Adventures in DevOps

Share Episode                               We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word "quality." This time we are asking the age-old question: Who nee...

Share Episode                     We talk with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo about Semantic Web origins, dodging DDoS attacks, and the absolute horror of a database that randomly deletes its own files. He revisits how a 25-year-old master's thesis on the Semantic Web evolved into a massive spreadsheet-driven database bu...

Share Episode                     Developers spend more than 50% of their time reading code, making it the single largest expense in software engineering. Despite this massive cost, the industry rarely discusses or optimizes how we read code. So we've brought in Tudor Girba, CEO at Feenk to help us rethink, j...

Share Episode                     Welcome back to another hopefully, relief from architectural existential dread. This week, we've pulled in Seth Eliot from Arpio , (Ar-Pi-O, RPO, get it?), to dive headfirst into the beautiful, deeply expensive illusion that migrating your legacy infrastructure to a major hyp...

Share Episode                     This week's adventure tackles the absolute absurdity of modern enterprise infrastructure, where a single company can easily find itself running multiple different CI/CD platforms due to unchecked mergers and acquisitions. We've brought in Chris Farris , AWS Security Hero and...

Share Episode                     We grabbed Donald Nguyen, co-founder and CTO at Corvic, to discuss the absurd complexities of enterprise data and multimodal inference. We explore how organizations habitually hoard mountains of useless, "dead" data just out of the sheer fantascy that someone might ask for it...

Share Episode                     Down to business with GitHub's Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, where we try to untangle the existential dread of modern software development. It includes the sheer absurdity of managing a platform that officially crossed the one billion comm...

Share Episode                     Founder of Bespinian and long-time cloud solutions architect, Lena Fuhrimann, sits down with us to clarify the widespread confusion around serverless architecture. We discuss how serverless is often incorrectly equated solely with Function as a Service (FaaS), when it actuall...

Share Episode                     We sit down with Ian Duncan, senior staff engineer on the stability team at Mercury, to discuss the delicate balance of choosing your tech stack and the implications. That means explore the concept of the novelty budget or frequently known as "Choose Boring Technology". It em...

Share Episode                     We explore the past and AI-driven future of Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Posse 's Erik Osterman, discussing various IaC traumas. Erik maintains the world's largest repository of open-source IaC modules. Looking back at the dark ages of infrastructure, from the early days...

Share Episode                     We sit down with Jaikumar Ganesh, Head of Engineering at AnyScale , to explore the intricacies of heterogeneous compute. He unpacks the growing CPU/GPU divide, detailing how ML pipelines require precise orchestration — using CPUs for data reading and writing while leveraging...

Share Episode                     In this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern infrastructure. We examine how cloud platforms like Azure function as "building blocks". Which of course, can quickly become o...

Share Episode                     How much do you really know about the protocol that everything is built upon? This week, we go behind the scenes with Simone Carletti, a 13-year industry veteran and CTO at DNSimple , to explore the hidden complexities of DNS. We attempt to uncover why exactly DNS is often th...

Share Episode                     We are joined by Daan Boerlage, CTO at Mavexa as we tackle the long-awaited arrival of IPv6 in cloud infrastructure. Here, we highlight how migrating to an IPv6-native setup eliminates public/private subnet complexity and expensive NAT gateways natively. As well as entirely s...

Share Episode                     In this episode, we examine how the software industry is fundamentally changing. We're joined by our expert guest, Matt Edmunds, a long-time UX director, principal designer, and Principal UX Consultant at Tiny Pixls . The episode kicks, analyzing how early AI implementation i...

Share Episode                     We dive into the shifting landscape of developer relations and the new necessity of optimizing documentation for both humans and LLMs. Melinda Fekete joins from Unleash , and suggests transitioning to platform to help get this right by utilizing LLMs.txt files to cleanly expo...

Share Episode                     Dorota, CEO of Authress , returns to apply the US Supreme Court’s definition of obscenity to a scandalous topic: Engineering Productivity. In a world obsessed with AI-driven efficiency, Dorota and Warren argue that software development productivity has nothing to do with manu...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Rootly AI - https://dev0ps.fyi/rootlyai                     Paul Conroy, CTO at Square1 , joins the show to prove that the best defense against malicious bots isn't always a firewall—sometimes, it’s creative data poisoning. Paul recounts a legendary story from the Irish proper...

Share Episode                     "Those memes are not going to make themselves."           Dorota, CEO of Authress , joins us to roast the 2025 DORA Report, which she argues has replaced hard data with an AI-generated narrative. From the confusing disconnect betwe...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio                     "My biggest legacy at Google is the amount of systems I broke." — Sam Goto joins the show with a name that strikes fear into engineering systems everywhere. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Chrome team, Sam share...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio                     Elise, VP and Head of UX at Unleash, joins us to talk all about UX. Self identifying as probably "The annoying lady in the room" and a career spanning nearly 30 years—starting before "UX" was even a job title — jo...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Warren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of technical debt in modern software engineering. Olga reveals a shocking statistic: without maintenance, cloud-native applications often cease to function within just six months. And from our experience, that's actually optimistic. T...

Share Episode Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month. The conversation dives deep into "Agentic AI," where John predicts developers will soon...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are harsh and require a high level of rigor and disciplin...

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga , celebrating the release of his book IT Dictionary . In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technology. Adam shares how he started in the industry, l...