
This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * GrafanaCONline 2021
Contact Caleb:
- CTO at The StartOps Group
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Special Guest: Matthew Helmke .
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * Breaking down and fixing Kubernetes * Breaking down and fixing etcd cluster * kvaps | personal blog * GitHub: Andrei Kvapil ( kvaps )
Picks * Andrei- GitHub | kvaps/kubernetes-in-kubernetes * Andrei- GitHub | kvaps/kubefarm
Contact Jeffrey:
- Groman Cyber
Special Guest: Andrei Kvapil .
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * The Hijacking of Perl.com * briandfoy.github.io * brian d foy * brian d foy | O'REILLY * Creating Great Programmers with a Software Design Studio - John Ousterhout (Stanford) * A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google * Can Great Programmers Be Taught? - John Ousterhout - at #SoftGeeks * Perl School Publishing * GitHub: brian d foy ( briandfoy ) * Twitter: brian d foy ( @briandfoy_perl )
Picks * Brian- A Philosophy of Software Design * Caleb- Geekbot * Charles- Who Not How * Jeffrey- MS- ISAC
Special Guest: Brian D. Foy.
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do.
So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Links * DevOps For Developers * Twitter: Will Button ( @wfbutton )
Picks * Caleb- Observe * Charles- monday.com * Charles- Who Not How * Jeffrey- Project to Product * Jeffrey- IT Revolution - Book Club * Will- DevOps Bulletin
Special Guest: Will Button.
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * LinkedIn: Mason Mclead
Picks * Caleb- The Endless Acid Banger * Charles- monday.com * Charles- Zapier * Charles- Dev Influencers | Devchat.tv * Jeffrey- The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande * Mason- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Special Guest: Mason McLead .
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
- Dev Influencers Accelerator
- Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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
Sponsors * Dev Influencers Accelerator
Links * Looks Good To Me: Making code reviews better for remote-first teams by James Donohue * GitHub | bbc/simorgh * Twitter: James Donohue ( @jamesdonoh ) * GitHub: James Donohue ( jamesdonoh ) * James Donohue - Medium
Picks * Caleb- Harness * Charles- Dev Influencers | Devchat.tv * Charles- The Courier (2020) * James- Real World PlantUML * Jeffrey- Learnistic
Special Guest: James Donohue.
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
- Dev Influencers Accelerator
- Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
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
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
Sponsors
- Dev Heroes Accelerator
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
- Dev Heroes Accelerator
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
- Dev Heroes Accelerator
- Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod.
He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.
He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.
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Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Sponsors
- Dev Heroes Accelerator
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.
He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.
Panel * Charles Max Wood
Sponsors * Dev Heroes Accelerator * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
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
Sponsors * Dev Heroes Accelerator
Links * Adventures in DevOps - Devchat.tv * Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies * Devchat.tv | JSJ 357: Event-Stream & Package Vulnerabilities with Richard Feldman and Hillel Wayne * Malicious code found in npm package event-stream downloaded 8 million times in the past 2.5 months * GitHub | The Node Security Platform
Picks * Caleb- Have a plan to mitigate damage if someone is able to get inside your network. Don’t just secure the public side of your technical infrastructure, make sure your internal security as just as strong as your external security. * Charles- Dev Heroes Accelerator | Devchat.tv * Charles- The Umbrella Academy | Netflix * Charles- Personal Retreat * Jeffrey- Asset management: Know and document where all of your digital assets reside. Whether servers, VMs, EC2 instances, and all of your structured and unstructured data. * Jeffrey- You can’t secure what you don’t know about
This is a repeat episode of Adventures in DevOps. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/adventures-in-devops/devops-018-how-we-killed-devops-with-adam-nowak/
Sponsors
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Special Guest: Adam Nowak.
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
Sponsors * Dev Heroes Accelerator
Picks * Charles- Talk to people you don’t agree with * Charles- Podcast: Writing Excuses * Charles- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss * Charles- The Way of Kings - Stormlight Archive Book 1 by Brandon Sanderson * Mikolaj - Looking into the numbers of climate change
Special Guest: Mikolaj Pawlikowski.
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.
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.
