Adventures in DevOps

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.

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.

Nicholas Hughes is the CEO of EITR Technologies. He joins the show to talk about "Salt". Salt is used for deploying, configuring, and managing complex IT systems. He begins by explaining what Salt is, its useful features, advantages, and why he loves it. He also shares the difference between salt and other similar frameworks. Moreover, he talks about its process, set up, how it is being implemented, and many more!

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.

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!

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!

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!LinksNeuron Sphere - Platform Engineering for DataSocialsLinkedIn: Brian GreenePicksBrian - Robot FrameworkJillian - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: King, StephenJonathan - The Big ConJonathan - Cup o' Go

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.

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. On YouTubeWhat You Should Know About ChatGPT - DevOps 163

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.LinksBoot.devAre You a DevOps Engineer if You Aren't Writing Code?SocialsLane WagnerGitHub: wagslaneTwitter: @wagslanePicksJonathan - Extras (TV Series 2005–2007)Lane - Exposing Astro: Between Two Nerds - YouTubeWill - The Immortality Key

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.On YouTubeStream Processing with Chris Cooney - DevOps 157

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.

Benjamin Johnson is the CEO and Founder of Particle41. He joins the show alongside Jonathan and Will to talk about his company. He starts off as he shares his journey in establishing and maintaining Particle41. Additionally, he talks about how they use DevOps as a service and how they meet their client's needs.

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.

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.

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.

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.About this EpisodeObservability strategyUse multiple AWS accountsSecurely load secrets at runtimeFollow the principle of least privilegeOptimize cold starts

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.

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.About This EpisodeDeployment Tools For AWSDeployment Tools For GCPPros and Cons of ServerlessServerless Functions

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.

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.About This EpisodeDifference between open-source and SaaSPros and cons of Open-sourceOpen-source libraries

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.On YouTubeKey Takeaways From Conferences - DevOps 146

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.

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.About This EpisodeImportance of PrefectDifferent problems that Prefect can solveScheduled vs. Event-driven Data Pipelines

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.

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.

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. About this EpisodeAll about JFrog's X-ray IntegrationHow the plugin resolves system issuesProcess of creating a pluginFor the second part of this episode, Chuck Wood interviews other SwampUp speakers. Eli Aleyner and Sergei Egorov are both the Co-founders of AtomicJar. The goal of AtomicJar is to create developer-friendly tools that will improve automated testing. About This EpisodeThe basics of Integration TestingAll about Test ContainersTest containers' benefit to developers

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. About this EpisodeDifferent Infrastructure as code tools Ways how to manage group permissionAdvantages of Single Sign-on2 Factor Authentication

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.About this EpisodeWays how to communicate with your team when you have different ideasTechniques on how to influence your team

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. About this EpisodeWhat is a Third-Party SAAS ApplicationDifferent ways how to protect yourself from the third-party data applicationsHow to protect your data from getting breached

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.

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

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Vince Reed, Director of DevOps at Polygon Technology, a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without ever sacrificing security. They discuss how to build and scale a company that has grown from 40 to over 600 employees in 36 countries in the last year, implementing frameworks, communication, automation, security, and much more. In this episode...- Addressing the unknown challenges of scaling and securing blockchain networks- What skills are the same in blockchain as other industries- What skills are unique to blockchain compared to other industries- Building open source software- The future of Blockchain and DevOps- Working at Polygon- Building a remote-first company

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. In this episode…WebAssembly on the serverThe “edge” and edge computingSecurity, performance, portabilityWASM in the cloud limitationsVirtualized sandboxesAlternatives to edge computingWriting in other languages What is the learning curve of the security model?Suborbital's capabilities and language support

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. In this episode…Web, WebAssembly, and Kubernetes in the web browser Helm, the Kubernetes package managerWhy Go was selected for HelmRegrets and mistakes with HelmMaintaining interest in open source projectsWhat is upcoming for HelmThe future of cloud computing and WASM

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. In this episode…Observability and LumigoLinux KernelMRTG toolManaging distributed systemsWhat is “serverless”?Tracing optimizationOnboarding with LumigoBlack boxes and KubernetesObservability tools

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. In this episode…What is WebAssembly Practical application for WebAssemblyBuilding WebAssembly in cloud vs. browserGain support from all major browsersResources for building WebAssemblyRun times and optimization Serverless and WebAssemblyWhere to get started

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. In this episode…What is DevSecOps?Startups vs large enterprisesFirst steps to making changes internally Common pitfalls with security Advocating for security Software supply chain security

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. In this episode…Navigating application security for developersHow to keep track of security issuesShift left vs. shift rightSecurity automationTracking security processes Security solutions and toolsConnect with Harshit ChitaliaLinkedIn: Harshit ChitaliaLinksHomepage - TromzoState of Modern Application Security: Insights From 400+ AppSec Practitioners - Tromzo

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. In this episode…The main challenges with testing distributed systemsDeveloping confidence within your systemsPerformance testing modelsMonitoring and performance testing gapsInclusive technical specsPulse Operations (company)Current similar tooling optionsProduction data analytics Accuracy and data exposure

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. In the episode…GitOps vs CDIC automated deploymentGitOps vs infrastructure as codeWho should use GitOps?Favorite tools and recommendationsGetting started with GitOpsFlux and RODCPitfalls with GitOpsConnect with Tanmay via email: [email protected]

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. In this episode…Who owns the logging process?Lack of strategy in loggingBuilding the libraryDebugging and error management Following structured logging patternsBasic monitoring Building dashboards vs 3rd party services

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. In this episode…How to get started and get noticed Building your brand through networksBenefits of building a brandWriting tech articles to get an edgeUtilizing Google alertsRefining your thoughts and communication delivery

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. In this episode…Where do pull requests come fromCollaborating and empowering developersDifferentiating and managing PR lanesThe ship show ask modelOptimizing pull requestsRule based models

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. In this episode…Data warehousingAnalytics with source dataData Version Control (DVC)AWS BatchProduction database schemas Real time data Snowflake integrations

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. In this episode…Having a public profileListing your projects on your resumeSharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilitiesKnowledge optionsLeveraging social mediaStack OverflowSoft skills