Send us a text Individuals often cycle between the changing environments of being a consultant and the focus and pride of ownership and product development. Together with Tuukka Sarkki, Lead Consultant at Eficode, we're adding a third part, the leap of faith of entrepreneurship and the value that can bring when becoming a consultant. Ready to take on a new role? Come change the world with us: https://hubs.li/Q01csgW70Tuukka Sarkki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsarkki/...
Jun 01, 2022•38 min
Send us a text Many companies have embraced communities of practice one way or another. But unfortunately, not all of them thrive. Why is that the case? And what could help companies instill practice communities better in their culture? We invited Ronan Mac Laverty, Director of Platform Development at Varian. In his recent MBA thesis, Ronan investigated how service-designed tools can be used to facilitate communities of practice in software development organizations. He's joined by Tuomas L...
May 20, 2022•52 min
Send us a text Esteettömyysdirektiivi edellyttää, että viranomaiset ja yksityinen sektori tekevät tietyt tuotteet ja palvelut EU:ssa esteettömiksi ja saavutettaviksi.Lataa opas: https://hubs.li/Q01b72TK0AIRUT-lehti: https://www.airutlehti.fi/ Celia-kirjasto: https://www.celia.fi/ Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö - Esteettömyysdirektiivi: https://stm.fi/esteettomyysdirektiiviEU-DIREKTIIVI 2019/882 tuotteiden ja palvelujen esteettömyysvaatimuksista: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FI/TXT/?ur...
May 18, 2022•32 min
Send us a text Why it is so easy to lose the customer in the heat of product development? We tend to forget for whom we do the project for. In DevOps, we say that we need to focus on user needs by amplifying and shortening the feedback loops. But how it's done? What should be done to entice customers to be part of the development process?Guide: Creating product user insightshttps://hubs.li/Q0191T_Y0Blog: Solving problems with UXhttps://hubs.li/Q0191V2b0Blog: Customer insight at different st...
May 05, 2022•37 min
Send us a text How do software development leaders view DevOps and Agile?DevOps is no longer a new and hip concept, but rather has a proven track record in enabling business agility and performance. When DevOps has been successfully adopted, teams can react to the user feedback swiftly and release software independently. In this podcast episode, we've invited two of our software leaders, Risto and Matias to discuss DevOps and how we internally view software development. We're talking a...
Apr 26, 2022•38 min
Send us a text When we talk about dashboards in software development, we may think that the more accurate is better.But what if the only data you have is an approximation that gets more uncertain the longer you look at it? Andy Allred has worked in the submarine for years, and he discusses what people in software development can learn about navigating with shady circles on the charts.Andy Allred in LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/Marc Dillon in LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ma...
Apr 13, 2022•44 min
Send us a text Kubernetes keeps gaining popularity. But how is all of it controlled?Crossplane is one way to achieve that. We invited Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, and Andy Allred, Lead DevOps Consultant at Eficode to make sense of all of this.Viktor Farcic on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic/Andy Allred on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/punasusi/Related content:-The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes in 2022: https://hubs...
Apr 08, 2022•53 min
Send us a text We invited some exciting people to our podcast to share some backstories around the themes we covered at The DEVOPS Conference. In this episode, we have Lauri Huhta, Data Engineer and MLOps consultant from Data Nuggets, and Yishai Beeri, CTO of LinearB discuss data-driven engineering, what is behind the old problem of data integrity in the software industry, how to solve it, and how to approach metrics right-Webinar: Measure your DevOps transformationhttps://hubs.li/Q016Y46l0-Yish...
Mar 31, 2022•48 min
Send us a text There are many reasons why coding the CI/CD pipeline can be untrustworthy or what are the sources or vulnerabilities of the software delivery pipeline. One of those reasons is that the identity of the people who made the commits cannot be verified. What to do about that and where should companies start to improve their SDLC security is what we discussed today with Bob Burke from Beyond Identity and Niko Ikonen from Eficode.-The DEVOPS Conference recordings: https://hubs.li/Q016H68...
Mar 24, 2022•36 min
Send us a text Andreas von Motionpixxl, Johannes von Metamorphant und Boris von Eficode reden über Grundlegende Konzepte von Lean und Scrum als Waffe.Social media:-Andreas Einzmann - Inhaber, Motionpixx: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-einzmann-23998a28/-Johannes Knauf - Matamorphant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-knauf-87855b90/-Boris Schulz -Lead DevOps Consultant, Eficode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-schulz/Leitfaden: DevOps for executives: https://hubs.li/Q016Fzd40...