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
Sponsors * Next Level Mastermind * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Charles- Used tires on classifieds * Charles- Next Level Mastermind * Charles- The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt * Jeffrey- Camtasia: Screen Recorder & Video Editor * Jeffrey- HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder
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
Sponsors * Octopus Deploy Pty. Ltd * Next Level Mastermind
Picks * Charles- Wheel of Time Premium Boxed Set I: Books 1-3 (The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn) by Robert Jordan * Charles- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand * Charles- Most Valuable Developer * Jeffrey- SmartDraw
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
Sponsors * Octopus Deploy Pty. Ltd * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Next Level Mastermind
Picks * Charles- Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller * Charles- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey * Jeffrey- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni
Special Guest: Phil Wilkins.
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
Sponsors * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Caleb - Terraform by HashiCorp * Chuck - Podcast Growth Summit * Chuck- A Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell * Jeffrey -Important steps for customers to protect themselves from recent nation-state cyberattacks
Special Guest: Caleb Fornari.
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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.
Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.
He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.
Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021.
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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
Sponsors * Jfrog | Take the Docker Challenge for FREE t-shirt! * Audible.com
Picks * Chris - Breath by James Nestor * Chris- Plants * Henry- FiveThirtyEight * Henry- Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail * Joe- Star Wars: The Mandalorian * Joe-Samsung 49-Inch CHG90 144Hz Curved Gaming Monitor
Special Guest: Chris Love.
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
Sponsors * Jfrog | Take the Docker Challenge for FREE t-shirt! * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Jeff Smith - GitHub * Jeff Smith- Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal * Jeff Smith- How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard * Jeff Smith- The Bureau (TV Show) * Jeff Groman -Scrivener * Henry - CodeSandbox * Henry- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Special Guest: Jeffrey Smith.
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
Sponsors * Jfrog | Take the Docker Challenge for FREE t-shirt! * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
Picks * Henry - https://obsproject.com/ * Jeffrey - https://learnistic.com/ * Ivan - Zoom and Mural integration
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.
He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.
The trick? Deep Work!
Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.
Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."
Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
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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
Sponsors * Jfrog | Take the Docker Challenge for a FREE t-shirt! * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Audible.com * CacheFly
Picks Jeffrey Groman:
- Amazon FreeTime and Microsoft Windows – monitor and manage parental controls
Henry Jewkes:
- https://www.oculus.com/
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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
Sponsors * Cloud Academy | Get 50% off with promo code DEVOPS * Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers * Audible.com * CacheFly
Links * The Mythical DevOps Engineer * Teamwork: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Picks Alessandro Diaferia:
- https://c4model.com/
Jeffrey Groman:
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Joe Stevens:
- 49-inches Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor
Henry Jewkes:
- www.chefsteps.com
Follow Adventures in DevOps on Twitter > @DevOpsPodcast
Special Guest: Alessandro Diaferia.
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
Sponsors * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Cloud Academy | Get 50% off with promo code DEVOPS * Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers * Audible.com * CacheFly
Links * https://raccoon-attack.com/ * https://github.com/ic0ns * https://raccoon-attack.com/RacoonAttack.pdf * https://github.com/RUB-NDS/TLS-Attacker * Follow Robert Merget on Twitter > @ic0nz1
Picks Robert Merget:
- https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET
Jeffrey Groman:
- http://zapier.com
Joe Stevens:
- Just finished building a pc running on Linux
Charles Max Wood:
- Mostvaluable.dev
- http://podcastplaybook.co/
- https://www.cbs.com/shows/bull
- http://podcastdevsummit.co
- Click Funnels
Henry Jewkes:
- https://events.itrevolution.com/virtual
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Special Guest: Robert Merget.
