Send us a text Darren and Marc discuss the EU AI Act, the world's first regulation on artificial intelligence development. The Act, aimed at controlling and putting guardrails on AI development, is seen as a step towards addressing potential risks associated with AI, such as manipulation, bias, and exploitation. While acknowledging the Act's spirit of protecting against AI misuse, they express concerns about its potential impact on innovation, particularly for small and medium-sized en...
May 14, 2024•32 min
Send us a text In this episode of DevOps Sauna, Marc and Darren are joined by Eficode UX and Accessibility Lead Annika, who emphasizes the importance of considering accessibility requirements and various user needs from the outset of any project. She shares her journey into accessibility work, highlighting its significance and intersection with user experience (UX). Annika discusses the technical aspects of accessibility, the importance of meeting minimum standards, and the necessity of manual t...
May 07, 2024•33 min
Send us a text Marc and Darren discuss various topics, including the implications of edge computing on DevOps, the emergence of AI-generated code, controversies surrounding open-source licenses, the rise of start-ups focused on automating DevOps tasks, the widespread use of AI among developers, and the need for responsible innovation with Generative AI. They also touch on challenges in DevOps leadership and the importance of fostering a supportive environment for talent. Ultimately, while there ...
Apr 30, 2024•34 min
Send us a text In this episode, Marc and Darren host Cheryl Hung, Senior Director of Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm and founder of Cloud Native London. They discuss Arm's expanding role beyond mobile devices into data centers and infrastructure, highlighting increased software support for Arm processors. The conversation touches on trends like GitOps, WebAssembly (Wasm), and the shifting landscape of open-source licensing models. Cheryl also encourages community engagement and sharing know...
Apr 25, 2024•31 min
Send us a text In this episode of the DevOps Sauna podcast, Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, explores the impact of AI-generated code on open source software. She addresses licensing complexities, ownership issues, and maintainer responsibilities. The discussion also covers the misuse of open source in AI contexts and concerns about regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act and the EU AI Act. Amanda emphasizes community engagement in setting standards to ensure fair regulation. She highlights the ne...
Apr 10, 2024•41 min
Send us a text Darren and Marc discuss the concept of repatriation in DevOps in this episode of DevOps Sauna, advocating for a return to manual deployment and bare metal servers. They discuss the importance of treating servers like pets rather than cattle, emphasizing hands-on care and control over automated processes. They also touch on topics such as maintaining server room temperature, manual cable management, the value of monoliths in software development, and the idea of allowing servers to...
Mar 28, 2024•20 min
Send us a text In this episode, Marc and Darren explore stress in IT, covering the signs, types, and management strategies. They share personal experiences and offer practical tools like the three and four-panel methods for addressing stress-inducing situations. They advocate for seeking professional help, breaking the stigma around mental health conversations, and promoting psychological safety in the workplace. Overall, their conversation underscores the importance of recognizing and addressin...
Mar 26, 2024•37 min
Send us a text In this episode, Marc and Darren discuss the feasibility and implications of creating a fully open source toolchain for software development. They explore various aspects of the toolchain, including version control, compliance, secure storage, documentation, task management, and more. Specific tools and their suitability for different purposes within the toolchain are explored. Darren evaluates options such as Gitea and GitLab for version control, SonarQube, and Aqua Security tool...
Mar 18, 2024•29 min
Send us a text This episode explores the concept of value stream mapping, emphasizing transparency, prioritization, and continuous improvement to optimize value creation within organizations. Through discussions on feedback loops and breaking down silos, Marc and Darren empower listeners with insights to enhance their software development processes and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. Join in the conversation at The DEVOPS Conference in Copenhagen and Stockholm and experience a ...
Mar 12, 2024•33 min
Send us a text Darren and Marc discuss incident response in cybersecurity in this episode, with a focus on the importance of disconnecting rather than shutting down during security incidents. They cover the four phases of incident response: Discovery, analysis, action, and postmortem, highlighting the shift in cybersecurity from prevention to effective response due to the inevitability of breaches. They look at the complexity of achieving a perfectly secure system and stress the importance of co...
