DevOps Decrypted: Recent Episodes
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DevOps Decrypted focuses on all things Development + Operations, with Adaptavist’s expert staff discussing elements of the philosophy that has changed the world of software development.
Welcome to this "minisode" edition, with Rasmus, Jon and our special guest, Jennifer Davis – Google Engineering Manager and author of Effective DevOps and Modern System Administration.
Of course, we're talking about CrowdStrike… But from a different perspective, the human one. It's all too easy to get caught up in the technical nuts and bolts of an issue like this one, but Jon and Jennifer remind us that, at the core of this outage, there are people. And some of them are going to be having a pretty tough time right now.
Join us as we discuss the human element in DevOps and how there can never be "one” solution to rule them all. Then, listen to Jennifer's insights on DevRel and community. It's a fascinating discussion, and we're keen to get Jennifer back to learn more.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? Email us at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
We would love to hear your feedback. We will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
Is AI finally in a place where it's useful in DevOps? It might just be, as we discover in another fascinating panel discussion from the usual DevOps Decrypted gang – plus special guest Lilly Holden.
Lilly joined us to speak about her role in the Platform Team at Adaptavist, where she's working on a DevEx initiative aimed at de-complexifying Kubernetes. It's no coincidence that we're doing this episode as Kubernetes celebrates its tenth anniversary—it gives us a chance to look back over its history and try to figure out where it all got so complicated…
We discuss what humans will do when AI does all the things (including whether Jobin is secretly a great poet), how open source started closing doors – and whether DevEx and security are best left to us humans or to machines.
This was a super fun episode, and we'll be sure to have Lilly back to update us on her DevEx journey. Stay tuned for more, and please give us your feedback on the show at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? Email us at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
We would love to hear your feedback. We will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
It's episode 25 of DevOps Decrypted – and we're talking about some big news in DevOps. It was recently revealed that a backdoor had been intentionally planted in XZ Utils, an open-source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
We talk about the ramifications and ask, surely things would be better if they weren't open source? We'll let Rasmus stew on that one for a bit… The conversation leads us to the importance of observability and alerts, and we circle back to a past episode about SBOMs. We wrap up with some events on our calendar, including Team 24 – and as always, we're eager to hear your feedback.
Tell us what you think of the show at devopsdecrypted@adaptavist.com!
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? Email us at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
We would love to hear your feedback. We will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
Money, money, money…
In this episode, we're talking about how we've enabled FinOps at Adaptavist with CloudZero as a way to highlight anomalous spending through simple chatbots and give teams a sense of cost ownership.
We've got Chalky on as our special guest, talking to Rasmus, Matt and Laura about the inevitability of overprovisioning at the start of a new venture, controlling Kubernetes through Crossplane – and the concept of efficient scaling.
There's a lot to unpack – but while it's all about money, the heart of the matter comes down to linking people and process, through FinOps.
If you like what you hear, or wish something would change about the podcast, we’d love to know! Please give us your feedback on the show at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? Email us at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
We would love to hear your feedback. We will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
We're back – still riding high after our last episode with Gene Kim, whose words are still echoing in our minds as we talk about our upcoming business transformation ebook, hackathons, and, of course… AI.
Once again, artificial intelligence dominates the news, as OpenAI launches Sora – and deepfakes make for headlines we never thought we'd read. We discuss the ethical ramifications of AI leading to job cuts and whether DevOps roles are on the line.
We also cover cloud repatriation, ongoing big tech layoffs, and AWS's latest move around IPs. And we all learned a new favourite word – it was 2023's word of the year, no less!
This was a really fascinating discussion, and it’s already spawned a whole bunch of new launchpads for future episodes. Stay tuned for more, and please give us your feedback on the show at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? Email us at devopsdecrypted@adaptivist.com
We love to hear your feedback, and as a thank you, we will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
In this very special episode of DevOps Decrypted, we are joined by none other than Gene Kim – the bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Cookbook and The Unicorn Project.
It's a really great chat where Gene talks to us about his latest book, Wiring the Winning Organization. With our very own Laura, Rasmus, Jobin, Matt – and CIO Neal, join us in this fascinating discussion about slowing down to speed up, the limits of limitless communication, and the “social wiring” of companies that operate at the highest levels.
