DevOps Accents

Can the community influence the evolution of cloud technologies? What is its impact on personal and professional growth? Do we underestimate the value of networking and knowledge sharing? Johannes Koch, Senior Engineer at FICO and AWS DevTools Hero, joins Pablo, Leo and Kirill for this episode of DevOps Accents. AWS Heroes Program; Community work vs. Corporate work; The role of the community for j...

Our guest this week is Fabiano Beselga, Head of Technology at ada, music composer and YouTuber. He joins Leo, Pablo and Kirill for a discussion of his career path, work-life balance and product discovery. Fabiano’s path in platform engineering and in music; How to balance your work with your hobby and side-projects? Work-life balance around the world: Brazil vs. Germany vs. Spain; Creating tools f...

Tune in for a conversation with Ara Pulido, Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog, and join Leo and Pablo for an exploration of what this job is and why it can be so essential for your company in episode 42 of DevOps Accents. Who is a Developer Advocate? What do they advocate for and why it’s not just marketing? How does successful developer advocacy program look like? How developer advocates influe...

Celebrate 10 years of Kubernetes with Pablo, Kirill and Leo and join us for a discussion of its history, impact and possible future. What was it like to experience the rise of Kubernetes? A big break for cloud and infra technologies 10 years ago; Where will Kubernetes be in another 10 years? Alternatives to Kubernetes; How big is the impact of Kubernetes for the industry? Kuberenetes issues; AI hy...

Let’s talk about cloud gaming possibilities of today and remember Google Stadia. Our guest this time is David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect from Edge Delta. Join him, Leo and Pablo for a discussion of the problems cloud gaming faces now and the possible future for this experience. The transformation of the game industry to the cloud, did it work? What went wrong with Google Stadia? Cloud gami...

You all know what Observability is. But what do you know about the complexities of collecting telemetry data from mobile apps and devices, and how to do it with OpenTelemetry? That's the topic for Episode 39 of our #DevOpsAccents podcast with Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace, the only user-focused, mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. By providing actionable insig...

Why is Google becoming a summary tool? Should you glue your cheese? What future does local AI on device bring? As soon as Kirill has left the building for a week, Pablo and Leo talk AI for 40 minutes: GPT-4o, Gemini and Microsoft Build conference. mkdev events this summer; How fun is it to talk to AI that can emote in its voice? What will happen to Google Search? Who is the loser here, the user or...

Will the VMware acquisition affect your company? Is there a problem with Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI? Join Leo, Pablo and Kirill in a discussion of all the recent DevOps, Cloud and AI controversies. What’s the deal with Broadcom acquisition of VMware? What do Google and AWS think about it? What’s up with Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI? The power of community vs. the power of a com...

What are the consequences of Google fixating on Gemini? When is it ok to fire thousands of people? How stupid are non-competes? Join Pablo, Leo and Kirill for another discussion on “DevOps Accents”. Why there are not that many new features for GCP? What are Google goals with AI? What happens when you fire your Python team? Why is Spotify losing money? Should your janitor sign a non-compete? Is net...

How do you navigate your professional news flow? Should you automate that one lady who sells you bread and beer? Can Kirill replace himself with AI? And does size matter in LLMs? Leo, Pablo and Kirill are together again for another chat. mknews and balancing our news selection process; Did Amazon fail with their automatic shops? Are there parts of life better left alone without automation? Is Kiri...

What is the place of DevOps and Cloud in Health Tech, and what is the future of the Health Tech itself? What are the biggest challenges it faces and what could be the solutions? Sergiej Soft, Head of Tech at Caspar Health is here with us today to discuss the many perturbations of healthcare digitalization. Where do you draw the line defining DevOps? Health data in the age of cloud; What stops us f...

What are the definitions of the Internet of Things? How do you make a lock without a physical key? What are smart cities? How do you optimize your digital lock? Florian Merz, Head of Product and Engineering at KIWI, is here with us to discuss all of that and more. What is the Internet of Things (IoT) and why is this term to broad to be actually useful? How do digital locks work and how do older pe...

Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss Platform Engineering with Jean-Francois Landreau and also talk about “Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization”, a book he contributed to. The relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering; Writing tech books and having them stay relevant; The future of automation and the amount of work in Platform Engineering; The problems of standardization in Plat...

The evolution of DevOps is inevitable and we have long lived in a paradigm where Platform Engineering is no longer the Next Big Thing, but a necessity. We decided to talk to our friend Sergiu Petean from Allianz Direct and CNCF, who is very advanced in both theory and practice, and shared with us his observations on what Platform Engineering is today and how it changes depending on the type and si...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo, and Kirill discuss Twitter's changes, Apple's Vision Pro impact, VR's future role, and tech dependency. Episode Celebration: 30th episode and 4K YouTube milestone. Twitter Changes: How is Twitter's evolving ecosystem impacting users? Apple Vision Pro: What will be the impact and public reaction to its release? Tech Advancements: How ar...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill are all about cloud costs, the main topic of mkdev content in January. Availability zone fees are annoying; What's scammy and what is clear about cloud closts? Are there people whose job it is to track cloud expences? Why aren't cost analysis features turned on by default? Is all of this common knowledge? When do companies decide to optimiz...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Filip Verloy, a Field CTO at Rubrik The need for data management systems is increasing; What's Ruby and how can generative AI be used for data security? How Rubrik's AI was trained; What should we protect more in the age of AI? AI in detecting malicious intent; What is Double Extortion Ransomware? The flipside of digital transformati...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill are wrapping up 2023, discussing the biggest news, trends and breakthroughs of the year. 2023 for mkdev; AI reaching the wide audience it has now; Job markets in the age of AI; 2024 and AR; Elon Musk (of course); Generative AI in design; Human cognition and what's to come. Check out our website to learn more about the services mkdev offe...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet. What was the role of Puppet before and what is it now? How many companies use Kubernetes? The effect of inertia in technologies for bigger companies; How much time does it take to scale up? On prem vs. On cloud: cost effectiveness; Will VMs ever go away? Puppet and AI? What d...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Dotan Horovits, a developer advocate from logz.io What is developer advocacy and developer evangelism and why it's not marketing? Observability and Monitoring: how important are they in the Pipeline today? How did it work before and why is it a separate thing at all? Who should interpret the data that this tooling collects? Why is it so...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about the rising demand for AI and what it takes to have experience with it. Can you have many years of experience with LLMs? What's the difference between LLMs and Machine Learning of today and Machine Learning of yesterday? How do LLMs even work? Is it viable for a company to train its model from scratch? How to fine tune an LLM for the n...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc. Marcello's journey from Brazil to Europe; South America vs. Europe: Crime rate; Local services and startups in Brazil; You Should Think Global; Cultural differences and application marketing; Starting new companies with your own money; Entrepreneurship vs. Working for a company; L...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Darko Fabijan, CTO and co-founder of Semaphore, a CI/CD tool for high-performance engineering teams. How was Semaphore created? How do you go from consulting to supporting a technical tool? Why do we still need to convince people that CI/CD is a necessity? What is Semaphore's customer base? What is CI and what is CD? Feedback Loop in Dev...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss our recent conference experience in London and slightly pit GCP and AWS against each other. "Google Cloud Run & Databases" Webinar; Is there something like AWS Proxy in GCP? What do GCP and AWS do better than the other? AWS vs. GCP: permissions and organisation; The city of London vs. other great cities of Earth; devops...

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Kirill discuss news from the world of TypeScipt and the history of microchip wars. Hotwire and Turbo leaving TypeScipt behind; The over the top reaction from the community; Who feels threatened by this change? Semiconductors history; ARM architecture family; TSMC and the insane number of chips they produce; What problems does the semiconductors industry...