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In this episode, they explore the realms of DevOps management and team dynamics. Will is joined by Warren and Jillian to delve into the challenges and strategies involved in transitioning from a ticket queue system to using epics for task management. They discuss how this shift prioritizes objectives, enhances team focus across global time zones, and improves communication with product teams.
The conversation also touches on documenting processes, managing support work, and the importance of adaptability and transparency within organizations. From humorous anecdotes about technical issues to practical advice on handling resistance from higher-ups, the episode is packed with real-world examples and expert insights. Tune in to learn how to better align stakeholder priorities, balance planned and unplanned work, and foster a more efficient and cohesive DevOps team.
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Jillian returns to the podcast after a significant move from Doha, Qatar to a quaint town in New Hampshire. She shares her experiences of adjusting back to life in the U.S., both personally and professionally. The discussion delves into the logistics and emotional aspects of relocating internationally—what it’s like leaving behind furniture deemed disposable overseas, starting fresh with new purchases, and dealing with unexpected challenges along the way.
Additionally, they talk about the Dora metrics and the emphasis on why measuring these metrics is crucial for understanding DevOps efficiency within organizations. They also dive into the importance of setting hypotheses when attempting organizational changes. And discuss the challenges faced by companies who fail at measuring progress post-experimentation.
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In this episode, Will, Warren and Jillian dive into the complexities of secrets management and developer productivity with our esteemed guest, Brian Vallelunga from Doppler. Join them as Brian shares his journey from facing security challenges at Uber to founding Doppler, an innovative solution aimed at transforming how developers handle secrets.They delve into the critical importance of secrets management, Doppler's unique approach to making security practices not only essential but enjoyable for developers, and the future of authentication with identity-based methods. Brian also offers valuable advice on integrating security from day one and discusses the hurdles and necessities of secure secret management.
Tune in as they explore the evolving landscape of security standards, the impact of SOC 2 compliance, and the balance between immediate security fixes and long-term stability using tools like Terraform. They also touch on personal experiences with data security, practical tips for safeguarding information, and a touch of light-heartedness with fun picks from our hosts.
Don't miss this engaging conversation filled with practical insights, expert advice, and a visionary look at the future of secure development practices.
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Today, we have a dynamic discussion lined up with Will and special guest, Ben Johnson, the CEO of Particle 41. In this episode, they delve deep into the evolving landscape of the tech industry, from incentivizing certifications to the current economic conditions affecting startups.
Ben shares his insights on the importance of experience and specialized knowledge, advocating for a system that prioritizes certifications as objective measures of learning. Will critiques the education system and proposes an apprenticeship model as a solution to existing gaps.
The conversation also navigates the complexities of the modern job market, the impact of layoffs, and the startup ecosystem's challenges due to economic constraints. We explore innovative paths like personal entrepreneurship, brand building, and creating niche software solutions.
Ben and Will also debate the merits of generalism versus specialization, the use of AI in development, and the strategic value of certifications. Plus, we'll touch on the transformative potential
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Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories.
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Will and Warren dive deep into the world of career longevity and adaptability in the fast-evolving tech industry. They explore the often-overlooked importance of staying with a project long enough to understand and resolve complex issues, and how job dissatisfaction can be a tool for negotiation rather than a cue to immediately move on.
They touch on early career experiences and the shift towards specialization, echoing advice from past guest Kelsey Hightower. Warren also shares his intriguing perspective on the value of early career terminations, the necessity of soft skills, and the challenges of expanding teams. The conversation will unfold to reveal a balanced view on the evolution from hands-on engineering to management roles, the continual learning required to stay relevant, and the often humorous realities behind career transitions.
Listen in as they discuss scaling career paths, the nuances of job switching, and the criticality of balancing technical and business acumen. They also delve into the personal facets of tech careers, from dealing with burnout to the idea of retirement, all while sharing our thoughts on professional books and the lessons they impart. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a seasoned developer, or someone navigating the complexities of the tech industry, this episode promises a wealth of knowledge and a dose of humor to keep you engaged.
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In today's episode, Warren and Will dive into the difficulties of coordinating between marketing and engineering teams, particularly around handling increased traffic and sales during the holiday season. The discussion covers the importance of auditing code and looking for potential issues or technical debt at the end of the year. The hosts also explore strategies for pitching and justifying technical projects or rewrites to management, emphasizing the need to frame them in terms of business impact. They conclude by reflecting on the value of stepping back from day-to-day tasks at the end of the year to gain a broader organizational perspective.
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Will and Warren dive deep into the world of Mastermind groups and their impact on career success within the DevOps landscape. They explore the origins of mastermind groups from Napoleon Hill’s "Think and Grow Rich" and debate why a staggering 99% of them might be ineffective, according to Will. Warren shares his own experiences and expresses his curiosity about what truly makes such groups effective.
They also draw intriguing parallels between accountability in mastermind groups and emergency preparedness in aviation, emphasizing the importance of ingrained habits and continuous skill development. From military training insights to the challenges of creating genuine, trust-filled mastermind groups, we'll cover it all.
Additionally, they touch on the broader aspects of professional growth—public speaking, networking, mentorship, and the evolving dynamics of teamwork. Plus, don't miss on practical tips on forming mastermind groups and fostering meaningful professional relationships. Tune in for an episode packed with valuable insights, compelling analogies, and shared experiences that can help you navigate and succeed in your career!
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In today’s episode, Will Button and Warren are joined by special guest Eyal Solomon, co-founder of Lunar.dev. This episode dives deep into pressing DevOps topics like the complexities of Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions and the intricacies of the API economy. They explore the challenges of API management, the importance of visibility and monitoring in API consumption, and strategies to prevent issues like rate limiting and billing surprises.
Eyal shares his journey from infrastructure optimization to specializing in API management, highlighting how Lunar dot Dev helps companies handle API quotas, security, and performance through their innovative platform. We also delve into integrating AI within APIs, managing API costs, and the rising trend of AI agents.
Join them as they dissect the importance of combining storytelling with educational insights in various content forms, from books to YouTube channels. Learn how running can be a form of meditation and problem-solving, and get top book recommendations from our hosts. Whether you’re dealing with API challenges or looking to optimize your DevOps practices, this episode is packed with valuable insights straight from the experts. Don’t miss out!
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Today, Will and Warren dive into the intersection of DevOps and AI with our special guest, Görkem Ercan, CTO of Jozu and a seasoned expert in developer tools and DevOps. In this episode, they explore the practical applications and challenges of integrating Machine Learning into DevOps workflows, utilizing real-world examples like global shirt distribution and the US Army's sizing issues. They also discuss the critical role of psychological safety in successful teams, the surprising origins of the webcam, and the remarkable engineering feats of the Voyager spacecraft.
Moreover, they unpack the intricacies of AI model management, confronting issues like non-deterministic outcomes, data drift, and the need for a unified control plane to handle complex, dynamic environments. They touch on the rise of internal AI management, the innovative use of sentiment analysis in customer support, and the surprising interest from consulting firms in AI-driven solutions.
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In today's episode, Warren, Will, and guest Markus Thurner, the director of technology at Vista dive deep into the world of DevOps with an exciting lineup of discussions about engineering excellence, the fast pace of technological innovation, and the ever-present need for balance between training and production.
Together, they explore how practice makes perfect in software development, drawing from analogies like the Brazilian soccer player practicing with brain diodes. They talk about the costs and benefits of training engineers, managing cloud expenses, and the evolving landscape of on-premise versus cloud data centers.
They dig into the importance of challenging the status quo, the complexities of operational versus capital expenditures, and best practices for writing scalable code. Whether you're curious about the latest in Kubernetes and AWS ECS, or just looking for some practical advice on continual learning and improvement, this episode has something for everyone.
Plus, stay tuned as they share personal recommendations, from the best gaming tablets for those long flights to must-listen podcasts and even a Metallica song that ties back to a gripping World War I tale.
This packed episode concludes with a thoughtful discussion on engineering excellence, and how teams can find balance, define their metrics, and drive both innovation and quality in their projects.
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In today's episode, Warren, Will, and special guest Falit Jain dive deep into the intricate world of incident management and response, drawing from rich experiences at tech giants like Amazon and Disney. They explore real-life scenarios, including Amazon's complex debugging challenges with over 150 engineers maintaining their detail page, and the high stakes of live streaming events at Disney.\
Join them as they discuss the crucial aspects of effective incident response, from the importance of familiarity with systems and the role of on-call processes to the value of communication and meticulous postmortems. They also deep-dive into cultural influences from leadership, the balance between new feature launches and system stability, and the significance of metrics like mean time to resolution and error budgets.
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In today's episode, they dive deep into the world of AI and prompt engineering with our dynamic panel of experts, featuring Anthony Spiteri. He shares their fascinating journey over the past 18 months, manipulating language models like ChatGPT to achieve remarkable results. They explore the intriguing development of a location-based app for finding the European delicacy, Black Pudding, and dive into the complexities of using AI for mentorship, accountability, and even fitness.
Join them as they uncover the technical intricacies of building apps with AI, the philosophical questions surrounding AI's future, and the growing importance of prompt engineering. They also touch on critical issues of data security, the ethical implications of AI, and the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this episode is packed with insights and stories that you won't want to miss. So, grab your headphones and get ready to explore the cutting edge of DevOps and AI!
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In this episode, they dive deep into the intricate world of DevOps and the nuances that drive its continuous evolution. This episode brings you into a thought-provoking conversation featuring Michael Cade, Global Field CTO at Veeam Software. Join them as they explore a wide array of topics, from the controversial practice of intentional data leaks as an advertising strategy to the intricate details of Michael's groundbreaking "90 days of DevOps" project. This initiative, which began in 2022, has grown to feature 91 sessions and contributions from a spectrum of subject matter experts, aiming to enrich our understanding of varied DevOps topics. Michael brings fascinating insights into cloud-native data management and the challenges of integrating databases with Kubernetes.
They delve into the critical aspects of business continuity, data backups, and the shared responsibility model for platforms like GitHub while emphasizing the importance of security measures such as multi-factor authentication. The episode also covers the evolution of programming languages in DevOps, the significance of physical and digital note-taking for task management, and the personal balance between professional responsibilities and physical activity.