There was so much to discuss that we’re just going to have to invite Gene back to talk more!
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Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted, where we unpack the events of KubeCon and BackstageCon. Host Laura and our resident DevOps Decrypted gang (Jobin, Rasmus and Jon) are joined by Mike Maheu – GM and Co-Founder of Venue.sh, part of the Adaptavist Group.
And this episode arrives just in time to prove some of our predictions… Last year, we highlighted platform engineering as one of our picks for "the next big thing", and it looks like we're about to see it come of age. Mike and the team talk about Venue.sh, the difference between DevOps and platform engineering, and how together they can enhance experiences for everyone.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes?
We love to hear your feedback, and as a thank you, we will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
Welcome to episode 20 of DevOps Decrypted, a milestone achievement for our podcast! Milestones like this allow us to reflect on everything we've achieved, what we could improve, and how to shape our future – through the magic of metrics.
So it was probably good that we talked to our guest, Chris Boys from Umano, on this episode. Umano is a platform dedicated to understanding the human side of team performance metrics, and Chris tells us all there is to know about it.
Jobin tells us about DevOpsDays in London, where Adaptavist will have a booth and a speaker taking the stage as Laura and Rasmus steer the chat around meaningful measurements and behavioural change in teams.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes?
We love to hear your feedback, and as a thank you, we will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
It looks like Rasmus has gone rogue in this episode… He’s kicked Laura out as host and commandeered the DevOps Decrypted podcast to further his own agenda – ranting about open-source drama! We're kidding about Laura, she’s just taken a break for this episode. But we're certainly not kidding about the open-source drama; it's actually a huge topic that could have far-reaching consequences for devs and providers globally. Of course, we're referring to HashiCorp's decision to move Terraform to the business source licence, or BSL. Jon, Jobin and Rasmus discuss what this all means, how it reminds them of the Jenkins debacle, and what impact it could have on Adaptavist and the dev community at large.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes?
We love to hear your feedback, and as a thank you, we will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted! In this episode, Laura, Jobin, Rasmus and Jon are joined by special guest Sandesh Kumar – an Engineering Manager at Adaptavist Group. Sandesh tells us about how his team is using AI in quality engineering and testing and why it's not the existential threat to jobs that everyone's making it out to be. But the big story on the agenda is Adaptacon 2023, our internal, global conference. Jon explains the challenges of organising an event like this and its benefits – even when the talks appear to have nothing to do with our business.
Have you missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes?
We love to hear your feedback, and as a thank you, we will be giving out some free Adaptavist swag bags to thank you for your ongoing support!
Is there a war against third-party app developers? Well, it sure might feel like it if you’ve been following the Reddit fiasco. But it’s not an isolated incident, and it could be down to how AIs are mining data… In this episode, Jon, Jobin, Laura and Rasmus talk about how third-party applications are handled by companies like Reddit, Stack Overflow – and Atlassian.
The team also dives into the “slackening” of Slack and how Discord is starting to eat into Slack’s customer base. And finally, the conversation turns as Jon and Jobin start dropping SBOMs all over the place (we promise there's no swearing!), exploring the importance of pinpointing supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Welcome again to DevOps Decrypted – where we're unpacking Amazon's seemingly shocking decision to ditch serverless for their Prime Video product. Does this move mean serverless is dead? Join Laura, Jobin, Jon and Rasmus, along with our special guest Erko Knoll from Stitch It, as we discuss the architecture agenda and how some groups use Amazon’s decision to push their own narratives.
We discuss the benefits and limitations of a serverless architecture and why it probably won’t go anywhere soon. We also get to hear all about Stitch It – a code-first cross-platform integration tool, and how it can be used to navigate and mitigate the limitations of serverless environments.
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Welcome to DevOps Decrypted Episode 15, where we ask; are Kubernetes tools doomed to be complicated?
In this episode, some new voices (and faces, if you're watching on YouTube) join Romy and Rasmus. We welcome Michael Guarino, CTO and Co-founder of Plural, who shares his knowledge on deploying open-source software onto Kubernetes.
We also speak with two more of our fellow Adaptavists; Timothy Chin, Platform Team Lead for our new venture, Venue DevOps – and Daniel “Chalky" Chalk, Engineering Manager for our business services infrastructure.
