DevOps Chat

In this day in age to stay at one company for 19 years is remarkable. In the tech sector it is almost unheard of. But Rajalakshmi "Raji" Srinivasan has been with Zoho for that long. She is a terrific advocate for the company. Most recently she has worked with the Site24X7 (http://site24x7.com)team. We had a great chat about AIOps, DevOps and life. I think you will enjoy it.

Capsule8 is focused on protecting Linux infrastructure whether in the cloud, in containers or even bare metal. The team is make up of industry veterans who understand the problems security pros face, as well as the frustrations of developers, devops and sys admins deal with every day. Their approach is more of a shift right DevSecOps, focusing on detecting attacks, threats and vulnerabilities on p...

If you have massive amounts of data Devo wants to help. The company was founded in Madrid and specializes in the handling and processing of massive amounts of data. In this DevOps chat we spoke with Devo CEO Walter Scott to talk about the use cases for Devo in a data crazy world. Walter is a seasoned CEO in the tech sector. He knows a problem when he sees it and he thinks Devo is the answer. Have...

The year 2019 is shaping up as a "coming home" year for Chef. After recently reaffirming its commitment to an open source strategy, they are gearing up for the best ChefConf yet. ChefConf is coming home to Seattle for 2019 and many of the Chef favorites including Adam Jacobs, John Willis and more will be speaking. I had a chance to catch up with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Develop...

Flashpoint is a business risk intelligence provider who has been protecting government and private sector assets for a long time. In fact to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, "we have been sleeping under the blanket of their security" for a while now. I had a chance to catch up with co-founder and CEO Josh Lefkowitz and discuss Flashpoint's offerings. They recently upgraded their dashbo...

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) was accepted for incubation by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/04/02/toc-votes-to-move-opa-into-cncf-incubator/). In this chat we spoke with one of the founders of the project Torin Sandall about OPA and why the CNCF is the right place for OPA. We also discuss the company he works for Styra, that works with OPA.

Accelerate - The State of DevOps Report by Dr. Nicole Forsgren and the folks at Dora (now part of Google)is far and away the most widely cited research in the DevOps field. Dr Nicole and her team have brought scientific rigor to the survey over these past 6 years and the results show it. Here is your chance to shape the future of the DevOps market by taking 25 minutes of your time and take this ye...

In this DevOps Chat we met with Jonathan Fries, VP of Engineering and Digital Transformation at Exadel. Jonathan tells us about the new Innovation Lab by Exadel as a place for organizations to accelerate their transformation. We also talk about the state of IT in general from his perch at Exadel, a company with 20 years of empowering IT. You can find out more about the Innovation Lab at https://ex...

At the recent Cloud Foundry Summit, IBM Cloud made several significant announcements enhancing the service from IBM and enriching the Cloud Foundry platform. In this DevOps Chat we caught up with Jason McGee, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO of IBM cloud to get all of the details.

As the move to Cloud Native accelerates we are seeing the rise of the cloud first architect and his impact on DevSecOps, cloud security and more. In this DevOps Chat we sat down with Chris Hines of ZScaler to explore the importance of this position and how security is working with Dev and DevOps to make us all more secure.

Aqua Security one of the leaders in container and cloud native security announced they have raised $62m in a "C" round of investment, led by Insight Partners. We spoke with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit of Aqua about how this validates the cloud native security field that Aqua has helped develop. This interview is also available in a video format on http://digitalanarchist.io and https://devops.com

In front of next month's ChefConf in Seattle (https://chefconf.chef.io/), Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. Speaking with Corey Scobie, SVP of products and engineering, he explains that Chef will be adding services, training...

Taking the lessons they learned heading Apples offensive security team the Sqreen founding team is moving Application Security Management (ASM) into the mainstream. They just announced a $14m series A investment led by blue chip VC firm Greylock Partners. In this DevOps Chat we speak with CEO and co-founder, Pierre Betouin about how Sqreen is filling a need in the AppSec market between WAFs, DAST,...

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Keshav Vasudevan, product manager for performance testing at SmartBear. Keshav talks about the move to "end to end DevOps", the importance of shifting left with testing and the latest state of the art in Performance and load testing with SmartBear.

Asaf Cidon is the VP of Email Security at Barracuda. In this DevOps Chat we sat down with Asaf and spoke about what some of the new threats and up and coming attack vectors in email security are. Asaf is in a unique position at Barracuda to be on the front lines of the battle for email security. You can find out more about what Asaf and Barracuda are doing around email security at http://barracuda...

WhiteSource has become a force in the security of open source components in your applications. One would think that it would follow that securing these open source components inside of a container would flow from this. But with containers, all is not always as it seems. Containers require a approach that is unique to containers. So the folks at White Source went to the lab and have engineered a so...

Simon Crosby has made a career of technology on the edge. From leading the charge with the Xen hypervisor to microVMs with Bromium and much more in between, Crosby has led some of the most innovative technology developers in the industry. He is now the CTO of SWIM.ai which is literally brining computing to the edge (almost an anti-cloud. This approach promises some revolutionary capabilities. If S...

F5 Networks has acquired NGINX the leading open source web server player. The move clearly puts F5 in the DevOps space, as well as the open source market. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Lori MacVittie of F5 along with Sidney Rabsatt of NGINX. Some great insights into why this acquisition makes sense for both parties.

Yesterday saw the announcement of the CD Foundation, a new foundation under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. It will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of...

There are really only two repositories of any scale for software components today. The Nexus repo managed by Sonatype and the Artifactory artifact repo managed by JFrog. Up until now they were separate and apart, working with one was independent of another. In a big move towards keeping DevOps open, the Sonatype people have released a plugin that will allow their Nexus Firewall to work with Artifa...

I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security the company he co-founded and how it is helping.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Cyara CEO and co-founder, Alok Kulkarni about how DevOps is helping in the customer experience arena. Cyara has carved out a leadership role in bringing DevOps to CX. Alok is a delight to speak with and very wired into this space.

The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise + platform and further expands JFrog's end to end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps chat we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim and JFrog VP of marketing , Ayally Goldschmidt about what was behind this acquisition and what a...

Agile has a bit of a longer history and subsequent maturity than DevOps. Despite this, how can organization now that it is in fact an "agile organization". What does that even mean? Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jeff Dalton, founder of Broadsword consulting, author of Great Big Agile and founder of AgileCXO. Jeff shares with us his latest venture which is building AgileCXO into a worldwide move...

Michael Stahnke has been with Puppet longer than just about everyone currently with the company. In his position as director of engineering he has had a front row seat as the DevOps market emerged and matures. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Michael about his own personal journey, what he is seeing in the market and the most recent State of DevOps report from Puppet.