Adventures in DevOps

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanWill ButtonGuestYann Stoneman

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestWill Button

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.PanelCaleb FornariJeffrey GromanGuestMatthew Helmke

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.PanelJeffrey GromanGuestAndrei Kvapil

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestBrian D. Foy

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestWill Button

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestMason McLead

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.PanelCharles Max WoodCaleb FornariJeffrey GromanGuestJames Donohue

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.PanelCharles Max WoodGuestJason Weimann

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.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey Groman

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.PanelCharles Max WoodGuestMikolaj Pawlikowski

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.

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.PanelCharles WoodJeffrey Groman

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.PanelCharles WoodJeffrey Groman

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.PanelCharles WoodJeffrey GromanGuestPhil Wilkins

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.PanelChuck WoodJeffrey GromanGuestCaleb Fornari

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.PanelHenry JewkesJoe StevensGuestChris Love

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.PanelJeffrey GromanHenry JewkesGuestJeffrey Smith

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.PanelJeffrey GromanHenry Jewkes

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps,Henry Jewkes and Jeffrey Groman discuss roles, teams, specialties and culture as the relate to implementing DevOps.PanelJeffrey GromanHenry Jewkes

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.PanelJeffrey GromanJoe StevensHenry JewkesGuestAlessandro Diaferia

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.PanelJoe StevensJeffrey GromanHenry JewkesCharles Max WoodGuestRobert Merget

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.PanelJeffrey GromanCharles Max WoodGuestGuinevere Saenger

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..PanelJeffrey GromanCharles Max WoodGuestGuinevere Saenger

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..PanelCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanHenry JewkesGuestRam Kailasanathan

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.PanelJeffrey GromanGuestChris Short

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.PanelTyler BirdGuestJJ Asghar

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..PanelJeffrey GromanHenry JewkesGuestJoe Stevens

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.PanelistsTyler BirdGuestsAnupam KulkarniAniruddha Bhagwat

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.PanelistsJeff GromanHenry JewkesScott Nixon

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.PanelistsJeff GromanHenry JewkesScott Nixon

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.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonJeff GromanTyler BirdGuestTalia Nassi

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.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonJeff GromanTyler BirdGuestSachin Aggarwal

React Native Remote ConfJuly 28th to 31thHenry Jewkes of Split.io takes panelists of Adventures in DevOps through phased and feature flagged releases, measuring releases, the anatomy of a release platform, and how CI and release management can help prevent developer burnout.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonJeff GromanTyler BirdGuestHenry Jewkes

React Native Remote ConfJuly 28th to 31thBaruch Sadogursky of JFrog takes panelists of Adventure in DevOps through the concepts of continuous updates or liquid software and highlights good patterns and antipatterns along the way.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonJeff GromanTyler BirdGuestBaruch Sadogursky

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.PanelistsTyler BirdJeff GromanGuestTobias Kunze

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 organizationsPanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonJeff Groman

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.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonGuestBjörn Rabenstein

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!PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonScott NixonGuestAlex Chalkias

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.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonScott NixonTyler Bird

Join panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Scott Nixon, Tyler Bird, and special guest Joe Garber to discuss what a digital transformation is, how it's different from company to company, where to start your transformation and what to do when it gets hard, as well as how organizations across industries are harnessing AI/ML to power their transformations. Also hear us discuss why a digital transformation is never “done” and why that is a good thing!PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonTyler BirdScott NixonGuestJoe Garber

The panelists speak with Ev Kontsevoy of Gravitational about SSH'ing into infrastructure, how we've tried to secure it in the past, and what works better both for securing and auditing SSH access today.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonTyler BirdCharles Max WoodGuestEv Kontsevoy

Jeffrey Groman is a CyberSecurity expert. He joins the panel to answer our questions and lead a discussion on the basics of security as it applied to DevOps. We start out with a discussion on breaking down silos and making security everyone's job.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonTyler BirdScott NixonCharles Max WoodGuestJeffrey Groman

Matt Watson is the CEO and Founder at Stackify. This episode dives into his thoughts and approach to devops, application management, and performance using cloud native tools including Kubernetes.PanelistsCharles Max WoodTyler BirdGuestMatt Watson

Adventures in DevOps' guest, Martin Wimpress, is the engineering director for Ubuntu Desktop, Snapcraft and Developer Advocacy at Canonical the company behind Ubuntu. He speaks about Ubuntu, the OS for most public cloud workloads as well as the emerging categories of smart gateways, self-driving cars and advanced robots.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonCharles Max WoodScott NixonTyler BirdGuestMartin Wimpress

Slava works at Kublr. They're focused on helping the Enterprise manage the Cloud Native environments. They help those companies manage their Kubernetes infrastructure. Most of their customers are in the financial sector and wind up managing access and security. Slava talks about the challenges and solutions for providing these sorts of tools and managing infrastructure in this way.PanelistsCharles Max WoodGuestSlava Koltovich

In this episode of Adventure in DevOps, the guests speak about the future of software development and reliable systems. They relate this to Chaos Engineering and why more organizations should be doing it.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonTyler BirdGuestsTammy ButowKolton AndrusMatt "Forni" Fornaciari

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.PanelistsNell Shamrell-HarringtonCharles Max WoodGuestBrent Schroeder

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.PanelistNell Shamrell-HarringtonCharles Max WoodScott NixonGuestsNikhil Barthwal

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.PanelistNell Shamrell-HarringtonCharles Max WoodGuestsBob Quillin