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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
Sponsors * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Cloud Academy | Get 50% off with promo code DEVOPS * Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers * CacheFly
Links * https://github.com/github/kube-service-exporter * https://www.adiecon.com
Picks Guinevere Saenger:
- adadevelopersacademy.org
- Octocat Stickers – GitHub
Charles Max Wood:
- podcastplaybook.co
- mostvaluable.dev
- Lightbringer Series
- Eureka TV Show
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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
Sponsors * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * Cloud Academy | Get 50% off with promo code DEVOPS * Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers * CacheFly
Links * https://github.com/github/kube-service-exporter * https://www.adiecon.com
Picks Guinevere Saenger:
- adadevelopersacademy.org
- Octocat Stickers – GitHub
Charles Max Wood:
- podcastplaybook.co
- mostvaluable.dev
- Lightbringer Series
- Eureka TV Show
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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
Sponsors * Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers * Audible.com * CacheFly
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- MVP Program (Most Valuable Programmer)
Jeffrey Groman:
- Speak Freely
Henry Jewkes:
- Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
GUEST:
- Sleep
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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
Sponsors * Audible.com * Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial * CacheFly
Links * https://github.com/cloud-platforms-streaming/ * Openshift.tv * https://red.ht/streamcal * chrisshort.net
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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
Sponsors * Audible.com * CacheFly
Links * https://jjasghar.github.io/abstracts/2020.html * What is Istio? * jjasghar.github.io
Picks JJ Asgharr:
- Follow JJ Asgharr on Twitter > @jjasghar
- Stargate franchise
Tyler Bird:
- Slate: API Documentation Generator
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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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * Why We Chose Kubernetes (kubespark) for Multi-Cloud Spark – Infra Tuesday * How we move fast and don’t break things: integrating Terraform, Kubernetes, and CICD (Part 1)
Picks Joe Stevens:
- Building a Linux machine
- Co-creating a game
Jeffrey Groman:
- Elastic Stack
Henry Jewkes:
- ChefSteps
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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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * Getting DevOps Right: Enabling True Compliance with Audit Trails * iauro * Qucik, Efficient and Reliable: A Developer's View of the aurOps model * Seamless Remote Working made simple * Getting the right fit of tools and processes: aurOps for Scrum Masters * iauro Why DevOps Fails?
Picks Tyler Bird:
- Rocketbook
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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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * CodePipeline Dashboard * DevOps 043: Testing in Production with Talia Nassi * SlIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my! * The Unicorn Project * The Phoenix Project * Accelerate: The Sciene of Lean Software and DevOps
Picks Scott Nixon:
- Alone
Follow on Social Media:
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Twitter: @DevOpsPodcast
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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
Links * What's the Difference Between DevOps and SRE?
Picks Jeff Groman:
- Beyond The Phoenix Project
Henry Jewkes:
- So You Think You Can Test?
Follow on Social Media:
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Twitter: @DevOpsPodcast
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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
Links * split * Robot Framework * Nordic.js 2019 Talia Nassi - Testing in Production * Testing in Production: A Conversation with Talia Nassi * Talia Nassi on Testing in Production * Twitter Talia Nassi: @talia_nassi
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Star Trek: Voyager
Tyler Bird:
- AAA Batteries
- Arnold Scharzenegger's 2017 University of Houston Commencement Address
Jeff Groman:
- Getting Naked
Talia Nassi:
- Joab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
- Wes Bos
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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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
Links * AWS Well-Architected Framework * Accurics
Picks Sachin Aggarwal:
- GitHub accurics/terrascan
Tyler Bird:
- GitHub cloudfoundry-incubator/kubecf
- Minecraft
Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Folding@Home
- Someone Knows Something
Jeff Groman:
- The Brain Breakthrough
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React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31th Henry 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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- npr Code Switch
- Star Trek Discovery
Tyler Bird:
- Blinkist
- Borderlands Legendary Collection
Jeff Groman:
- The Creative Habit
Henry Jewkes:
- Dad University
- Dark Lang
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React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31th Baruch 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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * It's Not About the Shark * DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns for Continuous Software Updates
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Supermassive Podcast
- Royal Horticultural Society Gardening Podcast
Tyler Bird:
- Creative Solutions
- realpython.com
Jeff Groman:
- Reorganizing
- DIY Youtube Channels
Baruch Sadogursky:
- JFrog
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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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * Glasnostic
Picks Tyler Bird:
- The Obstacle Is the Way
Jeff Groman:
- A Seat at the Table
Tobias Kunze:
- The Soul of A New Machine
- Failure Is Not an Option
Follow on Social Media:
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Twitter: @DevOpsPodcast
Special Guest: Tobias Kunze.
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 organizations
Panelists * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Jeff Groman
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- NASA
Jeff Groman:
- Working From Home
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Twitter: @DevOpsPodcast
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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * SRE Books * Cloud Native Computing Foundation * Prometheus * Team of Teams
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Picard
Björn Rabenstein:
- Picard......seriously. Watch it!
