Episode 10 - J. Paul Reed - Everywhere and Nowhere ;-)

In this episode, Jay and J. Paul Reed discuss the need for on-call practices and incident response in the world of software release engineering. Paul shares some great stories, including how the World Series can depend on a single line of code. J. Paul Reed has over twenty years experience in the trenches as a build/release engineer, working with such companies as VMware, Mozilla, Postbox, Symantec, and Salesforce. In 2012, he founded Release Engineering Approaches, a consultancy incorporating a host of tools and techniques to help organizations "Simply Ship. Every time." He's worked across a number of industries, from financial services to cloud-based infrastructure to health care, with teams ranging from 2 to 2,500 on everything from tooling, operational analysis and improvement, cultural transformation, and business value optimization. He speaks internationally on release engineering, DevOps, operational complexity, and human factors and holds a Masters of Science candidate in Human Factors & Systems Safety at Lund University.