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AI costs can change fast, especially when tokens, premium models, and agentic workflows enter the picture. In this episode, Pinja Kujala and Henri Terho discuss AI FinOps, why AI spending is harder to predict than cloud costs, and how organizations can build visibility, governance, and smarter cost controls around AI usage.
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Pinja Kujala and Kalle Sirkesalo discuss AI maturity through the lens of private equity, exploring how portfolio companies can benchmark AI adoption, measure DevOps ROI, improve feedback loops, and move beyond tool usage toward real organizational maturity.
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Software is becoming cheaper to build, but customer value is becoming harder to create. Henri Hämäläinen explains why organizations must evolve beyond traditional structures and embrace a new model centered around Explore, Engineer, and Evolve to fully realize AI's potential.
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As AI makes writing code faster, cheaper, and more accessible than ever, the real question is no longer how quickly we can build, but what truly creates value. In this episode, we explore how software development is changing when code becomes abundant, why human judgment matters more than ever, and which skills will separate great technologists from the crowd in the age of AI.
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In this episode of The DevOps Sauna, Pinja Kujala is joined by Alexandra Aldershaab to explore why psychological safety remains one of the most important ingredients of high-performing teams.
They discuss why psychological safety is not about avoiding disagreement, how respectful feedback drives growth, why silent teams can be dangerous, and how leaders and team members can create environments where people feel safe to speak up, challenge ideas, learn from mistakes, and innovate together.
Whether you're a developer, engineering leader, DevOps practitioner, or anyone working in modern software teams, this conversation offers practical insights into building stronger, more resilient teams.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Pinja Kujala is joined by Senior UX Designer Ray Pohjanheimo to explore the intersection of vibe coding, AI-generated applications, and user experience design.
They discuss tools like Lovable, the rise of AI-assisted prototyping, why beautiful interfaces don’t always mean good UX, and where human designers still play a critical role in accessibility, usability, and user understanding. From rapid experimentation to the risks of “design by committee,” this conversation dives into how UX is evolving in the age of AI-built software.
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AI adoption isn’t just about tools, it’s about people.
In this episode, Pinja Kujala is joined by Satu Kivioja-Ronkainen and Dmitry Tayya to explore what really shapes how AI works inside organizations. From fear and curiosity to unclear policies and uneven skill levels, the biggest challenges aren’t technical, they’re human.
We talk about why psychological safety, learning pace, and inclusion matter more than ever, and why the most successful AI strategies start with people, not technology.
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Security has long been treated like a necessary expense—but what if that thinking is holding your business back?
In this episode, Pinja sits down with Kalle Sirkesalo to challenge the traditional narrative around security. Instead of focusing on risk avoidance and compliance, they explore how security can actively drive revenue, accelerate AI adoption, and enable faster, safer innovation.
From the ROI trap of fear-based thinking to the reality of AI-powered development pipelines, this conversation dives into why organizations that treat security as a growth enabler—not a blocker—are the ones that scale.
You’ll learn:
- Why security loses funding—and how to flip the narrative
- How AI is reshaping both risk and opportunity
- What “built-in” security actually looks like in modern pipelines
- Why developer experience and security must evolve together
- A practical way to align security with business goals
Security isn’t just about preventing loss—it’s about unlocking what’s possible.
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Everyone says they have observability—but are they actually using it?
In this episode, Pinja and Stefan unpack the gap between collecting data and creating real value. From DevEx and faster debugging to experimentation and business insights, observability only works when it’s treated as a product—not just a dashboard.
If your observability stack feels more like noise than insight, this one’s for you.
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AI agents are evolving fast, but are we actually ready for them?
In this episode, we explore the real state of agentic AI and what it means for the future of work. From Anthropic’s latest research to real-world adoption gaps, we unpack where the technology is today versus where it’s heading.
We dive into how AI is already transforming coding, knowledge work, and even everyday tasks like creating slides, while raising bigger questions about jobs, productivity, and human collaboration.
Will AI replace roles, or create entirely new ones? And how should organizations adapt before the gap between capability and adoption gets even wider?
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AI copilots are everywhere in software development today. But the real transformation is only beginning.
In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan explore the Agentic Shift — the move from AI assistants that respond to prompts toward autonomous agents that can pursue goals, make decisions, and act independently inside complex systems.
They discuss what it really takes for organizations to move from AI copilots to AI coworkers, including data readiness, governance, security, and organizational maturity. Because deploying autonomous agents is not just a technical challenge — it’s also about responsibility, guardrails, and understanding the risks of letting AI operate with increasing autonomy.
You’ll also hear how concepts like domain-driven design, bounded contexts, and incident response automation may shape the first real use cases for autonomous AI agents in DevOps environments.
If your organization is experimenting with AI today, this conversation will help you understand what the next phase of AI adoption actually looks like.
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AI is moving fast. Regulation is catching up.
In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan are joined by Nora Fosse from Eficode to break down what AI governance really means in 2026.
With the EU AI Act coming into force and fines up to 7% of annual turnover, governance is no longer optional. But is it a brake on innovation or the engine that enables scale?
They explore the four pillars of AI governance and why, in the age of autonomous agents, hope is not a strategy.
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AI is everywhere, but the real cost often stays hidden.
In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan dive into AI FinOps and explore why GPUs are expensive and why so much AI infrastructure ends up underutilized. They unpack hidden costs like idle hardware, power consumption, networking, and data movement, and explain why traditional Cloud FinOps doesn’t fully apply to AI workloads.
They also discuss how Kubernetes and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) can help improve GPU utilization, and why visibility, ownership, and organizational maturity matter just as much as tooling.
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Internal developer platforms are no longer just technical tooling. In this episode, Pinja and Stefan explore why your internal developer platform should be treated like a customer-facing product.
They discuss user-centric platform design, adoption and shadow platforms, lifecycle management, roadmapping, and continuous improvement. From developer experience and security to cost visibility and business alignment, this episode breaks down what it really means to build and run an IDP that people actually want to use.
If you’re building a platform, build it like you mean it.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja Kujala and Stefan Poulsen break down the six key trends shaping the software development lifecycle in 2026.
From the move from AI copilots to autonomous agents, to governance, regulation, cloud sovereignty, platform engineering, and AI cost optimization, this episode offers a practical look at what these shifts mean for modern organizations.
A must-listen for CTOs, C-level leaders, and anyone working across DevOps and platform engineering.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan unpack what a good incident response actually looks like, from the moment an issue is discovered to recovery, communication, and learning afterward.
They dive into real-world incident management practices: defining incident severity, assigning the right roles, running mock incidents, validating backups, and communicating clearly without panic. The conversation also tackles one of the hardest topics in engineering culture: blameless postmortems and psychological safety.
If you care about DevOps, security, platform engineering, or building resilient teams that learn from failure rather than hide it, this episode is for you.
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Who really controls your cloud, and why does it matter now?
In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan dive into Europe’s growing shift toward sovereign cloud. They explore what’s driving the conversation, from data sovereignty and GDPR to geopolitical uncertainty and upcoming EU regulations. The discussion breaks down how different countries approach sovereign cloud, what this means for cloud providers and enterprises, and how DevOps teams are affected in practice.
From Kubernetes and managed services to AI workloads and vendor lock-in, this episode helps you understand why sovereign cloud is becoming a strategic concern and what organizations should consider as control, compliance, and ownership take center stage in cloud strategy.
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Open source powers nearly everything we build today—but what is it actually worth? Pinja and Stefan discuss Harvard’s $8 trillion estimate, how widely open source is used, and why central registries are under pressure. They touch on security risks, supply chain attacks, and what the EU Cyber Resilience Act means for companies using OSS. Finally, they look ahead at how AI and coding assistants might reshape open source development.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Stefan talk about what truly makes a developer platform successful—and why forcing adoption never works.
They explore the “coffee and cookie principle,” the importance of trust between developers and platform teams, and how to create platforms people actually want to use.
Topics include building developer trust, identifying platform ambassadors, balancing freedom and governance, and strengthening collaboration across teams.
Whether you’re building your first internal platform or refining an existing one, this episode offers practical insights and real-world stories from the field of platform engineering.
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What does it take to make AI truly trustworthy? Pinja and Stefan talk with Lofred Madzou, CEO of Skillmind, about responsible AI, governance, and strategy—plus why organizational culture matters more than hype. Lofred also shares his inspiring work with the African Olympiad Academy, nurturing the next generation of science innovators across Africa.
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DevOps “culture” gets blamed for everything—so what is it, really? Pinja and Eficode consultant Dan Khurram cut through the buzzwords to define culture in practical terms: how decisions get made, what behaviors are acceptable, and how teams talk about uncertainty and failure. They compare textbook “DevOps culture” to actual corporate culture, then borrow lessons from high-stakes domains like aviation and healthcare on learning from incidents instead of hiding them. Along the way: onboarding as your first culture signal, Microsoft’s “learn-it-all” shift, and three takeaways you can apply now—don’t call it a culture change, define your “why” for your context, and start locally so good habits spread. If your transformation feels like more ceremonies than substance (hello, Jira), this episode gives you a clearer map.
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In this month’s DevOps Sauna news roundup, Pinja and Stefan unpack the biggest stories shaking the software world. Atlassian made major moves with billion-dollar acquisitions of DX and the AI-powered browser company behind Arc and Dia. GitHub tightens supply chain security after recent NPM attacks, while open source communities tackle burnout and project handovers.
The duo then dives into the shifting AI landscape—from XAI’s massive layoffs and declining corporate AI adoption to NVIDIA’s staggering $100 billion investment in OpenAI. They also discuss GitHub Copilot’s new tech-debt-fighting agents and Kubernetes’ long-awaited Dynamic Resource Allocation going GA.
Tune in for sharp insights, lighthearted banter, and the human touch that even AI can’t replace.
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Are password changes really keeping us secure? Is writing passwords in a notebook always bad? Can Apple devices really not get viruses? In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Darren take on some of the most common myths around cybersecurity. From password managers, MFA, and VPNs, to cloud security, insider threats, and even the risks of random USB sticks—no misconception is safe. Join us as we separate fact from fiction and uncover how security really works in practice.
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In this episode, Pinja and Darren take a critical look at the state of DevSecOps through the lens of three recent industry reports from Snyk, Checkmarx, and Datadog. From “shift left” gone wrong, to the cultural gaps between development and security teams, to metrics that don’t always measure what matters—what’s really happening with security in DevOps today?
They discuss whether DevSecOps is truly “dead,” or simply in need of a reset, and explore practical steps teams can take to rebuild trust, reduce friction, and embed security as a natural part of development. Plus: the risks AI introduces into DevOps security, and why small steps can still make a big difference.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Darren sit down with Eficode’s Lead AI Consultant, Henri Terho, to unpack the hype and realities around artificial intelligence in business. They explore why so many AI projects fail, what true success looks like, and how companies can actually see return on investment. From data quality challenges and security concerns to the legal landscape and the so-called “AI bubble,” the conversation digs into both the risks and the opportunities of AI transformation. Whether you’re curious about strategy, implementation, or the future of work, this episode sheds light on how organizations can make AI truly pay off.
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A major security incident shook the JavaScript world when malicious code was discovered in 20 widely used NPM packages, collectively downloaded over 2 billion times per week. In this episode, Pinja and Darren break down what happened, how a phishing email led to the breach, and why human error remains one of the biggest risks in cybersecurity.
They explore the scope of the attack, its surprisingly small financial impact, and the broader lessons around open-source trust, dependency management, and the need for SBOMs. Plus, they discuss how tools like DependencyTrack can help developers protect their software supply chains, and why transparency in mistakes—like that shown by maintainer Josh Junon—is essential to building a stronger security culture.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Pinja and Darren dive into one of the most pressing topics of our time: the ethics of AI. From copyright infringement and data usage to environmental impact and corporate responsibility, they unravel the hidden costs behind today’s AI boom.
They explore how big tech handles data, the consequences of AI monopolies, and why regulation is a double-edged sword. Most importantly, they discuss what individuals, companies, and the industry at large can do to ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly.
If you’ve ever wondered whether AI can be ethical—or how you can use it more responsibly—this conversation is for you.
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In this summer catch-up episode of DevOps Sauna, Darren and Pinja dive into the biggest tech and culture stories of the past months. From OpenAI’s failed Windsurf deal and Google’s licensing swoops, to Sam Altman calling AI a bubble and GitHub’s leadership shake-up, they explore how AI, security, and open-source are reshaping the industry. They also unpack Nvidia’s $4 trillion milestone, US and EU AI regulation battles, and a surprising study on insecure code releases. And to close on a lighter note, they celebrate the global spread of Finnish sauna culture—now floating on rivers in Australia.
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As summer holidays roll in, Pinja and Darren take a step back from the usual deep dives into DevOps to reflect on the past six months of the DevOps Sauna. From endless AI debates and myth-busting episodes (“Is Jenkins dead?”) to accessibility, platform engineering at the edge, and even a full episode on sauna culture, they revisit the highlights, surprises, and fun along the way. They also share some of Eficode’s recent wins, welcome a new CEO, and admit to pulling off a very Finnish April Fools’ episode. Join us for a lighter, summer-ready conversation that celebrates both the serious and the silly moments from the podcast so far.
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In this episode, we celebrate winning Atlassian’s Partner of the Year – World-Class Software Development award and explore what it truly means. CTO of Managed Services Kalle Sirkesalo joins Darren and Pinja to discuss how Eficode transforms the way teams build software—focusing on culture, tools, processes, and people over code. From AI and platform engineering to security and feedback loops, we unpack how to create lasting impact in modern software development.
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In the final episode of their mini-series on platform engineering at the edge, Darren and Pinja dive deep into the often-overlooked security risks of edge and IoT environments. From car key hacks and USB-based keyboard attacks to ransomware targeting medical devices and smart cities, they reveal how proximity and physical access change the rules of cybersecurity. You’ll also hear practical ways to secure your edge platforms, the role of platform engineering in remote monitoring, and how upcoming EU regulations like NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act may shape the future.
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Darren and Pinja continue their series on platform engineering on the edge by diving into some of the most fascinating real-world use cases. From software updates on the Voyager space probes and Antarctic research stations to cars, planes, and even grocery delivery robots, they explore how platform engineering makes these edge deployments reliable, self-healing, and secure. This episode is full of stories and lessons on what it takes to manage software far beyond traditional data centers and clouds.
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Darren and Pinja break down the basics of platform engineering on the edge, from the “boring” to the truly remote and unreachable. They explore how GitOps, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code enable reliable software updates in spotty or disconnected environments—whether in cars, factories, ships, or even Mars rovers—and why getting edge engineering right matters now more than ever.
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Darren and Pinja dive into the risks of “vibe coding,” discussing how AI-generated code, supply chain attacks, and typosquatting increase security challenges, and explore practical ways to secure dependencies and prepare for the future of AI-driven development.
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Patrick Debois, known as the father of DevOps, joins Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala to discuss the future of software development, the evolving role of AI in the SDLC, and how developer experience and human judgment fit into an increasingly automated world.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala sit down with Jamie Dobson to explore his new book Visionaries, Rebels, and Machines—a high-energy journey through the breakthroughs and lucky accidents that pushed technology from steam engines to today’s AI-powered cloud.
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Celebrating the 200th episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by longtime Eficodeans, Ilari Nurmi, Henri Hamalainen, and Marko Klemetti, to reminisce and celebrate the history of Eficode and the company's 20th anniversary.
NOTE: This episode was recorded to celebrate our company’s 20th anniversary and features a conversation with Ilari, who—at the time—was serving as Eficode's CEO. Since then, Ilari has moved on from the company.