Special Guest: Björn Rabenstein.
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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * MicroK8s * Charmedk8s * Ceph * Crush Algortithm * Crush Algorithm Maps * Juju * Charmed OSM * Livepatch
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Powells Books
Scott Nixon:
- YouTube Premium
Alex Chalkias:
- asciinema
- Don't Make Me Think
- The Last Dance
Special Guest: Alex Chalkias.
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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * AWS Cloud Development Kit * SparkleFormation * GitHub cloudtools/troposhpere * GitHub iann0036/former2 * GitHub SCRT-HQ/VaporShell * Introduction to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) * Miserbot
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- QCODE The Left Right Game
- DUST
Scott Nixon:
- Space Nuts
- Astronomy Cast
- Star Talk
Tyler Bird:
- Cloudcraft
- The Long Earth
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * Devops Bingo!
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization
- Folding @ Home
Tyler Bird:
- Rocketbook
- The Terraform Book
Scott Nixon:
- Rocketbook
- Notes!
Joe Garber:
- Communication Classes Just Do It!
Special Guest: Joe Garber.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! * CacheFly
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Links * FedRAMP/FIPS
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Refactoring with Kubernetes Infrastructure at Operation Code
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Tyler Bird:
- Deku Deals
- GitHub emachnic/working_man
Charles Max Wood:
- Cashflow Quadrant
- Devchat.tv/meetups
- Devchat.tv/conferences
Ev Kontsevoy:
- Film Photography!
Special Guest: Ev Kontsevoy.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount * CacheFly
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Links * Ghost in the Wires * Amazon S3 Features * Block Public Access * OWASP * Equifax Officially Has No Excuse * MageCart * sonatype * Sans
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Controlled Chaos
- The Witcher
Tyler Bird:
- XKCD
- What is a Stemcell?
Scott Nixon:
- Pandemic
- Sriracha
- Offensive Security
- Hack The Box
- Python Dependency Security
Charles Max Wood:
- Devchat.tv/conferences
- Devchat.tv/meetups
Jeffrey Groman:
- Mitre ATT&CK
Special Guest: Jeffrey Groman.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Picks Tyler Bird:
- CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
- GitHub CLI
Charles Max Wood:
- Clean Coders Podcast
- Interview Cake
Matt Watson:
- Stackify
- Kubernetes
Special Guest: Matt Watson.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * snapcraft * Ubuntu * Canonical * Ubuntu Mate * Most Popular Operating Systems (Desktop & Laptops) 2003-2019 * CentOS vs Ubuntu * Snapcraft Overview
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington
- Live Overflow Youtube Channel
- Basic Soldering Lessons
Charles Max Wood
- Clean Coders Podcast
Scott Nixon
- 3 Blue and 1 Brown
- The Next Pandemic
Tyler Bird
- GeForce Now
Martin Wimpress
- Ubuntu Blog
- Canonical Careers
- GamingOnLinux
- RetroTINK
Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Picks Charles Max Wood:
- Generation Z Unfiltered
Slava Koltovich:
- Programmable Drones
Special Guest: Slava Koltovich.
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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
Sponsors * UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * Gremlin.com/slack
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Dell Computing
- Aphids (Not Cool!)
Tyler Bird:
- VMUG Advantage
- DeployHappiness
Tammy Butow:
- Target Mobile
Kolton Andrus:
- Koan
Matt "Forni" Fornaciari:
- Deep Work
- Digital Minimalism
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
Sponsors * UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * cri-o.io * Stratos: A Web-based Management UI for Cloud Foundry * GitHub cloudfoundry/stratos
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Suessical the Musical
Charles Max Wood:
- Whisper Rooms
- Rock Wool
Brent Schroeder:
- Lewis Pugh
Special Guest: Brent Schroeder.
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
Sponsors * UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * Event-driven Architecture * martinFowler Event Sourcing * martinFowler CQRS * Google Cloud Knative
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Pico CTF
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and why It Matters
Scott Nixon:
- Functional Python Programming
- Honey Boy
- 1917
Charles Max Wood:
- Discord
- React Round Up
- Views on Vue
- OBS
Nikhil Barthwal:
- Expert F#
- The Lean Startup
Special Guest: Nikhil Barthwal.
