DevOps Paradox

#204: When you think about managing data in an organization, you're probably familiar with the concept of ETL: extract, transform and load. But in this world of new data tools, the order of transform and load can become problematic. In today's episode, we speak with Itamar Ben Hemo, Co-Founder and CEO at Rivery, about why you might want to consider flipping that order. We also discuss why if you aren't using SaaS solutions for data management, you're probably quickly falling behind your competitors. Itamar's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Itamar_Hemo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamar-ben-hemo-47080a5/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

203: Given a choice, would you rather have broken builds or flaky tests? At least with a broken build, you have certainty of what is happening. How do you go about eliminating both from your environment? In this episode, we speak with Ankit Jain, CEO at Aviator, about different ways you can approach these two issues. We also dive head first into the debate about whether you should be using a monorepo in your organization. Ankit's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitjaindce/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ankitxg YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#202: How many people love Helm? Yeah, that's what we thought. A lot of the time, you're probably looking for an easier and simpler way to manage installing applications into a Kubernetes cluster. You might be wishing that you could use something as simple as Docker Compose to do that, but you can't see a way forward. In this episode, we speak with Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder at Shipyard, about how approaching development from the human side instead of the machine side can make this possible. Benjie's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bueller/ GitHub: https://github.com/bueller YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#201: As an application developer, we're used to adding logging to our applications. We also work with our operations counterparts to enrich those logs to help them out when troubleshooting. But what happens during an incident when the logs are flowing so fast that neither you nor the operations people can keep up? That's where machine learning can help. In this episode, we speak with Ajay Singh, CEO at Zebrium, about why humans need help troubleshooting issues and how machine learning helps detect outliers and solve those last mile problems. Ajay's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaysingh3/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#200: We've reached episode 200!!! As we do with all our divide by 50 episodes, we invited our friend Patrick Debois back to discuss topics ranging from digital twins to the metaverse to AI to becoming a manager. Patrick's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickdebois LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdebois/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#199: You're probably used to hearing about using OpenTelemetry for your production troubleshooting. But have you considered using OpenTelemetry during your development lifecycle? In this episode, we speak with Ran Nozik, CTO and co-founder of Helios, about the current state of OpenTelemetry and how using OpenTelemetry may save us a lot of time troubleshooting issues in production if we first start using while we are developing our applications. Ran's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-nozik/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#198: It's the dream that many of us have. We set out to build a service that gains a lot of adoption. However, we when reach that goal, we find that building something successful can make it an attractive target for attackers. In this episode, we speak with Brian Smith, CTO of Spyderbat, about how traditional security tools don't meet the dynamic requirements of Kubernetes and that the processes we put in place to manage our runtime security need to be part of a shift-left approach. Brian's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-smith-07a4191/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#197: Do you feel like you are working in a company that is not only behind the times but behind the century? If you feel stuck, is it because you're too scared to search for another job and losing all the benefits you've accrued over the years at your current company? In this episode, we talk about a couple of Reddit and Twitter threads that surprised us, but in reality, they shouldn't have. It's a very sobering reminder that not everyone is not only working on the latest and greatest, some are just now moving to technology that has already reached end of life. YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#196: Where do you start when you work on optimizing the performance of your application? The number of options can seem overwhelming. Do you start with memory, CPU, network, or somewhere else? Even if you get it right, it's only right for right now and not next week when you release a new version of your application, at which point you start the performance optimization process all over again. What if there was a way to continuously optimize for performance? That's where Granulate comes in. In this episode, we talk with Noam Salinger, Director of Product Management at Granulate, about different ways you can optimize the performance of your applications and the basics that you might not even be doing today. Noam's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-salinger-313025126 YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#195: Most companies have decades of legacy systems running their day-to-day business. They're difficult to replace with newer systems, and they're costly to maintain. But they also offer security, stability, and consistency. The challenge is deciding how to make them work in the modern world. In this episode, we talk with Robert Cooke, CTO and Founder at 3forge, about why replacing legacy systems is not a simple as just doing it and also why open source may not be the answer that everyone thinks it is. Robert's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-cooke-a7835b69/ Website: https://3forge.com/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#194: Whether you are doing greenfield development with microservices or are doing brownfield development migrating monoliths to microservices, there's one thing that you have to get right when testing those microservices, otherwise you will fail. What is that one thing? Culture. If you don't get the culture right, no amount of technology will fix the problems that you have now or in the future. In this episode, we talk with Darko Fabijan, co-founder of Semaphore, about the process and structure you need to follow when migrating away from monoliths and how to make sure that you get the culture right in order to succeed in the long term. Darko's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkofabijan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darkofabijan/ Podcast: https://semaphoreci.com/podcast YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#193: As a database administrator, you probably want to spend more time trying to make things better for people using your database instead of always chasing down the latest tuning parameters or queries that are causing problems. There are only 24 hours in a day and you're not sure if you'll ever be able to really make things any better with the schema changes and data volume that are constantly being thrown at the database you manage. In this episode, we talk with Andy Pavlo, CEO at OtterTune, about the knobs that should be turned in Postgres or MySQL before you even start trying to do any index or query tuning. Andy's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#192: Have you decided what you're going to be learning in 2023? In their annual attempt to read the crystal ball, Darin and Viktor talk about the things that you need to learn or that you will probably be learning in 2023. Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25" https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25 YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#191: In this episode, we recap all of the predictions we made at the beginning of 2022 and see how we did. Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25" https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25 YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#190: Darin and Viktor look back over 2020 part 3, in other words, 2022. Also, for something new this year, listen all the way to the end of the episode for a couple of hand-picked holiday tunes. YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#189: In the distant past, we used punchcards and dumb terminals to program. Then came the advent of the personal computer and we started developing locally on our machines. There are now new offerings that allow us to use pretty much any device that has a web browser to do all our programming. One of those offerings is Gitpod. On this episode, we speak with Chris Weichel, CTO of Gitpod, about the history of Gitpod and why the standard developer machine is ripe for disruption. Chris' contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/csweichel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-weichel-740b4224/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#188: Just because you've run some chaos experiments against your system doesn't mean you are ready to fend off wide ranging and prolonged attacks. It just means that you might be ready for the attacks you've created experiments for. Why? Because you probably didn't actually fully load your systems with persistent and ever-changing attacks. In this episode, we talk with Benjamin Wilms, CEO of Steadybit, about why just running chaos experiments is just one part of helping make your systems resilient and why capturing what happens in real-life incidents can help you create even better experiments. Benjamin's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrbwilms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-wilms/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#187: When writing tests that need to talk to a data source, you're usually faced with a couple of options. The first one is that you setup a database server on your machine. The problem with that is what happens when other developers need to run those same tests? They have to setup the database too. The other option is you can mock your database connections. However, it's hard to keep your mock up to date with the latest features of the database you are using. What if there was another option you could use? Enter Testcontainers. In this episode we speak with Sergei Egorov from AtomicJar about the history of Testcontainers and how to implement it into your development processes. Sergei's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bsideup LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsideup/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#186: Most companies say they want their application developers to be shipping more code faster and faster. However, those same companies don't do enough to help the application developers be successful at doing that. In this episode, we speak with Ankit Bhati, co-founder and CEO at Amnic, about how by providing a unified operating platform for your application developers will not only help speed up the work that those developers do, but also reduce the risk in running the applications that go through this platform. Ankit's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitbhati/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#185: You've been told that you have to reduce your AWS bill. You also know that you cannot make any major changes to your infrastructure quickly. By carefully considering your needs and being willing to make some concessions, you can reduce your AWS bill significantly. But where do you start? In this episode, we talk with Ganesh The Awesome from GlobalDots about where to start when trying to reduce your AWS bill. Ganesh's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenpuddephatt/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#184: The public cloud is a powerful tool that allows businesses to outsource their data and compute to ensure security, availability, scalability, and reliability. But like many tools, they cannot be used best without understanding the total cost of ownership. By cost, we really mean cold, hard cash. In this episode, we talk with Jason Yaeger, Co-Founder & CEO of Tenacity Cloud, about how Tenacity is tackling the problem of helping businesses understand their true cloud costs and why you shouldn't trust your cloud provider to give you the best possible discounts. Jason's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasnoyaeger LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonyaeger/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#183: Darin catches up with Viktor just minutes after he finishes up at KubeCon NA 2022. We discuss the good things and bad things that he experienced and some surprises that you might not have seen coming. Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25": https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25 YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#182: As developers, we've all started at least a few side projects. Sometimes they're just for fun, or as a way of learning something new. Other times you find yourself building something really cool that might even turn out to be your life's work. If you're able to run that project and grow it to a sizable monthly revenue, you could sell it and potentially do whatever you want for the rest of your life. In this episode, we talk with Ryan Kulp about the path he took to get to Merge Freeze and how you might be able to follow a similar path. Ryan's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanckulp Website: https://www.ryanckulp.com/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#181: Once you have your Kubernetes cluster up and running, what do you do next? One option is to monitor it and make sure everything is running smoothly. On this episode, we talk with Ruben Hakopian, the founder of Kubevious, about how the project started and how you can start using it today. Ruben's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubenhak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenhak YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#180: At a time when big data and machine learning are transforming the enterprise, it is hard to see what is coming next. The answer: artificial intelligence. The transformation of AI into AIOps — machine learning in the cloud that continuously learns and optimizes predictive models — may be the next game-changer for businesses, but how can you get started? In this episode, we speak with Richard Whitehead, CTO at Moogsoft, about where AIOps is in 2022, and why the humans shouldn't fear for their jobs…yet. Richard's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwhitehead LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwhitehead/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#179: For many decades, the use of service level objectives (SLOs) in IT has been a routine part of day-to-day business. The objectives are based on measurable impacts that each individual customer or operational unit should experience with a specific IT service. These SLOs are typically associated with costs and benefits that can be tracked over time. But what do you need to do if you are new to SLOs? What are the pitfalls associated with introducing SLOs into an environment where they have not yet been a part of the culture? For those of you that have been working with IT for any length of time, there has probably been one idea in the IT space that has received more flak from different teams than anything else. Many people and teams still do not understand what SLOs are, how to use them and why some companies use them and others do not. In this episode, we speak with Brian Singer, the Chief Product Officer at Nobl9, about the mechanics of implementing and maintaining SLOs in your organization. Brian's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_singer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briantsinger/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#178: Observability has been around since the dawn of computing. Around 1992, BPF was introduced. It gave us the ability to do network packet filtering. Around 22 years later in 2014, eBPF was included in Linux kernel 3.18, building on top of what was available with BPF. Now in 2022, eBPF is helping to supercharge Kubernetes observability. In this episode, we speak with Shachar Azulay, CEO and Co-Founder of groundcover, about how eBPF is changing how we monitor our Kubernetes clusters in five minutes or less. Shachar's information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#177: Imagine this. What if you could magically turn your 20 year old Java and .NET applications into modern, containerized applications without having to spend years doing it? Also, what if you could do this with the help of AI? Seems too good to be true? In this episode, we speak with Bob Quillin, Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, about the classical and painful ways we've tried to do application modernization in the past and how AI is helping to reduce a lot of those pain points in 2022. Bob's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobquillin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-quillin-46802511/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#176: Many people ask us what they need to do in order to start a career in DevOps. The usual initial question is "what technologies do I need to learn?" What if we told you that you shouldn't necessarily start with the tech but with something else? In this episode, we speak with Sashank Purighalla, CEO and Founder of BOS Framework, about the critical skills that every engineer should master in order to start and grow their DevOps career. Sashank's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sashankbos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashankpurighalla/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#175: When most people start with low-code and no-code applications, they log in to a user interface, fill in some forms and do a lot of pointing and clicking. As we've learned over the years, that is just an invitation for long-term trouble. What if were possible to treat our low-code and no-code application development the same way as we treat our normal application development? In this episode, we speak with Gil Hoffer, Co-Founder and CTO of Salto, about a number of issues around the low-code and no-code application development ecosystem and