The discussion extends to the mentorship challenge within the DevOps community, the importance of creating and sharing valuable content, and the role of storytelling in simplifying complex technical concepts. Whether you're interested in hearing about the use of various cloud platforms, the behind-the-scenes of Michael's career at Veeam, or tips for achieving work-life harmony, this episode has something for everyone. So, plug in your AirPods Pro 2, lace up your running shoes, and get ready to be inspired by another exciting journey into the world of DevOps.
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In this episode, they dive deep into the evolving landscape of cloud infrastructure and developer experience. Join our host, Warren and Will and Eli Ben Israel—former AWS and Microsoft engineer and co-founder of Wing—as they explore the challenges and innovations in DevOps.
In this episode, Eli shares pivotal insights from his journey at Amazon, revealing that despite advanced tools like CDK, building on the cloud remains fraught with difficulties. They dissect the cognitive barriers developers face in understanding cloud mechanics and the need for greater access and autonomy in cloud development.
Discover the transformative potential of the Wing project, designed to abstract cloud complexities and enhance developer productivity by providing a seamless, cloud-agnostic platform. They also touch upon the importance of good API design, the intriguing philosophy behind Kubernetes, and how projects like Wing promise to simplify and scale cloud development.
As they navigate through infrastructure challenges, community building in open-source projects, and the shift from Slack to Discord, this episode promises a wealth of knowledge for both seasoned DevOps professionals and curious newcomers.
Stay tuned for technical insights, book recommendations, and a journey through the future of cloud development on **Top End Devs**!
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Warren delves into this episode featuring an engaging conversation with David Stenglein, a seasoned industry expert with over 20 years of experience. In this episode, they shed light on the pitfalls of hiring product managers amidst hype cycles, urging a shift towards a product mindset that prioritizes user pain points and tangible value. They critique traditional metrics like DORA and ENPS, discussing their limitations and the need for better communication and alignment on business-level metrics.
They explore the complexities of platform adoption, from Kubernetes to Docker, and the challenges of managing modern technologies. David emphasizes the importance of striking a balance between innovation and practicality, while Warren delves into the cognitive load and the necessity of higher-level abstractions. With discussions ranging from the evolution of software platforms, and the transformative potential of WebAssembly, to the nuances of user-driven platform development, this episode is packed with valuable insights for every developer navigating the fast-evolving tech landscape. So, tune in as they dissect the future of platform development and the delicate dance between innovation and efficiency.
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In this episode, Warren and Will delve deep into the intricate world of DevOps and SaaS integrations, featuring insights from special guest Michael Zuercher from Prismatic. Throughout the discussion, they talk about the challenges legacy companies face in updating their massive infrastructure and how Prismatic is revolutionizing SaaS integrations with its innovative approaches. They explore the significance of flexible and reliable integration platforms, learn about the evolution of farming technology, and take a closer look at the long tail of customer needs in the tech industry.
Moreover, the experts take on the complexities of handling large data files and API integrations, including the persistent issues of idempotency, pagination, and rate limiting. Additionally, they discuss leadership and market strategies, with book recommendations and personal anecdotes enriching our tech talk. Tune in as they uncover how Prismatic is crafting tools to simplify the integration process, reduce reliance on core developers, and help businesses thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Get ready for an episode filled with technical expertise, practical advice, and a few surprises along the way!
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In this episode, they delve into the intricacies of DevOps implementation with our insightful hosts and key guest, Marius Stanca. They share invaluable perspectives on the continuous learning nature of DevOps, the evolving toolkit, and the essential roadmap for organizations. Highlighting the critical need for understanding problems before adopting DevOps solutions, the conversation covers practical experiences, automation strategies, and effective resource management.
They also discuss the misuse of terms like "agile" and "DevOps" and the importance of eliminating waste through lean principles, citing "The Toyota Way." Moreover, they reflect on the challenges of starting with DevOps, noting the high-quality, minimal-effort maintainability of resources. They explore the automation of everyday tasks, leveraging tools like GitHub and GitLab, and the necessity of adapting to evolving technologies.
Marius Stanca introduces the "awesome DevOps" repository, a collaborative resource collection meticulously vetted for DevOps and SRE relevance. Navigating through topics such as team structuring, the simplification of workflows, the perpetual struggle of innovation in DevOps, and the use of GPT in generating source code, this episode is packed with expert advice and humorous insights. Tune in as we bridge the gap between theory and practical execution, providing a rich roadmap for your DevOps journey!
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In this episode, the panel together with our guest, Galen Marchetti dives deep into tackling some of the most pressing challenges in the DevOps world. They unpack the hurdles of blue-green deployments, feature flags, and the necessity of parallel execution for smooth production rollouts. They explore the complexities of testing changes in production, managing containerization, and optimizing build speeds with multistage Docker builds.
Listen to engaging discussions about kurtosis—a powerful tool for creating development environments—and its impact on projects like Ethereum, as well as the broader implications for open-source contributions. From humorous anecdotes about using VIM in production to thoughtful reflections on the trauma of production errors, this episode covers it all.
Plus, get book recommendations, music picks, and tips on the latest tools from our speakers! Don't miss out on these valuable insights and entertaining banter from the frontline of DevOps.
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In this episode, we have a special guest Kelsey Hightower, exploring the intersections of music, technology, and personal growth. They delve into AI advancements and their significance in DevOps. From Google Maps to large language models, they discuss AI as a tool to complement human expertise, emphasizing professional growth and innovation within the tech industry. Guest Kelsey Hightower shares his career journey, underlining the importance of starting at entry-level, continuous learning, and a growth-focused mindset.They also explore balancing innovation with stability, rewatching classic movies, and the personal joys of retirement.
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Today, Will is flying solo as he sits down with Costa Tsaousis, the founder and CEO of NetData. Costa shares the story behind the development of NetData, a groundbreaking monitoring tool that provides high-fidelity, real-time, and automated monitoring without data smoothing.
As they delve into the conversation, Costa discusses the remarkable growth and engagement of NetData, emphasizing the vibrant community and the significance of open-source contributions. They also explore efficient data compression and integration with Systemd Journal, highlighting the benefits of distributed data collection.
Furthermore, they discuss the challenges of proving the value of data for commercial purposes and the goal of providing better service at a lower cost. Costa also unveils the innovative approach to monitoring and observability, showcasing the simplicity and efficiency of NetData compared to industry-standard solutions.
So, join Will and Costa as they dissect the development, capabilities, and future roadmap of NetData, offering valuable insights into the world of DevOps and infrastructure monitoring. Stay tuned to explore the journey of NetData and the revolution it brings to the industry.
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In this episode, Warren and Will embark on a thought-provoking journey through the world of DevOps, security, team dynamics, and career progression. They discuss the hidden implications of domain names, the importance of security certifications, and the complexities of leading a tech team, weaving in personal experiences and insights. With an emphasis on aligning technical work with overarching business goals, they explore the challenges and rewards of managing software development and infrastructure. From the nuances of SaaS provider selection to the impact of AI on small teams, this episode offers a captivating exploration of modern tech practices and their far-reaching implications.
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Jose Diaz-Gonzalez is the creator is Dokku. They delve into the world of DevOps with a focus on security, open source contributions, and managing permissions in AWS. In this episode, they discuss the challenges and complexities of open-source projects, the importance of verifying the integrity of packages, and the implications of using unauthorized software. They also touch on the upcoming DevOps Days Zurich conference and share insights on evaluating platform features, addressing customer needs, and minimizing tech debt in product management.
Join them as they explore explore topics ranging from data storage services to container technologies, and the journey of maintaining open-source projects. They share their experiences, challenges, and valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps. Stay tuned for a deep dive into the nuances of DevOps, security considerations, and the fascinating world of cloud hosting providers.
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Luca Galante is the Product and Growth at Humanitec. In today's episode, they dive deep into the world of platform engineering and DevOps, discussing the challenges, innovations, and best practices in the field.
They discuss the need for clear problem-solving in platform engineering, the importance of reference architectures, and the upcoming PlatformCon event. From the concept of a minimum viable platform approach to measuring success and the pivotal role of communication and customer feedback, this episode covers a wide range of topics essential for anyone involved in platform engineering and DevOps.
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Rosalind Whitley is the Director of Product Marketing at Kentik. They dive deep into the world of technology, DevOps, and everything in between. In today's episode, they have an in-depth conversation about the complexities of marketing for technical products, particularly in the context of network observability and DevOps. They discuss the challenges of conveying emotions and authentic messaging in marketing, as well as the evolving expectations of the consumer in today's fast-paced digital landscape. They also explore the impact of technology on modern corporations, the role of AI in network monitoring, and the significance of building a supportive community within the developer space. Join them for a vibrant discussion on technical marketing, network observability, and the intersection of technology and business.
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Yonatan Eldar is the Co-Founder and CTO at Apiiro. They discuss the evolution in application security strategies, the importance of using the right tools for the job, and the significance of prioritizing and contextualizing security issues for developers. They touch on various aspects of security, including the potential vulnerabilities in code, understanding attack vectors, and managing the inventory of software and services for security. Additionally, they delve into the importance of marketing and educating teams about security and the potential malicious tactics used in the aftermath of security incidents.
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Pete Fritchman is a Senior operations and site reliability engineer. They delve deep into the world of development, operations, and everything in between. They explore the complexities of measuring the true cost of ownership, the challenges of work patterns in infrastructure, and the nuances of internal tool reliability. They share their firsthand experiences and provide valuable insights into observability, SLOs, and internal application performance. They also take a fascinating turn into the realm of gaming, drawing parallels between game challenges and real-world work patterns. Get ready for an engaging, informative, and thought-provoking conversation that will leave you with a fresh perspective on the intricacies of the ever-evolving tech landscape.
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Tyson Trautmann is the Vice President of Engineering at Fauna. They delve into the dynamic world of software development and database management. They have a candid discussion about the challenges and benefits of using specific databases for analytical workloads, the influence of automation on traditional roles like database administrators, and the evolving landscape of modern application architectures. Tyson Trautman shares his insights on topics ranging from the trend towards automation using declarative schema for continuous delivery to the database, to the innovative design of Fauna's distributed transaction engine. With a mix of humor, personal picks, and valuable industry knowledge, this episode is set to inspire and inform.