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
Sponsors * UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * DevOps 006: All Things Cloud with Bob Quillin * Oracle.com * GraalVM
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Pickling!
- The Expanse
Charles Max Wood:
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Riftwar Saga
- Ready, Fire, Aim
Bob Quillin:
- Mr. Robot
- Sorry about the 49er's Bob!
Special Guest: Bob Quillin.
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
Sponsors * UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off * Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Picks Charles Max Wood:
- BB-8 by Sphero
Sean Porter:
- Obviously Awesome
Special Guest: Sean Porter.
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.
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Connect with Tobias on LinkedIn
Panelist * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Charles Max Wood
Guests * Troy McAlpin * Tobias Dunn-Krahn
Sponsors * UpCloud Use promo code " devchat" for $25 off * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * OODA loop * (x)matters
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- A Higher Standard
Charles Max Wood:
- Contigo Water Bottles
- Conference Swag SOCKS!!!
Tobias Dunn-Krahn:
- BigQuery
- Chat Bots
Tobias Dunn-Krahn:
- Delivering Happiness
- Best Friends
Special Guests: Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Troy McAlpin.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
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______________________________________ Links * Anodot
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Team of Teams
- Alaska Airlines
Scott Nixon:
- The Future of Humanity, Malcolm Gladwell - WGS 2018
Charles Max Wood:
- Letters From Whitechapel
- Lords of Waterdeep
Or Weis:
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Alastair Reynolds
Special Guest: Or Weis.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * https://jfrog.com/ * https://twitter.com/steveonjava?lang=en * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Stephen Chin:
- DevOps Speakeasy
- https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Modern-Clients-JavaFX/dp/1484249259
Charles Max Wood:
- The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job
- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/devchattv
Special Guest: Stephen Chin.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * https://www.kui.tools/ * https://openwhisk.apache.org/ * https://istio.io/ * Knative * Install and Set Up kubectl * https://helm.sh/ * Get Started with the CLI * 10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes * https://github.com/starpit * https://twitter.com/priyanagpurkar?lang=en * https://github.com/paulcastro * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Nick Mitchell:
- Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Paul Castro:
- Wifi Analyzer
- D’Addario NS Micro Clip-On Tuner
Priya Nagpurkar:
- Solsa
- https://iter8.tools/
Charles Max Wood:
- https://discourse.org/
- https://javascriptforum.net/
- https://codefund.io/
- The Man In the High Castle
Special Guests: Nick Mitchell, Paul Castro, and Priya Nagpurkar.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * https://osuosl.org/ * OSU DevOps Bootcamp * https://github.com/osuosl * https://github.com/osuosl-cookbooks * https://osuosl.org/donate/ * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Scott Nixon:
- Die Hard
- Clean Code
- The Gymkhana Files
Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
Lance Albertson:
- Mike Birbiglia: The New One
- The Toys That Made Us
Charles Max Wood:
- Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- A Christmas Story
- The Ultimate Gift
Special Guest: Lance Albertson.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * How we killed DevOps by creating a dedicated DevOps team | Adam Nowak * The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win * Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow * The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement * The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations * Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs * Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations * Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- Holiday Inn
- White Christmas
- The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- The Mandalorian
- Rust in Motion
Adam Nowak:
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Jabra Elite 85h Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones
Special Guest: Adam Nowak.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * RBAC * LDAP * Bloom filter * https://kafka.apache.org/ * https://www.elastic.co/ * Map reduce * https://www.humio.com/ * https://twitter.com/schofield * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Mr Krueger’s Christmas
Scott Nixon:
- The Ref
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/
Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Terminator: Dark Fate
Grant Schofield:
- Rust
- Dead Astronauts
- Tsunami Bomb
- Night Surf
Special Guest: Grant Schofield.
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
Sponsors * CacheFly
Links * https://kublr.com/ * https://www.openshift.com/ * https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix * https://twitter.com/elixir_mix
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- Host spots available! Contact me if you are interested.
- https://devchat.tv/support/
- Talk with friends
Scott Nixon:
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- https://ulysses.app/
Oleg Chunikin:
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Special Guest: Oleg Chunikin.