We want to take a moment to thank him for his incredible leadership over the past six years, a period marked by remarkable growth. His impact on our journey will be lasting, and we’re grateful to have captured his reflections during such a meaningful milestone.
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In this episode of the DevOp Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Magnus Sundset, who gives an in-depth look into the origins of IT service management and how the latest tools and principles will affect it in 2025.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the latest stories and developments in the DevOps space in May 2025, including Klarna, Microsoft, OpenAI buying Windsurf, and new legal legislations such as the Take It Down Act and European Vulnerability Database.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss DevOps itself, covering its history, impact, and whether we'll need to change the name of this podcast in the future.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss and debunk the infamous question, "Is Agile dead?", highlighting how Agile is utilized in organizations today and how important it remains.
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In this special episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Markus Tihumäki (Accessibility Specialist and Business Developer) and Toni Laakso (Accessibility Specialist) to discuss everything accessibility in celebration of World Accessibility Awareness Day.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the latest stories and developments in the DevOps space in April 2025, including OpenAI and ChatGPT, open source vs. commercial software, and the new reveals at Atlassian Team '25.
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In this special episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala take some time away from DevOps to analyze the history and legacy of a critical component of Finnish culture: The sauna.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Sofus Albertsen, a DevOps Advocate and a Kubernetes expert, to discuss Kubernetes in Edge computing, highlighting various topics including PlanetScale and GitOps.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Dan Khurram to discuss The Future of Software conference on March 26, 2025. They highlight their favorite talks, their experience, and what they learned at the event.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the latest stories and developments in the DevOps space in March 2025, including recent developments with xAI and the coming end of Opsgenie.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the reveal of an exciting new technology created by Eficode: SUAMI (Single Unified AI Metrics Indicator).
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala review Jenkins, its history, and its current state, highlighting its benefits and future impact on the software industry. Additionally, Darren and Pinja share their thoughts and experiences on relevant talks and topics from The DEVOPS Conference.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Szilárd Széll (DevOps Transformation Lead and Senior Consultant at Eficode), who shares his experience working in testing and quality assurance, his award as Tester of the Year in Finland, and his thoughts on the current landscape.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Heidi Waterhouse (Transformation Advocate and Marketing Advisor) to discuss her upcoming book, Progressive Delivery.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the latest stories and developments in the DevOps scene in February 2024, including Le Chat and the Majorana 1 processor.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, its history, and the importance of cybersecurity as a whole.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Lauri Palokangas and Henri Hämäläinen to discuss the history of The DEVOPS Conference and highlight why events like The Future of Software are important to the software industry.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Heikki Hämäläinen and Hannah Waller to reminisce on the history of DevOps, The DEVOPS Conference, and what to look forward to in The Future of Software.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala round up the latest industry news for January 2025, including current stories on DevOps, technology, and AI.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala are joined by Henri Terho to discuss DeepSeek, the newest AI model released from China that's been making headlines on social media. They also share their thoughts on what open source means for AI in general.
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In this episode of the DevOps Sauna, Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the concept of psychological leadership and how to identify psychological challenges in the workplace and implement solutions for them to improve work, processes, and morale in your organization.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Darren and Pinja share their thoughts on liminal spaces and ideas on how transitional spaces can be applied to software development.
Darren and Pinja also note that AI is shifting the software development landscape, highlighting the trends organizations will need to adapt to stay on top.
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This DevOps Sauna episode discusses the impact of AI and Bots on social media.
Darren Richardson and Pinja Kujala discuss the impact of artificial intelligence and bot accounts on social media platforms like X and Bluesky and the wider implications AI will have on these platforms in the future.
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This episode of the DevOps Sauna gives a recap on all of the speaker talks and topics at The Future of Software in Helsinki.
Marc and Darren sit down with Pinja Kujala to discuss all of the fun and exciting talks at The DEVOPS Conference, as well as share their own stories and experiences with each of the speakers and organizations that came.
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This episode recaps all the speaker talks and topics at The DEVOPS Conference 2024 in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Marc and Darren sit down and discuss all of the fun and exciting talks at The DEVOPS Conference, from stories on how value stream management empowers DevOps to how Observability 2.0 is changing the software landscape.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Marc and Darren discuss the latest stories in DevSecOps, including using AI for automating governance and an increased focus on companies using RAG models to help leverage internal documentation to streamline DevSecOps tasks.
Marc and Darren also highlight other developments, including IBM acquiring HashiCorp, updates to Terraform and the IO domain, and the OpenSSH "regression" vulner
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In this episode, Darren and Marc are joined by Dan Grøndahl and Emma Dahl-Jeppesen.
Emma and Dan advocate for a product-driven approach to platform engineering, with clear boundaries and purpose to prevent team burnout—a shift from traditional, sometimes ambiguous DevOps roles.
They humorously explore “10 things we hate about platform engineering,” touching on issues like the build vs. buy dilemma and the risk of rebranding DevOps teams without adopting true platform practices.
They also stress the importance of intentional, user-centered approaches, and Marc highlights the challenge of avoiding "leaking abstractions" that overburden developers.
With Emma’s “annoyance-driven development” tip, encouraging asking “why” to uncover user needs, the session wraps up with anticipation for deeper discussions at The DevOps Conference: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/?utm_campaign=The%20DEVOPS%20Conference%2022&utm_source=Podcast
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This episode delves into the key topics surrounding security, SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), AI, and the seamless integration of security tools into DevOps.
Priyanka Syal emphasizes the importance of transparency in both software and training data, especially as AI introduces new challenges around ethics and security. Darren adds that many organizations are still struggling with basic security hygiene and SBOMs, but the advent of AI amplifies the urgency to track dependencies.
The discussion highlights that companies, big or small, must embrace security measures proactively. Security, done right, should be woven seamlessly into every phase of development without hindering creativity or innovation.
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In this episode, Marc and Darren chat with Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb. They explore how Charity balances a public role in tech, her thoughts on leadership, and the importance of building diverse, inclusive teams.
Charity opens up about her journey with Honeycomb, her personal life, and why she values hiring junior engineers.
The conversation also touches on the future of AI in engineering and career paths, including the engineering-manager pendulum.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Marc and Darren are joined by Dan Khurram to discuss a white paper that originated from a collaborative workshop focused on AI scenarios. The workshop, which involved various experts, explores the potential impacts of AI on businesses.
The conversation delves into the process behind creating the white paper, the different AI scenarios examined, and the balance between positive and negative impacts of AI.
A key focus in the discussion is the "AI for all" scenario, where they explore ethical considerations, governance challenges, and the ways AI could shape business operations and the workforce in the future.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Marc and Darren discuss the recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov by French authorities over allegations of failing to moderate criminal activities on the platform.
They explore the complexities of Telegram's encryption practices, noting that while the platform claims to offer secure communication, its lack of default end-to-end encryption raises concerns.
The conversation delves into the broader implications of platform security, comparing Telegram with other messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
For more content related to security, check out this episode on our DevOps Sauna podcast covering GitHub SBOMs, AI tools from Microsoft and GitLab, JetBrains Aqua, recent cyber threats, and more: https://www.eficode.com/devops-podcast/devops-news-innovations-and-cybersecurity-insights
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Helen Beal, a renowned expert in DevOps and Value Stream Management (VSM), steps into the sauna with Marc and Darren to discuss the significance of experimentation in production environments and the role of leadership in driving successful DevOps transformations.
Helen also explores the evolution and importance of Value Stream Management in modern DevOps practices and shares insights from working with organizations to improve their software delivery processes and how to effectively measure and manage value streams.
This episode is a preview of the themes and discussions that will be explored at The DevOps Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen in November 2024.
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Marc and Darren discuss the recent CrowdStrike root cause analysis (RCA) following a significant incident where an update to their Falcon sensor caused around 8 million Windows computers to crash.
The incident was traced back to an error in the software update that expected 20 inputs but received 21, leading to widespread blue screen crashes. The importance of thorough testing, including exploratory and canary testing, to catch issues before widespread deployment is covered by Marc and Darren, who also discuss the pressures in security software development. Rapid responses are critical, and this can lead to oversights.
One of the key takeaways is the high quality and transparency of CrowdStrike's RCA, which provided a detailed timeline, technical explanations, and a third-party review. Marc and Darren advocate for shifting from traditional "root cause analysis" to a "contributing factors analysis" to avoid placing blame and encourage open communication and learning from mistakes.
In this insightful episode, find out why fostering a generative organizational culture that encourages learning and transparency is so important, especially in security-focused development environments.
Watch our webinar to see how DevOps practices and tools help you integrate security and compliance into your software development: https://www.eficode.com/events/compliance-and-security-in-the-devops-world
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In this season finale, Marc and Darren take a reflective journey through the most compelling episodes of late, encapsulating key themes in DevOps, AI, and security while reflecting on the insights shared by notable guests such as Amanda Brock and Cheryl Hung.
They revisit key discussions on topics such as the challenges of AI in infrastructure, the importance of psychological safety, and the evolving landscape of open source software.
Our hosts also delve into lighter moments, including an April Fool’s satire and lessons from everyday life, tying them back to the broader themes of technology and innovation.
This finale not only recaps the season but also sets the stage for the exciting developments ahead in the world of DevOps.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna Season 4, the hosts dive into the recent CrowdStrike incident, which caused widespread bluescreen errors and significant disruptions globally. They explore why a seemingly routine update was deployed simultaneously to all CrowdStrike users, resulting in massive system crashes.
Joined by security expert and previous host Andy Allred, the discussion covers the role of CrowdStrike as an endpoint detection and response (EDR) system, its necessity for running with high privileges in kernel space, and the challenges of maintaining such critical security software.
The conversation highlights the need for rigorous testing, canary releases, and robust observability to prevent similar incidents. The hosts also discuss the implications of regulatory requirements, the importance of continuous delivery models in DevOps, and the lessons learned from the CrowdStrike mishap.
Despite the complexity and scale of the recovery process, the consensus is clear: Continuous improvement in testing and deployment practices is crucial for the stability and security of modern IT environments.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna season 4, Darren and Marc delve into key DevOps and security updates, focusing on GitHub's potential new standard for SBOMs and its collaboration with JFrog. They joke about their reliance on ChatGPT, given its recent outage, and discuss the concerning frequency of cyber attacks, referencing significant breaches such as Ticketmaster's.
Among the several topics covered in this episode are Microsoft's AI integration in DevOps workflows, GitLab's new AI tools, OpenTofu's recent security-enhanced release, JetBrains' new Aqua IDE for test automation, and GitHub's artifact attestations for supply chain security.
With all this talk of security, Marc and Darren address the recent PyTailor malware threat before wrapping up with GDPR and data protection issues in the UK, underscoring the importance of robust security measures.
Get the latest on GitLab, GitHub Enterprise Server, Jenkins, Artifactory, Xray, and SonarQube LTS in our Root release blog post: https://www.eficode.com/blog/root-whats-new-june-2024
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Dan Plumbley, Eficode's first GitLab champion, joins hosts Marc and Darren for an episode exploring GitLab. The discussion highlights GitLab's holistic approach, incorporating project management, CICD pipelines, and security features within a single platform.
Dan covers the integration of open-source tools that provide a seamless user experience with minimal context switching. The introduction of GitLab's AI offering, Duo, is also explored, showcasing its capabilities in code suggestions, security assessments, and refactoring, which enhance code quality and maintainability.
The trio touches on GitLab's evolution from an underdog to a leader in the DevOps space, with notable adoption by major global entities.
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In this episode, Marc's anecdote about resolving a stuck bike axle underscores the importance of having diverse tools and approaches when tackling problems—a principle that extends to security where relying solely on one method can lead to vulnerabilities.
Exploring the value of diverse strategies, redundancy, and rapid feedback loops in both mechanical problem-solving and security practices, our hosts emphasize the necessity of layered security, likening it to an onion with multiple defensive layers to deter threats like the Akira ransomware.
Darren and Marc advocate for frequent testing across multiple levels to ensure the early detection of issues. They highlight the importance of addressing internal vulnerabilities caused by human error and draw parallels between security practices and mechanical problem-solving methodologies.
Whether you're an IT professional, software developer, or anyone interested in improving project security, this discussion offers valuable strategies and perspectives to mitigate risks effectively.
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In this episode, Marc and Darren are joined by Sven Peters, Developer Advocate at Atlassian, discussing enhancing developer joy and productivity. Sven emphasizes that developers often understand their own problems, and management should listen to them. He discusses the increased cognitive load from responsibilities like observability and being on duty for microservices. Introducing "developer joy," Sven describes it as the balance of progress, quality, and value. He stresses reducing wait times and addressing unique team challenges.
Sven highlights bridging the gap between developers and product managers through techniques like project kickoffs and feature leads to ensure developers understand the problems they are solving. He also underscores the necessity of contextualizing metrics for assessing productivity. The conversation explores the creative aspect of software development, differentiating it from mechanical processes.
AI's impact on development is also covered with predictions into how it will change team dynamics, reduce traditional sprint planning, and alter team roles.
Platform engineering is a valuable practice in simplifying development and creating a conducive environment for innovation and enjoyment. Check out our page to learn more: https://www.eficode.com/platform-engineering
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In this episode, Marc and Darren are joined by colleagues Henri and Kalle to discuss the proactive role of DevOps in integrating AI into organizations. They emphasize the importance of robust security measures to manage risks and highlight the benefits and challenges of using AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), for apps like customer support and content creation.
They address the complexities of data integration and governance and the need for automated solutions to handle the scalability of AI. Its role in improving human-computer interaction and the importance of maintaining data accuracy and security are also discussed. Marc emphasizes clear data governance practices similar to GDPR, advocating for transparency through an AI bill of materials. Henri and Kalle discuss the necessity of advanced DevOps practices, including specification-driven development and CI/CD pipelines for efficient IT processes.
The conversation covers integrating requirements early into development value streams and maintaining rigorous verification and validation, particularly in secure environments, underscoring the proactive role of DevOps safety nets in enhancing software engineering.
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Darren and Marc discuss the EU AI Act, the world's first regulation on artificial intelligence development. The Act, aimed at controlling and putting guardrails on AI development, is seen as a step towards addressing potential risks associated with AI, such as manipulation, bias, and exploitation. While acknowledging the Act's spirit of protecting against AI misuse, they express concerns about its potential impact on innovation, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the AI space. They anticipate challenges in interpretation and enforcement, as well as potential lawsuits shaping the Act's implementation and effectiveness. Additionally, they ponder how the Act might affect marketing practices, emphasizing the need for transparency in AI systems and their interactions with people. The discussion also touches on the complexities of regulating AI and the implications for various industries and use cases.
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In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Marc and Darren are joined by Eficode UX and Accessibility Lead Annika, who emphasizes the importance of considering accessibility requirements and various user needs from the outset of any project. She shares her journey into accessibility work, highlighting its significance and intersection with user experience (UX). Annika discusses the technical aspects of accessibility, the importance of meeting minimum standards, and the necessity of manual testing alongside automated tools. The conversation delves into the impact of accessibility on users with impairments, the prevalence of accessibility needs, and upcoming legislation mandating accessibility in various sectors. Eficode's efforts in promoting accessibility are mentioned, along with practical tips to improve accessibility in your digital services.
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Marc and Darren discuss various topics, including the implications of edge computing on DevOps, the emergence of AI-generated code, controversies surrounding open-source licenses, the rise of start-ups focused on automating DevOps tasks, the widespread use of AI among developers, and the need for responsible innovation with Generative AI. They also touch on challenges in DevOps leadership and the importance of fostering a supportive environment for talent. Ultimately, while there are complexities and challenges in these areas, there's also optimism about the potential for positive change and innovation.
