DevOps Chat

Three of the hottest topics in IT today: IoT, Cognitive and Blockchain. What role does DevOps play in successfully leveraging these? In this DevOps Chat we ask Cliff Utstein - Director of Offering Management, IBM Cloud DevOps and CJ Paul - Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect, IBM Cloud DevOps for the answers. It is a lively discussion with as both Cliff and CJ are very experienced in these areas and have some great thoughts. Enjoy!

In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Pete Chestna of CA Veracode about a survey they conducted of Developers and Security teams. The goal was to see if the teams were working together in an effort of making security everyone's responsibility. Pete is a great evangelist for DevSecOps, having been a developer for many years, as well as deeply involved in the security community. Pete always has great things to say and you will find this interview very interesting I think!

DevOps.com caught up with Gene Kim prior to DOES London 2017. However due to some sound engineering issues, this chat was not able to be edited in time for the preview of the great DOES London 2017 show it was intended to be. With more time we have cleaned up the file and while not perfect it is indeed very listenable with some great info from Gene. If you like you can also check the keynotes from the show, many of which Gene mentions here on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnmJCc95ns&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuyBf9AAlnI7Q6-zy_iDqRoh

Logs are increasingly becoming a big data analysis issue. So why not bring some AI to this big data problem? Loom Systems is doing just that and as a result is making it easier to analyze log data for actionable and meaningful results. I had a chance to sit down with Loom Systems CEO Gabby Menachem to discuss what AI means for the log analysis space and how it can make your job easier.

Design thinking? What does it mean? Why should you care? I had a chance to sit down with Sarah Plantenberg of IBM who is my go to person on Design Thinking. Sarah has recently taken on a new role within IBM helping to bring design thinking to IBM customers. This DevOps chat is a great conversation with Sarah, who is a bright and engaging subject. I am sure you will enjoy!

ChefConf 2017 is right around the corner, May 22-24 in Austin. We had a chance to catch up with Ken Cheney, CMO Chef to get the scoop on what are the highlights of this years big Chef conference. Have a listen and there is still time to go. Get info at https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/

Using any tool or technology because it is the "cool thing to do" is never a good idea. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Flint Brenton, CEO of Collabnet. Flint has been around long enough to know that if you are not using the right technology for a given task, you are not going to have the success you might have otherwise. Picking the right tool for the job is as important as doing the job itself. Flint also gives us some good background on CollabNet which has been servicing the developer and ops communities long before DevOps was cool

Michael Olson of Puppet's product team is our guest on this episode of DevOps Chats. Michael gives us the scoop on Puppets 3 major announcements around product updates, new products and new global expansion. New versions of Puppet Enterprise and Puppet open source, new products include Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery. New partner offerings with AWS, Cisco and others, as well as new offices in Singapore and Seattle. Taken together it paints the picture of Puppet continuing its growth into a global enterprise provider of DevOps solutions. You can read more on my take on these at https://wp.me/p4upoP-tRu

Our guest on this DevOps chat is Dr. Steven Mayner who is a confirmed speaker for DevOps Enterprise Summit, London 2017. Steven is of the worlds foremost experts on Scaled Agile Framework. He has helped organizations the world over achieve great results with the SAFe framework. An engaging speaker, you will enjoy this interview.

Value stream mapping, what is it? Sure you have heard of it, but what does it really mean and how can it help you? We discuss value stream mapping in some detail with Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. Great discussion on how this Lean based idea can really help in your DevOps transformation.

Rob England, IT Skeptic was once a DevOps skeptic (what do you expect, he is the IT skeptic), but even this skeptic has been won over to the ways of DevOps. So much so in fact that he is presenting at this years DOES London conference Rob is presenting on the importance of people in the DevOps equation. If even the IT skeptic can see the advantages of DevOps, you should too? I don't know, but have a listen as we catch up with always entertaining Rob England in advance of DOES London.

The Jenkins community was just given a major upgrade yesterday with the release of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean puts Continuous Delivery within reach of every team. This release was a long time in the making, with lots of hard work and thought behind it. Here from two of the Jenkins community leaders on what it is and why it could be a game changer for you!

DOES London 2017 Program Committee member and speaker, Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox tells us about what he will be speaking about at DOES. We also talk about what it is like to be a member of the program committee for DOES, what kind of submissions they saw, what are the themes for this years show and more. Jonathan is a sharp fellow and always a pleasure to speak with.