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Lukas Fittl is the Founder of Pganalyze. They delve into the latest developments and challenges in the world of DevOps and technology. They discuss the evolving role of database administrators (DBAs), focusing on the challenges of optimizing database performance, specifically addressing slow queries in Postgres databases. The conversation highlights the need for visibility and understanding of database performance, as well as the development of Pganalyze, a startup aimed at improving Postgres performance. Tune in to gain insights into the changing landscape of DBAs and the complexities of database optimization in today's technology-driven world.
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Andreas Grabner is the DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, DevRel for CNCF Keptn, CNCF Ambassador, and PurePerformance Podcast host. They dive into the world of DevOps, platform engineering, and the latest developments in technology. In this episode, they explore the impact of AI in DevOps, the significance of observability tools, and the potential security risks associated with AI-generated code. They delve into the challenges of running open-source projects in containers and the importance of using commercial solutions to solve complex engineering problems. They also discuss the evolution of software engineering education, the role of platform engineering in enterprise-scale DevOps, and the necessity of understanding underlying mechanisms and optimizing for specific use cases. Join them as they explore the cutting-edge technologies and industry insights that are shaping the future of DevOps and platform engineering.
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Mike Bowers is the Chief Architect at FairCom Corporation. They delve deep into the world of DevOps and database management. They explore the complexities and challenges of maintaining multiple databases in the cloud, the evolving role of database administrators, and the impact of open-source software on database management. They share insights into the shift in database administration roles, the importance of security in database management, and the need for support and infrastructure when bringing in new databases. They also touch on the nuances of NoSQL databases, the value of specializing in database architecture, and the benefits of using the right tools for database tasks. Join them as they unpack the intricacies of database management in today's ever-evolving technological landscape.
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The Adventures in DevOps podcast welcomes Warren Parad as the newest host. Together with Will, they dive into a wide range of topics, including technology advancement, disaster recovery, open source, mentorship in the software engineering field, and the intersection of technology and business. They share their experiences and insights on implementing tools, managing risk, and understanding the financial impact of technology investments. Join them as they explore the complexities of the tech industry and the importance of continuous learning and adaptation. Stay tuned for an engaging and informative discussion with our knowledgeable speakers as they share their real-world experiences and valuable insights.
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Adarsh Shah joins the Adventure to discuss building out Environment as Code which goes beyond just Infrastructure as Code which defines your servers and networking.Environment as Code provides a way to define an entire component of your environment and connections between pieces. It emphasizes loose coupling and allows teams to deliver an environment for their applications.
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Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.
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Jeffrey Groman takes the reins and walks Chuck and Will through the latest and greatest security breaches out on the internet.He also walks them through how to operate to avoid being caught by several of these issues.Specifically, he explains the Microsoft issue in the print spooler and the breach of Kaseya and what the implications are within the wider world.
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Drew Stokes is a Senior Engineering Manager at PagerDuty. Drew and Will engage in a deep dive into incident management. Through the discussion, explore the complexities and challenges of incident management, emphasizing the critical role it plays in organizational performance and customer trust. Join them as they unravel the nuances of incident management and its profound influence on the software development landscape.
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Sagi Brody is a seasoned technologist and CTO at Opti9. They share insights on disaster recovery strategies, the importance of effective documentation, and the challenges of managing resilience in the cloud. They discuss the need for standardized tools and processes, the impact of technological advancements on traditional strategies, and the increasing complexity of multi-region and multi-cloud setups. With a focus on practical experiences and industry trends, this episode provides valuable perspectives on the evolving landscape of DevOps and the essential skills needed to navigate it effectively. Tune in to gain valuable insights into managing resilience, disaster recovery, and the importance of clear and accessible documentation in the world of DevOps engineering.
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With the current economic downturn, companies big and small are facing layoffs, hiring freezes, and altering job offers. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will share their decades of industry knowledge on various strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process.
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Ori Mankali is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Akeyless Security. They delve into the critical intersection of DevOps and security. They explore the complex realm of maintaining security while optimizing operational efficiency in software development. Tune in to learn about the important role of security in the CI/CD pipeline and how organizations can enhance their security posture while maintaining operational efficiency.
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Jeffrey, Will, and Chuck dive into the question "How do you know whether or not you want to take a job?" during and after the interview.The discussion ranges through what to ask employers, knowing what you want from the job, and how to determine before and after the interview whether the job offer is a good fit for you.
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Adam Jacob is the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative. He shares insights on the reconceptualization of DevOps and the importance of rethinking the entire system to achieve better outcomes. They explore System Initiative's groundbreaking new approach to DevOps, featuring a simulation of infrastructure and applications using digital twins and a hypergraph of functions. They also delve into the importance of collaboration in DevOps workflows and the need for a burst of creativity and innovation in the field.
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Viktor Farcic is a developer advocate at Upbound. He joins the show to talk about his YouTube channel, "DevOps ToolKit". They also talk about their professional careers and experiences. He talks about being a content creator and a developer, among many more.
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Neatsun Ziv is the Co-Founder & CEO of OX.Security. He begins by talking about the changes in "software supply chain security" over the years, what is is all about, what it offers to its users, the problem it solves, and many more!
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Chris Knotts is the Product Director at Cprime. He joins the show to talk about Cprime, how he manages the company, what services they offer to their clients, the problems they solve, and much more!
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Doug Neumann is a career software engineer. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about disaster recovery. He begins by explaining the difference between "building high availability and disaster recovery". He also talks about how this impacts your system and how it will make you resilient to any trouble or error you might experience. They also dive into the process of implementing it, and many more!
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Jonathan, Jillian, and Will join this week's panelist episode. They dive into the world of operating systems, server security, Docker images, and even some book recommendations. They share their experiences with Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Amazon Linux, discussing the pros and cons of each for both desktop and server use. Moreover, they explore the nuances of different platforms, the importance of security, and the impact of personal preferences in the world of software development.
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Matt Topol is the Staff Software Engineer at Voltron Data and the Author of "In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow". He joins the show to talk about his book. He begins by explaining what Apache Arrow is, its benefits & advantages, how it works and many more!
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Yann Léger is the Co-Founder and CEO at Koyeb. He joins the show to talk about Koyeb. It is a developer-friendly serverless platform that allows you to deploy all kind of services. He begins by talking about its advantages, its benefits, and why he decided to create another cloud platform. He also dives into how it works, its difference from other companies and many more!
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Rohit Ghumare joins Jonathan to discuss his involvement in the DevOps community in India and his role as an organizer for DevOps Days Bangalore. Rohit shares insights into the active DevOps community in India, with regular meetups and conferences happening in different cities. He also provides details about the upcoming DevOps Days India conference, including the preparations and expected number of attendees and speakers.
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Kyler Middleton is a Hashi Ambassador and AWS Community Builder. They dive into the captivating world of DevOps and explore the importance of technical expertise combined with effective communication skills. Kyler shares valuable insights on topics ranging from building a robust skillset to the challenges and responsibilities of security engineers. Moreover, they uncover the secrets to achieving developer velocity, integrating automation into workflows, and understanding the foundational knowledge in networking. They navigate the complexities of the cloud environment and explore the transformative nature of technical and computer skills.
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David Linthicum is an Enterprise Technology Thought Leader and Visionary, Cloud Computing and Generative AI Expert/Pioneer, Educator, and Business Leader. They delve into the world of DevOps and explore various aspects of it. They discuss the benefits of working for a small consulting firm, the importance of learning from experienced individuals, and the risks of over-reliance on AI in software development. They also touch on the emerging discipline of FinOps, the integration of security into every stage of the software development process, and the challenges of building efficient and secure systems.
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Pete Hunt is the CEO of Elementl. Jonathan, Jillian, Will, and Pete dive into the world of DevOps and explore the challenges faced by engineering teams in the ever-evolving landscape of cloud technology and open source. From misalignment between individual engineers and company goals to the struggles of managing complex systems like Airflow, we'll be discussing it all. Take a closer look at the latest advancements in data pipeline scheduling and the need for a higher-level approach. Additionally, they discuss the importance of open source and the dynamics of working with venture capitalists.
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Neatsun Ziv is the Co-Founder & CEO of OX.Security. He joins the show to discuss software supply chain security, attack techniques, and lessons learned from previous major supply chain attacks. Moreover, he explains the role that DevOps play in software supply chain security.
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Mike Wagner is the Co-Founder & CEO of Metify.io. He joins the show to talk about his company, career experience working with data centers, and infrastructure. He also tackles the bare metal servers and how this is being utilized in his company. Moreover, they dive into Metify's infrastructure and operations tool for managing and provisioning servers, and many more!
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Mirco Hering is a Global DevOps Practice Lead, IT Transformation & Delivery Lead, CIO Advisor, Blogger, Author, and Public Speaker. He is the author of "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise". He starts off by deriving his own definition of DevOps. He also dives into some approaches used for DevOps, managing a DevOps team, challenges he faces and possible solutions, and many more!
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Brian Greene is the CTO of Neuron Sphere. He begins by talking about his career progression and some of his achievements. He dives into designing medical devices from a developer's perspective. Additionally, he talks about his company and many more!
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Jonathan and Will join this week's panelist episode to talk about AWS and GCP. They begin by sharing their experiences with using them and the specific services that they use. Additionally, they also discuss the difference between AWS & GCP and its useful features.
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Jillian and Jonathan join this week's panelist episode to talk about ChatGPT. They begin by sharing their thoughts and experiences when using it. Additionally, they tackle its benefits and how it helps them write and understand codes.
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Lane Wagner is the Founder of Boot.dev. He joins the show to talk about his blog post, "Are You a DevOps Engineer if You Aren't Writing Code?". They begin by outlining their personal definitions of what a DevOps and a DevOps Engineer mean to them.
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Ran Aroussi is a software developer, data hacker, financial tinkerer, algorithmic trader, quant researcher, technology geek, creator of several popular Python libraries, and founder of Tradologics. He joins the show to talk about "Tradologics". He begins by providing an overview of his company and the services that they provide to its clients. Sponsors
Bruce A. Tate is a Founder at Groxio, Elixir Expert, and a Technical Author. He joins the show alongside Charles Max Wood to talk about his book, "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks". He also delves into some of the preparations and anticipations that come with reading the book.
