Decoding DevOps: Recent Episodes
Predica Group
DevOps. It's everywhere now, yet few know what it really is.
This podcast will help you understand how DevOps delivers value to the organization, why it's not just a CI/CD solution, and how you can use tools, such as Azure DevOps or GitHub, to enhance communication in your company.
I'm Brett Keown, my daily work is focused on delivering value-based solutions by utilizing automation and containerization in the cloud.
Join me and my colleague Daniel Krzyczkowski, Microsoft MVP and Principal Software Engineer at Predica, for a journey across the DevOps landscape and learn how to make the most of it.
Welcome to the second episode of the Decoding DevOps series with the host, Brett Keown, and his special guest Colin Dembovsky, Field Solution Engineer at GitHub.
Today, we are jumping into the practical side of DevOps. It will be about giving the top talent room to be efficient at work and promoting automation that brings better value for the client, increased flow, and higher morale.
In the episode, Colin also explains how companies can benefit from the integration with GitHub Actions and how it can help reduce the number of tools and, consequently, their maintenance costs.
A DevOps journey has many legs, and this episode is only our second stop. Stay tuned for more parts to come.
About Colin:
Colin Dembovsky is a GitHub Solution Engineer. He is a self-proclaimed DevOpsologist and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is based in Spring, TX but remains proudly South African!
After completing an MSc in Computer Science at Rhodes University, he worked as a developer and later systems architect, implementing DevOps “by feel” and in the trenches. In 2010, he left development to start consulting, using his experience, insight and strategic thinking to help organizations put DevOps into practice. By 2019, Colin was leading a DevOps practice and joined GitHub in 2021.
Colin is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently and securely. Colin is a frequent guest speaker and regularly blogs at http://colinsalmcorner.com and can be found on twitter at @colindembovsky and on GitHub.com/colindembovsky.
When he is not working, he is playing guitar, mandolin or drums, 3D printing on his Ender3, hacking an rPi, board-gaming, or entertaining his wife and 2 kids.
References to resources mentioned in the episode:
- Team Topologies
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Dependabot
- GitHub Script
- Azure Pipelines
- Donut Open-Source Framework
Have you got a question you’d like us to answer? Send a recording of it to decoding.devops@predicagroup.com, and we’ll feature it in the next episode.
Welcome to the first episode of Decoding DevOps, a podcast hosted by Brett Keown and Daniel Krzyczkowski.
We’ve heard a lot of myths about DevOps, e.g. it’s a special team or it’s necessary for start-ups only. So, in this episode, we decided to shed light on the essence of DevOps and answer the most mind-boggling questions about it.
Together with our guest, Tomasz Onyszko, we have discussed what DevOps is to each of us and what value it delivers to customers and organizations. Also, we explained how to learn together with DevOps and listed the possible challenges of DevOps transformation in a company.
With this podcast, we enter the series of discussions about DevOps as a whole, as a journey. And we invite you to be part of it.
References to materials mentioned in the episode:
- Managed Azure Cloud services - Predica
- DevOps & automation in Managed SOC - video
- What Is DevOps? - Predica blog
- DevOps overview - Microsoft
- Azure Cloud Services - Microsoft
- Azure Sentinel - Microsoft
Have a question you’d like us to answer? Send a recording of it to decoding.devops@predicagroup.com and we’ll feature it in the next episode.