About Ian Sherman Ian Sherman is Head of Software at Formant, a company building cloud infrastructure for robotics. Prior to Formant, Ian led engineering teams at Google X and Bot & Dolly. The through line of his career has been tool building, for engineers and artists alike. He’s inspired by interdisciplinary collaboration of all types; currently this takes the form of applying patterns and practices from distributed systems operations to the relatively nascent field of robotics. Links http...
Jun 27, 2019•34 min•Ep. 26
About Aaron Sachs Aaron Sachs is a home brewer, banjo player, and also happens to like monitoring things. He helps make his customers look like monitoring badasses to their customers at Sensu, where he's a Customer Reliability Engineer. Links Referenced Sensu Aaron.sachs.blog Twitter: @asachs01 Transcript Mike: This is the Real World DevOps podcast and I'm your host Mike Gillian. I'm setting out to meet the most interesting people doing awesome work in the world of DevOps. From the creators of y...
Jun 20, 2019•31 min•Ep. 25
About Andrew Rogers Andrew leads technical strategy and architecture development for ACE IoT Solutions. Andrew also leads the development of technical and research strategy at The Enterprise Center, a non-profit focused on developing the innovation ecosystem in Chattanooga, TN. When not bringing his extensive professional experience in Industrial Control Systems, Critical Infrastructure Controls, and Network Engineering to his professional endeavors, he can most commonly be found with a camera i...
Jun 13, 2019•35 min•Ep. 24
About Jeremy Tangren Jeremy Tangren is a Technical Program Manager specializing in infrastructure and vendor management. Throughout his 15+ years in IT program/project management, he has managed local- and global-scale multi-million dollar projects at companies like Facebook, Splunk, and Cisco. Jeremy is based in San Francisco, CA. Transcript Mike: This is the Real World DevOps podcast and I'm your host Mike Julian. I'm setting out to meet the most interesting people doing awesome work in the wo...
Jun 06, 2019•34 min•Ep. 23
About Mary Thengvall Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, both personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. After building community programs at O’Reilly Media, Chef Software, and SparkPost, she’s now consulting for companies looking to build out a Developer Relations strategy. In addition to her work, she's known for being "the one with the dog," thanks to her ever-presen...
May 30, 2019•44 min•Ep. 22
About Kelly Shortridge Kelly Shortridge is currently VP of Product Strategy at Capsule8. Kelly is known for research into the applications of behavioral economics to information security, which Kelly has presented conferences internationally, including Black Hat, AusCERT, Hacktivity, Troopers, and ZeroNights. Most recently, Kelly was the Product Manager for Analytics at SecurityScorecard. Previously, Kelly was the Product Manager for cross-platform detection capabilities at BAE Systems Applied I...
May 23, 2019•30 min•Ep. 21
About Christine Yen Christine delights in being a developer in a room full of ops folks. As a cofounder of Honeycomb.io, a tool for engineering teams to understand their production systems, she cares deeply about bridging the gap between devs and ops with technological and cultural improvements. Before Honeycomb, she built out an analytics product at Parse (bought by Facebook) and wrote software at a few now-defunct startups. Links Referenced: https://www.honeycomb.io https://www.heavybit.com/li...
May 16, 2019•35 min•Ep. 20
About James Turnbull James Turnbull is originally from Australia but now lives in Brooklyn, NY. He likes wine, food, and cooking (in that order) and tattoos, books, and cats (in no particular order). He is a CTO in residence and lead startup advocacy at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was the founding CTO at Empatico. Before that, James was CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and in leadership roles at Docker and Puppet. He also had a long career in enterprise, working in banking, ...
May 09, 2019•31 min•Ep. 19
About VM Brasseur VM (aka Vicky) spent most of her twenty-plus years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses, and helping companies understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open source software in a way that's good for both their bottom line and for the community. Now, as the Director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks, she leverages her nearly 30 years ...
May 01, 2019•34 min•Ep. 18
About Ryn Daniels Ryn Daniels is a staff infrastructure software engineer who got their start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when GeoCities was still cool. Their work has focused on infrastructure operability, sustainable on-call practices, and the design of effective and empathetic engineering cultures. They are the co-author of O’Reilly’s Effective DevOps and have spoken at numerous industry conferences on devops engineering and culture topics. Ryn lives in Berlin, Germany with a p...
Apr 25, 2019•40 min•Ep. 17
About the Guest Baron is the CTO and founder of VividCortex , the best way to see what your production database servers are doing. Baron has written a lot of open source software, and several books including High Performance MySQL. He’s focused his career on learning and teaching about scalability, performance, and observability of systems generally (including the view that teams are systems and culture influences their performance), and databases specifically. Links Referenced xaprb.com High Pe...
Apr 18, 2019•40 min•Ep. 16
About the Guest Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google . She is co-author of the book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps , and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in se...
Apr 11, 2019•42 min•Ep. 15
About the Guest Thai helps teams build more resilient systems and improve their ability to effectively respond to incidents. A former EMT, he applies his experience managing emergency situations to the software industry. He writes about resilience engineering each week at ResilienceRoundup.com Links Referenced: Strongbad’s The System is Down https://resilienceroundup.com/ https://re-deploy.io/ Transcript Mike Julian: This is the Real World DevOps podcast, and I'm your host, Mike Julian. I'm sett...
