Ready to add another tool to your toolkit? In this episode, the squad sits down with AWS connoisseur, Stephen Kuenzli. They lay out how to make integrating IAM a breeze, the EXCITING future of AWS, and why AWS hasn’t asked you this ONE question that, frankly, you should have asked already. “Even if you think you know AWS one Day 1, it’s changed on Day 2. It’s important to simplify how you access these resources.” - Stephen Kuenzli In This Episode1) How AWS makes integrating IAM a breeze (with so...
Mar 03, 2022•58 min
Ready to pull the plug and go server-less? Hold your horses. In this episode, the DevOps fellows sit down with Allen Helton, a developer knows all about server-less ops. They discuss the biggest pros and cons for going server-less, why you HAVE to start with the big “A” to keep everything neat, and the NUMBER ONE mistake developers make when trying server-less for the first time. “ServerOps engineers are just as important as DevOps engineers are. There’s a lot of crossover.” - Allen Helton In Th...
Feb 17, 2022•27 min
We’re not calling you a dummy, but you might be one if you don’t listen to this episode. This time around, the gang discusses the do’s and don’ts of choosing CI/CD tools, including how to safety migrate between them, why super-specialized tools are getting extremely popular this year, and the ONE component that makes or breaks a tool.In This Episode1) The TWO questions you need ask BEFORE you choose your tools (and why there’s no “one size fits all”) 2) How to safely migrate from one tool to ano...
Feb 10, 2022•41 min
Love the nomad lifestyle but not sure how to pull it off? You’re in luck! In this episode, the panelists discuss their personal experiences working (and sometimes living) remote. They cover how to generate leads and book clients consistently, why the “multiplier effect” is HUGE for making your new ideas lucrative, and the ONE reason you don’t need revolutionary ideas to find success.In This Episode What the panelists all learned from being digital nomads (and if it’s right for you) How the panel...
Feb 03, 2022•58 min
We’ve been hearing about blockchain and Web3 for years now, but its heyday is sooner than you think. In this episode, Will and Jonathan discuss why NOW is the time to dig into blockchain, how those in Dev Ops can approach these new technologies (and not get overwhelmed), and what Jonathan learned from a, well, “crazy” interview.In This EpisodeWhy RIGHT NOW is the time to understand block chain (it’s not a fad anymore!) How Dev Ops peeps should think about and approach blockchain (free resources!...
Jan 27, 2022•41 min
Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jonathan- The Daily Commit - Jonathan Hall Jonathan- Healthy Software Developer Sponsored By: Top End Devs : Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how. Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approa...
Jan 20, 2022•25 min
Jillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022.Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- OptOutPrescreen.com Charles- Forbidden Desert | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Charles- Forbidden Island | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Charles- Author | Top End Devs Jillian- Supabase Jillian- refine Jonathan- Bullshit Jobs Shimon- GitHub: datreeio/datree Will- DevOps For Developers Will- Courage Is Call...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Ready to show off your coding skills to the world? Not so fast. In this episode, Will and Jillian discuss why developers need to simplify their product with the end goal in mind—the customer. They share some awesome examples of how to do this, how you can win Future You’s approval, and the steps to create a smooth user experience.“I think it’s a hard mental shift to say that my area of expertise shouldn’t be visible in the product. But, you need to understand the end goal. My goal is to automate...
Jan 06, 2022•34 min
Daniele Fontani joins the Adventure to discuss the different kinds of Ops like NoOps, AppOps, etc. He makes fun of the different ways that people try to extend DevOps into other types of movements and why the different focuses may or may not be appropriate ways to manage resources.Panel Will Button Jonathan Hall Special Guest Daniele Fontani Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs PIcks Jonathan - Bugaboo Stroller Will - Courage ...
Dec 16, 2021•34 min
Get Lifetime Access to Mani's Entrepreneurship Pack and Book Club . Use coupon code "GREAT"Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode.Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis and Chuck's been getting a lot of requests for entrepreneurship help.He and Mani talk about the 3 prima...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Will and Jonathan have a conversation about whether or not you can use Scrum with DevOps. They also discuss different alternatives to Scrum and how you can use them instead of Scrum or whether Scrum is the best fit.Panel Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs : Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs : Learn to ...
Dec 09, 2021•18 min
The Adventures in DevOps crew discuss the various certificates that exist and which ones you may or may not want to consider getting.They talk about whether you need one in the first place and the value that different markets place on the certificates.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Roxley Games Steampunk Rally Fusion Charles- Xero Charles- Stimu...
Dec 02, 2021•50 min
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how th...
Nov 25, 2021•47 min
Jillian, Jonathan, Will, and Chuck discuss where the line is between Development and DevOps and what the difference is. They also get into the value of each and when crossover is likely to occur.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Traeger Grills® - The Original Wood Pellet Grill Charles- Campfire Charles- Donut Charles- Author | Top End Devs Charles- Shadow Hunters | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Jillian- Strapi ...
Nov 25, 2021•42 min
The panel puts their heads together to talk about how to bring DevOps practices into a work situation based where they're not implemented. They discuss the various pro's and con's of specific practices and how to get people on board with adoption.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Shadow Hunters | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Charles- Campfire Jillian...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min
The panel jumps in and discusses the Minimum Viable Continuous Deployment from the manifesto on the web and discuss where they agree and disagree with the requirements listed there and clarify some of the ideas in the document.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Tiny DevOps Picks Charles- DigitalOcean Charles- Top End Devs Charles- Become an Author | Top End Devs Charles- Coaching | Top End Devs Charles- V...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.Panel Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Shimon Tolts Will Button Guest Abhinav Dhasmana Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Level Up | Devchat.tv Links How to setup Kafka cluster for 15K events per second on AWS usi...