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DORA, DevOps Research and Analysis will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th to announce the findings of this years State of DevOps Survey. She will be joined by Jez Humble (her co-founder at DORA) and Nigel Kersten of Puppet. Dr. Forsgren gives us her take on why DOES is a special event for her and what we might see in this years survey analysis.

We sit down with Nigel Kersten of Puppet who will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th at the QE II Conference Center. Nigel will be speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble of DORA to announce the findings of the 6th annual State of DevOps Survey.

Jose Quaresma is DevOps Lead DK at Accenture. Jose is based in Denmark and is part of the Advanced Technology & Architecture practice. He is a featured speaker at DOES London this year. We had a chance to sit down with Jose and understand why he felt compelled to speak at DOES this year and some of why he is excited about DevOps.

Omed Habib is a Director of Product Marketing at AppDynamics. Omed actually has an engineering background and is really sharp. We had a great discussion on Maslow's Theory of Happiness and how it relates to developers, ops and DevOps. You never know what you will learn about on a DevOps Chat ;-) Hope you enjoy!

Sanjeev Sharma of IBM has a new book out called the DevOps Adoption Playbook, a guide to adopting DevOps in a multi-speed IT enterprise. Let me say that this is no book for dummies either. The DevOps Adoption Playbook represents the sum total of the many DevOps lessons and learning that Sanjeev has accumulated in his role as a CTO and leader of DevOps at IBM. Much of it is based on the workshops he has done all over the world with literally dozens of enterprises. As I told Sanjeev after reading the book, "in a market full of books on "what is", this is a book on "how to". I think you will enjoy this chat.

This DevOps Chat is with Mark Blach of Diamanti. Diamanti recently came out of stealth with a purpose built appliance optimized for containerized applications. What is that you say, why use an appliance and not the cloud? Good question. Mark and the Diamanti guys have a great answer to. Have a listen and hear for yourself.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study.

Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonah Kowall of Appdynamics. Jonah is very bright and dialed into the DevOps scene. He talks with us about APM and its continuing evolution and diversification. Lots of great information here!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Jones, evangelist at RedGate and founder of SQL Server Central. Steve talks to us how organizations are moving their databases into the DevOps mode. He also tells us about SQL Clone, the newest offering from RedGate. Great conversation!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of Automic. Scott has a long history in IT and DevOps. He gives us some great insights into some of the challenges he sees and hears from the many organizations he works with at Automic

Tuesday, March 7th CA is sponsoring the DevOps Virtual Summit. There are some great guests scheduled to speak including two of the founders of DORA, Gene Kim and Dr. Nicole Forsgren. DevOps.com had a chance to catch up with Dr. Nicole and ask her about her presentation at the virtual summit, what is new at DORA and what we may be seeing in the coming months. Nicole gives us some great info on new books and offerings from DORA as well as why you really should attend the DevOps Virtual Summit. If you would like to register to attend the summit, you can do athttp://resources.infoworld.com/ccd/show/200046726/01506610177859IFW4EV1XD3HMX/

DevOps.com sits down with Tasktop CEO and co-founder, Dr Mik Kersten. Mik gives us a look at the latest in task management and more insight into DevOps

Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and VP Product of Platform9 gives us an inside look at what is happening in the "open source as a service" company.

While culture is of the utmost importance to enable digital transformation, there are many other milestones in a successful DevOps journey. Join Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com, as he hosts Bryson Koehler, GM, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Senior Software Engineer/IT Architect at IBM. Learn about challenges that The Weather Company (TWC) faced during the transition from TWC, to being TWC: an IBM company. Koehler is CTO of IBM’s newly formed Watson and Cloud Platform, as well as GM and distinguished engineer for IBM. Prior to this role, he served as executive vice president, distinguished engineer and CIO/CTO of TWC. He has an extraordinary record of leading significant business transformations and underlying cultural shifts. To do so successfully, Koehler maintains cultural change must first be incited in tech companies at the developer level. While at TWC, Koehler built a DevOps culture and practice that encourages transparency, accountability and collaboration. It is his mission to replicate this model in the transformation of IBM’s culture from a legacy IT enterprise to a true cloud platform company.

DevOps editor-in-chief, Alan Shimel sits down with Chris Lazzaro and Peter Klenk of IBM to talk DevOps, Bluemix, Bluemix Garage and more. Chris and Peter bring a wealth of information and experience to the table and it is always good to get their take on things. We also spend some time talking about the upcoming IBM InterConnect Conference at Mandalay Bay in March.