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Johnny Dallas is the CEO and Co-founder of Zeet. He joins the show with Jonathan and Will to talk about his company and his journey as a developer. He begins by sharing how he became a developer and his experience of building Zeet. Moreover, he talks about the services they provide in Zeet and how their customers can benefit from them.
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Returning guest, Omer Hamerman is the Principal DevOps Engineer at Zesty. He joins the show to discuss cost optimization. He dives into the company's strategies on how they reduce cost and share his experience when it comes to managing it. Moreover, he talks about identifying methods that impact cost optimization and application performance.
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Jason Weimann is a Developer and Instructor. He returns to the show with Chuck to talk about video game creation. He shares his experiences as a developer and dives into his courses wherein he gives beginners and aspiring developers a walk-through of the world of creating games.
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Luca Galante runs products at Humanitec and is a writer for Platform weekly. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about Platform Engineering. He starts off as he explains "Platform Engineering", its concept, and its impact on the DevOps community today.
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Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction.
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Chris Cooney is a Developer Advocate who works at Coralogix. He joins the show to talk about "Stream Processing and Why it's so Important for Observability". He begins by explaining what is stream processing and its significant role.
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Hosts of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, Jillian Rowe and Jonathan Hall, join Ben and Michael on this week's episode crossover. They talk about the intersection of ML and DevOps. They dive into the concepts and differences between ML and DevOps. Additionally, they talk about how ML ideas may be applied to DevOps principles and vice versa.
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Max Howell is the creator of Home Brew and is the CEO of Tea. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about Tea, the next-generation, cross-platform package manager. He starts off with an overview of his career path as an entrepreneur and corporate employee. Moreover, He shares how he was able to develop Tea and what it is all about.
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Dori Exterman is the CTO at IncrediBuild. He joins the show to talk about the gaming industry and further explain their company, " IncrediBuild". He explains the prerequisites, production process, and DevOps process for creating games. Moreover, they also tackle the factors that affect game development.
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Jonathan and Will join this week's panelist episode to talk about the difference between gRPC and Rest. They go into detail about each of their advantages and disadvantages as well as the issues they resolve.
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Erez Berkner is the CEO and Co-Founder at Lumigo. He joins the show to talk about, "Lessons Learned From Running Serverless In Production For 5 Years". He begins the program by elaborating on his personal interpretation of Serverless. Moreover, he dives into the five important lessons he learned from running serverless workloads.
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Jonathan and Will join this panelist episode to tackle team maturity in a company. They discuss their point of view on team maturity when it comes to testing codes and creating new projects. Additionally, they discuss competence in terms of managing one's job and approaching problems.
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Leon Wright is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Pet Circle. Omer Hamerman is the Principal DevOps Engineer at Zesty. They join the show alongside Will to talk about the similarities and differences between AWS and GCP in DevOps. Additionally, they discuss their experiences working and launching projects as DevOps Engineers for their respective companies.
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Nir Valtman is the Co-Founder and CEO at Arnica. It is a behavior-based software supply chain security platform for DevOps. He joins Jonathan and Will to introduce his company. , He talks about some of the issues and challenges they encountered and how they overcame them. Moreover, they also tackle security tools in Software Development.
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Warren Parad is the CTO at Authress. It is a User authorization API for software makers. He joins the show to talk about Open-source Software. He explains how open-source software is used in enterprise organizations, what functions it serves, and what trade-offs and difficulties come with it.
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Jonathan, Jillian, and Will join this week's panelist episode as they talk about conferences. Will starts off as he talks about his inputs from the last conference that he recently attended. Additionally, the panel talks about each of their own experiences and key learning from the different conferences.
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Join Chuck Wood as he hosts this week's DevOps episode to do an Interview with John Willis. He has worked in the IT management industry for more than 3 decades. He has written 11 books, and "The DevOps Handbook" is one of them. He joins the show to talk about another book he co-authored, " Investments Unlimited". Additionally, he explains how they were able to come up with the idea for the book and What the reader should anticipate from the book.
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Anna Geller is the Lead Community Engineer at Prefect. She joins the show with Jillian and Jonathan to discuss her article, "Scheduled vs. Event-driven Data Pipelines — Orchestrate Anything with Prefect and further explains the company she works for, "Prefect". It is a company that helps users coordinate their workflows. Moreover, she discusses the many advantages Prefect may provide to its users.
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Join Chuck Wood as he hosts this week's DevOps episode to do another Interview with a SwampUp speaker, Nati Davidi. He currently manages JFrog's security division in Israel and established Vdoo a Startup Company that is acquired by JFrog. He joins Chuck to talk about some important things to know about Security. Additionally, Nati offers some advice on how to safeguard your apps and keep hackers from accessing them.
For the second part of this episode, Chuck Wood interviews Yoav Landman. He is the Founder and CTO of JFrog. He joins Chuck on the show to talk more about JFrog Connect.JFrog Connect is the first Plug&Play, ready-to-use, device management platform for connected products. He also explains how it works and how developers can benefit from it.
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As a developer, you should “Focus on solving business problems rather than technical expertise”. The panel joins the show to talk about Will’s YouTube video, “Don’t Do DevOps”. They offer their advice on how to advance with your career and expertise when a certain tool, framework, or language you’re focused on is suddenly not your company’s focus. As new developers grow in their careers, they also share tips on how to specialize in a particular area and learn the "basics" especially when you're starting your career.
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Supply chain security, a subset of supply chain management, is concerned with the risk management of third-party vendors, suppliers, logistics, and transportation.
Stephen Chin is the Head of Developer Relations at JFROG. He is also a Speaker and the Author of DevOps Tools for Java Developers. Stephen joins Chuck for this bonus episode to talk about Supply Chain Security and Pyrsia.io. He begins by sharing some instances of how attackers are able to access different companies’ assets, software, systems, and others.
Additionally, Stephen offers solutions on how to prevent or eliminate those attacks. Pyrsia.io is a solution that secures open-source builds and distribution with the goal of securing the software supply chain of open-source dependencies.
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Join Chuck Wood as he hosts the DevOps episode this week to do an interview with one of the SwampUp speakers. SwampUp is an in-person DevOps event organized by JFrog. Fernando Babadopulos is an Eternal software developer, serial entrepreneur, and speaker. He is also the Co-Founder at the tail.digital. He talks about a plugin that they developed, how it works and how developers can benefit from it.
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As a Developer, How do you manage the users that can access the system? Jonathan and Will share some pointers and approaches on how you can protect your system or account from being accessed by multiple or anonymous users.
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Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Focus Blocks Bundle" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis. Mani has read 1,000's of productivity books over the last several years and has formulated a methodology for getting more done, but found that he lacked the discipline to follow through on his plans. The he found the one thing that kept him on track and made him so productive that he is now getting all of his work done and was able to live the life he wants. Chuck also weighs in on how Mani's technique has worked for him and allows him to spend more time with his wife and kids, run a podcast network, and a nearly full time contract. Join the episode to learn how Chuck and Mani get into a regular flow state with their work and consistently deliver at work.
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Getting your ideas across can be difficult for a new person on the job or even a seasoned professional. Join in as the panel tackles different strategies for communicating ideas and “How to get your way”. They also share their experiences on how to handle the team when they encounter problems.
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When you’re working on the web, there will also be a high chance for you to experience hacking. Jillian and Will talk about third-party data providers and discuss the reason why you might get hacked when using these providers.
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Each learner uses different methods in order to obtain a certain knowledge or skill. In this episode, Jonathan and Jillian relate to the listeners as they share their techniques and strategies when learning new things. They also tackle about the variety of mediums they use, different online learning platforms, and getting certifications and taking online courses.
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In this episode, Jonathan and Will don their exterminator suits and talk about zombies, podcast automation, and where bugs come from.
- How design and architecture choices can lead to bugs
- Siloed teams solving similar problems with different implementations
- Context of code in peer-review
- Types of testing that can reduce and catch bugs
- Deadlines that force shipping code despite readiness
- Leaving breadcrumbs for future-you
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Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital’s capabilities, and everything in-between.
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Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes that helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Matt Butcher, core creator of Helm, joins the show today to share about his experience building and implementing the program.
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Aviad Mor is the CTO and co-founder of Lumigo, a serverless intelligence platform that helps developers understand and troubleshoot serverless applications. Today on the show, Jonathan Hall interviews Aviad to discuss observability within DevOps and the future of serverless.
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WebAssembly is a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs to interface software for facilitating interactions between programs and their host environment. Today on the show, WebAssembly expert Taylor Thomas shares his insights into WebAssembly and the endless possibilities for which it allows.
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With recent high-profile software supply chain breaches and President Biden's Executive Order to improve the nation's cybersecurity, there is an increase in the urgency for businesses and governments to move to DevSecOps. How shall your enterprise integrate security with its DevOps process? Today on the show, Will Kelly outlines his approach to transforming from DevOps to DevSecOps.
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DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption has developers shipping code faster than ever and security is struggling to keep up. How do you ensure secure deployment while still maintaining speed with releasing applications? Today on the show, Harshit Chitalia, CTO & Founder at Tromzo shares his industry insights related to application security and applicable ideas on what developers can start trying today.
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Today on the show, Ava Naeini shares about her patent pending intelligent engine tool that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems. The panel discusses what this new platform can do and how it can help enhance developers with distributed systems.
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GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. Today on the show, Will and Jonathan interview Tanmay Bhat to discuss the GitOps framework, advantages and disadvantages, and favorite tools.
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Logging in today’s DevOps landscape has become more difficult than ever. DevOps needs visibility into workloads that security, development, and operations teams collaboratively manage and provide. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will discuss various strategies to logging and log management and what you can start implementing today.
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Top Dev Ops global influencer, award-winning tech writer, and developer advocate Pavan Belagatti joins the show today to share the importance of personal branding as a developer, plus tactical strategies you can implement today.
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You just finished some code that can have a positive impact on your customers, and you are motivated to release it as quickly as possible, but your team members are also incredibly busy working on their own code. This conflict is The Pull Request Paradox. Today on the show, the panel interviews Yishai Beeri to share his insights on how to manage this paradox and the best PR strategies you can implement today.