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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
Sponsors
- Dev Ed
- JavaScript Jabber
- The Freelancers Show
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Links
- Shiplane
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- Nginx
Picks
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
- Boostnote
- Pumpkin Pie
Scott Nixon
- Scrum: The Art Of Doing Twice The Work In Half The time
- Zero Fasting
Charles Max Wood
- V02 Max
- 75 Hard
John Epperson
- Ledaig Whiskey
- Notion
Special Guest: John Epperson.
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 experienced
Chuck 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
Sponsors
- Adventures in .NET
- Ruby Rogues
- React Native Radio
Links
- Hover
- Launch Darkly
- Split.io
- Codefresh.io
- Argo CD
- Flux
- 12 factor
- The Phoenix Project
Picks
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
- Beef on Weck
Charles Max Wood
- St. George Marathon
- Marathon Training
- Maxcoders.io
- His electric smoker
- 3-2-1 method for ribs
- The word delightful
Scott Nixon
- Broccoli Rabe Philly Cheesesteak
- Ultra Learning by Scott Young
- Libby app
Julian Fahrer
- Accelerate
- The State of DevOps
- Walk in Balance
Special Guest: Julian Fahrer.
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
Sponsors
- Elixir Mix
- Adventures in Angular
- iPhreaks
Links
- RED
- Google’s Golden Signals
- Kubernetes Operators
Picks
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Dave McAllister
- Membership card to Fulham football club
Special Guest: Dave McAllister .
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 application
Charles 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
Sponsors
- Sustain Our Software
- Views on Vue
- Dev Ed
Links
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ruby on Rails
- Python
- Django
- Cloud 66
- PostgreSQL
- DigitalOcean
- Bitbucket
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS Parameter Store
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Nginx
Picks
Charles Max Wood
- Height Adjustable VESA Adapter
- Velcro Strips
Scott Nixon
- The Gymkhana Files
- The Grand Tour
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
Sponsors * Adventures in Blockchain - Devchat.tv * React Round Up - Devchat.tv * Adventures in .NET * CacheFly
Links * The Agile Manifesto * Principles behind the Agile Manifesto * Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie is as tired of talking about Kubernetes as you are
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- The Great British Baking Show
- Kinesis Advantage2 Keyboard
Scott Nixon:
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
- Gatesnotes books - The blog of Bill Gates
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
Sponsors * iPhreaks - Devchat.tv * The Dev Rev - Devchat.tv * React Round Up - Devchat.tv * CacheFly
Links * 10x engineer Twitter thread
Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- Copyhackers.com
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Keto diet
- Podcast Movement
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
Sponsors * iPhreaks - Devchat.tv * The Dev Rev - Devchat.tv * React Round Up - Devchat.tv * CacheFly
Links * A Cloud Guru * Digital Ocean * Linux Academy * The League of Professional System Administrators * Vagrant * Ops School Curriculum * Practical Monitoring * Sensu * Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale * The Phoenix Project * The Art of C Programming * Crucial Conversations * Site Reliability Engineering - Google * DevOps Days
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Fresh Tarragon
Lee Whalen:
- The Practice of System and Network Administration
- The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
- Time Management for System Administrators
Scott Nixon:
- How to Stay Motivated: Developing the Qualities of Success
Sponsors * iPhreaks - Devchat.tv * The Dev Rev - Devchat.tv * React Round Up - Devchat.tv * CacheFly
Panel * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Scott Nixon
Episode Summary Coming to you live this time from the studio is a brand new episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast! Regular panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Engineer at Chef Software, and Scott Nixon, Principal Consultant at Cloud Mechanics, discuss one of the most significant aspects of any given software environment - disaster recovery, what is it and what to do when the unimaginable happens.
They start the show by explaining that disaster recovery can be considered as a subset of business continuity planning. They state that two main things need to be defined while planning for disaster recovery in any organization. First one is the recovery time objective (RTO), which is the maximum acceptable length of time that an application can be offline, and this information is generally included in a Service Level Agreement. The second one is Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which is the maximum acceptable length of time during which data might be lost from the application due to a major incident. Nell gives examples of each and Scott mentions that we need to understand the time taken for restore as well, and it is very important to restore data regularly.
Once the RTO and RPO have been established, the software needs to be prepared for disaster recovery, including verifying that the software can be installed correctly, as replication can be very hard, especially when it has been installed long ago. They transition to the topic of security concerns, for example, how to deal with cases when there are multiple security groups, ACLs, etc, and the cloud service in an entire region goes down.
