Arrested DevOps

Matt is joined by Facebook Production Engineer Phil Dibowitz to talk about the state of Open Source today, the changes it has gone through in his career, as well as some of the best ways to get started in the world of Open Source.

If you build, deploy, and operate software in production, you have a platform. Andrew Clay Shafer and Kelsey Hightower discuss different choices available in the platform space, from unstructured to structured with all the considerations along the road to operational maturity.

We’ve made it through two years of ADO! It seems like only yesterday that we recorded our first year-end episode (which you can listen to at arresteddevops.com/27). And we’re back again to talk about what 2015 was for us, in the world of DevOps, and the world of ADO. Plus, Matt and Bridget wax nostalgic about cable management from when we managed data centers.

Chef's Dr. Nicole Forsgren has a frank talk with Matt about the often neglected portions of CAMS theory - Measurement and Sharing. She gives real-world, practical tips on how to use data to drive a transformation...and even how culture can be measured.

DevOpsDays Core Organizer John Willis drops by to talk with the crew about some of the challenges (and fun) of organizing a DevOpsDays event. We also discuss the history of DevOpsDays, and share some fun war stories.

What are some of the gotcha's that exist when switching operating systems? Trevor talks with Matthew Walter about the differences that exist and their own challenges as they've started their journeys into new operating systems.

Special guest Eric Sorenson of Puppet Labs chats with Matt about all the new hotness with Puppet, including Application Orchestration. Plus, Matt and Eric put on their pundit hats and talk about the acquisition of Ansible by Red Hat.

Testing your infrastructure code is critical. But exactly HOW do you go about doing this? Matt talks with Arthur Maltson and Michael Goetz about using tools such as Test Kitchen, Chef Audit Mode, InSpec, and Chef Compliance to help you build confidence in your infracode.

Holiday! It’s a time of merriment… and terror. Let’s talk about how to prepare for a known spike in traffic, and what’s worked (and hasn’t)!

What's this ITIL thing all about? How can it complement DevOps? Can't we all just get along? Special guest Steven Boyd joins us to discuss how ITIL can help an organization, and help correct some misconceptions about what ITIL is (and is not).

Andy Burgin, Dustin Collins, and Nathen Harvey join Matt and Trevor to talk about what it takes to create DevOps events, Meetups, and communities.

What does "infrastructure as code" actually mean? How is it different from configuration management? Special guests Joshua Timberman (Chef), Eric Sorenson (Puppet Labs), and Robyn Bergeron (Ansible) talk with Matt and Trevor about this very topic.

Trevor and Bridget chat with Courtney Nash (O'Reilly Media) and Lindsay Holmwood (Australian Government Digital Transformation Office) about cognitive neuroscience. We'll talk about recognizing cognitive fallacies, the psychology of alert design, how to make your conference proposals their most appealing, and about empathy from a scientific point of view.

Matt & Trevor sit down with Jason Hand (VictorOps), Sasha Rosenbaum (10th Magnitude), and Peter Burkholder (Chef) to discuss ChatOps.

Matt, Trevor, and Bridget chat with Kyle Kingsbury (Stripe) about his research on failure in distributed systems.

Bridget and Trevor are joined by Charity Majors (Facebook), as well as Mike Rembetsy and Patrick McDonnell (Etsy) for a frank discussion on what goes into building a great ops team.

Matt and Bridget sit down with Andrew Clay Shafer (finally!) at DevOpsDays Minneapolis to discuss his thoughts on what's going on with the DevOps world since 2009, as well as his opinions on podcasts having episode numbers. Sadly, no sushi was actually consumed.

In this episode, Jeff Hackert discusses developing your career in DevOps.

In this episode, Stephanie Van Dyk and Mark Imbriaco discuss how to communicate and how to recover in the event of complete disasters.

In this episode, 'reformed' Bastard Operators From Hell Yvo van Doorn, Chris Read, and Kevin Hubbard discuss how the industry and their jobs have changed over time, especially with the advent of DevOps.