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In this episode, Marc and Darren host Cheryl Hung, Senior Director of Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm and founder of Cloud Native London. They discuss Arm's expanding role beyond mobile devices into data centers and infrastructure, highlighting increased software support for Arm processors. The conversation touches on trends like GitOps, WebAssembly (Wasm), and the shifting landscape of open-source licensing models. Cheryl also encourages community engagement and sharing knowledge through meetups and speaking opportunities. Overall, the episode offers insights into the evolving tech landscape and the importance of collaboration and open discourse.
In this episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, explores the impact of AI-generated code on open source software. She addresses licensing complexities, ownership issues, and maintainer responsibilities. The discussion also covers the misuse of open source in AI contexts and concerns about regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act and the EU AI Act. Amanda emphasizes community engagement in setting standards to ensure fair regulation. She highlights the necessity of users complying with laws over licenses and the trend of shifting liability onto commercializers. Legal complexities around Generative AI and managing security vulnerabilities in sectors like government, finance, and healthcare are also discussed. Darren, Marc, and Amanda reflect on AI's broader implications for job displacement and the importance of expertise and discernment but remain optimistic about the positive impacts, such as more informed decision-making.
Darren and Marc discuss the concept of repatriation in DevOps in this episode of DevOps Sauna, advocating for a return to manual deployment and bare metal servers. They discuss the importance of treating servers like pets rather than cattle, emphasizing hands-on care and control over automated processes. They also touch on topics such as maintaining server room temperature, manual cable management, the value of monoliths in software development, and the idea of allowing servers to "work from home" rather than relying on cloud-based solutions.
In this episode, Marc and Darren explore stress in IT, covering the signs, types, and management strategies. They share personal experiences and offer practical tools like the three and four-panel methods for addressing stress-inducing situations. They advocate for seeking professional help, breaking the stigma around mental health conversations, and promoting psychological safety in the workplace. Overall, their conversation underscores the importance of recognizing and addressing stress to foster well-being in both personal and professional spheres.
In this episode, Marc and Darren discuss the feasibility and implications of creating a fully open source toolchain for software development. They explore various aspects of the toolchain, including version control, compliance, secure storage, documentation, task management, and more.
Specific tools and their suitability for different purposes within the toolchain are explored. Darren evaluates options such as Gitea and GitLab for version control, SonarQube, and Aqua Security tools for compliance, and HashiCorp Vault for secure storage. Challenges in finding suitable replacements for commercial tools like Confluence for documentation and Jira for task management are also touched upon.
Throughout the episode, trade-offs between open source and commercial solutions, such as cost, ease of use, and support, are acknowledged. Underestimating the technical investment required to maintain open source toolchains is cautioned against, while software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms are suggested as a suitable alternative.
Darren and Marc advocate for a pragmatic approach to toolchain selection, recognizing the benefits and limitations of both open source and commercial offerings. They emphasize the importance of considering factors such as scalability, support, and ease of integration when making decisions about software development toolchains.
This episode explores the concept of value stream mapping, emphasizing transparency, prioritization, and continuous improvement to optimize value creation within organizations. Through discussions on feedback loops and breaking down silos, Marc and Darren empower listeners with insights to enhance their software development processes and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.
Darren and Marc discuss incident response in cybersecurity in this episode, with a focus on the importance of disconnecting rather than shutting down during security incidents.
They cover the four phases of incident response: Discovery, analysis, action, and postmortem, highlighting the shift in cybersecurity from prevention to effective response due to the inevitability of breaches.
They look at the complexity of achieving a perfectly secure system and stress the importance of continuous improvement and preparation in cybersecurity practices.
Marc and Darren address the resistance to change within organizations when it comes to adopting new technology. They cover the challenges of traditional command and control hierarchies in modern workplaces, emphasizing the importance of involving knowledge workers in the change process for successful adoption.
Also highlighted is the need for flexibility in selecting tools. They caution against tooling bias and stress the importance of management and developer buy-in for effective change management.
The role of platform ownership and the importance of security considerations in change management is also covered.
Marc and Darren conclude the episode with a reminder of the ongoing need for adaptation and growth in today's rapidly evolving landscape.
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In this podcast episode, Marc and Darren discuss platform engineering, with a focus on how to start building an effective platform from scratch in 2024. They emphasize the importance of erasing past mistakes, standardizing tooling, and gaining management buy-in.
Marc and Darren advocate a balanced approach that prioritizes getting software running quickly in a production-like environment to facilitate rapid feedback loops, and touch on investment, resistance to change, and the need for software to be adaptable to new platforms.
Darren and Marc highlight the importance of going all in on a platform transformation, emphasizing the need for commitment and investment.
They discuss the shift towards internal developer platforms and the challenges of overcoming ill-defined areas in platform engineering.
The conversation touches on common pitfalls, including the delay in considering security, tooling bias, and the tendency to try to build a perfect system instead of focusing on iteration.
Find out how to address these pitfalls by considering security early on, cultivating a DevOps culture centered around user feedback and positive reinforcement, abandoning the pursuit of a perfect system in favor of iterative development, and adopting all-in-one platforms like GitLab and GitHub.
Marc and Darren are joined by Andrew Martin, founder and CEO of control-plane.io, to discuss the challenges of securing Kubernetes for different user levels and the evolution of security practices in DevOps.
They emphasize collaboration between development and security teams and the importance of tools like OSCAL for automating security testing. Andrew addresses solutions for securing Kubernetes, such as network policies, RBAC, and container security management. He highlights the significance of log integration for security incident management and tools like Kubesec and bad robots for analysis. He also touches on configuring Linux security modules and the role of security monitoring in container security.
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In this episode, Marc and Andy are joined by the VP of Engineering at Showpad, Patrick Debois. They discuss GenAI and the metaverse, emphasizing their significance in the industry.
Patrick reflects on his famous quote about DevOps breaking silos and how the industry has evolved from large to smaller, more collaborative teams. They delve into DevOps with security, the evolution of collaboration among teams, and the challenges of working with external SAS vendors.
Patrick shares his thoughts on the future of AI, the metaverse, and the concept of "reality as code," as well as collaboration, understanding different perspectives, and the continuous evolution of technology.
In this episode, Andy, Marc, and Pinja discuss their experiences at The DEVOPS Conference Scandinavia 2023. They highlight several key themes and speakers from the event, including transformations, AI, Developer Experience (DX), and platform engineering. Some notable speakers mentioned include those from Saxo Bank, Adobe, HSBC, Spotify, and Syntasso. They emphasize the importance of attending such conferences for the valuable insights and networking opportunities they provide.
Marc and Andy discuss initiatives related to open source in the context of AI with Amanda Brock, who highlights the importance of open source as a means of transparency and accountability, allowing people to inspect and understand the code they use.
They also touch on topics like investing in open source as a way to support the global tech economy, the right to repair, and the challenges of ownership and liability in AI derivatives.
Amanda emphasizes the need for transparency in open data and building enthusiasm to convince others of the benefits.
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David Keane shares insight with Marc and Andy into the challenges of implementing DevOps at scale in HSBC.
Learn about the positive impact of DevOps on cost control and security for gaining buy-in, along with the importance of breaking down silos, promoting collaboration, and fostering a culture of accountability.
David also tells of the lever of change following a 48-hour system outage that prompted improved collaboration between IT and business teams.
-The DEVOPS Conference - Stockholm (October 23, 2023): efcd.co/3PlK1uZ
-The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen (October 25, 2023): efcd.co/3ERSsJn
**David and Ronnie from WirelessCar join Marc and Andy in the DevOps Sauna, focusing on helping teams with DevOps and team development.
In a thought-leadership experiment, David and Ronnie stress the importance of involving the whole team when someone takes the initiative to solve a problem.
They also discuss the DevOps Health Radar from SAFe, continuous improvement, fostering a culture of collaboration and collective ownership, creating a safe space where team members feel comfortable contributing without fear of failure, and more.**
-The DEVOPS Conference - Stockholm (October 23, 2023): efcd.co/3PlK1uZ
-The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen (October 25, 2023): efcd.co/3ERSsJn
Marc and Andy are joined by Cisco Senior Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke. They discuss her upcoming talk on code reviews and more at The DEVOPS Conference in Scandinavia. Also covered:
- The challenges of measuring developer productivity using DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics
- Code reviews, team dynamics, and the potential pitfalls of over-relying on narrow metrics for evaluating teams and individuals
- The importance of considering the broader context and environment in which development teams operate
- Team complaints and promoting accountability
- Improving team collaboration, code quality, and overall productivity in a development environment
In this pregame podcast for the DEVOPS Conference Scandinavia, Marc introduces special guest Pinja Kujala. Along with Andy, they discuss the upcoming DEVOPS Conference Live, scheduled for October 23rd and 25th, 2023, in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Get the lowdown on keynote speakers and their topics, from the practical use of AI in software development to the importance of security in the development process and building with empathy—crucial in creating a positive developer experience (DevX).
There's a connection between software development and cooking in that both require a certain level of creativity and experimentation. Juan Pablo Buriticá uses culinary analogies to explain software development principles and shares best practices for team success with Marc and Andy.
The DevOps Conference: https://hubs.li/Q021CcMw0
When considering platform engineering. GitLab is a one-stop tool solution for maintaining your backlog, building the code, writing and building the code, collaborating, and deploying into production, but it also has built-in security features. What is the role of a Solutions Architect from the GitLab side? We invited one (Péter Bozsó) to discuss his views on everything from hobby projects to enterprises.
Unlock the true potential of GitLab: https://hubs.li/Q01_2lF30 Blog: Separation of duties in DevOps and GitLab: Overcoming the 4 main challenges: https://hubs.li/Q01_2n3L0
There's something really special about the people behind open source and how they get involved. We've been talking to some of them this summer, and in this episode, we're chatting with Dr. Dawn Foster, from CHAOSS Project and board member of OpenUK.
-Join us at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01WFcS50 -Previous episode with Amanda Brock "Open source, copyright and AI": https://hubs.li/Q01XNj870 -Dawn on twitter: https://twitter.com/geekygirldawn
We've been talking about open source quite a bit lately. Loft Labs launched a brand new project called DevPod, built to help you spin up a dev environment wherever you want. Lian Li, Developer Advocate at Loft Labs, is here to help us find out more about it.
-Cloud native development training: https://hubs.li/Q01W_4S00 -Previous episode with Bill Mulliganon Stories about how eBPF is used today: https://hubs.li/Q01W_wt60 -Global Diversity CFP day on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdcfpday -The Kuberoke community: https://kuberoke.love/
We've had previous conversations with Liz Rice in the DevOps Sauna podcast before and hosted her eBPF talk at The DEVOPS Conference Global 2023. It seems that many people don't know much about the work that Isovalent is doing and eBPF in general, although they are huge worldwide. Bill Mulligan, the Community Pollinator of Isovalent, is here to tell a few stories about their work and impact.
-DevOps Sauna episode with Liz Rice Why sidecar-less Cilium Service Mesh is a game-changer: https://hubs.li/Q01WTQ8H0 -Liz Rice's keynote at The DEVOPS Conference Global 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01WTR150
Since early 2023, everyone has been scrambling around AI, although there have been discussions around it even before ChatGPT and GPT models came out. What's going on with AI in the world today? Is this a hype cycle? Is this something real? Jaakko Vainio, COO of Silo AI, is here to discuss this with us, as he's been in the game for a little while.
-We'll be covering AI-related topics at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023! Join us: https://hubs.li/Q01WFcS50
-Previous episode with Amada Brock: Open source, copyright and AI: https://hubs.li/Q01WSY_n0
-Scientific paper recommended by Jaakko: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369449949_Sparks_of_Artificial_General_Intelligence_Early_experiments_with_GPT-4
Will AI destroy open source because it will end up in the hands of a few companies that can afford it? Amanda Brock, CEO of Open UK - the UK organization for the business of open technology - is excited about working out how open source will survive as this mainstream thing and continue to be the bulk of our infrastructure so that it belongs to all of us instead of a few.
-Join us at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01WFcS50 -Previous podcast episode with Rebecca Rumbul: Good software, built by happy, well-supported people: https://hubs.li/Q01WFdCW0
"Good software is built by happy, well-supported people", Rust Foundations, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to stewarding the Rust programming language. Most open-source software developers are paid professionals, usually working in corporations or enterprises, but they may be working anywhere. And it may or may not be the hobby project that they're working on. It's often their main line. What is the Rust Foundation in terms of also supporting open source? We've invited Rebecca Rumbul, Rust Foundation's CEO, to learn more.
-Open source today, with Anais Urlichs, Developer Advocate at Aqua Security and CNCF Ambassador of the year from 2021: https://hubs.li/Q01WCyss0 -How companies can approach open source contributions, a podcast episode with GitHub: https://hubs.li/Q01TNn3g0 -Open source projects at Eficode: https://hubs.li/Q01WCzCn0
How do you know what you're using in the open source field is legitimate? More and more people are moving to using open source tools and they don't question whether the Grafana open source or any monitoring solutions that are open source, because they're so widely used by so many companies. And that collective knowledge and collective input that open source now provides, generates the trust from the community. We invited Anais Urlichs, Developer Advocate at Aqua Security and CNCF Ambassador of the year from 2021, to discuss open source today.
How companies can approach open source contributions, a podcast episode with GitLab: https://hubs.li/Q01TNn3g0
Jason Walker joins us in this episode to discuss the platform engineering work he's been doing with American Airlines, which is becoming one of the most state-of-the-art shops. How did this project get started? How did it ramp up, considering some typical large organization software pathologies?-Get a unique snapshot view of platform engineering today: https://hubs.li/Q01RVV0q0
This is a DevOps Sauna field day episode, Marc and Andy talk about what they learned about Copilot X Chat, as they review their recent webinar with James Garcia from Github.-The webinar "AI-driven development: exploring GitHub Copilot" will soon be available athttps://hubs.li/Q01R8K-S0
"We should design platforms that make simple things simple and hard things possible.”, Alan Kay, computer scientist. For Kaspar Von Grünberg, founder and CEO of Humanitec and our guest for this episode, this summarizes the key thing in platform engineering, which is how can you design paths, and pathways that are respectful towards every single individual contributor and everybody who's working with these platforms? There are a lot of different users, but how can you accommodate their individual preferences? -Emily Freeman's keynote on DX from The DEVOPS Conference - Global 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01QwGXs0- Kaspar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaspar_official
A couple of weeks ago, some members of our Eficode team attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, the event that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Andy Allred even took the stage together with Liz RiceEnjoy some key takeaways from The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) flagship conference in this short DevOps Sauna episode!