DevOps.com sits down with DevOps industry veteran Justin Vaughan-Brown of AppDynamics. Justin is one of only a handful of people who have been involved with DevOps with several DevOps vendors. He has a great view into the market and where DevOps is heading. Justin shares some of this with us and specifically looks at the APM and BPM markets. This is a great chat with a DevOps insider and we are sure you will enjoy it!

DevOps.com catches up with Chef CMO Ken Cheney. Ken gives us an update aboutAWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, the latest on Chef Habitat and Ken gives us his view what is in store in the DevOps market this year. It is a great chat and you shouldn't miss it. Hopefully, Ken will be joining us regularly on DevOps Chats this year.

DevOps.com catches up with Nigel Kersten, Chief Technical Strategist at Puppet. While Nigel is a wealth of information and we could take days speaking with him, todays chat is all about the 2017 DevOps Survey presented by Puppet and DORA and is open now. After listening to this great 15 minute interview, head on over and take the survey at: https://devops-survey.com/register.php

Our first DevOps Chat of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. When not writing Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. Over the course of her career Aruna has been a code writing engineer, in addition to a business executive, so she brings a great perspective to what it takes to successfully lead DevOps transformations. Our chat is actually a pre-cursor to a full Q & A webinar we will be producing with Aruna, where we will dive much deeper into the book's subject matter. The webinar is January 17th and you can sign up to attend for free at http://webinars.devops.com/devops-digital-leaders. Aruna is a very interesting person and the book is great. It is also available for free in electronic form, as well for sale in hardcover on Amazon and other book outlets. All proceeds from the book go to charity to enable gifted student to attend university who would otherwise be challenged due to economic hardship. Just another reason to listen to the chat, attend the webinar and check out the book :-)

DevOps.com sits down with Jeff Schaeffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. Jeff discusses the launch of the new CD community on DevOps.com sponsored by CA, as well as the impact of Continuous Delivery on the way businesses are delivering software today. It seems we are moving to everything being done continuously. Jeff gives us some keen insight on this.

Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies is our guest on this DevOps Chat. Huw and Alan Shimel discuss Automation. Specifically that automation for automation's sake alone is not always a good thing. Building the right automation is key. Organizations need to understand what and why they are automating something before investing in automating it. Huw will be discussing this topic further in an upcoming webinar on DevOps.com.

Our guest for this DevOps Chat is Lucas Carlson, VP of Strategy, Automic. Carlson is fairly new to Automic, but no stranger to technology. He has founded several companies, had successful exits, worked in key positions at larger companies such as CenturyLink where he ran their lab and also written several books, both fiction and non-fiction. Lucas discusses what he thinks is a fundamental challenge in DevOps. That is that DevOps appears to be Developer led and is by and for Developers. In Lucas's view it doesn't work as well for Ops and fundamentally something has to change to make it work. Have a listen to this provocative discussion and stay tuned for a deeper dive on this subject with Lucas and others soon!

IBM InterConnect 2017 is coming in March. The call for speakers is open until March 11th. You can get more info at http://www.ibm.com/interconnect. In the meantime I had a chance to catch up with Randy Newell, Director WorldWide Marketing DevOps. Randy gives us his own take on what the highlights of InterConnect 2017 will be, as well as upcoming IBM sessions at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco. Randy is very knowledgable about the market and a great conversation. Enjoy!

DevOps.com sits down with Tim Butel, VP Products at XebiaLabs to discuss what is the latest in DevOps, Continuous Delivery and at XebiaLabs. He talks to us about his own job duties, what he sees in the DevOps market and how XebiaLabs is setting its mark in the market.

Our guest in this DevOps Chat is Hayden Lindsey, VP of DevOps and Enterprise Systems and distinguished engineer at IBM. Beyond the title though, Hayden is a great gentlemen who I have had the pleasure of interviewing several times over the years. Hayden and his team have done a great job of not only keeping the "big iron" systems working the world over, but in fact teaching some of these "old dogs new tricks". Hayden and IBM's Enterprise System Group have leveraged technologies like DevOps and Agile to make todays enterprise systems work better and faster, keeping up with even the highest performing IT teams. Hayden tells us about the latest offerings from his team as well as discussing "Cognitive DevOps." I think you will enjoy Hayden's view of the market right now.

