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Steve Yegge is an industry veteran and the co-author of the recently published book Vibe Coding. Many of you will remember Steve’s rant about Google platforms that I linked in one of my ancient 0800-DEVOPS newsletters. That rant is now 14 years old, but people still talk about it. We talked about vibe coding (the practice!) and Vibe Coding (the book!), whether junior developers are really doomed,...

One of the smoking hot topics these days is AI-assisted development. How can we leverage tools and practices to improve the flow and make teams more effective? My guest today is Michael Geatz , and he is dealing with this topic in the role of VP of Engineering. A couple of weeks ago, Michael stirred quite some interest with his LinkedIn post sharing his experience of moving the development team to...

In this episode, we talk about a phenomenon that is deeply ingrained in our world today, and that is complexity. And my perfect guest for this conversation is professor Scott Page from University of Michigan whose focus is on researching complex social systems and the potential of collective intelligence. Scott is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of a Guggenhe...

An accident happened in July that everyone is talking about. This conversation is inspired by the CrowdStrike event. However, it’s NOT specifically ABOUT the CrowdStrike event. While everybody was mostly analyzing process dumps and null pointers, Bill Bensing and John Willis took the perspective of operations management and why the software industry is so prone to accidents. We’re missing things l...

You know how in every good movie, it takes some time for a plot to develops, and the main character is introduced only later in the movie… We’ll that’s why it took me 43 episodes of the DevOps podcast to welcome a person that started it all! I talked with Patrick Debois about challenges of introducing Generative AI and how can AI Platform Engineering help. Platform Engineering is the pattern that...

Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. I’ve been aware of Damon’s impressive work in the DevOps space since my first Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit where Damon is continuously a member of the program committee. But, in the last couple of years, we’ve gotten to know each other better and engaged in some super interesting conversations and topics that I wanted to share with...

Sam Newman and Michael Heiß  have a long history of helping organizations with technical architectures and organizational dynamics. I talked with them about the future of software architecture, the return of the Monolith, and the importance of play in daily work. This episode is special since we recorded it live at the QED conference ! Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Pod...

Dan Garfield is VP Open Source at Octopus Deploy . I spoke with Dan about KubeCon, GitOps, DORA regulation, the future of Continuous Delivery, AI, and the bright future of Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy. Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser , and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here . This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #60 - GitOps with Dan Garfield . [...

Kaspar von Grünberg is CEO at Humanitec , one of the companies leading the platform engineering space. He’s been involved in platform engineering from the start, practically when the term was invented. A lot is going on recently in this space, particularly around Broadcom acquiring VMWare, and this is just one of the topics Kaspar and I will dig into. Please leave a review on your favorite podcast...

Peter Guagenti is the President & Chief Marketing Officer of Tabnine , a company behind one of the most popular AI code assistants on the market. I spoke with Peter about AI code assistants, what automatic transmissions and AI have in common, and the philosophical question of future humans forgetting how to code. Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser , and subscr...

John Willis is another absolute legend in software delivery and DevOps, an industry veteran working at companies such as Docker and evangelizing good technical practices. He is the co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Beyond The Phoenix Project and Investments Unlimited, and lately, he published an incredible book on Dr. William Edwards Deming called "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge....

Legends don't need introductions, but I'll write a light one, nevertheless. Gene Kim is the author or co-author of many significant books from DevOps space (The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, to name a few) and the mastermind behind the amazing DevOps Enterprise Summit conference. I spoke with Gene about rewiring our organizations to set them for s...

Dr. Vladyslav Ukis is Head of R&D at Siemens Healthineers with a strong interest in topics of Software Architecture, Cloud Computing, and Digital Transformation, to name a few. Vlad is also a book author; his book “Establishing SRE Foundations” describes his practical experience in starting the SRE practice. Listen to our conversation on introducing the SRE practice to enterprise organizations...

This episode is a special one for me since, for the first time, I have a reappearance in the show – my friend Nathen Harvey , the godfather of the DORA community ! We talked about the community, the inaugural DORA Summit, and the freshly published 2023 State of DevOps Report. Nathen touched upon a couple of very interesting insights and shared a ton of advice! An interesting insight is about trunk...

Bryan Finster is a Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorns and a relentless searcher for better ways of working – not by following prescribed frameworks but by gaining situational awareness and recognizing specific contextual improvements. We discussed a topic that stirred an otherwise dull summer – McKinsey’s report on measuring developer productivity. Please leave a review on your favorite po...

Jennifer Petoff is the director of Google Cloud Platform & Technical Infrastructure Education, and a co-editor of a super popular book "Site Reliability Engineering" . I met Jennifer at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2023 conference, where she talked about how each engineer's training needs vary depending on several factors. The talk caught my attention because, let's be hone...

Paul Stovell is the CEO of Octopus Deploy and an industry veteran building the tool supporting agile software development. I spoke with Paul about bottlenecks in the software delivery process today, deployment challenges in hybrid environments, and the future of application release automation. As Paul says, deployment time should be the time of happiness and satisfaction, not the time of fear and...

Andre Martin has worked in senior roles in charge of learning dynamics and people development in large organizations such as Nike, Target, and Google. Over the years, he distilled all that experience in a book that will be published in September 2023, and it’s called “Wrong Fit, Right Fit.” You might wonder what is a “fit” and what does a wrong one look like? What does the right one look like, and...

Manuel Pais is co-author of the book Team Topologies and Eduardo da Silva is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner. Both are helping organizations improve their ways of working by applying Team Topologies principles. An important part of Team Topologies are Enabling teams. What are Enabling teams? What kind of people do you need in them? What is the ROI on Enabling teams? How do you start with Ena...

Bill Bensing is one of the authors of the excellent book Investments Unlimited and has so many fresh ideas on the everlasting challenge of Governance. I talked with Bill about Governance as a Service, collaboration between tech and non-tech people, and tools that make it happen. As Bill says – Governance Engineering is not really about technology engineering. It’s about “good feelings” engineering...

Kelsey Hightower is a pragmatic person, in love with technology but never forgetting that technology should always be in the service of humankind. His rational view on the business-technology interplay and scrutinizing approach to finding value in technology restore sanity in this crazy world often driven solely by technology hype cycles. His ability to dissect business problems and break them dow...

Clarissa Lucas is IT Audit Director, speaker, and book author. I loved talking to her because, for most of my professional career, I was dealing with the technical aspects of delivering software solutions. And I remember many times I was freaking out because I saw that "we", the technical people, and "they", the non-technical people, were not aligned on how we delivered softwar...

Glenn Wilson is CTO and founder at Dynaminet, book author, and speaker. After reading his book “DevSecOps” and some other security-related material and talking to several people in the industry, I think security is finally the next bottleneck that organizations must solve, especially those in highly-regulated environments. I spoke with Glenn about automating Change Advisory Boards and scaling secu...

Charity Majors is CTO and co-founder at Honeycomb, book author, speaker, and a person unselfishly sharing her views and lessons from both leadership and engineering perspective. I talked to Charity about engineering management and platform engineering, how long you should sharpen your technical saw before thinking about a management role, and whether it is ok for managers to feel useless sometimes...

Toma Puljak is software developer at Codeanywhere , a company that builds cloud IDE and brings Infrastructure-as-code principles to developer workspaces. I spoke with Toma about typical use cases for ephemeral workspaces, trends in the industry, how Big Tech companies solve this problem, and how Toma, after his notebook broke down, worked uninterrupted from his cell phone 🙂 Subscribe to 0800-DEVO...