They advise listeners to make sure that the disaster recovery environment should match the compliance requirements, make cloud storage a part of daily backup routines, and to use configuration management tools most suitable to the work environment so as to make the process seamless. They talk about cloud-agnostic tools that help in cross-cloud replication and syncing data across. They also raise certain points to consider for successful recovery, including estimating the time and bandwidth required to transfer large amounts of data, balancing image configuration and deployment speed along with the time needed to handle dependencies, image consistency across hybrid environments, implementing tiered storage, and share relevant examples.
Another pattern they discuss is the idea of maintaining the same IP address for an application to make disaster recovery easier, which can be possible if it's in the same region, using elastic IP or load balancing, but can be challenging with multiple cloud providers across different regions. However the solution would be quite challenging as well as expensive, so there is always a tradeoff involved.
They then move on to some common mistakes that people make in disaster recovery. Nell says that while creating a good plan it is really crucial to bring in people from across various businesses, while Scott talks about regularly documenting everything including bits and pieces like manual configurations and such. They discuss that security consistency is often overlooked, and describe some recovery services offered by cloud providers such as Amazon, Azure and some multi-cloud services like Zerto and Arcserve. They end the episode with picks.
Links * Boto 3 * MSP360 * CloudEndure Disaster Recovery * Azure Site Recovery * Zerto * Arcserve
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Wild mushrooms
Scott Nixon:
- Nine Lies About Work : A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
Sponsors * CacheFly
Panel * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Scott Nixon
Episode Summary In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Scott Nixon talk about monitoring in the software world. They start the discussion by talking about the difference between monitoring and alerting. They discuss how logging comes into picture in monitoring, two main types of logs - structured and unstructured, log management in the DevOps environment, information storage, parsing logs and log aggregation. They list two major kinds of monitoring software - pull and push. Nell explains what they mean and how they work, and Scott gives examples of each including syslog, healthcheck, etc.
They then talk about what it means by a "working" system, and consequently, when can something be considered to be non-functional. This leads to answering the important question of what exactly should be monitored. They explain to what extent should one go while monitoring and how to determine the significance level of the events in general. They discuss some concepts from Mike Julian's book "Practical Monitoring" including anti-patterns such as tool obsession, what not do do in monitoring and the fact that businesses need to customize their systems based on what works for them. They talk about the tool Nagios, benefits in using default monitoring tools provided by native cloud systems, using monitoring as a crutch, and manual configuration. They then discuss some good practices, namely composable monitoring, performance monitoring from the users' perspective, the mantra - 'buy not build', and continual improvements. They briefly touch on the topic of security in monitoring, and wrap up the episode with picks.
Links * Practical Monitoring-Mike Julian * Accelerate: The State of DevOps with Dr. Nicole Forsgren * High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Mauer Museum
- Tetris 99
Scott Nixon:
- Automated Reasoning
- Byron Cook, Amazon | AWS re:Inforce 2019
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Sponsors * CacheFly
Panel * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Lee Whalen * Charles Max Wood
Joined by special guest: Bob Quillin
Episode Summary This episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast is joined by Bob Quillin, Vice President - Oracle Cloud Developer Relations, based in Austin, Texas. He manages a team of developer advocates working on cloud native solutions. He explains what developer advocacy means in terms of the work they do at Oracle and elaborates on the term 'second generation cloud'. He then talks about how feature compatibility works with different types of cloud platforms, moving legacy applications to cloud and the best practices involved in cloud operations in general.
With respect to the Oracle cloud, he talks about how isolation is achieved when dealing with different customer requirements, hybrid models and their inter-workings, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications on top of the cloud, GPUs, Kubernetes and managed services. He presents his thoughts on what could be the next big thing in cloud technology given that newer concepts are being introduced day by day, and shares anecdotes where clients such as CERN have migrated to Oracle's cloud infrastructure and even those who have transitioned from a different cloud provider to theirs. In the end, he mentions some of the most heavily used cloud features and applications, and they move on to picks.
