Adventures in DevOps

Jeffrey Groman takes the reins and walks Chuck and Will through the latest and greatest security breaches out on the internet. He also walks them through how to operate to avoid being caught by several of these issues. Specifically, he explains the Microsoft issue in the print spooler and the breach of Kaseya and what the implications are within the wider world. Panel Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Grom...

Jeffrey, Will, and Chuck dive into the question "How do you know whether or not you want to take a job?" during and after the interview. The discussion ranges through what to ask employers, knowing what you want from the job, and how to determine before and after the interview whether the job offer is a good fit for you. Panel Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Will Button

Shimon Tolts is the CEO datree.io. Shimon talks the panel through an outage he experienced while working for a previous employer. He breaks down the situation and the explains the types of misconfiguration that caused his outage and how these things can cause problems in other applications as well. He explains how to set up rules and policies that allow people to move fast without breaking things...

Ian Eyberg jumps on with the panel to discuss the uses and origins of UniKernels. He and the panel discuss how to set them up and where they fit into your infrastucture conversations. Panel Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Will Button Guest Ian Eyberg

Jillian Rowe specializes in setting up AWS clusters for collecting and analyzing bioinformatics data. She's worked with several companies to set up "virtual labs" where they can use Data Science techniques and Machine Learning to analyze and understand the data they collect from their studies. This episode walks through a lot of the approach she uses to communicate with her customers and deliver s...

Will and Jeffrey discuss the things that DevOps Engineers need to know. If you're diving into DevOps, you're probably wondering what skills do you need to know? Also, how much of the skill you need to have is technical versus non-technical. People skills and soft skills verus hard typing and at-the-keyboard skills. If you're in DevOps, these are the things you need to learn or the gaps you need to...

Yann Stoneman joins the adventure to talk about the tools and approach he uses to cut AWS costs for his customers. The panel chimes in with how they track costs on AWS as well and what they do when they realize costs are creeping up. They then dive into Yann's story going from Juilliard to FreeCodeCamp to AWS Certifications to working full time as an AWS consultant. Panel Caleb Fornari Charles Max...

Will Button returns to discuss the roots and meanings of the DevOps movement with Caleb, Chuck, and Jeffrey. They take on the idea that DevOps is the infrastructure department and dissect the ideas pulled from the Agile and other movements that fed ideas into the DevOps movement. They also go over leadership and other requirements that empower DevOps personnel to excel in their jobs and take their...

Matthew Helmke is a Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs. He helps companies and people track metrics and alerts around their data to understand what is going on in the systems and information that they manage. He walks Caleb and Jeffrey through the process of understanding systems and data to draw a picture that describes their systems and integrations so they can make better decisi...

Andrei Kvapil joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes with Jeffrey Groman. Andrei breaks down how he and his company needed to set up Kubernetes to manage their blade server setup and how they wound up running Kubernetes in Kubernetes to gain the characteristics they needed. Panel Jeffrey Groman Guest Andrei Kvapil

When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened. He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to...

In a lot of ways, DevOps folks are essentially Developers. They encode infrastructure and processes often using code. This episode with Will Button dives into how Developers can jump into DevOps by learning the ropes of what they're coding against and the problem sets solved by DevOps. This show also goes into how to communicate and collaborate between development and DevOps. Panel Caleb Fornari C...

Mason McLead is the CTO at Software.com . Software.com is a toolset that measures developer productivity and helps developers be more productive. He discusses the things that are likely the Achilles heel to your productivity and a few simple things you can do to make sure you're working efficiently. Panel Caleb Fornari Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman Guest Mason McLead

James Donohue is a developer at the BBC (British Broadcasting) and explains the new way that they approach code reviews in his division. He also explains the ins and outs of how they communicate about code and the different purposes that code reviews can serve within an organization. Jeff, Caleb, and Chuck also chime in with their experience with code reviews and other similar approaches in securi...

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most...

Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories. Panel Caleb Fornari Charles Max Wood Jeffrey Groman

Mikolaj Pawlikowski wrote a book about Chaos Engineering. His book is a practical guide to using the tools to test your infrastructure. He's a tech lead at Bloomberg running Kubernetes. He walks us through the various tools and techniques for making sure that your systems will stand up to things that can destabilize them by scripting different failure scenarios. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Mikola...

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

In this week's episode, Charles Wood interviews Jeffrey Groman. They discuss how SolarWinds was breached, what it means going forward and lessons learned for protecting your business from attacks. Panel Charles Wood Jeffrey Groman

In this week's episode, Jeffrey Groman and Charles Wood discuss what makes a top 5% engineer, and how to get there. We cover the gamut of technical skills, soft skills, giving back, and producing content. Panel Charles Wood Jeffrey Groman

Charles Wood and Jeffrey Groman are joined by Phil Wilkins, author of Unified Logging with Fluentd to talk about logging, infrastructure, monitoring and how to get started. Panel Charles Wood Jeffrey Groman Guest Phil Wilkins

Jeffrey Groman and Chuck Wood are joined this week by Caleb Fornari of StartOps. We discuss people, process and technology that all need to be addressed as you go down the path towards DevOps. Panel Chuck Wood Jeffrey Groman Guest Caleb Fornari

Chris Love is the co-author of Core Kubernetes. Chris and his co-author Jay recognized that there's a general lack of knowledge of the internals of and what makes up Kubernetes. Other resources cover the concepts and basics of how to deploy on Kubernetes, but the problems people run into sometimes exist one layer down in Kubernetes. Chris leads the adventure along the ways that you can get to know...

Jeff Smith's book is full of practical ways to implement good DevOps practices within our teams, especially in the case where one might not have the flexibility to make sweeping organizational changes. He shares his wisdom and experience regarding building DevOps organizations and instilling culture into our teams. Panel Jeffrey Groman Henry Jewkes Guest Jeffrey Smith

Ivan Krnic and the DevOps panel discuss the role of the platform team and where the idea comes from. They discuss why an organization should are about and pay attention to their platform teams. They dive into the ins and outs of building a platform team within various organizations. Panel Jeffrey Groman Henry Jewkes