Our mantra in DevOps since the beginning has been: "everything is code" But how do we keep track of what's happening in our development pipeline, the builds, the tests, the commits, the security scans? Is there such a thing as a black box for software or DevOps? We invited Mike Long, CEO at Kosli, a startup making an impact in DevOps culture and providing a data layer for DevOps, to discuss his and their DevOps journey with their fintech customers.-Podcast with Viktor Farcic from Crossplane: GitOps for your infrastructure as code https://hubs.ly/Q01DDW6F0-Find Mike Long, co-founder at Kosli: https://twitter.com/meekrosoft-Find out more about Kosli:https://www.kosli.com/
Breaking news on software security guidelines from The White House, analysis and reporting from The DevOps Sauna PodcastThe Biden administration announced a new, historic National Cybersecurity Strategy calling for cybersecurity liability and increased investment.Our podcast hosts, Marc and Andy discuss the topic with Darren Richardson, Security Architect at Eficode.Some relevant sources:- White House National Cybersecurity Strategy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf-FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/02/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-national-cybersecurity-strategy/
The topic of the year remains platform engineering. It's one of our trends for 2023. We've been working on it and talking about it for years now, but it's getting really, really critical. We invited Nuno Guedes, who has been working on a development platform and is taking platform engineering quite seriously in Millennium BCP. Let's find out what are their capabilities for development, CI/CD, and developer experience in their development platform at Millennium BCP today-Blog: Get a unique snapshot view of platform engineering today: https://hubs.li/Q01BGQCZ0-At The DEVOPS Conference - Global, on March 22 & 23, we do cover the platform engineering topic too. Have a look at the program: https://hubs.li/Q01CCgQL0
If DevOps is the heart of your organization, then value stream management should be the brain, and CI/CD the bloodstream. A metaphor by Paweł Piwosz, Lead Systems Engineer at EPAM Systems, whom we've invited to elaborate on this.-Check out the agenda of The DEVOPS Conference -Global, March 22 & 23, where Paweł is taking the stage online: https://hubs.li/Q01BbCx50-Paweł's website: https://www.cicd.run/-Find Paweł on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelpiwosz/
We talk a lot about User Experience (UX), we talk about Customer Experience, and these days we're even talking about Developer Experience. But talking about Employee Experience is hugely important and in this episode, we discuss the missing link between Employee and Customer Experience.-Building winning customer experiences guide: https://hubs.li/Q01zlQ0f0Maria Wan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariawan/Emmi Tammiluoma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammiluoma/
A discussion with Cheryl Hung, one of the keynotes speakers at The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen, 2022. We bring up the question: "what is cloud native?", and because it says cloud, then that means too many people that okay, cloud has to be the main thing. But you can do cloud native without using clouds! It's a way of thinking about how you're designing your system, what kind of tools you're using, what kind of ecosystem you're putting into place and pulling bits and pieces of this and thinking about things from a certain angle more than where you're actually running compute.-Watch Cheryl's talk from The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen, 2022: https://hubs.li/Q01xlQbG0
For anyone facing the challenge of migrating from one DevOps toolset to another, Kalle Sirkesalo has gathered the most useful lessons with plenty of real-world examples.A blog-it-out-loud episode based on Kalle Sirkesalo's blog post: https://hubs.li/Q01w1k480
FinOps is the operating model for the cloud. And we really need FinOps to enable companies and people to leverage all of these advantages that the cloud is promising, such as lower costs, innovation, scaling and availability.We invited Vanessa Kantner and Manuela Latz from Liquid Reply to discuss the topic.- Watch Hung's keynote from The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen 2022: https://hubs.li/Q01vRKQ90- Find Manuela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuela-latz/- Find Vanessa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-kantner/
Agile frameworks have taken over the software development world. For good reason – when you are Agile, you can easily scale up, iterate and quickly react to a constantly changing environment. In this post, Thomas Stenius, UX specialist at Eficode, shares:-A brief summary of Agile and human-centered design-Challenges you will likely face when marrying Agile and HCD-How to mitigate these challenges and succeedRead the original blog: https://hubs.li/Q01tRMs00
With almost 20 years of experience working with software, Kelsey Hightower’s name is widely known in the community today. After hosting him as a keynote at The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen, we invited Kelsey to chat with Marc and Andy about his journey to becoming the rockstar that he is.
-The secure software supply chain (Kelsey's talk at The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen): https://hubs.li/Q01tqrKh0 -Kelsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower
Migrating your DevOps toolchain to AWS is great, but it is a big undertaking where it is easy to slip up. Some mistakes will hurt you immediately — and some you will regret forever.
Our team has guided companies along this journey many times and has seen which mistakes are being made.
To help you avoid the same mistakes, Erik Badman, Cloud Engineer at Eficode, explores the most common ones for you, and what to do to avoid them.
Read the original blog: https://hubs.li/Q01t62hX0
Who owns your test automation over time?
A question we hear from many clients is sometimes puzzling, almost a little philosophical. As long as you keep developing new features, you need to continue developing the test automation too, right?
But who should be responsible for test automation? And even more in-depth: What are the different parts of test automation that one can be responsible for?
Read original blog: https://hubs.li/Q01sd4y90
Guide: Delivering continuous quality https://hubs.li/Q01sd5dD0
Should one choose Jenkins, GitLab CI, or maybe GitHub Actions?
This blog, by Sofus Albertsen, Continuous Delivery Trainer and Consultant, will guide you through the selection process and give you guidance for making the optimal choice.
Read the original blog post here: https://hubs.li/Q01qC7QW0
IMPROVE PLANNING AND TEAM ENGAGEMENT - BY IRIS GOLBOA & ORI KEREN
This talk gives you insight of how BigID uses the Projects view in LinearB, and how it helped them improve with planning and team engagement.
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The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live-streamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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Follow Iris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irisgilboa/ Follow Ori on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ori-keren-8254965/
PlanetScale, what is it? This has been something that's been trending lately, we've been really excited about it. Is it GitHub for databases or stateless storage in the cloud? We think it's definitely the next great leap for databases., and to talk about it, we have invited Lilli Seyther-Besecke and Johannes Nicolai from PlanetScale.
Related content: -Transform your business with GitHub Enterprise: https://hubs.li/Q01n__fz0 -From Git to zero-day delivery in one go: https://hubs.li/Q01p01Jn0 -Blog: War of the CI servers – GitLab vs. GitHub vs. Jenkins: https://hubs.li/Q01n__XJ0
-Lilli Seyther-Besecke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilli-seyther-besecke/ -Johannes Nicolai :https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-nicolai-b508208/
MIGRATION OF A CONTAINERIZED LEGACY APPLICATION LEGACY APPLICATION IN THE CLOUD - BY PATRICK KOCH & MICHAEL MITTER
In this talk at The DEVOPS Conference - online, Patrick and Michael go through the steps they took regarding technology/implementation (and why), how far they have already come, which tasks are still pending, and what obstacles they have had to overcome.
The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live-streamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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-Join us at The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen: hubs.li/Q01l8PZ70 -Sign up for the free live streaming: hubs.li/Q01l8Qsy0 -Watch all talks from The DEVOPS Conference 2022: hubs.li/Q01l9hFt0
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The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes
This blog will put forward some arguments for why Kubernetes users, and developers, in particular, should look beyond the traditional Kubernetes we have learned over the past few years to paradigms that may be better suited for cloud-native applications.
Read original blog: https://hubs.li/Q01mpbwX0
Join The DEVOPS Conference in Copenhagen or online to hear Kelsey Hightower: https://hubs.li/Q01l8YRd0
PULL REQUEST SIZE: THE MOST IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE HEALTH - BY ORI KEREN
In this recorded talk at The DEVOPS Conference 2022 by Ori Keren we learned why small PR size is the key to healthy cycle time, MTTR, change failure rate and deploy frequency.
Accelerate popularized “DORA 4” metrics for tracking the health of your dev pipeline. Ori studied 2,600 teams and found a single indicator that predicts if your team’s metrics will be elite.
The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live streamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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Follow Ori on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ori-keren-8254965/
MODERN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: WHY DEVELOPER FIRST PROCESS AND TOOLING IS CRITICAL IN THE SHIFTING LEFT AND CLOUD PARADIGM - BY NICK LIFFEN
In this recording from The DEVOPS Conference, Nick Liffen discusses why modern software needs processes and tooling to be developers first. He dives into some of the data and tools at hand, which can help push your developers to be more aware of security, and truly treat it as a being part of the software development lifecycle.
The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be livestreamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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Follow Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickliffen/
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration. All of the cloud providers have their own solutions for Kubernetes. But what do you do when you're on-prem? We've invited Andrew Rynhard CTO and founder at SideroLabs to talk about Talos Linux.
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- Podcast on platform teams: https://hubs.li/Q01mp9-S0
- Blog: the future of Kubernetes: https://hubs.li/Q01mpbwX0
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Andrew on twitter: @andrewrynhard
THE POWER OF DEVOPS COMBINED WITH VALUE STREAM - KEYNOTE BY HELEN BEAL
Better customer experiences and organizational performances in the digital economy? In this Talk, Helen helped us find out how Value Stream Management uses DevOps practices to create and improve progressive ways of working.
The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live-streamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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-Join us at The DEVOPS Conference - Copenhagen: hubs.li/Q01l8PZ70 -Sign up for the free live streaming: hubs.li/Q01l8Qsy0 -Watch all talks from The DEVOPS Conference 2022: hubs.li/Q01l9hFt0
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Follow Helen on Twitter: @HelenHappyBee
HOW TO MAKE YOUR DAYS BETTER WITH DEVOPS - KEYNOTE BY NICOLE FORGSGREN
How can we support our work and improve our teamwork? DevOps was originally started to take care of people doing the work while they built great software. In this talk, Nicole Forsgren discusses how DevOps practices can not only help us ship software with speed and stability, they can also reduce burnout, improve our culture, and communicate better.
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The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live-streamed too.
Join us for a full day to discuss today’s DevOps: cloud native, platform engineering, GreenOps, psychological safety and more.
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-Book your early bird ticket by September 12: https://hubs.li/Q01l8PZ70 -Sign up for the free live streaming: https://hubs.li/Q01l8Qsy0 -Watch all talks from The DEVOPS Conference 2022: https://hubs.li/Q01l9hFt0
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Follow Nicole on Twitter: @nicolefv
THE FUTURE OF KUBERNETES - FIRESIDE CHAT WITH KELSEY HIGHTOWER
What does the future hold for Kubernetes? This interactive discussion with Kelsey Hightower, Principal Engineer at Google, at The DEVOPS Conference 2022 online, gives you an insight into how Kubernetes works now and what it's going to look like in the future.
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The DEVOPS Conference has been organized annually as a virtual event. On November 1, 2022, the event is going to Copenhagen, Denmark, and will be live-streamed too.
Kelsey will be joining us again, this time live, on stage in Copenhagen, with his talk “The secure software supply chain”, a session to explore the various tools used to secure the software supply chain, and through a collection of live demos, learn how to put them to use in the real world.
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-Kelsey’s talk at The DEVOPS Conference in Copenhagen: https://hubs.li/Q01l8YRd0 -Book your early bird ticket by September 12: https://hubs.li/Q01l8PZ70 -Sign up for the free live streaming: https://hubs.li/Q01l8Qsy0 -Watch all talks from The DEVOPS Conference 2022: https://hubs.li/Q01l9hFt0 -Blog: The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes in 2022: https://hubs.li/Q01l8TvG0
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Follow Kelsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower
When we say we have a DevOps team, usually we say it in terms of you build it, you run it, but what are actually the parts that you're running?
To discuss this, we've invited Johan Abildskov, Software Engineer at Uber, and Eficode Alumni.
Johan has been a rockstar in the DevOps scene and the book Practical Git: Confident Git Through Practice, has been influential to many in the DevOps community, including our hosts, Marc and Andy.
Relevant content: -DevOps for executives: https://hubs.li/Q01k-M1Q0 -Johan's book: Practical Git: Confident Git Through Practice: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54486747-practical-git
Connect on Twitter: Johan: @randomsort Dan: @dangrondahl Marc: @MarcDillonDotFi Andy: @punasusi
The Cilium project - best known as a networking plugin for Kubernetes - just released a service mesh functionality.
We've invited Liz Rice for a technical conversation around Cilium Service Mesh.
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly.
Liz Rice in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizrice
A guided tour of Cilium Service Mesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e10kDBEsZw4
Guide: Make the most of DevOps and Cloud https://hubs.li/Q01jd2fZ0
The Future of Kubernetes - a blog post: https://hubs.li/Q01jd0ZD0
Takeaways and Trends in CloudNativeCon 2022 - a blog post: https://hubs.li/Q01jd0-x0
DevOps is 70% culture and 30% technology. But why is it that DevOps is so strongly connected with CI/CD pipelines, shift-left security, infrastructure as code? Where is the culture? Our people both in our DevOps teams and POPs, people operations, have productized some of their important lessons learned into our customer workshop portfolio so that businesses can develop their so-called soft skills and hard skills side by side. We invited Boris Schulz, Lead DevOps consultant in Germany, and Nina Maria Figueiredo, People and Culture Manager in Denmark and Norway.
Online DevOps assessment. Quickly understand your DevOps capabilities: https://hubs.li/Q01dxMDD0
DevOps Assessment: https://hubs.li/Q01dxMHS0
Boris Schulz, Lead DevOps Consultant in Germany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-schulz/
Nina Maria Figueiredo, People and Culture Manager: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-maria-figueiredo-585a8318/
Individuals often cycle between the changing environments of being a consultant and the focus and pride of ownership and product development. Together with Tuukka Sarkki, Lead Consultant at Eficode, we're adding a third part, the leap of faith of entrepreneurship and the value that can bring when becoming a consultant.
Ready to take on a new role? Come change the world with us: https://hubs.li/Q01csgW70
Tuukka Sarkki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsarkki/
Many companies have embraced communities of practice one way or another. But unfortunately, not all of them thrive. Why is that the case? And what could help companies instill practice communities better in their culture? We invited Ronan Mac Laverty, Director of Platform Development at Varian. In his recent MBA thesis, Ronan investigated how service-designed tools can be used to facilitate communities of practice in software development organizations. He's joined by Tuomas Leppilampi, who is a Digital Transformer and a DevOps team lead at Eficode.
DevOpsTrends 2022: https://hubs.li/Q019XlZT0
Ronan MacLaverty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maclaver/
Tuomas Leppilampi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuomas-leppilampi-6a2119/
Esteettömyysdirektiivi edellyttää, että viranomaiset ja yksityinen sektori tekevät tietyt tuotteet ja palvelut EU:ssa esteettömiksi ja saavutettaviksi.
Lataa opas: https://hubs.li/Q01b72TK0
AIRUT-lehti: https://www.airutlehti.fi/
Celia-kirjasto: https://www.celia.fi/
Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö - Esteettömyysdirektiivi: https://stm.fi/esteettomyysdirektiivi
EU-DIREKTIIVI 2019/882 tuotteiden ja palvelujen esteettömyysvaatimuksista: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FI/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882
Twitter:
Ronja Pahaoja - @ronjaoja
Juha Sylberg - @jsylberg
Why it is so easy to lose the customer in the heat of product development?
We tend to forget for whom we do the project for. In DevOps, we say that we need to focus on user needs by amplifying and shortening the feedback loops. But how it's done? What should be done to entice customers to be part of the development process?
Guide: Creating product user insights https://hubs.li/Q0191T_Y0
Blog: Solving problems with UX https://hubs.li/Q0191V2b0
Blog: Customer insight at different stages of service development https://hubs.li/Q01925Y80
Blog: Do you know your customers? Learn who they are, or they won’t care about you https://hubs.li/Q01925ZM0
Podcast: Behavioral biases in product management https://hubs.li/Q01926sp0
Maria Wan https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariawan/
Jarmo Parkkinen https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarmoparkkinen/
Marko Lindgren https://www.linkedin.com/in/markolindgren/?originalSubdomain=de
How do software development leaders view DevOps and Agile?
DevOps is no longer a new and hip concept, but rather has a proven track record in enabling business agility and performance. When DevOps has been successfully adopted, teams can react to the user feedback swiftly and release software independently. In this podcast episode, we've invited two of our software leaders, Risto and Matias to discuss DevOps and how we internally view software development. We're talking about DevOps and Agile today.