Marketing departments are often told, 'Don't use the term DevOps incorrectly!'' But exactly HOW should our marketing peers use that term? How can we effectively talk about DevOps in the marketing space? Shannon Smith from 10th Magnitude and Jason Hand from VictorOps joined us to discuss this heated topic.

Recorded live at ChefConf 2015, we sat down with Julian Dunn, Seth Falcon, and Adam Edwards of Chef Software to talk about all the cool new things that Chef is cooking up - including Chef Delivery, Chef Analytics, and new awesome things with Chef itself!

DevOps revolves a lot around what an organization and culture should look like. We talk about it on just about every episode of this podcast. Something we tend to skate around though is the how. How do you change the culture of an organization?

Starting any new job can be a mix of fun, excitement, and nervousness. But what about when you're coming into a DevOps-oriented organization? What are some of the special challenges entering a collaborative, 'blameless' place of work? Ryn Daniels and Jake Champlin join us to discuss their recent experiences of starting at some pretty exciting workplaces.

James Turnbull has traveled the world speaking about Docker, and now he's here to tell ADO all about it. The tech, the company, and the community: James has opinions and was more than willing to share them!

Is DevOps just for the open source world? Can you do DevOps in a Microsoft shop? What are some of the tools and capabilities available for Windows, Azure, and .NET professionals who want to approach work in a DevOps model? Microsoft DevOps Evangelist Jessica DeVita and Jeffrey Snover, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server and System Center Division, talk with the ADO crew about how Microsoft approaches DevOps.

At DevOpsDays Ghent in 2014, it was joked that we are living in a 'post-DevOps world'. What are the challenges in hiring for DevOps related jobs? We be talked with panelists on all sides of the table - recruiting, hiring, and also just some rabble-rousing about why you should stop looking for 'ninjas' and 'rockstars'. Digital Ocean's Jill Jubinski, Datadog's Mike Fiedler, and rabble-rouser Josh Hertz joined Matt and Trevor to weigh in on a this complicated topic.

Dave Zwieback, VP of Engineering at Next Big Sound and Mike Rembetsy, VP of Technical Operations at Etsy discuss learning from the unexpected and examining failure without blame. With practical tips about technical tools and philosophical insights into the human factors and cognitive biases in play, these industry experts offer useful guidance for the thorny questions around the topic of failure.

It’s been a year of ADO, with topics from CI to security, panels of devs and of ops, and even Pete Cheslock. For the last episode of the year, we thought it would be fun to revisit Matt and Trevor chatting, sans guests - which hasn't happened since the first episode!

Data - we can’t have applications or services without it. If software is eating the world, then data is the maitre’d. However, it can be challenging to incorporate database design and release into the world of continuous delivery and devops. Grant Fritchey and Jonathan Hickford of Redgate join Matt and Trevor for a discussion of DevOps and Databases.

DevOps isn't just for startups - in fact, that argument can be made that it's even MORE important for large, enterprise-scale companies than for anyone else. What does it mean to 'do DevOps' in an enterprise? Is there a different flavor of DevOps for enterprise companies? Does CAMS work at scale? Michael Ducy (CHEF Software), Ross Clanton (Target), and Steve Pereira join Matt, Trevor, and Bridget (wat?) to finally tackle this tricky topic.

One of the reasons that DevOps can be transformative to an organization is that it shortens feedback loops - talking about CAMS, the measurement piece is where that can come into play. Anyway, in that spirit, we’re taking feedback we’ve gotten from listeners who want more detailed, technical topics, and we have an episode talking about the HOW with git - with a very special guest, Emma Jane Westby.

Tom Limoncelli, one of the authors of _The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems_ talks with Matt and Trevor (but mostly Trevor) about the challenges of modern system management.

Recorded on Day 2 of DevOpsDays Chicago. Matt and Trevor are joined by a panel of attendees and organizers to talk about their experiences at the first ever DevOpsDays to take place in the Windy City. #deepdishdevops for everyone!