why you might want to consider approaching these development processes in a more standard way. Gil's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/gilhoffer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilhoffer/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#174: As more and more companies start to use low-code and no-code solutions within their organizations, how many of them are actually evaluating their security posture? Do these organizations not realize they are literally giving away the keys to their kingdoms to third party providers? In this episode, we speak with Alon Jackson, CEO and Co-Founder at Astrix Security, about how these internally produced low-code and no-code applications present even further security risks due to the lack of professional security processes for these applications. Alon's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackson-alon/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#173: How much time have you wasted writing YAML files, helm charts or Kustomize configurations? What if deployments to Kubernetes could be as simple as drag and drop? In this episode, we speak with Dom Holt, the CEO of Harpoon, about how Harpoon can make this drag and drop dream become reality. Dom's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicholt/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#172: As a developer, we might think we know how our application is going to run in production. We know we'll need a web server, an application server and a database. But what we might not know is how popular (or unpopular) our application is going to be and what the actual sizing is that we'll need in order to optimally run our application. In this episode, we speak with Maxim Melamedov from Zesty about the different models that need to be taken into account when not only designing and writing our applications but also operating them at scale. Maxim's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximmelamedov/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#171: How many hours a day do you think you code? 5? 4? Maybe 3? What if I told you that you were only averaging 52 minutes each day? In this episode, we talk with Mason McLead, CTO at Software, about the Code Time Report they released. In this report, you may discover that a few key secrets to help you increase your time in front of your IDE and less time in meetings. Mason's contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmclead/ Global Code Time Report https://www.software.com/reports/code-time-report YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#170: Containers are one of the quickest ways we can move away from a traditional server-centric architecture, as they allow us to host software "in the cloud" without over-provisioning resources or managing infrastructure like we did with virtual machines. What do you think about when you hear edge computing? Is it CDN, serverless functions, or something else? All of these definitions can be heavily related to the concept of edge computing. The term itself is ambiguous and hard to grasp. But what happens when you try to run containers at the edge? In this episode, we speak with Dan Bartholomew, Co-Founder & CTO at Section, about how running containers at the edge is much more than deciding what city to run your container in. Dan's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbartholomew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bartholomew-27baa625/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#169: With the development trend toward cloud services, developers need to build and deploy applications in this new paradigm. However, it may be difficult to determine what is possible and what is not, because building on a cloud service can lead to unforeseen difficulties that require a more complex solution. In this episode, we speak with Ala and Aaron from Klotho about how complexity cannot be avoided as well as how operations teams are on the rise. Ala's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/alashiban LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alashiban/ Aaron's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aarontorres LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torresaaron/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#168: At DockerCon 2022, Docker announced a number of improvements to Docker Desktop, including extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux. What is it going to take for Viktor to install Docker Desktop on his machine again? YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#167: When you install vanilla Kubernetes, which security option do you take? Trick question. There are no options. It is always installed wide open. If you're just experimenting, that's probably not a big deal. However, how many times have we had an experiment turn into a production system? Probably too many times to count. At that point, retrofitting security into your Kubernetes cluster is near impossible. In this episode, we speak with Lachlan Evenson about his thoughts on the proper strategies to secure your Kubernetes clusters. Lachlan's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LachlanEvenson YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#166: In-person events are starting to ramp back up. However, there are plenty of online conferences. Worse yet, some companies are still trying to do hybrid events. In this episode, we dig into what makes for a bad online experience and some different ways that event organizers should consider to make the experience better for attendees. Robin's blog posts: Remote-First Developer Advocacy https://rmoff.net/2022/04/07/remote-first-developer-advocacy/ Hanging up my Boarding Passes and Jetlag…for now https://rmoff.net/2022/04/07/hanging-up-my-boarding-passes-and-jetlagfor-now/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#165: Viktor recently (sort of) attended KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia, Spain. In this episode, we talk about everything that Viktor saw and experienced. We also attempt to answer the age old question, how was the conference food? YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#164: When you create a monolithic application, it's usually not a huge deal to add in some form of monitoring to keep track of