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Today on the show, the panel discusses the intersection of data and DevOps, including various topics such as data warehousing, analytics, and source data, DVC and AWS Batch, and Snowflake integrations.
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With the current economic downturn, companies big and small are facing layoffs, hiring freezes, and altering job offers. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will share their decades of industry knowledge on various strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process.
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Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss the latest tools they have been using for CDIC deployments. Specifically, they discuss the Next.js framework, which allows DevOps teams to provide richer application experiences without relying as much on backend infrastructure. That shift has implications for everything from the amount of network bandwidth consumed to the performance of web applications. Moreover, within the Next.js family, the Vercel platform employs caching, routing, and a React framework to optimize application performance.
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Managing uptime is critical for customers and it can be a powerful customer activity that connects engineers to the value that customers receive from your product, however it can also be a heavy source of burnout for engineers. Brian Scanlan with Intercom has created a volunteer management infrastructure that increases the efficiencies of on-call engineers while also reducing the inherent disruptive nature to the job. Today on the show, the panel interviews Brian about his process and architecture to this on-call management infrastructure.
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Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team operationalize the Accelerate State of DevOps Report, surveying over 32,000 professionals worldwide in the DevOps industry. Dave Mangot joins the show today to share how he leverages these metrics to improve companies within their technology organizations.
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Jonathan shares about the new job offer he received and the progression we went through to navigate the process. Jonathan, Will, and Jillian also discuss the various aspects of the current DevOps job market, starting a new job, and how you can grow in your career.
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Today on the show, Will talks about his latest project, Trustified.io and the steps he is considering to make it DevOps ready. Will and Jonathan discuss creating the dev environment, standardized logging, CI/CD, health checks, standardized reporting dashboards, configuring the app, database migration tools, user management, and ORMs.
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An anti-pattern is a pattern that you use to fix a short-term problem at the expense of your long-term goals. The insidious thing about anti-patterns isn't that they don't work or fail outright, but that they work in the short term while causing long-term failure and pain. Today on the show, Jonathan, Jillian, and Will discuss the various anti-patterns and cargo culting in software engineering, including password management, team structures, mean time to recover, and docker files management.
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Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss deployment strategies, including rolling strategy, blue-green patterns, canary deployments, feature flags, and progressive delivery. They also discuss backward compatibilities and rollback and rollforward deployment strategies, plus share their current picks of the week.
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Imagine being able to program the cloud and bridge the Dev and Ops divide with cloud. Pulumi is a universal infrastructure as code platform that allows you to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices. Today, Jonathan and Will discuss all the ins and outs of Pulumi.In this episode…
Do I need to learn how to write code? What are the types of program languages required in DevOps? What are the pros and cons of each? Will, Jonathan, and Jillian discuss the progressions through programming languages and their insights and opinions with each. Learn about Bash, Go, Perl, Python, Python 2, Python 3, JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Ruby, and Java. At the end, they provide their final concluding thoughts and share their top picks.Sponsors
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Enjoy this philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry. Eric Tank joins the show and shares his perspective on how to “develop for deprecation”. Building a code that is documented, tested, monitored, and deployed is important, but can you easily pass it off to someone else, or be able to walk away from the code it entirely? Johnathan joins by saying that “software is never done until it’s deleted.” They finish the discussion referencing apprenticeship models and how accountability in this way could parallel other industries.Sponsors
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PicksJillian, Jonathan, and Will break down the process of building a DevOps team. They address the breadth of skills from writing skills to provisioning cloud and server resources. They also dive into organizing human and other resources to successfully build and grow a DevOps team.Sponsors
PicksEveryone and their mother is talking about Kubernetes, but there’s something you need to know. In this episode, the gang talks about the TRUTH around Kubernetes for most scenarios.In This Episode1) The BIGGEST reason NOT to use Kubernetes
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In a world of fake data and security breaches, where do you go? In this episode, Charles chats with Adam Kamor from Tonic.ai, the fake data company that mimics your production data to keep your databases secure. “It’s a little control knob, allowing you to turn the dial between privacy and utility. That’s what Tonic.ai does.”
- Adam Kamor In This Episode1) How to prepare your infrastructure for the real world and keep your transformations simple
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Is your DevOps title “hip”? What does it mean? Does it matter? In this episode, the gang discusses the fundamental differences between dev ops positions based on “hipness”, as well as if it actually matters in today’s world. In This Episode 1) What the “hipness” of your job means (and if you should care)
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Will needs some developer therapy, and maybe you do, too. In this episode, Will talks about reconfig issues he’s having with a client, and his loyal compadres help him find the light at the end of the tunnel. It may NOT include Airflow, though. Sorry, Jillian.In This Episode1) What you NEED to look for to know if reconfiguration is the right answer for your…situation
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Ready to add another tool to your toolkit? In this episode, the squad sits down with AWS connoisseur, Stephen Kuenzli. They lay out how to make integrating IAM a breeze, the EXCITING future of AWS, and why AWS hasn’t asked you this ONE question that, frankly, you should have asked already. “Even if you think you know AWS one Day 1, it’s changed on Day 2. It’s important to simplify how you access these resources.”
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Ready to pull the plug and go server-less? Hold your horses. In this episode, the DevOps fellows sit down with Allen Helton, a developer knows all about server-less ops. They discuss the biggest pros and cons for going server-less, why you HAVE to start with the big “A” to keep everything neat, and the NUMBER ONE mistake developers make when trying server-less for the first time. “ServerOps engineers are just as important as DevOps engineers are. There’s a lot of crossover.”
- Allen Helton In This Episode1) The HUGE pros for going server-less in 2022 (and why it doesn’t have to be too different from traditional DevOps)
2) Why server-less ops MUST start with the big “A” to keep everything tidy
3) The NUMBER ONE mistake traditional devs make when trying out server-less for the first time
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We’re not calling you a dummy, but you might be one if you don’t listen to this episode. This time around, the gang discusses the do’s and don’ts of choosing CI/CD tools, including how to safety migrate between them, why super-specialized tools are getting extremely popular this year, and the ONE component that makes or breaks a tool.In This Episode1) The TWO questions you need ask BEFORE you choose your tools (and why there’s no “one size fits all”)
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Love the nomad lifestyle but not sure how to pull it off? You’re in luck! In this episode, the panelists discuss their personal experiences working (and sometimes living) remote. They cover how to generate leads and book clients consistently, why the “multiplier effect” is HUGE for making your new ideas lucrative, and the ONE reason you don’t need revolutionary ideas to find success.In This Episode
We’ve been hearing about blockchain and Web3 for years now, but its heyday is sooner than you think. In this episode, Will and Jonathan discuss why NOW is the time to dig into blockchain, how those in Dev Ops can approach these new technologies (and not get overwhelmed), and what Jonathan learned from a, well, “crazy” interview.In This EpisodeWhy RIGHT NOW is the time to understand block chain (it’s not a fad anymore!)
How Dev Ops peeps should think about and approach blockchain (free resources!)
The KEY difference between blockchain and crypto
What Jonathan learned from an oddball interviewer (and the ethics of blockchain in general)Sponsors
Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.Sponsors
PicksJillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022.Sponsors
PicksReady to show off your coding skills to the world? Not so fast. In this episode, Will and Jillian discuss why developers need to simplify their product with the end goal in mind—the customer. They share some awesome examples of how to do this, how you can win Future You’s approval, and the steps to create a smooth user experience.“I think it’s a hard mental shift to say that my area of expertise shouldn’t be visible in the product. But, you need to understand the end goal. My goal is to automate myself out of a job, then move on.”