Risto Kinnunen, Team Lead, Project manager & Scrum Master at Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/risto/
Matias Merenmies, Software Team Lead at Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/matias-merenmies/
Relevant content Sustainable software development: from an idea to a managed service: https://hubs.li/Q018qV7B0
When we talk about dashboards in software development, we may think that the more accurate is better.
But what if the only data you have is an approximation that gets more uncertain the longer you look at it? Andy Allred has worked in the submarine for years, and he discusses what people in software development can learn about navigating with shady circles on the charts.
Andy Allred in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/
Marc Dillon in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
-How to avoid bad metrics in software development: https://hubs.li/Q017Wy9F0
Kubernetes keeps gaining popularity. But how is all of it controlled?
Crossplane is one way to achieve that. We invited Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, and Andy Allred, Lead DevOps Consultant at Eficode to make sense of all of this.
Viktor Farcic on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic/
Andy Allred on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/
Related content: -The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes in 2022: https://hubs.li/Q017JPkh0 -Outgrowing Terraform and adopting control planes: https://hubs.li/Q017JPCq0 -How to apply DevOps practices to Infrastructure as Code: https://hubs.li/Q017JPVm0
We invited some exciting people to our podcast to share some backstories around the themes we covered at The DEVOPS Conference. In this episode, we have Lauri Huhta, Data Engineer and MLOps consultant from Data Nuggets, and Yishai Beeri, CTO of LinearB discuss data-driven engineering, what is behind the old problem of data integrity in the software industry, how to solve it, and how to approach metrics right
-Webinar: Measure your DevOps transformation https://hubs.li/Q016Y46l0
-Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB on Twitter: @yishaibeeri
-Lauri Huhta, Data Engineer & MLOps Consultant at Data Nuggets on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauri-huhta-254502137/
There are many reasons why coding the CI/CD pipeline can be untrustworthy or what are the sources or vulnerabilities of the software delivery pipeline. One of those reasons is that the identity of the people who made the commits cannot be verified. What to do about that and where should companies start to improve their SDLC security is what we discussed today with Bob Burke from Beyond Identity and Niko Ikonen from Eficode.
-The DEVOPS Conference recordings: https://hubs.li/Q016H68X0 -Webinar: Compliance and security in the DevOps world: https://hubs.li/Q016H5HL0
Our speakers on social media: -Bob Burke, VP Security and Infrastructure at Beyond Identity: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-burke-4293712/ -Niko Ikonen, Senior Consultant at Eficode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niko-ikonen-61170657/?originalSubdomain=fi
Andreas von Motionpixxl, Johannes von Metamorphant und Boris von Eficode reden über Grundlegende Konzepte von Lean und Scrum als Waffe.
Social media:
-Andreas Einzmann - Inhaber, Motionpixx: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-einzmann-23998a28/
-Johannes Knauf - Matamorphant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-knauf-87855b90/
-Boris Schulz -Lead DevOps Consultant, Eficode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-schulz/
Leitfaden: DevOps for executives: https://hubs.li/Q016Fzd40
The DEVOPS Conference is coming again soon, on March 8 & 9, and to build excitement for the DevOps event of the year, we have invited Sofia Neto, Head of Ecosystem experience, and Sérgio Freire, Head of Solution Architecture and Testing Advocacy, both from Xray. From Eficode, Szilard Szell, a DevOps Consultant joins our conversation.
We talk about how culture builds quality, why it is hard to build high-performing teams, and what characteristics teams should be looking for in their tools.
-The DEVOPS Conference, March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q015br580
-Continuous Quality Assurance guide: https://hubs.li/Q015bFF40
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Puppet 2021 state of DevOps report: https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report
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Xray eBook: Native Quality Management: https://fs.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/9030804/Resources/eBooks/eBook-2021/Ebook-Native-Quality-Management-Xray.pdf
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Xray eBook: Unlocking Agile Testing: https://f.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/9030804/Resources/eBooks/eBook-2021/Ebook-Agile-Testing.pdf
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Xray eBook: Delivering better software using Test Automation: https://f.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/9030804/Resources/eBooks/eBook-2021/Ebook-Test-Automation-Xray.pdf
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Article: Get started with DevOps: principles, best practices and tips: https://www.getxray.app/blog/get-started-with-devops-principles-best-practices-and-tips
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Article: DevOps: How to embrace collaboration with fearless visibility: https://www.getxray.app/blog/devops-how-to-embrace-collaboration-with-fearless-visibility
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Article: How to implement shoulder-checks and improve quality as a team: https://www.getxray.app/blog/how-to-implement-quality-as-a-team-responsibility
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Xray Blog: DevOps & Agile Section: https://www.getxray.app/topic/devops-and-agile
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Sofia's article on Linkedin"What I didn’t know about DevOps": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-dev-ops-sofia-neto-can%C3%A1rio/
Sofia on social: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofianeto/ Twitter: @sofianeto
Sergio on social: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiofreire/ Twitter: @darktelecom
While both terms DevOps toolchain and DevOps Platform emerged in 2010, the term DevOps Platform is now about ten times more popular. What does it mean and what's the difference between those terms? We invite Adrian Waters, Solutions Architect at GitLab and Kalle Sirkesalo, CTO of Managed Services at Eficode to discuss the topic.
The DEVOPS Conference, March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q015tmZJ0
Relevant content: -Guide: How to estimate DevOps toolchain costs: https://hubs.li/Q015tlzF0 -On-demand Webinar: How to scale remote-first and succeed: https://hubs.li/Q015twC50
Adrian Waters, Solutions Architect, Gitlab on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/watersadrian/
Kalle Sirkesalo, CTO of Managed Services, Eficode on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kallesirkesalo/
A week before The DEVOPS Conference, Andy Allred, Lead DevOps consultant at Eficode meets Mike Guthrie, Engineering Team Lead at NetFoundry to discuss zero-trust in a DevOps environment. Will you sleep better at night if your DevOps environments are dark?
Mark's talk at The DEVOPS Conference, on March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q0155wBt0
Sign up for free: https://hubs.li/Q0155wPz0
Mike Guthrie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-guthrie-b4b4a024/
Andy Allred on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/
Educational content: -Free on-demand webinar: Compliance and security in the DevOps world: https://hubs.li/Q01552Sj0 -Mitigate against tampering attacks - Secure your software delivery chain: -Breakneck speed without breaking our necks: https://netfoundry.io/devops-meets-secops/ -CERM embeds NetFoundry’s zero-trust networking to scale and accelerate solution deployments: https://netfoundry.io/anvil/NF-CERMCS.pdf -Ramco Systems future proof cloud, network and security strategy with NetFoundry’s Zeror-ust Network Access platform: https://netfoundry.io/anvil/NF-RamcoCS.pdf
Marko Klemetti, CTO of Eficode, is joined by Mike McQuaid, Staff engineer at GitHub, and the HomeBrew project leader.
Marko and Mike discuss how Homebrew came to be, how Homebrew built an approach to contributions from the community, and what companies could learn from these experiences when they decide on their approach to open source contributions.
How Homebrew came to be? How to combine employment and open source work? How can companies enable open source contributions at work? What is the right investment level for open source in a company? What is the role of DevOps in open source projects?
Register to The DEVOPS Conference - for free Online - March 8th and 9th, 2022 https://hubs.li/Q014j4xT0
Related content:
-Open source projects: https://hubs.li/Q014j4Y30
-DEVOPS 2020 Talk: Survival of the most open - Microsoft's open source journey by Sasha Rosenbaum, GitHub: https://hubs.li/Q014j5gK0
-The DEVOPS Conference 2021 Talk: The top 5 InnerSource myths, Martin Woodward, GitHub: https://hubs.li/Q014j5Xq0
-On-demand webinar: GitHub Enterprise on Azure as a managed service: https://hubs.li/Q014j6Z50
-From Git to zero-day delivery in one go: https://hubs.li/Q014j79C0
Marko Klemetti on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrako/
Mike McQuaid on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkmcqd/
This time we discuss Cloud Waste and Zero Trust.
Everyone gets the logic of the cloud: scale up the resources as the demand increases, and only pay for what you use. Yet one in three to one in five euros spent on cloud is wasted. Why is that, and what can we do about it?
As cloud becomes the de facto service deliver method, security becomes evermore important. One viable approach is Zero Trust: secure everything based on trusted identities. Or, said another way: Trust no one, provide least privilege, and assume breach.
Marc Cluet from HashiCorp joins with Andy Allred and Eugen Kaparulin from Eficode.
Marc Cluet https://www.linkedin.com/in/marccluet
Andy Allred https://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/
Eugen Kaparulin https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugen-kaparulin/
Register to The DevOps Conference https://hubs.li/Q013KpJP0
DevOps & Cloud guide https://hubs.li/Q013KpPL0
Cloud Waste https://www.hashicorp.com/minimize-cloud-waste
Zero Trust https://www.hashicorp.com/solutions/zero-trust-security
We met with Scott Gerlack from StackHawk and Darren Richardson from Eficode to talk about API Security testing tools: - how to help developers embrace security in the right level - how front-end and back-end developers should approach negotiation and contracts for APIs, and - what requirements should companies to look for from an API security testing tool.
Sign up for free to The DEVOPS Conference, March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q013K6rw0
Scott Gerlach in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-gerlach-kaakaww/
Darren Richardson in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greatbushybeard/
Related content: -Eficode Guide, Delivering continuous quality: https://hubs.li/Q012D7690 -StackHawk Security Testing API: https://www.test.stackhawk.com/solutions/api-security-testing/ -StackHawk Security Testing overview:https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/api-security-testing-overview/ -StackHawk blog: API Security, Protection from Vulnerabilities with Design and Testing: https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/api-security-protection-from-vulnerabilities-with-design-and-testing/ -Scanning REST APIs video: https://youtu.be/GJFccJBDkFg
When R&D isn’t the bottleneck, we may run into a risk of filling in the system with “something”.
Perttu Nihti from Basware and Markku Nurmela from Eficode join us to discuss the journey to R&D, how to look at effectiveness from the customer value perspective.
Perttu Nihti, Basware https://www.linkedin.com/in/perttu-nihti-44529/
Markku Nurmela, Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkunurmela/
Related links: -The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4 -The Three-portfolio model guide: https://hubs.li/Q012D5Pv0 -Agile training at Eficode: https://hubs.li/Q012D5T20 -DevOps transformation: https://hubs.li/Q012D63Z0 -Eficode ROOT: https://hubs.li/Q012D68j0
Minimum Viable Product, or just MVP, is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development. Or is it? We invited Arto Kiiskinen, Harri Pendolin, and Christian Clausen from Eficode to debate on the purpose of Minimum Viable Product.
Christian Clausen https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-clausen-276a792b/
Marc Dillon https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
Arto Kiiskinen https://www.linkedin.com/in/arto-kiiskinen-a98611/
Harri Pendolin https://www.linkedin.com/in/harripendolin/
Related contents -Free on-demand webinar: How to successfully kick-start the development of your new service https://hubs.li/Q011s0390 -Free on-demand webinar: Continuous validation in service development https://hubs.li/Q011s09K0 -Boost your business - make your people, processes and technologies flow: https://hubs.li/Q011s0c30 -Service Design – How to Deliver Excellent Solutions and Experiences: https://hubs.li/Q011s0dv0 -How to sabotage a Design Sprint: https://hubs.li/Q011s0dR0
Measuring the overall success of product development can be frustrating, because there are so many metrics to choose from, just like there are so many tools to collect, analyze, report, and act on the metrics.
We invited Eero Jyske from Iceye, and Henri Hämäläinen, Agile coach and product organization coach at Eficode. They discuss R&D effectiveness from their experience, and what software organizations should do about it.
Eero Jyske in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eerojyske/
Henri Hämäläinen https://www.linkedin.com/in/henkkahamalainen/
Related links: The Three-portfolio model guide: https://hubs.ly/Q010RqwJ0
Set the strategy for a successful DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/Q010RqH10
Eficode ROOT: https://hubs.li/Q010RqNZ0
People frequently move into new teams or environments in software companies. And if different teams are sufficiently similar, and there is some room for failure during the onboarding, it can be a smooth sail. But what if literally someone else's life can depend on the onboarding process? How do you then run onboarding?
Andy Allred who worked in the submarine for years joined to introduce us to the intricacies of a submarine, to discuss how onboarding process looks like in a nuclear submarine, and what software companies can learn from it.
Andy Allred https://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/
Marc Dillon https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
Related contents -Set the strategy for a successful DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/Q010RqH10 -Eficode Academy: https://hubs.ly/Q010RqW50
This is the season to look back, to look forward: what movements have we seen while working with the DevOps community, and what should we expect to see more of in 2022? We identified five trends the DevOps community have their focus on and wanted to share them with you.
The trends we see: - Adopting design tools and practices to improve your security practices - Web3 - Putting a human in the middle - DevOps replatforming - Coding assistants
Watch these trends as videos: https://hubs.li/Q0115rXt0
DevOps Trends 2021 report: https://hubs.li/Q0115rWr0
THE BUILD THAT CRIED BROKEN: BUILDING TRUST IN YOUR CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION TESTS
Continuous integration (CI) is an excellent source of fast feedback for teams. When development check-ins are made, the automated tests are able to verify that the system is still working as expected. However, for many teams, one or more of their tests ultimately fail causing the entire build to break. If this happens frequently enough, the team begins to lose faith in the tests and no longer regards the red build as an indicator that something is broken (other than the tests themselves).
Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
TOWARDS TRUSTWORTHY AI-BASED SYSTEMS -- CHALLENGES, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTS
AI capabilities, and particularly machine learning (ML), crossed a scaling threshold a decade or so ago, and have since become a significant source of capability in a wide range of systems and in diverse sectors. In this talk, building on perspective granted from sixty years of DARPA investment in AI capabilities, we review the progress and prospects for AI-based systems, with emphasis on potential pathways to more trustworthy and reliable AI-based systems. This drives us to consider how we can combine advance of AI capabilities with advances in the development of high-assurance software. Emerging techniques for high assurance development give a reason for optimism.
Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
GOING BEYOND DEVOPS WITH EFFECTIVE DESIGN- AND NOOPS-PRACTICES
As DevOps Platforms are paving the way towards NoOps, it is time to review what the best organizations are doing today and why most organizations get stuck halfway through the transformation? In this presentation, I will explain how modern organizations enable a culture that aims towards self-organized teams and supports that with self-service IT. Culturally public cloud and well-working DevOps platforms already push organizations towards collaboration, the same way as design systems and low code bring business people, designers and development together. A talk by Marko Klemetti, CTO at Eficode.
Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
SECURITY ANALYSIS BY EXAMPLE, SHIFTING-LEFT TOWARDS A DEVSECOPS MINDSET
Tech organisations say that “security should be everyone’s responsibility” which is true since security is one of the most important software architecture quality attributes. But reality says something else - many organisations haven’t established a true DevSecOps mindset. Many developers and architects believe that security analysis belongs to the IT-administrators and infrastructure, that it is not also their own area of responsibility.
Security questions became extra important now during the covid-19 time and switching to a WFH environment. Have we learned something from it? Do you already have a methodology in place to mitigate the risks for the next Black Swan?
In my talk I’ll present my security analysis methodology, which will help you to easier get a “buy-in” from the development teams, shifting them left towards the DevSecOps mindset.
Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
We have a new theme song. And we have a new “jingle”.
We wanted to have a theme song and a jingle that unites our different touch points such as this podcast, videos, webinars, conferences, events and smaller gatherings. So we ran a public competition to create an Audiobrand for us.