Nov 04, 2021•49 min
Will and Jonathan jump in this week to discuss how to get started with a career in DevOps and how companies can get things started at your company with DevOps.They discuss the pitfalls of outsourcing your devops and how DevOps should be working within your application space and within your organization.Panel Jonathan Hall Will Button Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Picks Jonathan- How to learn DevOps - Jonathan Hall Will- Until the End of Time Will- Are Dockerfiles goo...
Oct 28, 2021•37 min
Henry Been and Erwin Staal join the adventure to discuss Microsoft's options for defining infrastructure as code on Microsoft's Azure cloud offerings.They walk the panel through setting up ARM templates and using the Bicep language to specify how your infrastructure gets set up , run, and managed.35% discount code- poddevopsadv20.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Shimon Tolts Guest Erwin Staal Henry Been Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-da...
Oct 21, 2021•58 min
Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Guest Alex Feiszli Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links GitHub | gravitl/netmaker GRAVITL GRAVITL - YouTube LinkedIn: GRAVITL Picks Alex- Norm Macdonald Alex...
Oct 14, 2021•54 min
Troy Dreier joins the adventure to discuss Manning's LiveProjects platform where developers can work through exercises and learn the things they need to just-in-time.Andres Sacco is one of the authors on LivePlatform and joins the adventure to discuss cloud optimization and his experience building a LiveProject showing people how to optimize their cloud setup.Panel Charles Max Wood Shimon Tolts Guest Andres Sacco Troy Dreier Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started...
Oct 07, 2021•50 min
Will Kelly is a technical writer who joins the adventure to discuss bridging the gap between open source, development, and DevOps. He explains the personal and technical skills needed to help folks understand the need for using Open Source software and how developers and DevOps practitioners can communicate about the security concerns around complimentary practices of the two groups with the realms of their jobs.Panel Charles Max Wood Will Button Guest Will Kelly Sponsors Dev Influencers Acceler...
Sep 30, 2021•57 min
The Adventures in DevOps panel take over and discuss whether or not DevOps Engineers need to know how to code.The panel offers their perspectives on the pros and cons of knowing how to code and the limitations placed on DevOps Engineers who don't know how to code and the tradeoffs of spending time on code versus other skills that can pay off for your customers.Panel Charles Max Wood Jillian Rowe Will Button Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-d...
Sep 23, 2021•40 min
Yitaek Hwang joins the adventure to discuss how he sets up development environments using well-understood open source tools that allow developers to understand and troubleshoot their own setups.This also allows devops to manage these setups in ways that mirror production.Panel Charles Max Wood Will Button Guest Yitaek Hwang Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links Kubernetes StatefulSet Initialization with Unique Configs per Pod LinkedIn: Yitaek Hwang T...
Sep 16, 2021•48 min
Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools.The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.Panel Jillian Rowe Jonathan Hall Will Button Guest Eyar Zilberman Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links Why you need to use Kubernetes schema validation tools A Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Schema Validation Datree.io Eyar Z...
Sep 02, 2021•49 min
Adarsh Shah joins the Adventure to discuss building out Environment as Code which goes beyond just Infrastructure as Code which defines your servers and networking.Environment as Code provides a way to define an entire component of your environment and connections between pieces. It emphasizes loose coupling and allows teams to deliver an environment for their applications.Panel Will Button Guest Adarsh Shah Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links Infrastructure as Code:...
Aug 26, 2021•28 min
Jonathan Hall joins the Adventure this week to discuss the advice he gives to clients to start continuous deployment before they have automated tests around their code.He explains why he starts here and the power of having a continuous deployment system. He, Will, and Chuck go into how to set it up and the pro's and con's of the approach and how it fits into a larger DevOps practice.Panel Charles Max Wood Will Button Guest Jonathan Hall Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to...
Aug 19, 2021•49 min
Jeffrey asked Chuck before the episode what he was planning for Devchat.tv. Chuck started answering and since the guest had answered, Chuck answers with the overall direction for Devchat.tv . If you want to join in, email chuck@devchat.tv.Panel Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Picks Charles- Xero Charles- Profit First Charles- YNAB Charles- The Prosperous Coach Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Jeffrey...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Yishai Beeri joins the Adventure to talk about ways that we can communicate and coordinate to deliver great software.This holds both within development teams and between development teams and DevOps teams.Panel Jeffrey Groman Guest Yishai Beeri Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Asynchronous Communication Is The Future For Dev Teams DevInterrupted Stop Telling Devs What To Do w/ Dana Lawson of GitHub - Spotify One Metric to Rul...
Aug 05, 2021•39 min
Rosemary Wang joins the adventure to dive into a discussion on what Infrastructure as Code is and how to begin thinking about what it is and how it goes together.She focuses on maintainability, security, and reliability.Panel Jeffrey Groman Will Button Guest Rosemary Wang Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Essential Infrastructure as Code Scaling Infrastructure as Code to Improve Delivery & Maintain Security - YouTube Testing HashiCorp Terraform Workshop: Exploring Policy as Code for...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min