The most widely anticipated book in the DevOps world was officially released today. The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, John Willis, Patrick Debois and Jez Humble is here. We sit down with Gene how tells us about this labor of love and learning that was over 5 years in the making. With over 40 case studies of companies who have make the transformation to DevOps and high performing IT, this book serves as a guide to DevOps success. Gene gives us a preview to the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco this November. This is a great episode, not to be missed! Read full transcript here: https://devops.com/devops-chat-g/

Panzura is a company that has made its mark by offering tremendous savings and even bigger speed improvements for companies with distributed data systems. With that kind of advantage, it is almost a no brainer that this would be very useful for DevOps. More and more we are seeing Panzura used by DevOps teams. Two Panzura execs, Rich Weber and Barry Phillips give us the lowdown on Panzura, as well as how and why DevOps and Panzura are made for each other.

Dr. CJ Paul, distinguished engineeer, DevOps Methods & Tools, IBM Cloud sits down with DevOps.com editor in chief, Alan Shimel to discuss trends in ITSM and DevOps. Paul also discusses IBM BlueMix Garage and the BlueMix Garage Method among other topics.

DevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sits down with Michael Olson, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. Michael and I discuss a number of topics including the recent DevOps Salary survey that Puppet released. Another topic of discussion is the webinar Puppet is sponsoring and Michael is appearing on September 27, 2016 titled, "A Roadmap for DevOps Success." This webinar is a great jumping off point for those who are looking to set off on their DevOps transformation or even anyone looking for a DevOps reset. Please click the link to register if you are interested. In the meantime, Michael gave us a great amount of information about the topic and DevOps in general. I think you will find it very interesting and useful.

DevOps.com chats with Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of cloud research at Trend Micro. Mark talks about cloud security in a hybrid cloud world. it is a good discussion around DevSecOps, cloud and the future. Enjoy!

DevOps Chats speaks with John Harris of LeftShift IT about the red hot DevOps consulting business, continuous testing and more. John has real experience in the field and some great insights to share!

DevOps.com chats with Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org about the current state of Scrum and Agile, how it interacts with DevOps and while both developers and ops people should care. This is a great conversation, a little longer than our usual but worth your time. Enjoy!

DevOps.com talks with Mohit Bhatnagar, VP of product at ClusterHQ, the container data people. Mohit talks about the results of a recent survey that ClusterHQ and DevOps.com partnered on. Mohit also discusses other trends in the container space. Mohit's views on the state of the container market are very informed and interesting. Enjoy!

I had a chance to speak with Jean Louis Vignaud of IBM about the recently announced GitHib Enteprise as a Service on IBM BlueMix. This allows enterprises who want to use the very popular Git service but for whatever reason cannot use the public cloud community version. Organizations can now run their own "private label" GitHub Enterprise on their own premises. You can find out more about this exciting new offering at: 1. Blog : Introducing the first-ever GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service: https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2016/06/16/github-enterprise-hosted-service-on-bluemix/ 2. Video : Benefits of GitHub Enterprise with IBM Bluemix Dedicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxGTFZzZ7vU 3. SlideShare: IBM Bluemix Dedicated – GitHub Enterprise: http://www.slideshare.net/IBMDevOps/ibm-bluemix-dedicated-github-enterprise

We had a chance to sit down with Steve Hazel of Sauce Labs. Steve is the CTO, co-founder of the Sauce Labs. There has been so much written lately about the role of automated testing in DevOps and what the role of QA is going forward. Listen to what an industry veteran and thought leader has to say on the subject. Also Steve recommended The Phoenix Project in our interview as a great book to read. Afterwards he had another great selection that we wanted to include: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen is never going to be a best seller, but it's a real engineer's book on process. If you aspire to push the state of the art forward beyond today's Agile and DevOps ideas, this book will show you a deeper and more rigorous way of thinking about product development processes.

DevOps.com sits down with Julian Dunn, product manager for Chef about the new open source Habitat, a project to automate applications and a bold new offering from one of the leaders of the DevOps world. You can find out more about Habitat at https://www.habitat.sh/ Also you can find more about Habitat and Chef at the upcoming ChefConf in Austin, the week of July 11, 2016. https://chefconf.chef.io/

DevOps.com had a chance to catch up with IBM CTO DevOps Technical Sales and distinguished engineer Sanjeev Sharma. Sanjeev tells us a little bit about his upcoming panel at Gene Kim's DevOps Enterprise Summit, London.