Conferences - some people are addicted, and others have never been. What is the point of conferences? What's an unconference? Why shouldn't I just stay home and watch the livestreams? Jason Dixon (Monitorama), Bridget Kromhout (devopsdays Minneapolis), and Pete Cheslock (devopsdays Boston) give their two cents (and more) about why conferences are the place to be.

When we talk about DevOps, often times we focus only on the two disciplines that feature in the name - Development and Operations. But DevOps, truly, is about collaboration across all areas of the business, even those security blokes. Ben Hughes, Security Manager at Etsy, joins the ADO crew to review how to work WITH your security teams, and show that they're not really scary at all.

What does the journey from a background based in Development and moving to an Ops role feel like?

Way back in Episode 3, we had a 'Dev focused' show. It's about time to show some sysadmin love.

Matt and Trevor are joined by Dave Gerding, as well as first ever repeat panelist Sasha Rosenbaum, to talk about how to ask for help - and how to get the best help possible with your problems and questions. There's no shame in your game when you need some assistance!

Matt was joined by guest co-host Julian Dunn, as well as some awesome panelists for an on-site recording of ADO at the very first DevOpsDays Minneapolis!

One of the most commonly associated principles with DevOps is that of Continuous Delivery. Continuing (ha ha) upon our previous episode on Continuous Integration, Jez Humble talks about what CD is, how it can help your organization, and how he's seen the world of DevOps change since the first publication of the Continuous Delivery book.

DevOps 'Thought Leaders' Pete Cheslock, Nathen Harvey, and Randi Harper help us understand all the things you can do wrong when 'doing the DevOps'.

'It doesn't count until it's in production.'' How can organizations level-up at delivering software and features to their customers? What are some of the good practices that DevOps can bring to your company? Matt and Trevor are joined by Ranjib Dey, system administrator at PagerDuty, to talk about 'shipping that software.'

Matt and Trevor are joined by Jeanne Steinback (Rewards Network) and Chris A (MacArthur Foundation) to chat about their real-world experiences in bringing an organization through a DevOps transition.

The engineering team at Etsy are considered by many to be industry leaders when it comes to automation, software delivery, and general DevOps awesomeness. We will be joined by Senior Operations Engineer Jon Cowie (and others) to give an overview of how Etsy does their DevOps magic, and what we can learn from their example.

In today's world of web-scale IT, the ability to respond quickly to increased demand and traffic on your critical applications is an essential component of success. Scaling experts Steven Corona and Igor Papirov join Matt and Trevor to talk about why scaling matters, some good practices to keep in mind, and other tips and tricks for success in the dynamic world of modern applications.

One of the key technologies to help automate your DevOps environment is Configuration Management. There's a lot of chatter around what exactly this means, and how you can use it. Special panel guests Sean OMeara, Chris Webber, and Steven Murawksi join Matt and Trevor to talk about how Config Management can make your systems and stack more stable, predictable, and more fun to manage.

It's information overload these days - how can a technology professional manage to keep up with everything that is new and exciting in the world of DevOps? What are the best methods for absorbing content and developing skills? Just how useful are podcasts, anyway? Matt, Trevor, and special guest Sasha Rosenbaum discuss these topics and their own personal strategies and challenges with keeping their brains from segfaulting.

Angela Dugan of Polaris Solutions and Todd Vernon, CEO & co-founder of VictorOps, join the ADO crew to chat about the challenges of collaborating in a cross-functional team. How can tools help facilitate communication among developers, testers, and operations? What are some of the best practices to keep in mind? And, of course, there just might be some "horror stories" of communication gone horribly wrong.

On this episode of Arrested DevOps Matt and Trevor are joined by some of the finest minds in DevOps podcastery - Damon Edwards of DevOps Cafe and Sascha Bates of The Ship Show. The panel addresses some common beliefs on DevOps, and whether these beliefs are true...or just MYTHS.