Adventures in DevOps

GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. Today on the show, Will and Jonathan interview Tanmay Bhat to discuss the GitOps framework, advantages and disadvantages, and favorite tools. In the episode… GitOps vs CDIC automated deploy...

Logging in today's DevOps landscape has become more difficult than ever. DevOps needs visibility into workloads that security, development, and operations teams collaboratively manage and provide. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will discuss various strategies to logging and log management and what you can start implementing today. In this episode… Who owns the logging process? Lack of strategy in...

Top Dev Ops global influencer, award-winning tech writer, and developer advocate Pavan Belagatti joins the show today to share the importance of personal branding as a developer, plus tactical strategies you can implement today. In this episode… How to get started and get noticed Building your brand through networks Benefits of building a brand Writing tech articles to get an edge Utilizing Google...

You just finished some code that can have a positive impact on your customers, and you are motivated to release it as quickly as possible, but your team members are also incredibly busy working on their own code. This conflict is The Pull Request Paradox. Today on the show, the panel interviews Yishai Beeri to share his insights on how to manage this paradox and the best PR strategies you can impl...

Today on the show, the panel discusses the intersection of data and DevOps, including various topics such as data warehousing, analytics, and source data, DVC and AWS Batch, and Snowflake integrations. In this episode… Data warehousing Analytics with source data Data Version Control (DVC) AWS Batch Production database schemas Real time data Snowflake integrations

With the current economic downturn, companies big and small are facing layoffs, hiring freezes, and altering job offers. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will share their decades of industry knowledge on various strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process. In this episode… Having a public profile Listing your projects on your resume Sharing your accomplishments, not ju...

Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss the latest tools they have been using for CDIC deployments. Specifically, they discuss the Next.js framework, which allows DevOps teams to provide richer application experiences without relying as much on backend infrastructure. That shift has implications for everything from the amount of network bandwidth consumed to the performance of web application...

Managing uptime is critical for customers and it can be a powerful customer activity that connects engineers to the value that customers receive from your product, however it can also be a heavy source of burnout for engineers. Brian Scanlan with Intercom has created a volunteer management infrastructure that increases the efficiencies of on-call engineers while also reducing the inherent disrupti...

Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team operationalize the Accelerate State of DevOps Report, surveying over 32,000 professionals worldwide in the DevOps industry. Dave Mangot joins the show today to share how he leverages these metrics to improve companies within their technology organizations. In this episode… DORA metrics Speed and quality Monoliths vs. microservices Uptime an...

Jonathan shares about the new job offer he received and the progression we went through to navigate the process. Jonathan, Will, and Jillian also discuss the various aspects of the current DevOps job market, starting a new job, and how you can grow in your career. In this episode… Stack overflow and blogposts What do you do when you first start? Contracting gigs Social life in the workplace vs. fi...

Today on the show, Will talks about his latest project, Trustified.io and the steps he is considering to make it DevOps ready. Will and Jonathan discuss creating the dev environment, standardized logging, CI/CD, health checks, standardized reporting dashboards, configuring the app, database migration tools, user management, and ORMs. Elements to Make an App DevOps Ready: Creating the dev environme...

An anti-pattern is a pattern that you use to fix a short-term problem at the expense of your long-term goals. The insidious thing about anti-patterns isn't that they don't work or fail outright, but that they work in the short term while causing long-term failure and pain. Today on the show, Jonathan, Jillian, and Will discuss the various anti-patterns and cargo culting in software engineering, in...

Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss deployment strategies, including rolling strategy, blue-green patterns, canary deployments, feature flags, and progressive delivery. They also discuss backward compatibilities and rollback and rollforward deployment strategies, plus share their current picks of the week. In this episode… Kubernetes orchestration Blue-Green deployment patterns Canary dep...

Imagine being able to program the cloud and bridge the Dev and Ops divide with cloud. Pulumi is a universal infrastructure as code platform that allows you to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices. Today, Jonathan and Will discuss all the ins and outs of Pulumi. In this episode… What is Pulumi and how does it work? Is Pulumi...

Do I need to learn how to write code? What are the types of program languages required in DevOps? What are the pros and cons of each? Will, Jonathan, and Jillian discuss the progressions through programming languages and their insights and opinions with each. Learn about Bash, Go, Perl, Python, Python 2, Python 3, JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Ruby, and Java. At the end, they provide their final conc...

How do you align engineering outcomes to business goals? On the show, Hersh Tapadia, Adam Dahlgren from Allstacks talk about value stream intelligence and how you can generate guiding insights for product stakeholders across engineering projects and tools so you can shape better outcomes and deliver stronger value. In this episode… “Metrics are just table stakes” Metrics vs feelings driven managem...

Enjoy this philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry. Eric Tank joins the show and shares his perspective on how to “develop for deprecation”. Building a code that is documented, tested, monitored, and deployed is important, but can you easily pass it off to someone else, or be able to walk away f...

Have you considered the significance of infrastructure as code and its importance in the industry? Will, Jillian, and Jonathan deep dive into this topic, plus discuss Amazon CDK and current frameworks and tools for the best workflows.

Jillian, Jonathan, and Will break down the process of building a DevOps team. They address the breadth of skills from writing skills to provisioning cloud and server resources. They also dive into organizing human and other resources to successfully build and grow a DevOps team.

Everyone and their mother is talking about Kubernetes, but there's something you need to know. In this episode, the gang talks about the TRUTH around Kubernetes for most scenarios. In This Episode1) The BIGGEST reason NOT to use Kubernetes 2) If you've started Kubernetes, watch out for THIS common pitfall 3) How to leverage Kubernetes' customization capability and feel confident in scaling without...

In a world of fake data and security breaches, where do you go? In this episode, Charles chats with Adam Kamor from Tonic.ai, the fake data company that mimics your production data to keep your databases secure. “It's a little control knob, allowing you to turn the dial between privacy and utility. That's what Tonic.ai does.” - Adam Kamor In This Episode1) How to prepare your infrastructure for th...

Is your DevOps title “hip”? What does it mean? Does it matter? In this episode, the gang discusses the fundamental differences between dev ops positions based on “hipness”, as well as if it actually matters in today's world. In This Episode 1) What the “hipness” of your job means (and if you should care) 2) Why all of these positions refer back to this ONE important idea 3) The BEST advice to get...

Will needs some developer therapy, and maybe you do, too. In this episode, Will talks about reconfig issues he's having with a client, and his loyal compadres help him find the light at the end of the tunnel. It may NOT include Airflow, though. Sorry, Jillian. In This Episode1) What you NEED to look for to know if reconfiguration is the right answer for your…situation 2) Your No-B.S. guide to reco...

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 t...

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 engine...