Daniele Fontani joins the Adventure to discuss the different kinds of Ops like NoOps, AppOps, etc. He makes fun of the different ways that people try to extend DevOps into other types of movements and why the different focuses may or may not be appropriate ways to manage resources.Panel
Will and Jonathan have a conversation about whether or not you can use Scrum with DevOps. They also discuss different alternatives to Scrum and how you can use them instead of Scrum or whether Scrum is the best fit.Panel
The Adventures in DevOps crew discuss the various certificates that exist and which ones you may or may not want to consider getting.They talk about whether you need one in the first place and the value that different markets place on the certificates.Panel
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Jillian, Jonathan, Will, and Chuck discuss where the line is between Development and DevOps and what the difference is. They also get into the value of each and when crossover is likely to occur.Panel
The panel puts their heads together to talk about how to bring DevOps practices into a work situation based where they're not implemented. They discuss the various pro's and con's of specific practices and how to get people on board with adoption.Panel
The panel jumps in and discusses the Minimum Viable Continuous Deployment from the manifesto on the web and discuss where they agree and disagree with the requirements listed there and clarify some of the ideas in the document.Panel
Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.Panel
Will and Jonathan jump in this week to discuss how to get started with a career in DevOps and how companies can get things started at your company with DevOps.They discuss the pitfalls of outsourcing your devops and how DevOps should be working within your application space and within your organization.Panel
Henry Been and Erwin Staal join the adventure to discuss Microsoft's options for defining infrastructure as code on Microsoft's Azure cloud offerings.They walk the panel through setting up ARM templates and using the Bicep language to specify how your infrastructure gets set up , run, and managed.35% discount code- poddevopsadv20.Panel
Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.Panel
Troy Dreier joins the adventure to discuss Manning's LiveProjects platform where developers can work through exercises and learn the things they need to just-in-time.Andres Sacco is one of the authors on LivePlatform and joins the adventure to discuss cloud optimization and his experience building a LiveProject showing people how to optimize their cloud setup.Panel
Will Kelly is a technical writer who joins the adventure to discuss bridging the gap between open source, development, and DevOps. He explains the personal and technical skills needed to help folks understand the need for using Open Source software and how developers and DevOps practitioners can communicate about the security concerns around complimentary practices of the two groups with the realms of their jobs.Panel
The Adventures in DevOps panel take over and discuss whether or not DevOps Engineers need to know how to code.The panel offers their perspectives on the pros and cons of knowing how to code and the limitations placed on DevOps Engineers who don't know how to code and the tradeoffs of spending time on code versus other skills that can pay off for your customers.Panel
Yitaek Hwang joins the adventure to discuss how he sets up development environments using well-understood open source tools that allow developers to understand and troubleshoot their own setups.This also allows devops to manage these setups in ways that mirror production.Panel
Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools.The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.Panel
Adarsh Shah joins the Adventure to discuss building out Environment as Code which goes beyond just Infrastructure as Code which defines your servers and networking.Environment as Code provides a way to define an entire component of your environment and connections between pieces. It emphasizes loose coupling and allows teams to deliver an environment for their applications.Panel
Jonathan Hall joins the Adventure this week to discuss the advice he gives to clients to start continuous deployment before they have automated tests around their code.He explains why he starts here and the power of having a continuous deployment system. He, Will, and Chuck go into how to set it up and the pro's and con's of the approach and how it fits into a larger DevOps practice.Panel
Jeffrey asked Chuck before the episode what he was planning for Devchat.tv. Chuck started answering and since the guest had answered, Chuck answers with the overall direction for Devchat.tv. If you want to join in, email chuck@devchat.tv.Panel
Yishai Beeri joins the Adventure to talk about ways that we can communicate and coordinate to deliver great software.This holds both within development teams and between development teams and DevOps teams.Panel
Rosemary Wang joins the adventure to dive into a discussion on what Infrastructure as Code is and how to begin thinking about what it is and how it goes together.She focuses on maintainability, security, and reliability.Panel
Jeffrey Groman takes the reins and walks Chuck and Will through the latest and greatest security breaches out on the internet.He also walks them through how to operate to avoid being caught by several of these issues.Specifically, he explains the Microsoft issue in the print spooler and the breach of Kaseya and what the implications are within the wider world.Panel
Jeffrey, Will, and Chuck dive into the question "How do you know whether or not you want to take a job?" during and after the interview.The discussion ranges through what to ask employers, knowing what you want from the job, and how to determine before and after the interview whether the job offer is a good fit for you.Panel
Shimon Tolts is the CEO datree.io. Shimon talks the panel through an outage he experienced while working for a previous employer. He breaks down the situation and the explains the types of misconfiguration that caused his outage and how these things can cause problems in other applications as well.He explains how to set up rules and policies that allow people to move fast without breaking things and without getting in the way.Panel
Ian Eyberg jumps on with the panel to discuss the uses and origins of UniKernels. He and the panel discuss how to set them up and where they fit into your infrastucture conversations.Panel
Jillian Rowe specializes in setting up AWS clusters for collecting and analyzing bioinformatics data. She's worked with several companies to set up "virtual labs" where they can use Data Science techniques and Machine Learning to analyze and understand the data they collect from their studies.This episode walks through a lot of the approach she uses to communicate with her customers and deliver solutions that provide them with the information needed to do their jobs.Panel
Will and Jeffrey discuss the things that DevOps Engineers need to know. If you're diving into DevOps, you're probably wondering what skills do you need to know?Also, how much of the skill you need to have is technical versus non-technical. People skills and soft skills verus hard typing and at-the-keyboard skills.If you're in DevOps, these are the things you need to learn or the gaps you need to fill.Panel
Yann Stoneman joins the adventure to talk about the tools and approach he uses to cut AWS costs for his customers. The panel chimes in with how they track costs on AWS as well and what they do when they realize costs are creeping up.They then dive into Yann’s story going from Juilliard to FreeCodeCamp to AWS Certifications to working full time as an AWS consultant.Panel
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways.Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes.Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator.Panel
Will Button returns to discuss the roots and meanings of the DevOps movement with Caleb, Chuck, and Jeffrey.They take on the idea that DevOps is the infrastructure department and dissect the ideas pulled from the Agile and other movements that fed ideas into the DevOps movement.They also go over leadership and other requirements that empower DevOps personnel to excel in their jobs and take their careers and companies to new levels.Panel
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.
This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer.Panel
Matthew Helmke is a Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs. He helps companies and people track metrics and alerts around their data to understand what is going on in the systems and information that they manage.He walks Caleb and Jeffrey through the process of understanding systems and data to draw a picture that describes their systems and integrations so they can make better decisions and handle events that occur.Panel
Andrei Kvapil joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes with Jeffrey Groman.Andrei breaks down how he and his company needed to set up Kubernetes to manage their blade server setup and how they wound up running Kubernetes in Kubernetes to gain the characteristics they needed.Panel
When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened.He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to you and how to make it easy to recover when things do go wrong.Panel
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do.So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.Panel
In a lot of ways, DevOps folks are essentially Developers. They encode infrastructure and processes often using code. This episode with Will Button dives into how Developers can jump into DevOps by learning the ropes of what they're coding against and the problem sets solved by DevOps. This show also goes into how to communicate and collaborate between development and DevOps.Panel
Mason McLead is the CTO at Software.com. Software.com is a toolset that measures developer productivity and helps developers be more productive. He discusses the things that are likely the Achilles heel to your productivity and a few simple things you can do to make sure you’re working efficiently.Panel
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey.Panel
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.Panel
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.Panel
James Donohue is a developer at the BBC (British Broadcasting) and explains the new way that they approach code reviews in his division. He also explains the ins and outs of how they communicate about code and the different purposes that code reviews can serve within an organization. Jeff, Caleb, and Chuck also chime in with their experience with code reviews and other similar approaches in security and DevOps.Panel
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.Panel
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.Panel
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.Panel
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.Panel
Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod.He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.Join the Dev Heroes Accelerator at https://devchat.tv/hero Panel
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.Panel
Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories.Panel
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Special Guest: Adam Nowak.Mikolaj Pawlikowski wrote a book about Chaos Engineering. His book is a practical guide to using the tools to test your infrastructure. He's a tech lead at Bloomberg running Kubernetes. He walks us through the various tools and techniques for making sure that your systems will stand up to things that can destabilize them by scripting different failure scenarios.Panel
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
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In this week’s episode, Charles Wood interviews Jeffrey Groman. They discuss how SolarWinds was breached, what it means going forward and lessons learned for protecting your business from attacks.Panel
In this week’s episode, Jeffrey Groman and Charles Wood discuss what makes a top 5% engineer, and how to get there. We cover the gamut of technical skills, soft skills, giving back, and producing content.Panel
Charles Wood and Jeffrey Groman are joined by Phil Wilkins, author of Unified Logging with Fluentd to talk about logging, infrastructure, monitoring and how to get started.Panel
Jeffrey Groman and Chuck Wood are joined this week by Caleb Fornari of StartOps. We discuss people, process and technology that all need to be addressed as you go down the path towards DevOps.Panel
Chris Love is the co-author of Core Kubernetes. Chris and his co-author Jay recognized that there's a general lack of knowledge of the internals of and what makes up Kubernetes. Other resources cover the concepts and basics of how to deploy on Kubernetes, but the problems people run into sometimes exist one layer down in Kubernetes. Chris leads the adventure along the ways that you can get to know the internals and control plane of Kubernetes.Panel
Jeff Smith's book is full of practical ways to implement good DevOps practices within our teams, especially in the case where one might not have the flexibility to make sweeping organizational changes. He shares his wisdom and experience regarding building DevOps organizations and instilling culture into our teams.Panel
Ivan Krnic and the DevOps panel discuss the role of the platform team and where the idea comes from. They discuss why an organization should are about and pay attention to their platform teams. They dive into the ins and outs of building a platform team within various organizations.Panel
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In this episode of Adventures in DevOps,Henry Jewkes and Jeffrey Groman discuss roles, teams, specialties and culture as the relate to implementing DevOps.Panel
At some organizations, a DevOps engineer is expected to be superman: a systems engineer, release manager, security expert, platform developer, and so much more. In this weeks episode, the panel discusses with Alessandro Diaferia what it really means to have a role in DevOps, how to grow a culture of DevOps, and the power of adding measurement to your release process.Panel
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panel is joined by Robert Merget, a PhD student at Ruhr-University Bochum and Maintainer of TLS-Attacker. He joins us to talk about Racoon Attack, a timing vulnerability in the TLS specification that affects HTTPS and other services that rely on SSL and TLS. He will walk us through how it works, and what you should do to protect your organization.Panel
Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is a continuation of last week’s episode of Adventures in DevOps. Guest Guinevere Saenger continues to talk more about the Kubernetes open source community, and how Github has adopted Kubernetes as a platform. In the discussion, we discuss how teams communicate and collaborate and leverage container technology in order to get new features out quicker and more effectively.Panel
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Guinevere Saenger from the Github team joins us to talk about the Kubernetes open source community, and how Github has adopted Kubernetes as a platform. In the discussion, we discuss how teams communicate and collaborate and leverage container technology in order to get new features out quicker and more effectively..Panel