Listen in to hear them, and to hear about the project that delivered them.
More about the composers of the theme song, jingle and the DevOps rap: https://hubs.li/Q010fqcl0
Video we used to call for composers: https://hubs.li/Q010fqpN0
Lyrics for the DevOps rap:
What’s the future of DevOps and Agile come find out with Eficode Skip the wait time, avoid the pitfalls, in terms of benefits you get the most Quicker than you think, compete and lead, minimize cost, stay in control Envy of the industry, could be you, let the story unfold
Let’s build your ideal software organization Get the show on the road don’t lose anymore of your patience Toolchain management, expert consultations Lightning fast creation, not imagination
It takes a whole lot to develop an app (resources) You don’t want to get lost in irrelevant facts (no way) If there’s an elephant in your developmental process Bet that we’ll find where the elephant’s at (there it is) Help with the strategy help with the tasks (great stuff) Ask our clients they’ll tell you the stats (check the numbers) Some household names like KONE and Volvo Some in industry, some Selling some SaaS
IT backlog means misery (sad) It could delay your software delivery (bad) Hard to relay info from a silo (how) Often times, it means, that you need a bigger team (hiring) And we all know that a bigger team isn’t lean (no way) That’s the problem when you don’t have all the systems clean (filthy) Eficode freshens up your DevOps… (dev ops) Rinse it one time no Listerine.
Boris Schulz (Eficode), Andreas Einzmann (Motionpixxl), und Johannes Knauf (Metamorphant) reden über die Frage, welches praktische Problem DevOps löst und kommen zu dem Schluss, daß es bei DevOps am Ende immer wieder um das Thema Kultur geht um das sich alles dreht.
-Sehen Sie sich das Webinar "Measure your DevOps Transformation" (auf Deutsch)an: https://hubs.li/H0__Q_90 -"DevOps for executives": Ein DevOps Leitfaden mit dem Blick aufs große Ganze: https://hubs.li/H0__RMp0
CASE STUDY: CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT IN ISOLATED IOT
The journey of Groke and Eficode as they aim to push the boundaries of current platforms and tackle the challenges presented by continuous deployment on the high seas.
Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
If we don't stretch, we become more inflexible. The same applies to all organizations. To stay flexible and agile, organizations need to stretch too.
How flexible are you? How flexible is your organization? How to keep your company flexible too?
What is the connection between stretching and organizational stretching?
Related content: Blog: Why it's difficult to focus on business value https://hubs.li/H0-_D6r0
Find new flexible colleagues and become a flexible expert yourself at https://hubs.li/H0-_DHf0
Speakers in the episode: Marc Dillon Lead Consultant, Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
Irina Nordström Head of people operations, Eficode Group exercise instructor, Elixia https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-nordström-2797737/
Arto Kiiskinen Agile coach trainer, Eficode Product ownership aficionado https://www.linkedin.com/in/arto-kiiskinen-a98611/
We have all started our careers from somewhere. Some people may have known exactly what they were up to from the get-go. But most of us were walking the path zigzagging through different roles and responsibilities.
Meeri Varis recently had her first summer job in a systems testing team. In this episode she shares her seven things every novice should know about test automation: 1. Don't underestimate your skills, but make sure you really understand 2. People are your only good resource 3. Observations are key 4. Don’t spend all your time trying to learn their language 5. Learn your strengths 6. A big part of your value for the team comes from your adaptability 7. Take a lot of notes
Meeri is joined by Saara Laakko, a DevOps Consultant from Eficode.
Meeri in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/meeri-varis-774931177/
Saara in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/saara-laakko-770237137/
Blog: Do you manage your software or does it manage you? https://hubs.li/H0ZF1WQ0
Blog: Why and how to assess the test automation maturity? https://hubs.li/H0ZF1_H0
Guide to test automation and Robot framework https://hubs.li/H0ZF1_M0
We interview customers, personnel, and stakeholders in order to find answers to problems and solutions to hiccups. But not every interview is a success. Here we take a look at how a certain fictional detective would do it, and what we can learn from her approach.
This is an audio recording of the original blog by Maria Wan, which you can read here: https://hubs.li/H0XyFQ70
IT service management, ITSM, is about IT teams managing the end-to-end delivery of IT services to customers. ITSM has now expanded to "ESM" - Enterprise Service Management. We invited Christoffer Johansson and Magnus Sundset from Eficode Sweden to talk about what's going on in ITSM and ESM.
Work more efficiently using Advanced Roadmaps in Jira https://hubs.li/H0Z2cYJ0
Run your IT services at full speed and with full control https://hubs.li/H0Z2d1C0
Christoffer Johansson on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoffer-johansson-15b537b9/
Magnus Sundset on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnussundset/
Your five-minute introduction to Jira Align, from one of Eficode's Atlassian experts.
Jira Align is Atlassian's premier tool for scaling Agile, building the connection between your different teams and leadership. Eficode's experienced teams can help you introduce Jira Align to your organization.
This is an audio recording of the original blog, which you can read in full at https://hubs.li/H0XyzNq0
DevOps is about feedback loops and injecting information where it has the most impact, a key part of which is shifting left. We talk about shifting left as if it is benevolent altruism. But in this episode we'll hear about how we fail at shifting left, and how we can improve the way we obtain and utilize feedback.
This is an audio recording of the original blog post written by Johan Abildskov. Read the blog here: https://hubs.li/H0XysDZ0
Learn more about the key principles of DevOps by downloading Eficode's free DevOps for Executives guide: https://hubs.ly/H0Ygqgb0
“Working software” is a delusive statement. For example, software might be working as usual for its users, while there may be a host of hidden technical problems behind the scenes. Indeed, these problems can be so serious that the software requires immediate additional investments just to keep the business running.
We invited Santtu Elsinen, Chief Digital Officer at Almamedia, and Juha Rämälä, an Agile coach and a project manager at Eficode to talk about Technology Due Diligence.
We discuss with Santtu and Juha the reasons for doing a technical due diligence, how does the process looks like, and spice the theory up with their experience from the field.
Santtu Elsinen Chief Digital Officer, Almamedia https://www.linkedin.com/in/santtuelsinen/
Juha Rämälä Agile coach and a project manager, Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/juharamala/
-Guide: DevOps for Executives https://hubs.li/H0SR-__0
-Podcast: Technical Agile Coaching with Emily Bache and Sofus Albertsen https://hubs.li/H0TQNBr0
-Blog: Mitigate the risks of acquiring a business with our software audit https://hubs.li/H0TQND00
-How to prevent unwanted surprises with a technical due diligence audit https://hubs.li/H0TQNBj0
In this DevOps Sauna episode, we talk about AI in the DevOps toolchain. Henri Terho from Copado and Lauri Huhta from Eficode join the conversation. We bring forward the most common definitions of AI and discuss how the concept has evolved throughout the years.
Guide: DevOps for Executives https://hubs.li/H0SR-__0
Blog: Unlocking the DevOps secrets using AI https://hubs.li/H0T1FJ90
Guide to test automation and robot framework https://hubs.li/H0TQNz30
Build quality into software with test automation https://hubs.li/H0TQNzF0
Robot framework fundamentals training https://hubs.li/H0TQNzK0
Henri Terho Chief R&D Evangelist at Qentinel LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/henriterho
Lauri Huhta Data Engineer / DevOps Consultant at Eficode LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauri-huhta
Lande and Kristoffer are discussing major questions on implementing Agile enterprise: Why would an enterprise want to be agile? How do you bring frameworks into your agile transformation, and where to start? In an agile enterprise, the team comes up with the ideas, and team takes lead of the development of their way of working. It can feel like you are letting go of control. how does that work in the agile enterprise?
Webinar: Characteristics of high-performing software organizations https://hubs.li/H0TQNRf0
Blog: Scaling agility with Atlassian Jira Align https://hubs.li/H0TQNWj0
Start the critical moves to achieve business agility https://hubs.li/H0TQNWl0
Manage your Agile transformation at enterprise scale with Jira Align https://hubs.li/H0TQNRp0
Lande Castberg Country Manager, Eficode Norway LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lande-castberg
Kristoffer Ryeng Enterprise Agile enthusiast /Enterprise Architect Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristofferryeng LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristofferryeng/
Nicolaj Græsholt is a consultant, trainer, and speaker at Eficode, located in our office in Århus, Denmark. He talks about how to "do the right thing" and become a "do-leader".
Scott Hanselman's "It's not what you read, it's what you ignore" - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/its-not-what-you-read-its-what-you-ignore-video-of-scott-hanselmans-personal-productivity-tips
Patrick Lencioni: 5 Temptations of a CEO https://www.amazon.com/Five-Temptations-CEO-Anniversary-Leadership/dp/0470267585
Patrick Lencioni: Getting Naked https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Naked-Business-Shedding-Sabotage/dp/0787976393
How to Handle Dissent and Disagreement in Your Organization https://michaelhyatt.com/how-to-handle-dissent-and-disagreement-in-your-organization/
Webinar: Measure your DevOps transformation https://www.eficode.com/events/measure-devops-online?utm_campaign=DevOps&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=nicolaj-do-the-right-thing
DevOps assessments https://www.eficode.com/services/devops-assessment?utm_campaign=DevOps&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=nicolaj-do-the-right-thing
Nicolaj Græsholt DevOps Consultant and trainer at Eficode Twitter: https://twitter.com/figaw LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicolajgraesholt/
We earlier wrote a fact sheet summarizing what we believe to be the significant topics in 2021: psychological safety, scaling, platforms and design systems, SaaS, edge cloud, 5G, and data challenges.
In this podcast, Kalle Mäkelä and Marc Dillon are doing a so-called "mid-year review" to evaluate whether our crystal ball was properly calibrated. Kalle, Marc, the floor is yours!
Puppet state of DevOps Report 2021: https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report/ GitLab: Upskilling enterprise DevOps report: https://page.gitlab.com/2021-DevOps-Skills-Report.html
Eficode's DevOps trends 2021 fact sheet: https://hubs.li/H0W0v5d0 DevOps - An infinite mindset: hubs.ly/H0xNxGs0 Agile vs. DevOps: the grand debate: hubs.ly/H0xNCfJ0
Kalle Mäkelä Lead DevOps Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/kallemakela/
Marc Dillon Lead Consultant, Eficode www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
What are the essential characteristics of high-performing software organizations that set them apart from the rest?
Unlocking enterprise agility requires leadership. Business strategy is met with technical execution. With the right tools organizations have visibility, traceability, and automation to scale operations, respond quickly to any occurring changes and meet company objectives.
We are replaying our recent popular webinars as podcast episodes. This webinar helps you learn how organizations are able to scale their business to the next level and drive growth in new and ambiguous situations.
Lande Castberg Country Manager, Eficode Norway https://www.linkedin.com/in/lande-castberg-72941a1/
Marc Dillon Lead Consultant, Eficode https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
Webinar recording: Measure your DevOps Transformation: https://hubs.li/H0SFjrS0
Read the transcript at: https://www.eficode.com/devops-podcast/characteristics-of-high-performing-software-organizations
Eficode has won two global Atlassian Partner of the Year awards from 2020: in DevOps and in Services. The award in DevOps has been given for Eficode now for three consecutive years. Today Eficode has over 400 Atlassian customers and the adoption of Atlassian’s products and services keeps increasing as companies seek differentiation through software. Together the companies raise awareness and understanding of Atlassian solutions and DevOps - ultimately bringing forward Atlassian's mission: unleashing the potential of every team.
Enjoy a replay of The DEVOPS Conference sessions conveniently through the DevOps Sauna podcast.
DEV SEC OPS MORE OF THE SAME - BACK TO THE ROOTS
Once so often it makes sense to repeat the basics: Using the CAMS acronym Patrick Debois will explain how DevSecOps is built upon the core tenets of DevOps, requires the same mindset and approach, and ultimately forms a consistent feedback channel for the business on overcoming yet another bottleneck: security. Coming to a mature DevOps organization near you, sooner rather than later.
Patrick Debois Father of DevOps; Director of Market Strategy, Snyk https://twitter.com/patrickdebois https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdebois
Read the transcript at: https://www.eficode.com/devops-podcast/devsecops-going-back-to-the-roots-with-patrick-debois
Watch all recordings from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 on the event's page: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
Enjoy a replay of The DEVOPS Conference sessions conveniently through the DevOps Sauna podcast.
THE EVOLUTION OF LEGO.COM TO SERVERLESS AND BEYOND
The Direct Shopper Technology team at the LEGO Group has taken LEGO.com on a transformation journey from on-premise monolith to serverless on AWS and now exploring the new opportunities and agility available with this platform. Join us for an insight into the journey so far and what we see looking forwards.
Nicole Yip Engineering Manager, Direct Shopper Technology The LEGO Group https://twitter.com/Pelicanpie88
Gunnar Grosch Senior Developer Advocate Amazon Web Services (AWS) https://twitter.com/gunnargrosch https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunnargrosch/
Watch all recordings from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 on the event's page: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
Learn how to foster a healthy and balanced DevOps culture with the help of blameless postmortems, with this audio recording of Pranjal Deo's article.
Read the original blog: https://hubs.li/H0Snch60
To get a status check on the culture in your organization, reach out to us about a DevOps assessment at https://hubs.li/H0Sndj70
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10 predictions for Cloud Native in 2021
Cloud Native is one of the fastest growing open source projects ever and continues to accelerate, with Flexera reporting that 57% of organizations plan to increase their cloud usage even more due to Covid-19. Cheryl Hung presents the latest edition of the CNCF Tech Radar showing what end-users really think about and recommend in cloud native, as well as predicting technology and ecosystem trends we might see in 2021.
Cheryl Hung VP Ecosystem Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CNCF https://twitter.com/oicheryl https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryljhung/
Watch all recordings from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 on the event page: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
Having an efficient DevOps toolchain is key to developer productivity, but it comes at a price. Listen to the audio version of Johan Abildskov's blog to get the best ROI on your DevOps tax money.
Read the original blog: https://hubs.li/H0RRljL0
Download Eficode's DevOps Platform Guide: https://hubs.li/H0RRllr0
Enjoy a replay of The DEVOPS Conference sessions conveniently through the DevOps Sauna podcast.
Project to Product: Measuring digital transformation with the Flow framework®
In many enterprises, digital transformations are starting to get board-level visibility as the need to become a software innovator becomes critical to company survival and success.
But how many of these transformations are on track in terms of producing the results that the business is expecting? How many of these organizations are tracking the results of these transformations, rather than just the activities, such as training and tool deployments?
Without the ability to measure and place value on specific transformation initiatives, many organizations are still shooting in the dark, either working on new features without aligning to business strategy, or putting them on the back-burner to concentrate on things that are easier to cross off a list. These disconnects between the business and IT are what’s causing large-scale transformations to fall off the rails.
In this talk, Dr. Mik Kersten will summarize his best-selling book, Project to Product, by presenting the historical context of the technological revolutions and providing advice to business and IT leaders to help organizations thrive beyond the turning point by using Flow Metrics to drive business results.
Mik Kersten, CEO at Tasktop https://twitter.com/mik_kersten https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mikkersten
Watch all recordings from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 on the event's page: www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
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The session aims to provide insights on the current DevSecOps evolution at Danske Bank Group. Initially, the group’s currently ongoing broader transformation will be presented, along with how DevSecOps is perceived and deployed as an enabler.
Continuing, Danske Bank’s new DevSecOps 360 degrees operating model will be presented, outlining the key domains and enablers comprising it.
