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Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Paradadventuresindevops.com
Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.
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Episodes

DevOps 034: Digital Darwinism - How Digital Transformation is Evolving Business with Joe Garber

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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 go...

May 12, 202049 min

DevOps 033: I Know What You Did Last Session with Ev Kontsevoy

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington Tyler Bird Charles Max Wood Guest Ev Kontsevoy Sponsors Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! CacheFly "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on A...

May 05, 202056 min

DevOps 032: Where Does Security Fit In a DevOps World with Jeffrey Groman

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington Tyler Bird Scott Nixon Charles Max Wood Guest Jeffrey Groman Sponsors Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount CacheFly "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding You...

Apr 28, 202059 min

DevOps 031: DevOps, Monitoring, and Cloud Management with Matt Watson

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Charles Max Wood Tyler Bird Guest Matt Watson Sponsors Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform CacheFly _______ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is n...

Apr 21, 202050 min

DevOps 030: 15 Years of Ubuntu with Martin Wimpress

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington Charles Max Wood Scott Nixon Tyler Bird Guest Martin Wimpress Sponsors Educative.i...

Apr 14, 20201 hr

DevOps 029: Kublr, Enterprise Infrastructure Reliability, and Self-Healing Nodes with Slava Koltovich

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Slava Koltovich Sponso...

Apr 07, 202035 min

DevOps 028: Chaos Engineering with Gremlin Executives

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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.Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington Tyler Bird Guests Tammy Butow Kolton Andrus Matt "Forni" Fornaciari Sponsors UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off CacheFly _______ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" ...

Mar 31, 202055 min

DevOps 027: Quest for Frictionless DevOps with Brent Schroeder from SUSE

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.Panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington Charles Max Wood Guest Brent Schroeder Sponsors UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off CacheFly ______...

Mar 24, 202045 min

DevOps 026: Implementing Event-driven Microservices with Nikhil Barthwal

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.Panelist Nell...

Mar 17, 202029 min

DevOps 025: Oracle Cloud with Bob Quillin

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.Panelist Nell Shamrell-Harrington Charles Max Wood Guests Bob Quillin Sponsors UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform CacheFly _______ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! _______...

Mar 10, 202056 min

DevOps 024: Monitoring Multi-Cloud Environments with Sean Porter | Sensu

Sean Porter is the CTO and co-founder of Sensu Inc. Sensu is a project that helps cloud native devops engineers track issues across the cloud and multiple clouds. He gives us the story of where Sensu came from and how it is used now.Panelist Charles Max Wood Guests Sean Porter Sponsors UpCloud | Use promo code: "devchat" for $25 off Gremlin | Chaos Engineering Platform CacheFly _______ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Y...

Mar 03, 202042 min

DevOps 023: Tools for Issues Resolution with Troy McAlpin and Tobias Dunn-Krahn

Troy and Tobias work at xMatters providing tools that help devops engineers manage things when they go wrong. Their tools at xMatters provide information that makes is easier to track down problems. Running a service like xMattters also allows them to become experts in how workflows should go to empower people to fix issues.Follow UpCloud on Twitter: @UpCloudFollow Troy on Twitter: @TmcalpinxmConnect with Tobias on LinkedIn Panelist Nell Shamrell-Harrington Charles Max Wood Guests Troy McAlpin T...

Feb 25, 202052 min

DevOps 022: Debugging Multi-Layer or Multi-Node Applications with Or Weis

Or Weis is the CEO of Rookout. He walks us through the problems of tracking bugs through multiple layers, services, and nodes. He talks about how to aggregate, sort through, and intelligently use the information provided from each of your infrastructure nodes to find problems in your applications. This is the cure for logging FOMO.Panelist Nell Shamrell-Harrington Charles Max Wood Scott Nixon Guests Or Weis Sponsors CacheFly _______ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Ch...

Feb 18, 202055 min

DevOps 021: The Ideal Pipeline with Stephen Chin

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Stephen Chin. Stephen runs developer relations at JFrog. Stephen starts by sharing what JFrog has to offer and their most recent announcements. Including their new free version of Aritfactory. Charles and Stephen consider the biggest trends to emerge in 2019 and speculate on what’s going to be big in 2020. This leads them into a discussion about security and inheriting vulnerabilities from packages. They share examples of vulner...

Feb 04, 202042 min

DevOps 020: Kui with The IBM Cloud Research Team

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps Charles Max Wood interviews Priya Nagpurkar, Paul Castro and Nick Mitchell. They all work for IBM and are here to talk about their new DevOps tool Kui. They start by explains what the IBM cloud research team is all about and what motivates them. Their goal is to make programming on the cloud as easy as possible. They share past tools that they have made for this goal. Charles asks the guests about the future of Kubernetes and DevOps. They explain why Kuber...

Jan 21, 20201 hr

DevOps 019: DevOps Next Generation with Lance Albertson

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Lance Albertson. Lance Albertson works for the Oregon State Open Source Lab. The lab is a program at the Oregon State University that provides the infrastructure to open source projects. The program works with graduate students who walk away with valuable hands-on experience in DevOps. Lance starts by explaining how they choose graduate students and what their experience looks like working for the lab. Lance explains what they provide ...