what is happening when. However, when you start writing numerous microservices, specifically functions as a service, the ability to simply and easily keep track of what is happening when is thrown out the window. In this episode, we speak with Aviad Mor, CTO of Lumigo, about how to monitor large numbers of microservices and how to debug them when something goes wrong. Aviad's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aviadmor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviadmor/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#163: When you first start out with Kubernetes, probably the last thing on your mind is how much it costs. So how does one figure out what a Kubernetes cluster costs? In this episode, we speak with Webb Brown from Kubecost about the tradeoffs between hard cost, optimization and efficiency. Webb's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/webb_brown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/webbbrown/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#162: Ever since the release of web applications, performance testing tools have been around to help analyze load times and many other aspects of those applications. However, many of those performance testing tools require you to learn vendor specific languages or you're forced to point and click in order to create your tests. These requirements to use those tools made it really unpleasant for developers to create and maintain tests. In this episode, we speak with Nicole van der Hoeven about k6, a modern load testing tool built for developers. Nicole's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanderhoeven/ Website: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#161: When an incident happens in a company, what happens? Usually people are running around trying to figure out what is going on and not communicating very well. Most likely, that is because there is not a clear process for how to handle an incident. This is also an indicator that practicing and preparing for incidents is not part of the company culture. In this episode, we with speak with Matt Davis and Jake Englund from Blameless about their experiences about how practice can help remediate issues more quickly and why you should do it yourself. Matt's info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcookedavis/ Jake's info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/srejake LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeblith/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#160: If you are new to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), you may be a little overwhelmed. There are so many tools and technologies out there to choose from, and it can be difficult knowing where to start. You may have heard of or even tried some of the tools on your own, but without success. What if we told you that the tools that you need to get started with CI/CD already exist on your laptop? YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#159: In the age of microservices and containers, Kubernetes has become one of the most popular ways to manage application deployment and lifecycle management. However, it can be difficult to know when it's necessary or appropriate to use Kubernetes. In this episode, we attempt to answer the question "when should I use Kubernetes?" We also talk about the right and wrong ways to use Kubernetes. YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#158: Security is a paramount concern for many organizations today due to remote work. The typical starting point is a VPN client is installed on workers devices. But is using a VPN really that secure? In this episode, we talk with Mike Guthrie from NetFoundry about an alternative approach to security that is not only Zero Trust, but also open source. OpenZiti is an open source project focused on bringing Zero Trust not only to network connect, but also to the communication between applications. Mike's contact info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-guthrie-b4b4a024/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mguthrie88 YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#157: You're sitting at home and all of a sudden, you have a new business idea. You message a few of your friends and they agree that it is a great idea. You take out a few pieces of paper and start brainstorming. But then you have a bad feeling. The idea is too vague or too complicated to explain or you cannot decide whether to pursue it any further. How do you decide what to do? In this episode, we speak with Aharale Batonia about what it's like to create and work in a startup and how you might go about creating and running your own startup. Aharale's contact info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aharale/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aharaleb YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#156: When you are writing an API, do you first create an OpenAPI document and then generate code or do you create your code and then generate an OpenAPI document? Regardless of how you create it, how do you know that when your API is running that it is actually doing what you've said it will do? In this episode, we speak with Guy Levinger, CTO of BLST Security, about all things API and about their open source tool named Cherrybomb. Guy's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/guylevinger1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-levinger-b8638413a Website: https://www.blstsecurity.com/ YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#155: Do you know what the difference is between a project and a product in your day job? After years of working with clients as well as working in open source, we've figured out the differences between a project and a product, why it's important to know the differences, and how you can use this knowledge to build better products. In this episode, Darin and Viktor walk you through what they are and why they're different, as well as provide insight into how these concepts can impact your day-to-day work. YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/ Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/ Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/ Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/ Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/