Show overview
Adventures in DevOps has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 288 episodes. That works out to roughly 260 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 1h 2m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, with 26 episodes already out so far this year.
From the publisher
Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.
Latest Episodes
View all 288 episodesSQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones
The excitement and value of quality
How to land a software job in the age of LLMs
Why does anyone use Crossplane?
Building Observability for the Innovators
When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't
Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer
Who Needs Testers Anyway?
You Wouldn't Implement A Database
What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build
DR: Staying resilient in the cloud
Eat your security vegetables
Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead
The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code
Who needs a server?
How to build a monolith the right way
Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking
GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us
Ep 267Upskilling your agents
Share Episode In this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern infrastructure. We examine how cloud platforms like Azure function as "building blocks". Which of course, can quickly become overwhelming without the right instruction manuals. To bridge this gap, one potential solution we discuss is the emerging reliance on AI "skills"—specialized markdown files. They can give coding agents the exact knowledge needed to deploy poorly documented complex open-source projects to container apps without requiring deep infrastructure expertise. And we are saying the silent part outloud, as we review how handing the keys over to autonomous agents introduces terrifying new attack vectors. It's the security nightmare of prompt injections and the careless execution of unvetted AI skills. Which is a blast from the past, and we reminisce how current downloading of random agent instructions to running untrusted executables from early internet sites. While tools like OpenClaw purport to offer incredible automation, such as allowing agents to scour the internet and execute code without human oversight, it's already led us to disastrous leaks of API keys. We emphasize the critical necessity of validating skills through trusted repositories where even having agents perform security reviews on the code before execution is not enough. Finally, we tackle the philosophical debate around AI productivity and why Dorota's LLMs raise the floor and not the ceiling is so spot on. The standout pick requires mentioning, a fascinating 1983 paper titled "Ironies of Automation" by Lisanne Bainbridge. This paper perfectly predicts our current dilemma: automating systems often leaves the most complex, difficult tasks to human operators, proving that as automation scales, the need for rigorous human monitoring actually increases, destroying the very value that was attempting to be captured by the original innovation. 💡 Notable Links: Agent Skill MarketplaceAI Fatigue is realEpisode: Does Productivity even exist?🎯 Picks: Warren - Paper: Ironies of Automation (& AI)Dan - Tool: SkillShare
Ep 266There's no way it's DNS...
Share Episode How much do you really know about the protocol that everything is built upon? This week, we go behind the scenes with Simone Carletti, a 13-year industry veteran and CTO at DNSimple, to explore the hidden complexities of DNS. We attempt to uncover why exactly DNS is often the last place developers check during an outage, drawing fascinating parallels between modern web framework abstractions and network-level opaqueness. Simone shares why his team relies on bare-metal machines instead of cloud providers to run their Erlang-based authoritative name servers, highlighting the critical need to control BGP routing. We trade incredible war stories, from Facebook locking themselves out of their own data centers due to a BGP error, to a massive 2014 DDoS attack that left DNSimple unable to access their own log aggregation service. The conversation also tackles the reality of implementing new standards like SVCB and HTTPS records, and why widespread DNSSEC adoption might require an industry-wide mandate. And of course we have the picks, but I'm not spoiling this weeks, just yet... 💡 Notable Links: Episode: IPv6SVCB + HTTPS DNS Resource Records RFC 9460Avian Carrier RFC 1149🎯 Picks: Warren - Book: One Second AfterSimone - Recommended diving locations in Italy and Wreck diving projects