Jan 07, 202052 min

DevOps 018: How We Killed DevOps? with Adam Nowak

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the pane interviews Adam Nowak. Adam is a part of the DevOps team at Netguru. He joins the panel today to share his DevOps transformation story. Adam starts by explaining the title he chose for today’s episode. He also shares his definition of DevOps.Adam explains the age-old story of a misunderstood DevOps team that was overworked and underappreciated. The organization grew but the DevOps team didn’t scale with it, leaving them with piles of tickets and e...

Dec 24, 201954 min

DevOps 017: Improving User Experience by Logging with Grant Schofield

In this episode Adventures in DevOps, the panel interviews Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of Infrastructure at Humio. He being by discussing the growth of logging and logging tools. Grant explains the business value of logging and analytics. He shares some real-life examples of how longing helped gain insight into the user experience. The panel wonders how Humio takes the data gathered in the logs and separate out specifics of user experience. Grant explains that by aggregating all data in o...

Dec 10, 201952 min

DevOps 016: Kubernetes as Infrastructure Abstraction with Oleg Chunikin

In this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panel interviews Oleg Chuninkin, CTO of Kublr. Oleg starts by explains what Kublr is all about and how he got the idea of using Kubernetes as an infrastructure abstraction. He and the Kublr team were trying to decide the most productive way to think of Kubernetes. Oleg advocates for using Kubernetes locally and shares how you can then orchestrate your architecture so you can see what it will do in productions. Charles breaks down a few of the ideas Ole...

Nov 26, 201946 min

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Nov 20, 201915 min

DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson

This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his whole career spanning about 12 years. He is also the author of Shiplane. John made Shiplane after working with Docker for a while and getting fed up with some features not being as he wanted them to be. The panelists begin the discussion with going over John’s talk “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, where he covers three camps of developers namely pioneers, settlers, and townsfol...

Nov 05, 201950 min

DevOps 014: Continuous Delivery With Julian Fahrer

Julian Fahrer is a software engineer with a systems administration and operations background. He currently works at Hover and is helping them move towards continuous delivery. Nell opens up the discussion by asking Julian to explain what continuous integration and continuous delivery are. He shares that continuous integration revolves around having testing and automation around the code being pushed to ensure that it works and conforms to standards. Continuous delivery feeds off of the concept o...

Oct 22, 20191 hr 1 min

DevOps 013: Application Monitoring Using RED With Dave McAllister

This episode of Adventures in Devops features Dave McAllister. Dave has an extensive background in open source starting in 1994 working with early versions of Linux. He thrives on the concepts of emerging technologies and being able to innovate things. He also loves understanding what people are doing with emerging technology. The discussion opens up by introducing the topic of multi-dimensional monitoring in RED. Dave gives us an introduction into RED as a subset of google’s SRE Golden signals....

Oct 15, 201937 min

DevOps 012: Containerizing an Application

On this episode of Adventures in DevOps the panelists talk about how to containerize an app in a container using services such as Docker or Kubernetes. Charles mentions that he is wanting to host a Ruby on Rails application and Scott has experience with web deployments in Python and Django. They share that regardless of the languages and technologies used, the principles behind deploying a containerized application are the same.The next topic covered by the DevOps panelists is how to create cont...

Oct 08, 201947 min

DevOps 011: Let's Talk Agile

In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about Agile. Nell starts the discussion by mentioning that Agile came out of the Scrum movement and gives a brief history of how it started. She reads out the Agile Manifesto, and Scott explains what it is. They agree that “move faster slowly” can be considered as a motto of Agile. Scott talks about the testing aspect of it from a philosophical perspective, and Nell chimes in with comparison to how things were being done in ...

Sep 24, 201941 min

DevOps 010: What Makes a 10x Engineer

Episode SummaryOn this week's Adventures in DevOps, Chuck talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is.Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there a...

Sep 17, 201958 min

DevOps 009: Learning DevOps

Episode SummaryIn this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about getting started with DevOps and learning its principles and technologies. Lee and Scott mention that they share a similar journey, initially starting as system administrators and working their way into DevOps. Nell says that she was a Ruby and .NET developer before learning cloud technologies such as Heroku, Chef, and Docker.To someone with a programming background wanting to get into DevOps, Lee highly ...

Sep 10, 201947 min

DevOps 008: Disaster Recovery

Sponsors iPhreaks - Devchat.tv The Dev Rev - Devchat.tv React Round Up - Devchat.tv CacheFly Panel Nell Shamrell-Harrington Scott Nixon Episode SummaryComing to you live this time from the studio is a brand new episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast! Regular panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Engineer at Chef Software, and Scott Nixon, Principal Consultant at Cloud Mechanics, discuss one of the most significant aspects of any given software environment - disaster recovery, what i...

Sep 03, 201947 min

DevOps 007: Monitoring in a Technical Environment

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Nell Shamrell-Harrington Scott Nixon Episode SummaryIn this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Scott Nixon talk about monitoring in the software world. They start the discussion by talking about the difference between monitoring and alerting. They discuss how logging comes into picture in monitoring, two main types of logs - structured and unstructured, log management in the DevOps environment, information storage, parsing ...

Aug 27, 201953 min

DevOps 006: All Things Cloud with Bob Quillin

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Nell Shamrell-Harrington Lee Whalen Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Bob QuillinEpisode SummaryThis episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast is joined by Bob Quillin, Vice President - Oracle Cloud Developer Relations, based in Austin, Texas. He manages a team of developer advocates working on cloud native solutions. He explains what developer advocacy means in terms of the work they do at Oracle and elaborates on the term 'second generation cloud'. He then tal...

Aug 20, 201953 min
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