Mar 24, 2022•38 min
Send us a text The DEVOPS Conference is coming again soon, on March 8 & 9, and to build excitement for the DevOps event of the year, we have invited Sofia Neto, Head of Ecosystem experience, and Sérgio Freire, Head of Solution Architecture and Testing Advocacy, both from Xray. From Eficode, Szilard Szell, a DevOps Consultant joins our conversation. We talk about how culture builds quality, why it is hard to build high-performing teams, and what characteristics teams should be looking for in ...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text While both terms DevOps toolchain and DevOps Platform emerged in 2010, the term DevOps Platform is now about ten times more popular. What does it mean and what's the difference between those terms? We invite Adrian Waters, Solutions Architect at GitLab and Kalle Sirkesalo, CTO of Managed Services at Eficode to discuss the topic.The DEVOPS Conference, March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q015tmZJ0Relevant content:-Guide: How to estimate DevOps toolchain costs: https://hubs.li/Q015...
Mar 07, 2022•58 min
Send us a text A week before The DEVOPS Conference, Andy Allred, Lead DevOps consultant at Eficode meets Mike Guthrie, Engineering Team Lead at NetFoundry to discuss zero-trust in a DevOps environment. Will you sleep better at night if your DevOps environments are dark?Mark's talk at The DEVOPS Conference, on March 8 & 9: https://hubs.li/Q0155wBt0Sign up for free: https://hubs.li/Q0155wPz0Mike Guthrie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-guthrie-b4b4a024/Andy Allred on LinkedIn...
Mar 01, 2022•46 min
Send us a text Marko Klemetti, CTO of Eficode, is joined by Mike McQuaid, Staff engineer at GitHub, and the HomeBrew project leader. Marko and Mike discuss how Homebrew came to be, how Homebrew built an approach to contributions from the community, and what companies could learn from these experiences when they decide on their approach to open source contributions.How Homebrew came to be?How to combine employment and open source work?How can companies enable open source contributions at work?Wha...
Feb 22, 2022•55 min
Send us a text This time we discuss Cloud Waste and Zero Trust.Everyone gets the logic of the cloud: scale up the resources as the demand increases, and only pay for what you use. Yet one in three to one in five euros spent on cloud is wasted. Why is that, and what can we do about it?As cloud becomes the de facto service deliver method, security becomes evermore important. One viable approach is Zero Trust: secure everything based on trusted identities. Or, said another way: Trust no one, provid...
Feb 16, 2022•44 min
Send us a text We met with Scott Gerlack from StackHawk and Darren Richardson from Eficode to talk about API Security testing tools:- how to help developers embrace security in the right level- how front-end and back-end developers should approach negotiation and contracts for APIs, and- what requirements should companies to look for from an API security testing tool.Sign up for free to The DEVOPS Conference, March 8 & 9:https://hubs.li/Q013K6rw0Scott Gerlach in LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin...
Feb 08, 2022•54 min
Send us a text When R&D isn’t the bottleneck, we may run into a risk of filling in the system with “something”. Perttu Nihti from Basware and Markku Nurmela from Eficode join us to discuss the journey to R&D, how to look at effectiveness from the customer value perspective.Perttu Nihti, Baswarehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/perttu-nihti-44529/Markku Nurmela, Eficodehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/markkunurmela/Related links:-The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers:...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr
Send us a text Minimum Viable Product, or just MVP, is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development. Or is it? We invited Arto Kiiskinen, Harri Pendolin, and Christian Clausen from Eficode to debate on the purpose of Minimum Viable Product.Christian Clausenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-clausen-276a792b/Marc Dillonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dillon-70709137/Arto Kiiskinenhttps://www.linke...
Jan 17, 2022•39 min
Send us a text Measuring the overall success of product development can be frustrating, because there are so many metrics to choose from, just like there are so many tools to collect, analyze, report, and act on the metrics.We invited Eero Jyske from Iceye, and Henri Hämäläinen, Agile coach and product organization coach at Eficode. They discuss R&D effectiveness from their experience, and what software organizations should do about it.Eero Jyske in LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eerojy...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text People frequently move into new teams or environments in software companies. And if different teams are sufficiently similar, and there is some room for failure during the onboarding, it can be a smooth sail. But what if literally someone else's life can depend on the onboarding process? How do you then run onboarding?Andy Allred who worked in the submarine for years joined to introduce us to the intricacies of a submarine, to discuss how onboarding process looks like in a nu...