Feb 28, 2024•29 min
Send us a text Marc and Darren address the resistance to change within organizations when it comes to adopting new technology. They cover the challenges of traditional command and control hierarchies in modern workplaces, emphasizing the importance of involving knowledge workers in the change process for successful adoption. Also highlighted is the need for flexibility in selecting tools. They caution against tooling bias and stress the importance of management and developer buy-in for effective...
Feb 07, 2024•28 min
Send us a text In this podcast episode, Marc and Darren discuss platform engineering, with a focus on how to start building an effective platform from scratch in 2024. They emphasize the importance of erasing past mistakes, standardizing tooling, and gaining management buy-in. Marc and Darren advocate a balanced approach that prioritizes getting software running quickly in a production-like environment to facilitate rapid feedback loops, and touch on investment, resistance to change, and the nee...
Jan 31, 2024•27 min
Send us a text Darren and Marc highlight the importance of going all in on a platform transformation, emphasizing the need for commitment and investment. They discuss the shift towards internal developer platforms and the challenges of overcoming ill-defined areas in platform engineering. The conversation touches on common pitfalls, including the delay in considering security, tooling bias, and the tendency to try to build a perfect system instead of focusing on iteration. Find out how to addres...
Jan 24, 2024•26 min
Send us a text Marc and Darren are joined by Andrew Martin, founder and CEO of control-plane.io, to discuss the challenges of securing Kubernetes for different user levels and the evolution of security practices in DevOps. They emphasize collaboration between development and security teams and the importance of tools like OSCAL for automating security testing. Andrew addresses solutions for securing Kubernetes, such as network policies, RBAC, and container security management. He highlights the ...
Jan 12, 2024•40 min
Send us a text In this episode, Marc and Andy are joined by the VP of Engineering at Showpad, Patrick Debois. They discuss GenAI and the metaverse, emphasizing their significance in the industry. Patrick reflects on his famous quote about DevOps breaking silos and how the industry has evolved from large to smaller, more collaborative teams. They delve into DevOps with security, the evolution of collaboration among teams, and the challenges of working with external SAS vendors. Patrick shares his...
Nov 23, 2023•31 min
Send us a text In this episode, Andy, Marc, and Pinja discuss their experiences at The DEVOPS Conference Scandinavia 2023. They highlight several key themes and speakers from the event, including transformations, AI, Developer Experience (DX), and platform engineering. Some notable speakers mentioned include those from Saxo Bank, Adobe, HSBC, Spotify, and Syntasso. They emphasize the importance of attending such conferences for the valuable insights and networking opportunities they provide. Joi...
Nov 08, 2023•24 min
Send us a text Marc and Andy discuss initiatives related to open source in the context of AI with Amanda Brock, who highlights the importance of open source as a means of transparency and accountability, allowing people to inspect and understand the code they use. They also touch on topics like investing in open source as a way to support the global tech economy, the right to repair, and the challenges of ownership and liability in AI derivatives. Amanda emphasizes the need for transparency in o...
Oct 27, 2023•40 min
Send us a text David Keane shares insight with Marc and Andy into the challenges of implementing DevOps at scale in HSBC. Learn about the positive impact of DevOps on cost control and security for gaining buy-in, along with the importance of breaking down silos, promoting collaboration, and fostering a culture of accountability. David also tells of the lever of change following a 48-hour system outage that prompted improved collaboration between IT and business teams. -The DEVOPS Conference - St...
Oct 19, 2023•46 min
Send us a text David and Ronnie from WirelessCar join Marc and Andy in the DevOps Sauna, focusing on helping teams with DevOps and team development. In a thought-leadership experiment, David and Ronnie stress the importance of involving the whole team when someone takes the initiative to solve a problem. They also discuss the DevOps Health Radar from SAFe, continuous improvement, fostering a culture of collaboration and collective ownership, creating a safe space where team members feel comforta...
Oct 05, 2023•32 min
Send us a text Marc and Andy are joined by Cisco Senior Developer Advocate Adrienne Tacke. They discuss her upcoming talk on code reviews and more at The DEVOPS Conference in Scandinavia . Also covered: The challenges of measuring developer productivity using DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics Code reviews, team dynamics, and the potential pitfalls of over-relying on narrow metrics for evaluating teams and individuals The importance of considering the broader context and environment i...