Links * Bob's Twitter * Bob's LinkedIn * Refactoring - Martin Fowler * The US Air Force Is Adding Algorithms to Predict When Planes Will Break
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Ubuntu ubiquity bug report
- Canlis
Lee Whalen:
- AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
- Hugo
- Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Unlock Your Potential to Achieve Anything
Charles Max Wood:
- Adventures in DevOps Recommendations
- Canny
- Good to Great - Jim Collins
Bob Quillin:
- CERN Uses Kubernetes to Reduce WebLogic Deployment Time
- Cloud Native Labs - Oracle
- Oracle Developers
Special Guest: Bob Quillin.
Sponsors * CacheFly
Panel * Nell Shamrell-Harrington * Lee Whalen
Episode Summary This episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast is all about Chef. Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Principal Engineer at Chef Software is interviewed by panelist Lee Whalen starting with what Chef is and what it is used for. Nell describes how Chef works with containers, Chef Habitat and how it fits into the overall DevOps culture. Lee asks if it can be used to manage systems with push-pull based configuration management as well. Nell shares how Chef can be advantageous for the higher management and the business as a whole by being automated and high-speed. She compares different configuration management tools and lists certain compromises when using Chef over the others. She explains why they had to apply Apache 2.0 license to the software, but explains that it does not include the code which is totally open source, only the executable build. She mentions some popular Chef code bases that have numerous good contributions from the community. She says that Chef has about 1000 open source projects currently, and appeals to listeners to take a look at the GitHub book that they've written containing information about all of those.
Links * Chef * Chef Habitat
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Lee Whalen:
- Neuralink
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Ready for Brain Surgery
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Lee Whalen * Scott Nixon
Joined by Special Guest: Priyanka Sharma
Summary Priyanka 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.
Links * https://kubernetes.io/ * https://jenkins.io/ * https://travis-ci.org/ * https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ * https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/03/group-conversation-podcast/ * https://about.gitlab.com/ * https://meetings.hubspot.com/team104/adventures-in-devops-episode * Enterprise Leaders’ Protips for Scavenger Hunting Through the Cloud Native Tool Weeds * https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/files/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-4.19.03-PM.png * https://linkerd.io/ * Https://nginx.org * https://www.cncf.io/ * https://www.envoyproxy.io/ * https://prometheus.io/ * https://twitter.com/pritianka * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Lee Whalen:
- http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/
- http://boringtechnology.club/
Scott Nixon:
- Byron Cook, Amazon | AWS re:Inforce 2019
- https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/
Priyanka Sharma:
- https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/
- Keynote: Commercial Open Source Business Models - Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder & CEO, GitLab
- https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36356
- Go Remote- https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/#resources
Charles Max Wood:
- Air Conditioning
- https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or
- The Expanse
Special Guest: Priyanka Sharma .
Panel * Charles Max Wood * Scott Nixon * Lee Whalen
Joined by Special Guest: Ashar Rizqi
Summary Ashar 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.
Links * https://www.blameless.com/ * Site Reliability Engineering * https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashar-rizqi-6614487 * https://twitter.com/blamelesshq * https://www.blameless.com/blog/ * https://twitter.com/citadelgrad/status/1141832712195493888 * https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-DevOps-345350773046268/
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
Lee W:
- https://restic.net/
- https://www.backblaze.com/b2/
Scott Nixon:
- https://fs.blog/mental-models/
- The Great Mental Models
- https://devops.com/devops-shift-left-avoid-failure/
Ashar Rizqi:
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Special Guest: Ashar Rizqi.
Panel * Nell Shamrel-Harrington * Lee Waylin * Scott Nixon
Episode Summary The panelists introduce themselves. 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 boxes
Links
- Docker
- Container
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Kubernetes
- Habitat.io
- CICD
- Docker Swarm
- Apache Mesos
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Picks Nell Sharmell Harrington:
- Trader Joe’s Iced Coffee
- Big Little Lies
Lee Waylin:
- Magic Sandbox
- Fall, or Dodge in Hell
- Whisper Room
Scott Nixon:
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
- The Book of Beautiful Questions
Sponsors * CacheFly
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. They end the episode with picks.
Links * Nell's Twitter, LinkedIn * Lee's LinkedIn * Scott's Twitter, LinkedIn * The Phoenix Project * DORA * The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code * The Twelve-Factor App * Kubernetes Failure Stories
Picks Nell Shamrell-Harrington:
- Quiver
- Captain Marvel
Scott Nixon:
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- AWS Simplify