The core of the session will focus on three main themes, that are in the heart of the DevSecOps evolution. Firstly, the DevSecOps vision shaping and evolution mechanisms will be presented, providing insights on how to ensure clarity and coalition towards the desired direction. Secondly, the reconciliation approach of DevSecOps with IT Service & Portfolio Management will be presented, complemented with the evolution of 4 key enables 1) technology 2) process engineering 3) people skills and mind-set 4)governance.
The third part will focus on the reconciliation of the DevSecOps operating model and vision, with that of the Cloud adoption due diligence and strategy mechanisms.
Concluding, the so-far captured lessons learnt will be presented, complemented by “dos & dont’s” when scaling DevSecOps, derived by our experience.
Spyridon Maniotis Head of DevSecOps Center of Excellence, Group Technology & Services, Danske bank https://www.linkedin.com/in/spyridon-maniotis-60b86745/
Watch all speeches in The DEVOPS Conference 2021 in the event website: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
Enjoy a replay of The DEVOPS Conference sessions conveniently through the DevOps Sauna podcast.
AGILE CONVERSATIONS
We argue that the main reason organizations aren’t effective is that they forget to share valid information, have difficult conversations, and build relationships. We tell how to use techniques from Action Science to have the five key conversations of highly productive teams.
Let's talk Agile Conversations!
Douglas Squirrel Director, Squirrel Squared https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsquirrel
Jeffrey Fredrick Managing Director, TIM https://twitter.com/jtf https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick
Johan Abildskov Software engineer, Uber https://twitter.com/randomsort https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanabildskov/
Watch all speeches in The DEVOPS Conference 2021 in the event website: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/speakers
Enjoy a replay of The DEVOPS Conference sessions conveniently through the DevOps Sauna podcast.
THE TOP 5 INNERSOURCE MYTHS
So you want to break down silos in your organization, create high performing communities across your company, and thought you’d try creating open source style communities inside your firewall? In this session, Martin Woodward from GitHub talks about InnerSource, what it is, and how it works within high performing DevOps teams while also explaining what you do to make it work in your company and talk about the problems it can’t fix.
Martin Woodward Director of Developer Relations, GitHub https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinwoodward
Communication tends to always fail, except by accident. And that is not because we wouldn’t try hard, but because we fall victims of assuming rational behaviour where in fact the situation is full of affect, emotion and behavioural biases: irrational beliefs or behaviours that can unconsciously influence our decision-making process.
We unpack five common situations in product management, and discuss what behavioural biases present in the situations can lead us astray. We then prescribe what software professionals should do to avoid those biases.
The speakers are Eva Höglin, Atlassian software and product management expert from Riada, now part of Eficode, and Markus Kanerva, a behavioural consultant and a senior lecturer in Laurea University of Applied Sciences.
Related links: -Eficode Academy: https://hubs.li/H0PV_W70 -Set the strategy to drive a successful DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/H0PV_ZG0
Speakers: https://twitter.com/MarkusKanerva https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-kanerva-5529721/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/evahoglin/
Relevant content from Eva: Team Topologies: https://teamtopologies.com/ Act Like A Startup: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/act-like-a-startup/ SAFe: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/ DevOps: https://devops.com/category/blogs/leadership-suite/
Relevant content from Markus: A really fun book: Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions: Ariely, Dr. Dan: 9780061353246: Amazon.com: Books. https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248
Good introduction plus some management applications: Amazon.com: Judgment in Managerial Decision Making eBook: Bazerman, Max H. : Kindle Store. https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Managerial-Decision-Making-8th-ebook/dp/B00AOAK26S/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=bazerman&qid=1622192646&s=digital-text&sr=1-2
This will make you a magician: Amazon.com: Pre-Suasion: Channeling Attention for Change (Audible Audio Edition): Robert B. Cialdini, John Bedford Lloyd, Simon & Schuster Audio: Books. https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Robert-Cialdini-Ph-D-audiobook/dp/B01JAYK6HI/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=presuasion&qid=1622192218&s=books&sr=1-1
The evolution of behavioral economics explained in an easy way: Amazon.com: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Audible Audio Edition): L. J. Ganser, Richard H. Thaler, Audible Studios: Audible Audiobooks. https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Richard-Thaler-audiobook/dp/B00VQTALSA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=misbehaving&qid=1622192309&s=audible&sr=1-1
How to apply on screens: Amazon.com: The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior eBook: Benartzi, Shlomo, Lehrer, Jonah: Kindle Store. https://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Screen-Surprising-Influence-Behavior-ebook/dp/B00P891E4E
A couple of years ago, continuous integration in the JVM ecosystem meant Jenkins. Since then, a lot of other tools have been made available. But new tools don’t mean new features, just new ways. Beside that, what about continuous deployment? There’s no tool that allows to deploy new versions of a JVM-based application without downtime. The only way to achieve zero downtime is to have multiple nodes deployed on a platform.
And yet, achieving true continuous deployment of bytecode on one single JVM instance is possible if one changes one’s way of looking at things. What if compilation could be seen as changes?
What if those changes could be stored in a data store, and a listener on this data store could stream those changes to the running production JVM via the Attach API?
Nicolas Frankel from Hazelcast joined to share an approach that they have been experimenting with. Nicolas is accompanied in the talk by Aapo Romu, a software architect at Eficode ROOT team.
Nicolas in Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolas_frankel
Related links: - Design and create digital services to drive your strategy: https://hubs.li/H0PwMS70 - An award-winning one-stop shop for DevOps tools: https://hubs.li/H0PwPbx0
Related content: - Play to learn how to design the right Continuous Delivery pipelines: https://hubs.li/H0PwQzZ0 - An Experiment in Streaming: Bytecode Continuous Deployment: https://hazelcast.com/blog/an-experiment-in-streaming-bytecode-continuous-deployment/ - hazelcast-demos / bytecode-streaming on Github: https://github.com/hazelcast-demos/bytecode-streaming/ - Warszawa Java User Group (WJUG) with Nicolas Frankel "Securing the JVM": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgo7dcCbqV8&list=PL0EuBuKK-s1EL-K3okpYwR0QZbAPRVmEG&index=12 - A streaming use-case: experimenting with bytecode continuous deployment - Nicolas Fränkel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4RvI_vARQ&list=PL0EuBuKK-s1EL-K3okpYwR0QZbAPRVmEG&index=60 - Beyond “Hello World” – Zero-Downtime Deployments with Hazelcast on Kubernetes: https://hazelcast.com/blog/beyond-hello-world-zero-downtime-deployments-with-hazelcast-on-kubernetes/
Marc Dillon is a lead consultant at Eficode. He loves creating the right product for a market with wonderful people. He believes that if you build the people first and connect them to the customer, the right product fit emerges.
We discuss about his thoughts about software development, his experiences as being "inside the company" as well as looking at it as a consultant.
You can reach Marc Dillon through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/
Marc at Eficode: https://hubs.ly/H0NYT480 https://hubs.ly/H0NYT5y0
The topic of today is threat modeling, a practice of identifying and prioritizing potential threats and security mitigations.
Our guests are Anne Oikarinen from Nixu, and Nicolaj Græsholt from Eficode. Be sure to check out their profiles on Twitter and LinkedIn: - https://twitter.com/Anne_Oikarinen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-oikarinen - https://twitter.com/figaw - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolajgraesholt
Related links: Webinar with Bankdata: Compliance and security in the DevOps world https://hubs.li/H0NlrYx0
Books to read: Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, by Adam Shostack, Wiley: https://threatmodelingbook.com/ Threat Modeling Manifesto: https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/
Evil user stories: https://www.nixu.com/fi/node/1639 Cyber Bogies card deck: https://github.com/nixu-corp/NixuCyberBogies Explanatory blog for the cards: https://www.nixu.com/fi/blog/gamify-your-threat-modeling-nixu-cyber-bogies
Blogs: 1. Mitigate against tampering attacks - Secure your software delivery chain: https://hubs.li/H0NlsPR0 2. Privacy by design: where security meets usability: https://hubs.li/H0NlsTN0
Zan Markan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality.
This talk will cover tips and tricks for fixing builds fast and efficiently, and treating your build system to avoid common pitfalls that lead to flaky and often broken builds - both on CircleCI as well as any other CI/CD service.
We also managed to snatch Anton Podkletnov and Marko Klemetti from Eficode to the show. Anton is a full stack developer and have been working in several projects involving CI pipelines, both at Eficode and in the customer project. Marko Klemetti is the CTO at Eficode.
CircleCI has a free tier for developers to get started with it and try it out. There's also a very generous offering that you automatically get working on an open source repository.
Related content: -CircleCi: https://www.circleci.com -Blog: Zero-day delivery: the next frontier of DevOps? https://hubs.li/H0N7Pc50 -Blog: Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deployment: What's the difference?https://hubs.li/H0N7Pp90 -Blog: Keep your Git commits clean https://hubs.li/H0N7PtB0 -Blog: Is Apache Groovy or YAML better for pipelines? https://hubs.li/H0N7Pz50 Blog: Triggering Jenkins pipelines on Artifactory events https://hubs.li/H0N7PC-0
Our speakers on social: Zan: https://twitter.com/zmarkan Anton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-podkletnov-6654b4179 Marko: https://twitter.com/mrako
All services go to the cloud. But many things can go wrong on the way there, and not all of those are due to everyday circumstances. We decided to more deeply explore those times when we can’t just blame the universe.
In this episode, we review these factors in the context of Atlassian Cloud transformation. Our specialist on line is Andreas Söderberg, Certified SAFe 4 Agilist and Atlassian Solution Architect.
-Andreas in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sodesand/
-Webinar: Atlassian journey to Cloud - Changes to Server and Data Center offerings: https://hubs.ly/H0KdmlT0
-Changes to Atlassian offering moving to cloud: https://hubs.ly/H0KdmG50
We are joined by Emily Bache, a technical agile coach and an author, and Sofus Albertsen, DevOps consultants and the Eficode Academy headmaster.
Emily has authored three books, The Coding Dojo Handbook, Mocks, Fakes and Stubs, and the most recent Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method.
Related topics: Eficode's Pipeline game: https://hubs.ly/H0J-y7d0 Emily Bache in ProAgile: https://proagile.se/om-oss/emily-bache Emily's two books in Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=emily+bache
Emily's blog about Technical Agile Coaching: https://hubs.ly/H0J-yT60
Refactoring in the age of Microservices blog by Christian Clausen: https://hubs.ly/H0J-zf80
We invited two experienced people from our customer Vaisala: Toni Lehtimäki and Kari Heikkilä to talk about the development, deployment and technology stack of their Design system.
Eficode has also developed a design game that lets you map out your design and development process. It’s called Digital Product Building Toolkit, and you use it to improve your company’s capabilities for creating digital products and services. The game is open source under creative commons license, and you can download it from the Eficode website at: https://hubs.ly/H0JGgN10
-Design and build digital services sustainably: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdBC0 -Read success Design and UX stories from all industries: https://hubs.ly/H0JGdPJ0
Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel are going to be speaking at The DEVOPS Conference, taking place online on March 23rd & 24th. They talk about how to use techniques from Action Science to have the five key conversations of highly productive teams.
You can sign up for The DEVOPS Conference for free at hubs.ly/H0HphR30
Jeffrey can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jtf Douglas can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel Their book Agile Converations can be found at https://www.conversationaltransformation.com/agile-conversation-book/
Josefine is building Trygs DevSecOps transformation. She is one of the main drivers of creating the vision and changing the understanding and culture of the organization.
Michael is driving the agile transformation in Tryg as a Head of IT Development.
Josefine and Michael are going to be speaking at The DEVOPS Conference, taking place online on March 23rd and March 24th. They talk about the challenges that companies see before they embark on the journey that Tryg went on.
Josefine can be reached in LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefine-louise-schwarz-bonde-9b6a9b140/
Michael can be reached in LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-poulsen-92456a1/
You can sign up for The DEVOPS Conference for free at hubs.ly/H0HphR30
"I think that there's room for any different kind of drive inside the company,but you need to have a drive, you need to want something for yourself", Sofus Albertsen, Academy Headmaster located in Copenhagen. A short interview on what is it like to work at Eficode. What are the best bits of his job?
Find out more about the Humans of Eficode series: https://hubs.ly/H0HGFnv0 Current job openings at Eficode: https://eficode.teamtailor.com/jobs
Cheryl Hung, VP of Ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Cheryl is going to be speaking at The DevOps Conference on March 23rd about The 10 predictions for Cloud Native in 2021.
We had a chance to get her online to talk about the biggest ideas coming through, and inviting our listeners to The DevOps Conference.
Cheryl can be reached on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oicheryl
You can sign up for The DEVOPS Conference for free at https://hubs.ly/H0HphR30
When we think about large companies undergoing a digital transformation, we often think about it literally; the digital change of the toolchain, and applications.
But if you do not accept the fact that it takes both technology and people skills to perform this change, you are doomed to fail.
Jörgen Lindberg, a DevOps and Agile coach consultant and Sofus Albertsen, DevOps consultant and the Eficode Academy headmaster discuss “digital transformation”: what does it mean, how to prioritize the problems to solve, and how to make it a successful project.
Related content: Jörgen in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgenlindberg Webinar: Measure your DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/H0GzQTH0 DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/H0GzQQT0 Scaled Agile Framework: https://hubs.ly/H0GzQVk0
Building a business case for the DevOps platform isn’t a walk in the park. It depends on many factors, including the size of the organization, and number of tools and toolchains. It also depends on the skill level of the internal support and maintenance operations.
In this podcast we lay out the steps and factors to building a business case for the DevOps platform.
Learn more from the referred content: - Business case calculator: https://hubs.ly/H0G0lHg0 - Current platform cost estimate: https://hubs.ly/H0G0p180 - How to estimate DevOps toolchain costs: https://hubs.ly/H0G0nTt0
We have an exciting piece of news today.
Eficode has acquired Riada AB.
We managed to get Ilari Nurmi, the Chief Executive Officer of Eficode, and Christian Johansson , the Chief Executive Officer of Riada for an interview about the subject. Tune in!
Read more: Eficode acquires Riada: https://hubs.ly/H0FNnPk0 Atlassian Solutions: https://hubs.ly/H0FNpVv0
More and more IT spending on system infrastructure, infrastructure software, application software and business process outsourcing will shift from traditional solutions to cloud. And there is an ever-more interesting avenue for cloud, and that is developers themselves. Developers have an immense power when they select their preferred tools and platforms.
Join us with Raman Sharma, VP of Product marketing at Digital Ocean, and Marko Klemetti, CTO at Eficode to learn more about what a developer-friendly cloud means.
The podcast has a promotion for free credits on Digital Ocean. Listen intently!
Useful references:
DigitalOcean Homepage: https://www.digitalocean.com/?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=earned_media&utm_campaign=podcast_&utm_content=devops_sauna
-DigitalOcean App Platform: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=earned_media&utm_campaign=podcast_&utm_content=devops_sauna
-DigitalOcean Community: https://www.digitalocean.com/community?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=earned_media&utm_campaign=podcast_&utm_content=devops_sauna
-DigitalOcean Open Source Sponsorships: https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=earned_media&utm_campaign=podcast_&utm_content=devops_sauna
-Raman’s Medium Post on PaaS: https://rasharm.medium.com/multiple-stops-on-the-cloud-compute-continuum-all-with-their-own-merits-6b921ed82f2
-Cloud capabilities with Eficode: https://hubs.ly/H0FwMBJ0
Here are the most important things to consider, while figuring out the right option for your organization. A podcast version of the blog post by Thomas Palludan Hargreaves, Atlassian Consultant at Eficode.