Apr 04, 2019•39 min•Ep. 14
About the Guest Cory G Watson is a Technical Director at SignalFx with 20 years of SWE, SRE and leadership experience at the likes of Twitter and Stripe. He's an observability wonk, optimist, and lover of sneakers. He hopes you're having a great day! Links Twitter: @gphat Website: onemogin.com Links Referenced Patrick McKenzie’s blog post, “I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas” Book recommendation: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few Transcript ...
Mar 28, 2019•37 min•Ep. 13
About the Guest Josh is a salary negotiation coach who helps experienced software developers negotiate their job offers and the author of Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you're worth. Links Twitter: @JoshDoody Website: fearlesssalarynegotiation.com Read Josh’s book, Fearless Salary Negotiation Josh’s Salary Negotiation Coaching services A detailed article on how to answer the salary history and salary expectations questions: https://fearlesssalarynegotiatio...
Mar 21, 2019•41 min•Ep. 12
About the Guest Matty Stratton is a HumanOps Advocate at PagerDuty, where he helps dev and ops teams advance the practice of their craft and become more operationally mature. He collaborates with PagerDuty customers and industry thought leaders in the broader DevOps community, and back when he drove, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matty has over 20 years experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase and internet firms, including Apartment...
Mar 14, 2019•42 min•Ep. 11
About the Guest Dan spent 12 years in the military as a fighter jet mechanic before transitioning to a career in technology as a Software/DevOps Engineer/Manager. He's now the Chief Architect at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He's leading the technical and cultural transformation for the NAIC, a non-profit focused on consumer protection in the insurance industry. Dan is also an organizer of the DevOps KC Meetup and the DevOpsDays KC conference. Links Referenced: Insure U : ...
Mar 07, 2019•45 min•Ep. 10
About the Guest After many years of ghostwriting, Emily Freeman made the bold (insane?!) choice to switch careers into software engineering. Emily is the author of DevOps for Dummies (April 2019) and the curator of JavaScript January — a collection of JavaScript articles which attracts 30,000 visitors in the month of January. A former VP of Developer Relations, Emily is a CloudOps Advocate at Microsoft and lives in Denver, Colorado. Links Website: emilyfreeman.io Twitter: @editingemily Links Ref...
Feb 28, 2019•35 min•Ep. 9
About the Guest Greg established and leads the Enterprise Monitoring Services team at Standard Chartered Bank, and together with his team wrote and implemented a strategy and approach to effectively monitor and leverage data from over 1,000 applications, 30,000 servers, 15,000 network devices, public and private cloud, mainframe, tandem, and multiple other technologies in a sustainable and scalable way. Applying Agile and DevOps techniques to the build, engineering, and support of the monitoring...
Feb 21, 2019•38 min•Ep. 8
About the Guest Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for nearly 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production, and has been helping various UK clients adopt AWS and serverless as an independent consultant. He is an AWS serverless Hero and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences inte...
Feb 14, 2019•41 min•Ep. 7
About the Guest Elliot Murphy is a senior executive and technologist with more than 20 years of success in critical software infrastructure, online services, and healthcare. Elliot is the founder of Kindly Ops, a cybersecurity firm bringing DevOps approaches to Governance Risk & Compliance, serving regulated industries such as biotech and fintech. His interest in Governance Risk & Compliance began when working as CTO of a healthcare startup and realizing the burden of regulatory complian...
Feb 07, 2019•36 min•Ep. 6
About the Guest Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, entrepreneur, international speaker, yoga teacher, podcaster and best-selling author. She works with leaders and entrepreneurs around the world to help them tackle the many mental health and relationship challenges that go along with building a great business. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together , is a handbook for navigating life as an entrepreneur. Married to a serial entrepreneur, Sherry c...
Jan 31, 2019•41 min•Ep. 5
About the Guest Dave Mangot is the author of Mastering DevOps from Packt Publishing. He’s formerly the head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for the SolarWinds Cloud companies and an accomplished systems engineer with over 20 years' experience. He has held positions in various organizations, from small startups to multinational corporations such as Cable & Wireless and Salesforce, from systems administrator to architect. He has led transformations at multiple companies in operational ma...
Jan 24, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 4
About the Guest Corey is a Cloud Economist at the Quinn Advisory Group . He has a history as an engineering director, public speaker, and cloud architect. Corey specializes in helping companies address horrifying AWS bills, hosts the Screaming in the Cloud and curates LastWeekinAWS.com , a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tips, sprinkled with snark. Corey’s newsletter: Last Week in AWS Corey’s professional site: quinnadvisory.com Corey’s podcast, Screaming In the ...
Jan 17, 2019•39 min•Ep. 3
About the Guest Steve Mushero is CEO of Ops Platform provider Siglos.io, and CEO of ChinaNetCloud, China's first Internet Managed Service Provider, AWS Partner, and manager of hundreds of large-scale (up to hundreds of millions of users each) systems. He's previously been CTO in a variety of organizations in Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, and around the world. You can follow along with his work and insights on LinkedIn , Medium and Twitter . Links Referenced ChinaNetCloud Siglos Taking Over ...
Jan 10, 2019•46 min•Ep. 2
About the Guest Silvia is a Principal Engineer at SendGrid, a cloud email provider with household name clients like eBay, Spotify, Pandora and Airbnb. She is an avid distributed systems and databases tester and spends a lot of her day trolling her Ops team. You can hear more from Silvia on her blog https://blog.dbsmasher.com and on Twitter at @dbsmasher Key Takeaways Involve your DBAs in the engineering process early on to prevent problems in the future. Enabling engineering teams to manage thei...
Jan 01, 2019•46 min•Ep. 1