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, our guest Ram Kailasanathan joins the panelists as he walks us through the design decisions that Oracle has made in building out its cloud infrastructure to compete with behemoths like AWS and Azure..Panel
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Chris Short joins us this week for another episode where we discuss OpenShift and the new OpenShift.tv streaming media channel he has been orchestrating for the past few months since conferences and client site visits have been nixed.Panel
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Tyler Bird and special guest JJ Asghar discuss what makes them passionate about both the technology and the culture of DevOps as two old souls who’ve never met chat like old friends because of their shared experiences in the DevOps world.Panel
While you may not need to seamlessly manage your Kubernetes containers across multiple cloud providers, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from understanding the challenges of doing so. Our guest Joe Stevens walks us through the steps his company Ascend had to work through in order to support customers across AWS, Azure and GCP..Panel
DevOps isn't failing organizations, organizations are failing DevOps. Special guests Anupam Kulkarni (CEO) & Aniruddha Bhagwat (Marketing Director) from iauro systems (iauro.com) join host Tyler Bird to highlight where organizations are failing DevOps and discuss the process that works for them. P.S. it can work for you too.Panelists
Developer Operations is a data driven endeavor, but how do you avoid drowning in noise? In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panelists discuss the metrics that matter, how we approach separating information from noise, and when a simple number fails to tell the whole story.Panelists
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panelists discuss how companies can organize for greatest DevOps success. They dive into team structures and patterns, how an organization can embrace the principles of DevOps rather than just it's practices, and where project management lives in today's agile world.Panelists
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, we discuss testing in production of Split Software - when it is necessary, why it is necessary, and how to do it safely.Panelists
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, Sachin Aggarwal of Accurics walks us through his latest startup which is focused on helping to secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by identifying risk and policy violations, and fixing them on the fly.Panelists
In this episode of Adventure in DevOps, the panelists is joined by special guest Tobias Kunze, founder of OpenShift. They discuss Glasnostic which helps you see the global environment in real-time, to gain insights that allow you to react and fix problems as they emerge.Panelists
Adventures in DevOps panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Jeff Groman discuss The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim and how it's lessons apply to real world organizationsPanelists
Panelist Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Guest Björn Rabenstein discuss Prometheus - where it came from, the problems it solves, and how it can help you operate applications in a complex world.Panelists
The panelists talk to Alex Chalkias, a product manager at Ubuntu, about tools and services Ubuntu has developed for managing containers, Kubernetes, telco workflows, live updating, and much more!Panelists
Panelist Scott Nixon, DevOps Automation Engineer at Stelligent, leads the Nell and Tyler in a discussion about AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). They discuss the evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code on AWS from using the SDKs, CloudFormation, and now CDK.Panelists
Brent Schroeder is the global CTO at SUSE. The discussion begins with a discussion around the open source and devops culture at SUSE. It branches into participation in the CloudFoundry and Cloud Native Computing Foundations. The overarching thing is going beyond development into bringing the Ops into DevOps and removes the friction between Dev and Ops.Panelists
Nikhil Barthwal works at Google on Serverless products on Google Cloud Platform. He joins the panel to talk about Implementing Event Driven Microservices. He starts with defining what Microservices are and motivations to move from Monolithic to Microservices. He then dives into distributed data in Microservices and problems associated with it. He goes into details of using Domain Driven Design for partitioning data and solutions to keep data consistent & querying scattered data.Panelist
Bob Quillin is Vice President of Oracle Cloud Developer Relations. He joins the Adventure to talk about the direction of Cloud computing and what's new and upcoming in the Oracle cloud.Panelist
Sean Porter is the CTO and co-founder of Sensu Inc. Sensu is a project that helps cloud native devops engineers track issues across the cloud and multiple clouds. He gives us the story of where Sensu came from and how it is used now.Panelist
Troy and Tobias work at xMatters providing tools that help devops engineers manage things when they go wrong. Their tools at xMatters provide information that makes is easier to track down problems. Running a service like xMattters also allows them to become experts in how workflows should go to empower people to fix issues.Follow UpCloud on Twitter: @UpCloudFollow Troy on Twitter: @TmcalpinxmConnect with Tobias on LinkedIn Panelist
Or Weis is the CEO of Rookout. He walks us through the problems of tracking bugs through multiple layers, services, and nodes. He talks about how to aggregate, sort through, and intelligently use the information provided from each of your infrastructure nodes to find problems in your applications. This is the cure for logging FOMO.Panelist
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Stephen Chin. Stephen runs developer relations at JFrog. Stephen starts by sharing what JFrog has to offer and their most recent announcements. Including their new free version of Aritfactory. Charles and Stephen consider the biggest trends to emerge in 2019 and speculate on what’s going to be big in 2020. This leads them into a discussion about security and inheriting vulnerabilities from packages. They share examples of vulnerabilities in code being exploited. Stephen shares how JFrog helps with identifying and fixing vulnerabilities in code. Stephen shares the characteristics found in the ideal pipeline. It needs to be highly flexible so that it will work for every team and every project. It needs to give you a single source of truth and account for security. He explains how to get started with JFrog and what is included in the free version. Panelist
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Priya Nagpurkar, Paul Castro and Nick Mitchell. They all work for IBM and are here to talk about their new DevOps tool Kui. They start by explains what the IBM cloud research team is all about and what motivates them. Their goal is to make programming on the cloud as easy as possible. They share past tools that they have made for this goal. Charles asks the guests about the future of Kubernetes and DevOps. They explain why Kubernetes is so popular and what makes it a powerful tool. Kui is built mostly on Kubernetes. They discuss the evolution of DevOps tools. They compare CLIs and browser-based consoles and explain why people gravitate towards CLIs. Kui lets developers have the best of both worlds.The guests walk Charles though different scenarios of getting started with Kui. The workflow of using Kui inside an established Kubernetes cluster is discussed. They also explain how to move over from a VPS easily with Kui. They explain how Kui betters the developer experience. They go over the features that make developers DevOps experiences easier. They end by discussing how to get started in Kui if developers are new to Kubernetes.Panelist
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Lance Albertson. Lance Albertson works for the Oregon State Open Source Lab. The lab is a program at the Oregon State University that provides the infrastructure to open source projects. The program works with graduate students who walk away with valuable hands-on experience in DevOps. Lance starts by explaining how they choose graduate students and what their experience looks like working for the lab. Lance explains what they provide for the open source projects they support. He says they provide anything within reason and gives examples of some of the projects they are supporting. The panel asks about their hardware set up and Lance explains that they have a physical data center. He shares details of some of the hardware donated over the years. The panel asks how much work is managed by the students. Lance explains how open source projects can reach out to them and how they are chosen. Nell Shamrell-Harrington works for Chef and asks Lance how their Chef project is coming. Lance shares some of the work he has been doing on their exciting project. Finally, he tells the listeners how they can contribute to the lab. Panelists
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the pane interviews Adam Nowak. Adam is a part of the DevOps team at Netguru. He joins the panel today to share his DevOps transformation story. Adam starts by explaining the title he chose for today’s episode. He also shares his definition of DevOps.Adam explains the age-old story of a misunderstood DevOps team that was overworked and underappreciated. The organization grew but the DevOps team didn’t scale with it, leaving them with piles of tickets and everyone else wondering what was taking so long. The panel commiserates with Adam and shares some of their own similar stories. Reaching out to others to help solve the problem, Adam found that many DevOps teams had and are experiencing the same problem. He found help from others in the DevOps space and recommended books. His team started by making their work more visible. To do this they streamlined their communication and published documentation. Next, they made more focused goals. Instead of trying to do everything and never meeting their goals they chose a couple things to work on and focused on that. Another change they made was to diversify their meetings, projects, and initiatives; they brought in people from all the teams to collaborate, making the projects even better. The panel discusses the importance of empathy in the workplace and in life. Most people are trying their best and probably have a reason for doing the things that they are doing. Instead of treating others as if they are incompetent, talk them and discuss the reasons behind their actions and decisions. Panelists
In this episode Adventures in DevOps, the panel interviews Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of Infrastructure at Humio. He being by discussing the growth of logging and logging tools. Grant explains the business value of logging and analytics. He shares some real-life examples of how longing helped gain insight into the user experience. The panel wonders how Humio takes the data gathered in the logs and separate out specifics of user experience. Grant explains that by aggregating all data in one place Humio uses the logs, tracing and other metrics to draw conclusions about user experience. He shares some of the conclusions that can be drawn from that data and explains that the conclusions all depend on what you are looking for. The panel discusses how tracing traditionally works and asks Grant what process Humio uses to good sampling. Grant explains that sampling is a good way to save on costs and depends on how much indexing is taking place. He explains that knowing when to sample is very important if you want an accurate sample. Compliance concerns are the next topic the panel discusses with Grant. He explains what Humio does to remain compliant and keep user info safe and private. The panel moves on to discuss index-free logging. Grant explains how index-free logging works. He explains how fast it is and how easily clients can retrieve their data. Panelists
In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Oleg Chuninkin, CTO of Kublr. Oleg starts by explains what Kublr is all about and how he got the idea of using Kubernetes as an infrastructure abstraction. He and the Kublr team were trying to decide the most productive way to think of Kubernetes. Oleg advocates for using Kubernetes locally and shares how you can then orchestrate your architecture so you can see what it will do in productions. Charles breaks down a few of the ideas Oleg shares. Oleg explains how the portability of Kubernetes can be used and shares recommendations with the panel on how to run a Kubernetes in a lightweight way. The panel asks Oleg about the pressure for a cloud independent service and how these effects application requirements. Oleg shares some resources in answer. Moving on the panel considers Olegs comment about the layered architectural approach. Oleg outlines the layered architectural approach and explains what he means by layered. He explains the benefits of this approach. Panelists
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This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his whole career spanning about 12 years. He is also the author of Shiplane. John made Shiplane after working with Docker for a while and getting fed up with some features not being as he wanted them to be. The panelists begin the discussion with going over John’s talk “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, where he covers three camps of developers namely pioneers, settlers, and townsfolk and the panelists go into detail about these camps. They also talk about how docker and Shiplane fit into this idea. John shares that Shiplane is a tool that converts docker-compose yaml files into production-ready docker deployments. John details more of how shiplane came about, the problems it solves, how it works, and how it helps users to cross knowledge barriers. He also shares how Shiplane provides customizability as it will give the user everything they need but lets them choose the pieces they want. The panelists also discuss what websites are running Shiplane as well as some of the support that Shiplane has. Currently it does not support Kubernetes but John is working on it. Chuck then asks John what the use case is for running Shiplane. They discuss specifically whether Shiplane is used locally, or as a SAAS service and why it is the way it is. Nell then asks John what his hopes are for the future of Shiplane. John would like to have Kubernetes capability added within a year. If someone wants to get involved with Shiplane they can do so by trying it out, reaching out to him on his discord server, and helping him find edge cases. Panelists