Knowing the pros and cons of Robotic Process Automation, whether you’re a business leader or a technical expert, will help you make the most of it.
In this reading of Jari P. Ängeslevä & Tatu Kairi’s blog post, you'll learn the benefits of RPA, and some of the pitfalls to avoid.
Download our Test automation and Robot Framework guide to learn more: https://hubs.ly/H0xNCrL0
When dealing with DevOps, it’s close to impossible to avoid coming across the history that goes back to factories producing goods. Back in time, factories weren’t exactly the safest places in the world, and sometimes people had to work to their paycheck with the fear of getting injured
Luckily this is not the case for IT workers - at least in the physical sense - but a lot is to be said about improving the IT workers' well-being overall.
In our Grand Debate series, we invited Ester Daniel Ytterbrink -DevOps Consultant, Nina Maria Figueiredo - Talent Acquisition & Development Manager, and Boris Schulz - DevOps Lead to talk about protecting workers' safety in the DevOps factory. It’s an intriguing conversation varying between gamification and psychological safety, but also share insights on how middle management can make a safer workplace for their dev and ops teams.
Literature referenced in the episode: - Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken: https://janemcgonigal.com/my-book/ - The struggle of the little mermaid: https://www.chocolatedrivendevelopment.com/post/diversity-and-psychological-safety-the-struggle-of-the-little-mermaid - Burnout is everyone's problem: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?i=1000468645838 - Term: Self-efficacy: https://albertbandura.com/albert-bandura-self-efficacy.html - Term: Agency: https://albertbandura.com/albert-bandura-agency.html - Fearless organization: https://fearlessorganization.com/ - GTD: https://gettingthingsdone.com/ - Procedural Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_justice#In_relation_to_communication
In this episode of the DEVOPS 2020 recordings, Jeff Williams, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Contrast Security will show how you can ensure software security from the “inside out” by leveraging the power of software instrumentation. Jeff will show how software security instrumentation works, how it’s being used in many organizations, and what the future holds for DevSecOps.
All DEVOPS2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Almost every time we talk about DevOps we come across the question about culture versus tools. Some people say there is no such thing as “DevOps tools”. Some say that if you adopting tools without culture, then you are doing DevOps in the wrong way.
We are joined by Tuomas Keränen, a product manager for Eficode ROOT DevOps platform. He is laying the stepping stones for anyone who’s evaluating their tools used to embrace DevOps in their organization.
Check out the relevant content for DevOps platform: - The Eficode ROOT DevOps Platform: https://hubs.ly/H0zSlFC0 - Video: Eficode ROOT in 4 minutes: https://hubs.ly/H0zSlv90 - Eficode ROOT Guide: https://hubs.ly/H0zSlLp0
During the COVID-19 outbreak and the following pandemic, many organizations were forced to transition to the remote mode. In the DevOps arena, GitLab is an organization that has decided to be all-remote, always. They also actively share information not only about their strategy, direction and metrics, but also their approach to organizing as an all-remote company.
Brendan O’Leary from GitLab joins us to talk about the connection between all-remote work, and remote-first DevOps. Because we believe that DevOps starts already from the business validation and design thinking, we invited Mervi Rauhala to share her experiences transitioning business and service design from co-located practices to remote.
Relevant content (needs UTM tracking): - GitLab's public handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ - GitLab's 2020 Remote Work Report: https://about.gitlab.com/remote-work-report/ - GitLab's All-remote playbook: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/ - The Digital Product Building (DPB) Toolkit: https://hubs.ly/H0zdWgl0 - 5 tips for a great remote workshop, by Mervi Rauhala : https://hubs.ly/H0zdVS50 - Remote work - Tales and tips of an adept, by Boris Schulz: https://hubs.ly/H0zdWls0
In the DevOps 2020 event, Eficode’s CTO Marko Klemetti talked about improving DevOps capabilities. In this talk, Marko referred to the “design system”, stating that “design system is the voice and identity of an organization, but also a set of styles that represent that organization.”
In this episode, we discuss in more detail the connection between design systems and DevOps. According to Marko, organizations should “connect all of your DevOps practices and tools into the design system.”
Useful references about the subject: -How does UXDX break down development / design / research barriers?: https://hubs.ly/H0yRwhb0 -Design system example on github: https://github.com/eficode/design-system-example -Vaisala’s new Design System:https://hubs.ly/H0yRwyd0 -DPB Toolkit: https://hubs.ly/H0yRzYG0 -Elisa style book: https://stylebook.elisa.fi/ -The Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/
This podcast is called DevOps Sauna, and frequent listeners have heard a sound produced when water vaporizes on sauna stones.
But what's the back story? Why we think Sauna has anything to do with DevOps. I'll spill all the secrets in this episode.
Oh, and about "vasta" and "vihta" that I referred in the podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_broom
All transcripts of the DevOps Sauna podcast: https://hubs.ly/H0zSSml0
People are often comparing Agile and DevOps like they're rivals. Is one somehow “greater”, more important, more fundamental than the other for creating the software more effortlessly? Listen to the reading of Kalle Mäkelä's blog article where he answers exactly these questions, arguing that both have a vital role to play in effective software development.
If you're new to DevOps, you can learn more by downloading Eficode's free DevOps guide: https://hubs.ly/H0xN_Bt0
Defining DevOps performance purely in terms of frequency deployment is a classic industry mistake. Ensuring that you deliver value to end-users is key.
Using the key concepts of desirability, feasibility and viability Juho Juutilainen talks through making DevOps work for your organisation.
If you want to learn more, download Eficode's free DevOps for Executives guide: https://hubs.ly/H0xP5740
In this episode of the DEVOPS 2020 recordings, Jordi Mon, Senior Product Marketing Manager at GitLab talks about MultiCloud Maturity. Cloud Native development keeps growing so assessing your software development efforts to understand the benefits of moving to the Cloud is more relevant than ever.
All DEVOPS2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
We at Eficode value results. As we work with our customers, we see that sharing our experience and expertise spins them forward. However, it wouldn’t mean that there was only one truth that helped everyone. We sometimes see strong differing viewpoints about the means by which our customers should help themselves, and these differences extend to our customer base.
To express these alternative points of view, we decided to host a debate between a few esteemed specialists. We discussed what is keeping software enterprises from scaling up, and touched upon some possible solutions.
If you get excited about things like Agile, Continuous everything, DevOps, value stream mapping, or theory of constraint, we're sure you will enjoy this conversation by Kalle Mäkelä and Szilard Szell from Finland, and Henrik Høegh from Denmark. Kalle kicks off the discussion, and after that, it’s truly a free flow. Let’s tune in!
Blogs by Kalle: -DevOps - An infinite mindset: https://hubs.ly/H0xNxGs0 -Agile vs. DevOps: the grand debate: https://hubs.ly/H0xNCfJ0
Blogs by Szilard & the 5G team: -How to realize the full value of 5G with organizational transformation: https://hubs.ly/H0xNCjC0 -How to improve 5G business agility and time to market with automation: https://hubs.ly/H0xNxMc0
Podcast with Henrik: -DevSecOps talks, Theory of Constraint - ep.#14: https://www.devsecops.fm/episodes/theory-of-constraint/
-Chocolate driven development: https://www.chocolatedrivendevelopment.com/blog/categories/theory-of-constraints
Keywords: Agile, DevOps, Lean, value stream, theory of constraint, software architecture, scaling, SAFe, cloud native, manifesto, continuous everything, microservices
When we hear and read about the benefits of DevOps, we often learn that DevOps accelerates software delivery and that this, in turn, drives business performance. Also, we learn that the best DevOps performers are more than twice as likely to achieve or exceed their objectives: profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
But how does a DevOps transformation look like from the practitioner’s perspective? We had an opportunity to spend some time with Henri from OP, a customer of Eficode, and one of the largest financial companies in Finland. Henri has first-hand experience of getting a large organization on a change management journey, and he’s happy to share that with us.
Referred in the discussion: -State of DevOps report 2019: https://hubs.ly/H0xqJH30 -The Agile C-Suite: https://hbr.org/2020/05/the-agile-c-suite -Surprising truths about DevOps: trends, tools and fads: https://hubs.ly/H0xqJHd0 -DevOps transformation: https://hubs.ly/H0xqJD80 -Henri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrihelakari/
In this episode of the DEVOPS 2020 recordings, Sasha Rosenbaum - Product Manager at GitHub talks about how open source is now an integral part of every software application, GitHub has become the largest developer community on the planet, and Microsoft is one of the largest contributors to open source.
All DEVOPS2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Find Sasha on Twitter: @DivineOps
DEVOPS2020: Rasmus Selsmark, Scaling DevSecOps to integrate security tooling for 100+ deployments per day
In this episode, Rasmus Selsmark, Lead Developer at Unity covers best security practices for securing your build and deployment pipeline, by showing how at Unity they have integrated security tools into their common build and deployment pipeline, allowing teams to easily take these into use for their services.
All DEVOPS2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
One way to explain DevOps is that it started from the notion that Development and Operations were in functional silos with conflicting goals. This leads to the so-called chronic conflict between Dev and Ops which leads to bad business outcomes due to handovers, excessive bureaucracy, and lack of autonomy. DevOps calls into question the entire traditional development processes.
In this episode, we read Johan Abildskov's blog posting out loud.
You can find the original blog here: https://hubs.ly/H0vH9z20
The most popular refactoring books Christian (Tech Agile Coach at Eficode) has read certainly provide a lot of knowledge, but they are not easily digestible. He wrote the “Five Lines of Code”, a book that would ease the reader into refactoring, giving some more practical perspectives and some good advice on how to do things, making refactoring more accessible.
Get the "Five Lines of Code" book: https://www.manning.com/books/five-lines-of-code
Christian’s blogs -“Refactoring in the Age of Microservices”: https://hubs.ly/H0tZmnC0 -"From Monolithic to Modular" https://hubs.ly/H0tZnrW0
Follow Christian on Twitter: @thedrlambda on Medium: https://medium.com/@thedrlambda on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thedrlambda on GitHub: https://github.com/thedrlambda
In Simon Sinek's Infinite Game, businesses with infinite mindsets achieve much more. DevOps is the “infinite mindset” in software development.
In this episode, we read Kalle Mäkelä's blog posting out loud.
You can find the original here: https://hubs.ly/H0tHkgs0
Join us for a Sauna warm-up chat with Sami Pippuri, one of the very first employees and then CTO of MaaS Global, and Marko Klemetti, CTO of Eficode.
Whim wants to offer a digital alternative to owning a car. This second episode you are listening to now focuses on aspects such as organizing and scaling up the teams and building the commercial model for the service.
Not too long ago we held a hugely popular two-day DevOps 2020 event. Due to the popularity of the speeches, we have now made them also available in our podcast.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins, and co-CEO of Launchable. He is passionate about developer productivity. Early on, he has helped this cause as a developer, building numerous open-source projects, most notably award-winning Jenkins.
All DevOps 2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Join us for a Sauna warm-up chat with Sami Pippuri, one of the very first employees and then CTO of MaaS Global, and Marko Klemetti, CTO of Eficode.
Whim wants to offer a digital alternative to owning a car. This first episode you are listening to now focuses on Technology choices, UX, and DevOps as a culture at Whim. The second episode focuses on aspects such as organizing and scaling up the teams and building the commercial model for the service.
Not too long ago we held a hugely popular two-day DevOps 2020 event. Due to the popularity of the speeches, we have now made them also available in our podcast.
Dan is a technology leader and full-stack engineer at CodeFresh, specialized in evangelizing containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and related technologies. As the Chief Technology Evangelist at Codefresh, Dan leads communication, marketing, and forward-thinking technology initiatives.
Dan’s topic is making the business case for DevOps.
All DevOps 2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Not too long ago we held a hugely popular two-day DevOps 2020 event. Due to the popularity of the speeches, we have now made them also available in our podcast.
Guy Herbert is a Risk Futurist at Atlassian. Guy leads participants through the agile and DevOps development processes and the interactions with compliance during that process. He talks about how to use technology and process to improve organisations' development speed as well as hitting their compliance objectives.
All DevOps 2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Not too long ago we held a hugely popular two-day DevOps 2020 event. Due to the popularity of the speeches, we have now made them also available in our podcast.
With a focus on modern management and cloud, Jakob Knutsson has been following the big shift in the IT landscape where the demands and speed of business are outpacing IT operations. Jakob Knutsson has an extensive background in Microsoft technology and is a leading expert on Azure Cloud. He has over 19 years of experience in implementation and transformation projects as a consultant and now works at H&M as a Lead Cloud Architect and is responsible for Cloud Adoption.
All DevOps 2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Not too long ago we held a hugely popular two-day DevOps 2020 event. Due to the popularity of the speeches, we have now made them also available in our podcast.
We’ve got DevOps in place. Then what?
Marko Klemetti, CTO of Eficode, presents three actions you can take to improve your DevOps capabilities, as well as how you can make your work more efficient and more enjoyable. This applies to all of you regardless of your current DevOps capabilities and maturity level.
It’s time to take a look at the current DevOps trends against organizations on different maturity levels. This presentation gives you ideas how you can improve your tooling, culture or processes, regardless if you are in the beginning or already advanced in your DevOps journey.
All DevOps 2020 event videos: https://hubs.ly/H0rnJgj0
Eficode's DevOps for Executives Guide: https://hubs.ly/H0rRn_N0
Check out our latest podcast which compares DevOps in financial services to DevOps in retail, through the lens of one of our Senior DevOps Consultants in Amsterdam, Rouke de Jong.
Eficode has worked with multiple financial organisations to strengthen their DevOps capabilities. Read more here https://hubs.ly/H0sxprT0
Get up to speed on the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and this year’s Puppet State of DevOps Report in an episode featuring Johan Abildskov, a Continuous Delivery and DevOps consultant and teacher who’s spoken at multiple DevOpsDays around Europe. The discussion covers cloud, change approval processes, security, and then some.
For Johan's concise summary of DevOps in the here and now, head to the Eficode Blog https://hubs.ly/H0sxp2S0
Welcome to our podcast about all things DevOps in Europe. DevOps Lead Tuomas Leppilampi tells us about starter metrics, feedback loops and self-service metric tools. Have you assumed linearity? Here’s a listen for those who might have!
Is your organization providing the right metrics to those who need it, when they need it? Eficode can help you improve quality, productivity and predictability through Actionable Insights. Get started here: https://hubs.ly/H0sqMvj0
This rock-solid intro to containerization and orchestration and why neither are going anywhere any day soon serves you practical tips and food for thought. Thanks for joining the pod, Severi. Severi’s one of Eficode’s Senior Consultants currently based at a telecom service provider.
As Severi mentions, Kubernetes is still at the forefront of containers and orchestration, enabling you to release new applications quickly and easily.
Learn more about how Eficode's Kubernetes services here: https://hubs.ly/H0smM5X0
Mika Aho is Eficode ROOT's Head of R&D and the man has an opinion or two about software tools. Even though he's sceptical about tools being handled in-house, Heidi discovers that it is possible to get some top tips out of him for building a centralised pipeline that actually works, and that the chances are slim that they are third cousins.
Eficode ROOT is your one-stop shop for DevOps tools. Manage a wide range of tools from one central platform, allowing you to develop, test and deploy with confidence.
Learn more about Eficode ROOT here: https://hubs.ly/H0sk6td0
DevOps Sauna: Europe's DevOps podcast. Welcome to a podcast about all things DevOps.
Want to learn more about test automation? You can download Eficode's Test Automation guide here: https://hubs.ly/H0sxpw90