Adventures in DevOps

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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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DevOps 005: Chef Explained

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Nell Shamrell-Harrington Lee Whalen Episode SummaryThis episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast is all about Chef. Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Principal Engineer at Chef Software is interviewed by panelist Lee Whalen starting with what Chef is and what it is used for. Nell describes how Chef works with containers, Chef Habitat and how it fits into the overall DevOps culture. Lee asks if it can be used to manage systems with push-pull based configuration management as w...

Aug 13, 2019•33 min

DevOps 002: Castigated by Containers

Panel Nell Shamrel-Harrington Lee Waylin Scott Nixon Episode Summary The panelists introduce themselves. Nell is a principal engineer at Chef , Lee runs the DevOps consulting team Fuzzy Logic Systems , and Scott runs Cloud Mechanics consulting. The topic of today’s podcast is containers. They begin by defining what a container is, with each sharing their own definition. Containers aren’t really new, they’re just a hot topic because companies like Docker made them easier to use and has brought th...

Aug 06, 2019•48 min

DevOps 003: The Tool Chain Crisis with Priyanka Sharma

Panel Charles Max Wood Lee Whalen Scott Nixon Joined by Special Guest: Priyanka SharmaSummaryPriyanka Sharma gives an intro to the tool chain crisis; the panel shares their perspective on the crisis and where they see this problem. The panel considers how to solve this problem and Priyanka outlines a solution. She gives examples of how to start the data modeling process she believes will help solve this crisis along with suggesting guard rails for developers. The panel discusses this solution an...

Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 19 min

DevOps 004: Blameless culture and Reliability with Ashar Rizqi

Panel Charles Max Wood Scott Nixon Lee Whalen Joined by Special Guest: Ashar RizqiSummaryAshar Rizqi, co-founder and CEO of Blameless, Inc., shares his approach to taking an unreliable system and making it reliable. The panel discusses the importance of maintaining a blameless culture. Ashar explains what an error budget is and principles to use when creating an error budget. The panel considers the benefits of using an error budget. What to measure and how to measure for reliability are conside...

Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 6 min

DevOps 001: What is DevOps?

Panel Nell Shamrell-Harrington Lee Whalen Scott Nixon Episode SummaryWelcome to the first episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast! The panelists Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Principal Engineer at Chef Software, Lee Whalen - Principal Engineer and President at Fuzzy Logic Tech, and Scott Nixon - Founder at Cloud Mechanics, kickstart the show by introducing themselves and their work. They begin the discussion by attempting to answer the fundamental question - What really is DevOps? They discuss ...

Aug 06, 2019•40 min

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