It's an in-depth episode that'll resonate with anyone who's juggled deployment with Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Rancher… And the main takeaway?
Kubernetes is hard. Will software and DevOps practitioners ever find a silver bullet solution?
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
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Welcome to Episode 14 of DevOps Decrypted, where Romy, Rasmus, Jobin and Jon talk about platforms, people, and processes.
Just what exactly is a platform, and can we even define what an IDP is? Naturally, this leads onto the subject of Backstage – Spotify's gift to the dev world: an open source framework for building developer portals. We discuss its limits, its power, and how culture and people-driven your tech stack really is.
The talk turns to Google's Service Weaver, which Jon has some choice words for (and a little bit of praise, too!), before wrapping the show up with cloud complexity; is it really the cause of one in five cloud outages? Romy talks about some hands-on experience with increasingly complex cloud integrations and what happens when it all falls down.
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
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Welcome to DevOps Decrypted! This month, guest host Ryan Spilken joins the conversation with Jobin, Jon and Rasmus. The group talks about a different kind of Ops – MLOps, specifically – and how you might build a chatbot with it…
That's all in a special interview segment with Péter Bozsó – Channel Solutions Architect for GitLab. Péter tells us all about his role in DevSecOps and working on the new MLOps features within GitLab.
We also talk about the Atlassian Unleash event, where Adaptavist announced a new DevOps platform called Venue DevOps, and we cover all the biggest news from the event.
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
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Happy New Year, and welcome to the first episode of DevOps Decrypted for 2023! It's a really exciting one – covering billionaires, Artificial Intelligence, and a major project we've released here at Adaptavist!
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
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In this month's episode we are joined by our CTO Jon Mort as we discuss Google's latest announcement around Open Source maintenance and our thoughts on Open Source Security, Maintenance and Culture.
In this month's episode, we discuss the recent Atlassian outage, a new spring Java framework zero-day, interview GitLab around CI/CD pipelines, and discuss the one thing you should be doing in DevOps. For a full transcript and show notes, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-10-tipping-the-cicd-scales
In this months episode we discuss DevOps in the cloud looking at people, processes and tools. Our upcoming sessions with BrightTALK - Day to Day DevOps - Modernizing Applications with DevOps and Cloud-Native Enterprise DevOps Summit. We share with you our latest whitepaper: DevOps in the cloud: evolving your tools, processes, and culture.
In this months episode of DevOps decrypted we share our thoughts and key take aways from author Gene Kim, DevOps Handbook second edition. Kubernetes documentary, have you seen it? We give our review of the documentary and why its an important story to share. Our latest added value reseller, Docker, and what that means for our clients.
Full transcript here - https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-8-kubernetes-and-other-stories
Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of DevOps Decrypted 2022! In this months episode we discuss the recent log4j vulnerability and what you should be doing to keep your business safe and secure, we talk about our brilliant new eBook ' Get more out of DevOps with value stream management', and we have a very special interview with Plandek's COO Will Lytle, as he discusses who Plandek are, their mission and how they can help you embrace VSM within your organisation.
For links and a full transcript, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-7-value-streams-and-vulnerabilities
The hosts recap AWS re:invent 2021 and talk about what we predict for the future of DevOps as we approach 2022.
For a full transcript, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-6-a-recap-to-the-future
The hosts discuss how to scale for online shopping demands using Kubernetes, the changes to Docker licensing, and take a look at our annual Adaptavist Hackathon.
For a full transcript, visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-5-crazy-corporate-container-conundrum-c5s
For the transcript to this episode and more from Adaptavist, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/transcript-devops-decrypted-ep-4-a-new-hope
For a full transcript of this episode and links to the State of Atlassian report, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/transcript-devops-decrypted-ep.-3-the-state-of-devops
Romy, Jobin, Lisa, and Matt surf the DevOps pipeline, discussing the fundamentals of what the pipeline is as well as going deep on how it can be built, managed, and improved upon.
The first episode of Adaptavist's new podcast focused on the wide world of DevOps. Meet hosts Romy, Jobin, Matt, and Lisa and hear a bit about what the show's about and how our hosts got involved with DevOps.