Julian Fahrer is a software engineer with a systems administration and operations background. He currently works at Hover and is helping them move towards continuous delivery. Nell opens up the discussion by asking Julian to explain what continuous integration and continuous delivery are. He shares that continuous integration revolves around having testing and automation around the code being pushed to ensure that it works and conforms to standards. Continuous delivery feeds off of the concept of continuous integration and is the ability to deploy to any environment at any point in time. Chuck puts these ideas together by saying that continuous delivery and continuous deployment is about making sure that it’s possible to deploy at any time and actually doing so. The next topic covered by the Adventures in DevOps panelists is how to handle apprehension around having a continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Julian shares that big cultural changes are required to make CI/CD successful. They share that a lot of organizations are nervous about code with breaking changes immediately being deployed. One way to handle this vulnerability is by hiding features behind feature flags so that only certain people, for example the QA team, will have access to the feature.They share why an organization would want to change to a continuous delivery pipeline and some real world examples that they have experiencedChuck asks what some prerequisites are for a CI/CD pipeline. Scott says that one thing that needs to happen is backfilling areas of the application that previously did not have tests and expanding the testing coverage of the system. Julian shares that these prerequisites depend on how changes are made and shares some specific examples of what that entails. Nell asks what it takes for an organization to be able to do continuous delivery. Julian shares that it is mostly process driven. They establish some rules such as shortening the lifetime of development branches and improving how they are deployed. They also have a discussion on how integration tests should come about and who should write them. Julian mentions that you want to empower people and give them the tools they need to succeed. They then cover some of the work that Julian has done with Hover and some of the details of the continuous delivery environment he is building and the steps they took to begin moving towards that workflow.The topic then moves to dependency management. Nell asks Julian how he approached dependencies in his applications. Julian details how his usage of containers and specific tools helped him. For external environments he says that a database is required and that it would help to have standards for managing dependencies. They share how the current development culture is to give the QA team enough time to test a feature before it goes out. With a CI/CD environment, feature flags can be used to gradually roll out a changes and if a certain users needs a specific set of features then an individual environment can be spun up for their use case. The panelists share some thoughts on environments setup and production best practices and tooling. Panelists
This episode of Adventures in Devops features Dave McAllister. Dave has an extensive background in open source starting in 1994 working with early versions of Linux. He thrives on the concepts of emerging technologies and being able to innovate things. He also loves understanding what people are doing with emerging technology. The discussion opens up by introducing the topic of multi-dimensional monitoring in RED. Dave gives us an introduction into RED as a subset of google’s SRE Golden signals. RED stands for rate, errors, and durations and is a concept that is designed for working with micro services. The DevOps panelists discuss concepts such as saturation and how to ensure correct results from their micro services using the RED concepts as well as some best practices for managing micro services. Nell asks about the scope of RED and whether it works with the big picture of what the micro service is doing. Dave shares that the scope of RED pertains to both. RED helps with observability and how to get the right signals out of all the noise and how to respond once the correct signals are found. He shares that RED should be a set of metrics in a dashboard that can be aggregated. He explains that RED gives the user a way of grouping data together and helping them to normalize functionality and find trends. The next topic covered by the DevOps experts is how to map the metrics seen in RED to the user experience. Dave explains how RED monitors the users activity and can put together metrics based on what they’re doing. Using RED to follow user metrics will help to identify trends in where users will have issues and identify problem areas. Using micro services with RED introduces a level of granularity that can be monitored to help improve the performance of the application and improve scaling. RED helps with these improvements most notably by improving reaction time once a problem is found to help correct it as soon as possible. The panelists discuss some real world examples and how real world activities and human tendencies can alter patterns seen in the monitoring. Dave points out that one of the strongest recommendations he can make about RED is its ability to start simple and scale upwards as needed. The panelists then go on to discuss the human aspect of RED, how a team would react to changing, and how RED really requires a true DevOps team to reach its full potential. The panelists then share experiences they faced earlier in their careers as developers and how RED could have helped them. Nell brings up the idea of service meshes and how RED applies to them. Dave starts by introducing some problems in micro services and service meshes and the opportunity that exists for RED to come in and help solve those problems. He explains how service meshes in micro services give you duration that you don’t have to implement. They finish with covering the usage of Kubernetes operators. Panelists
On this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panelists talk about how to containerize an app in a container using services such as Docker or Kubernetes. Charles mentions that he is wanting to host a Ruby on Rails application and Scott has experience with web deployments in Python and Django. They share that regardless of the languages and technologies used, the principles behind deploying a containerized application are the same.The next topic covered by the DevOps panelists is how to create containerized instances using Docker. The discussion centers on creating the container instances on a network and best practices that can be used for managing and maintaining them. The DevOps panelists cover the difference between an internal network deployment and what is needed to push a containerized application to a cloud instance using Kubernetes, Docker, DigitalOcean, or another service. Scott asks Charles if he is using a good CI/CD (continuous integration/ continuous delivery) mechanism, to which Charles shares that he is using Cloud 66 for its ease of use. When it comes to storage, they discuss whether to use the cloud services storage option or using a container to run a Postgres engine. They also go over the best way to run the shell commands for configuring their environment.The topic then moves to security and asset management when using Docker. Charles mentions that he tries to avoid putting API keys or other secrets into the Docker file and Scott shares how he uses a secrets management platform such as AWS Parameter Store, AWS Secrets Management, and others. They discuss the benefits that are provided by secrets management platforms. The DevOps panelists also talked about how a CI/CD platform can help with the portability of a containerized applicationCharles asks Scott how to begin with helping someone who wants to take their existing application and containerize it using the Docker approach. Scott responds with describing how he would look at where there application is and help them configure their containerized instance and set it up on a container service such as Docker or Kubernetes. Scott mentions that the strength of moving an application to a container service helps the application to scale up and down as needed. The container model helps a team to locally replicate their CI/CD model and be able to test it locally before the application is pushed to the cloud instance.The panelists talk about reverse proxies for pushing a Ruby on Rails app. Chuck prefers nginx and Scott emphasizes that it is important when pushing to production to spend some time verifying that the reverse proxy configuration is correct and won’t expose the application in a way that it shouldn’t be. Chuck shares that the use of a cloud platform such as GCP (Google Cloud Platform) of Microsoft Azure reduces the overhead with configuring containers and building images so that when he hands it off to the platform, it will take care of a large part of the setup including creation of the reverse proxy. Panelists
In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about Agile. Nell starts the discussion by mentioning that Agile came out of the Scrum movement and gives a brief history of how it started. She reads out the Agile Manifesto, and Scott explains what it is. They agree that “move faster slowly” can be considered as a motto of Agile. Scott talks about the testing aspect of it from a philosophical perspective, and Nell chimes in with comparison to how things were being done in the past versus now.They discuss the 12 principles behind the Agile manifesto. One - Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Two - Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage, basically valuing learning and improvements. Three - deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months with a preference for a shorter time scale, the focus being on the code being in a working state. Four - Business people and developers should collaborate daily through the project. Scott elaborates on the point further, and shares his experience where it was challenging to work with the business side of the project.Five - Build projects around motivated individuals, give them the support they need and trust them to get the job done, trust being the most important factor here. Six - The most efficient method of conveying information is having a face-to-face conversation, here the panelists provide a counter-argument that in the era of online platforms and remote work, this is not necessarily essential. Seven - Working software is the primary measure of progress. Eight - Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. ‘Sustainable’ is key here, avoiding overworking and burnout is important anyday. Nine - Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. This means doing the full set of code reviews and tests and still deploy software quickly and making sure that it doesn’t break things, if it does, it has to be rolled back.Ten - Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential. This highlights the need for focus in the product, and not writing a lot of code that could eventually be unusable. Eleven - The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. Panelists talk about people involved in open source projects as an example of such self-organizing teams, where they work on their own schedule and have great interest in what they are building. Twelve - At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. Retrospectives, reflecting where you are, how the team works together and documenting results as some sort of a learning exercise, are some of the practical examples of this.Nell then talks about the three layers of Agile infrastructure by Patrick Debois - considered as the father of DevOps. These constitute of technical - the hardware and software, project - the process that introduces changes in the environment, and the operations - the process of keeping the environment working.They state that we can build effective technology if we can relate to each other as humans, and discuss how Agile is perceived in certain controlled environments, if it’s possible in an Agile fashion and still have prescriptive solutions. They end the show with picks.Panel
Episode SummaryOn this week's Adventures in DevOps, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is.Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity. Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made.When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 10x engineer may be hired as a 2x engineer, but it is the employer that turns them into a 10x engineer.Overall, Chuck believes these tweets are asinine because it’s impossible to measure what makes a 10x engineer in the first place, and hiring a person that fits the attributes in the list would be toxic to your company.Panel
Episode SummaryIn this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about getting started with DevOps and learning its principles and technologies. Lee and Scott mention that they share a similar journey, initially starting as system administrators and working their way into DevOps. Nell says that she was a Ruby and .NET developer before learning cloud technologies such as Heroku, Chef, and Docker.To someone with a programming background wanting to get into DevOps, Lee highly recommends three books - The Practice of System and Network Administration, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services - Volume 2, and Time Management for System Administrators. He mentions that they are technology-agnostic and help in understanding what is really going on in the system. Scott stresses on the importance of understanding basic networking, linux systems and commands, bash scripting and knowing the core fundamentals and interactions of the underlying systems. He suggests going for online resources, tutorials and boot camps which are plenty nowadays and easily accessible as well.Nell advises listeners to pick a cloud provider such as Digital Ocean and learn the basics by working with it, which can later be applied to any other cloud provider. She also recommends learning programming languages to get a good software development foundation. The panelists talk about working on specific projects and getting hands dirty rather than traditional learning, to enhance their DevOps skills.Nell explains how they implement the 'learning by doing' concept at work. She mentions that understanding how virtual machines and physical servers work is crucial before moving on to learning about containers. Lee suggests Vagrant - a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments, as a good resource for the same. They caution that while it is important to learn things during our time off, self-care and setting healthy boundaries is paramount. It is ok to take longer to learn something given that DevOps as a whole can be extremely complex, and working in a non-pressure environment can be very beneficial. They recommend Ops School for beginners which is a comprehensive program aimed at people who want to get into operations engineering.They then share their insights on monitoring and how to get started with it. Lee recommends the book Practical Monitoring, and Sensu - a monitoring event pipeline, as good starting points.DevOps can be considered as a technical as well as a cultural movement. To that effect, they discuss where should people start learning the associated cultural elements. Nell recommends reading the books - Effective DevOps, and The Phoenix Project and Crucial Conversations. Lee advocates going old school with the writings of Richard Stallman, and books of the 80s and 90s such as The Art of C Programming. They mention that conversational skills and dealing with people are critical skills in today's work environments. Scott recommends Google's Site Reliability Engineering books which have a lot of great stuff to build a solid foundation and are also free to read online.Finally, they talk about how to keep learning and expanding knowledge. Some effective suggestions discussed include extensive practicing, working professionally, solving business problems, building expertise in programming, and attending DevOps Days events and Linux Users groups. They end the episode with picks.Panel
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