Jan 03, 2022•30 min
Send us a text This is the season to look back, to look forward: what movements have we seen while working with the DevOps community, and what should we expect to see more of in 2022? We identified five trends the DevOps community have their focus on and wanted to share them with you.The trends we see:- Adopting design tools and practices to improve your security practices- Web3- Putting a human in the middle- DevOps replatforming- Coding assistantsWatch these trends as videos: https://hubs.li/Q...
Dec 23, 2021•9 min
Send us a text THE BUILD THAT CRIED BROKEN: BUILDING TRUST IN YOUR CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION TESTSContinuous integration (CI) is an excellent source of fast feedback for teams. When development check-ins are made, the automated tests are able to verify that the system is still working as expected. However, for many teams, one or more of their tests ultimately fail causing the entire build to break. If this happens frequently enough, the team begins to lose faith in the tests and no longer regards t...
Dec 13, 2021•32 min
Send us a text TOWARDS TRUSTWORTHY AI-BASED SYSTEMS -- CHALLENGES, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTSAI capabilities, and particularly machine learning (ML), crossed a scaling threshold a decade or so ago, and have since become a significant source of capability in a wide range of systems and in diverse sectors. In this talk, building on perspective granted from sixty years of DARPA investment in AI capabilities, we review the progress and prospects for AI-based systems, with emphasis on potential pathways...
Dec 10, 2021•32 min
Send us a text GOING BEYOND DEVOPS WITH EFFECTIVE DESIGN- AND NOOPS-PRACTICESAs DevOps Platforms are paving the way towards NoOps, it is time to review what the best organizations are doing today and why most organizations get stuck halfway through the transformation? In this presentation, I will explain how modern organizations enable a culture that aims towards self-organized teams and supports that with self-service IT. Culturally public cloud and well-working DevOps platforms already push or...
Dec 07, 2021•31 min
Send us a text SECURITY ANALYSIS BY EXAMPLE, SHIFTING-LEFT TOWARDS A DEVSECOPS MINDSETTech organisations say that “security should be everyone’s responsibility” which is true since security is one of the most important software architecture quality attributes. But reality says something else - many organisations haven’t established a true DevSecOps mindset. Many developers and architects believe that security analysis belongs to the IT-administrators and infrastructure, that it is not also their...
Dec 07, 2021•31 min
Send us a text We have a new theme song. And we have a new “jingle”.We wanted to have a theme song and a jingle that unites our different touch points such as this podcast, videos, webinars, conferences, events and smaller gatherings. So we ran a public competition to create an Audiobrand for us.Listen in to hear them, and to hear about the project that delivered them.More about the composers of the theme song, jingle and the DevOps rap:https://hubs.li/Q010fqcl0Video we used to call for composer...
Dec 03, 2021•11 min
Send us a text Boris Schulz (Eficode), Andreas Einzmann (Motionpixxl), und Johannes Knauf (Metamorphant) reden über die Frage, welches praktische Problem DevOps löst und kommen zu dem Schluss, daß es bei DevOps am Ende immer wieder um das Thema Kultur geht um das sich alles dreht.-Sehen Sie sich das Webinar "Measure your DevOps Transformation" (auf Deutsch)an: https://hubs.li/H0__Q_90-"DevOps for executives": Ein DevOps Leitfaden mit dem Blick aufs große Ganze: https://hubs.l...
Nov 30, 2021•31 min
Send us a text CASE STUDY: CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT IN ISOLATED IOTThe journey of Groke and Eficode as they aim to push the boundaries of current platforms and tackle the challenges presented by continuous deployment on the high seas.Register to The DEVOPS Conference 2022, and watch all speeches from The DEVOPS Conference 2021 at: www.thedevopsconference.com/
Nov 22, 2021•29 min
Send us a text If we don't stretch, we become more inflexible. The same applies to all organizations. To stay flexible and agile, organizations need to stretch too.How flexible are you? How flexible is your organization? How to keep your company flexible too?What is the connection between stretching and organizational stretching?Related content:Blog: Why it's difficult to focus on business valuehttps://hubs.li/H0-_D6r0Find new flexible colleagues and become a flexible expert yourself a...
Nov 11, 2021•57 min
Send us a text We have all started our careers from somewhere. Some people may have known exactly what they were up to from the get-go. But most of us were walking the path zigzagging through different roles and responsibilities.Meeri Varis recently had her first summer job in a systems testing team. In this episode she shares her seven things every novice should know about test automation:1. Don't underestimate your skills, but make sure you really understand2. People are your only good re...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min
