DevOps Chat

Three of the hottest topics in IT today: IoT, Cognitive and Blockchain. What role does DevOps play in successfully leveraging these? In this DevOps Chat we ask Cliff Utstein - Director of Offering Management, IBM Cloud DevOps and CJ Paul - Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect, IBM Cloud DevOps for the answers. It is a lively discussion with as both Cliff and CJ are very experienced in these ar...

In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Pete Chestna of CA Veracode about a survey they conducted of Developers and Security teams. The goal was to see if the teams were working together in an effort of making security everyone's responsibility. Pete is a great evangelist for DevSecOps, having been a developer for many years, as well as deeply involved in the security community. Pete always has great...

DevOps.com caught up with Gene Kim prior to DOES London 2017. However due to some sound engineering issues, this chat was not able to be edited in time for the preview of the great DOES London 2017 show it was intended to be. With more time we have cleaned up the file and while not perfect it is indeed very listenable with some great info from Gene. If you like you can also check the keynotes from...

Logs are increasingly becoming a big data analysis issue. So why not bring some AI to this big data problem? Loom Systems is doing just that and as a result is making it easier to analyze log data for actionable and meaningful results. I had a chance to sit down with Loom Systems CEO Gabby Menachem to discuss what AI means for the log analysis space and how it can make your job easier.

Design thinking? What does it mean? Why should you care? I had a chance to sit down with Sarah Plantenberg of IBM who is my go to person on Design Thinking. Sarah has recently taken on a new role within IBM helping to bring design thinking to IBM customers. This DevOps chat is a great conversation with Sarah, who is a bright and engaging subject. I am sure you will enjoy!

ChefConf 2017 is right around the corner, May 22-24 in Austin. We had a chance to catch up with Ken Cheney, CMO Chef to get the scoop on what are the highlights of this years big Chef conference. Have a listen and there is still time to go. Get info at https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/

Using any tool or technology because it is the "cool thing to do" is never a good idea. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Flint Brenton, CEO of Collabnet. Flint has been around long enough to know that if you are not using the right technology for a given task, you are not going to have the success you might have otherwise. Picking the right tool for the job is as important as doing the job itsel...

Michael Olson of Puppet's product team is our guest on this episode of DevOps Chats. Michael gives us the scoop on Puppets 3 major announcements around product updates, new products and new global expansion. New versions of Puppet Enterprise and Puppet open source, new products include Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery. New partner offerings with AWS, Cisco and others, as well as new offices in S...

Our guest on this DevOps chat is Dr. Steven Mayner who is a confirmed speaker for DevOps Enterprise Summit, London 2017. Steven is of the worlds foremost experts on Scaled Agile Framework. He has helped organizations the world over achieve great results with the SAFe framework. An engaging speaker, you will enjoy this interview.

Value stream mapping, what is it? Sure you have heard of it, but what does it really mean and how can it help you? We discuss value stream mapping in some detail with Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. Great discussion on how this Lean based idea can really help in your DevOps transformation.

Rob England, IT Skeptic was once a DevOps skeptic (what do you expect, he is the IT skeptic), but even this skeptic has been won over to the ways of DevOps. So much so in fact that he is presenting at this years DOES London conference Rob is presenting on the importance of people in the DevOps equation. If even the IT skeptic can see the advantages of DevOps, you should too? I don't know, but have...

The Jenkins community was just given a major upgrade yesterday with the release of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean puts Continuous Delivery within reach of every team. This release was a long time in the making, with lots of hard work and thought behind it. Here from two of the Jenkins community leaders on what it is and why it could be a game changer for you!

DOES London 2017 Program Committee member and speaker, Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox tells us about what he will be speaking about at DOES. We also talk about what it is like to be a member of the program committee for DOES, what kind of submissions they saw, what are the themes for this years show and more. Jonathan is a sharp fellow and always a pleasure to speak with.

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DORA, DevOps Research and Analysis will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th to announce the findings of this years State of DevOps Survey. She will be joined by Jez Humble (her co-founder at DORA) and Nigel Kersten of Puppet. Dr. Forsgren gives us her take on why DOES is a special event for her and what we might see in this years survey analysis.

We sit down with Nigel Kersten of Puppet who will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th at the QE II Conference Center. Nigel will be speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble of DORA to announce the findings of the 6th annual State of DevOps Survey.

Jose Quaresma is DevOps Lead DK at Accenture. Jose is based in Denmark and is part of the Advanced Technology & Architecture practice. He is a featured speaker at DOES London this year. We had a chance to sit down with Jose and understand why he felt compelled to speak at DOES this year and some of why he is excited about DevOps.

Omed Habib is a Director of Product Marketing at AppDynamics. Omed actually has an engineering background and is really sharp. We had a great discussion on Maslow's Theory of Happiness and how it relates to developers, ops and DevOps. You never know what you will learn about on a DevOps Chat ;-) Hope you enjoy!

Sanjeev Sharma of IBM has a new book out called the DevOps Adoption Playbook, a guide to adopting DevOps in a multi-speed IT enterprise. Let me say that this is no book for dummies either. The DevOps Adoption Playbook represents the sum total of the many DevOps lessons and learning that Sanjeev has accumulated in his role as a CTO and leader of DevOps at IBM. Much of it is based on the workshops h...

This DevOps Chat is with Mark Blach of Diamanti. Diamanti recently came out of stealth with a purpose built appliance optimized for containerized applications. What is that you say, why use an appliance and not the cloud? Good question. Mark and the Diamanti guys have a great answer to. Have a listen and hear for yourself.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study.

Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonah Kowall of Appdynamics. Jonah is very bright and dialed into the DevOps scene. He talks with us about APM and its continuing evolution and diversification. Lots of great information here!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Jones, evangelist at RedGate and founder of SQL Server Central. Steve talks to us how organizations are moving their databases into the DevOps mode. He also tells us about SQL Clone, the newest offering from RedGate. Great conversation!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of Automic. Scott has a long history in IT and DevOps. He gives us some great insights into some of the challenges he sees and hears from the many organizations he works with at Automic

Tuesday, March 7th CA is sponsoring the DevOps Virtual Summit. There are some great guests scheduled to speak including two of the founders of DORA, Gene Kim and Dr. Nicole Forsgren. DevOps.com had a chance to catch up with Dr. Nicole and ask her about her presentation at the virtual summit, what is new at DORA and what we may be seeing in the coming months. Nicole gives us some great info on new...

DevOps.com sits down with Tasktop CEO and co-founder, Dr Mik Kersten. Mik gives us a look at the latest in task management and more insight into DevOps