Oct 02, 2023•46 min
Send us a text In this pregame podcast for the DEVOPS Conference Scandinavia, Marc introduces special guest Pinja Kujala. Along with Andy, they discuss the upcoming DEVOPS Conference Live, scheduled for October 23rd and 25th, 2023, in Stockholm and Copenhagen . Get the lowdown on keynote speakers and their topics, from the practical use of AI in software development to the importance of security in the development process and building with empathy—crucial in creating a positive developer experie...
Sep 22, 2023•23 min
Send us a text There's a connection between software development and cooking in that both require a certain level of creativity and experimentation. Juan Pablo Buriticá uses culinary analogies to explain software development principles and shares best practices for team success with Marc and Andy. The DevOps Conference: https://hubs.li/Q021CcMw0...
Sep 12, 2023•39 min
Send us a text When considering platform engineering. GitLab is a one-stop tool solution for maintaining your backlog, building the code, writing and building the code, collaborating, and deploying into production, but it also has built-in security features. What is the role of a Solutions Architect from the GitLab side? We invited one (Péter Bozsó) to discuss his views on everything from hobby projects to enterprises.Unlock the true potential of GitLab: https://hubs.li/Q01_2lF30Blog: Separati...
Aug 18, 2023•40 min
Send us a text There's something really special about the people behind open source and how they get involved. We've been talking to some of them this summer, and in this episode, we're chatting with Dr. Dawn Foster, from CHAOSS Project and board member of OpenUK.-Join us at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01WFcS50-Previous episode with Amanda Brock "Open source, copyright and AI": https://hubs.li/Q01XNj870-Dawn on twit...
Aug 04, 2023•40 min
Send us a text We've been talking about open source quite a bit lately. Loft Labs launched a brand new project called DevPod, built to help you spin up a dev environment wherever you want. Lian Li, Developer Advocate at Loft Labs, is here to help us find out more about it. -Cloud native development training: https://hubs.li/Q01W_4S00 -Previous episode with Bill Mulliganon Stories about how eBPF is used today: https://hubs.li/Q01W_wt60- Global Diversity CFP day on twitter: https://twitter.co...
Jul 28, 2023•37 min
Send us a text We've had previous conversations with Liz Rice in the DevOps Sauna podcast before and hosted her eBPF talk at The DEVOPS Conference Global 2023. It seems that many people don't know much about the work that Isovalent is doing and eBPF in general, although they are huge worldwide. Bill Mulligan, the Community Pollinator of Isovalent, is here to tell a few stories about their work and impact.-DevOps Sauna episode with Liz Rice Why sidecar-less Cilium Service Mesh is a game...
Jul 21, 2023•39 min
Send us a text Since early 2023, everyone has been scrambling around AI, although there have been discussions around it even before ChatGPT and GPT models came out. What's going on with AI in the world today? Is this a hype cycle? Is this something real? Jaakko Vainio, COO of Silo AI, is here to discuss this with us, as he's been in the game for a little while. -We'll be covering AI-related topics at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023! Join us: https...
Jul 14, 2023•36 min
Send us a text Will AI destroy open source because it will end up in the hands of a few companies that can afford it? Amanda Brock, CEO of Open UK - the UK organization for the business of open technology - is excited about working out how open source will survive as this mainstream thing and continue to be the bulk of our infrastructure so that it belongs to all of us instead of a few. -Join us at The DEVOPS Conference in Stockholm and Copenhagen In October 2023: https://hubs.li/Q01WFcS50-Previ...
Jul 10, 2023•45 min
Send us a text "Good software is built by happy, well-supported people", Rust Foundations, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to stewarding the Rust programming language. Most open-source software developers are paid professionals, usually working in corporations or enterprises, but they may be working anywhere. And it may or may not be the hobby project that they're working on. It's often their main line. What is the Rust Foundation in terms of also supporting ...
Jul 04, 2023•36 min
Send us a text How do you know what you're using in the open source field is legitimate? More and more people are moving to using open source tools and they don't question whether the Grafana open source or any monitoring solutions that are open source, because they're so widely used by so many companies. And that collective knowledge and collective input that open source now provides, generates the trust from the community. We invited Anais Urlichs, Developer Advocate at Aqua Sec...
Jun 16, 2023•37 min
