DevOps Chat

There is a great new book coming out called the Kitty Hawk Venture. In the vein of Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project, Kitty Hawk is also a novel, rather than your typical business text. It is the story of a fictional company in the airline industry, but is based on a true story. It is due out in July but you can pre-order on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Hawk-Venture-Continuous-Delivery/dp...

In this episode of "The CEO's View" we again chat with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs. Derek tackles a tough question: What's killing your digital transformation? Hint: It might be you. No one ever said these transformations are easy. A few missteps could doom your progress. But don't give up, keep at it, follow some of Derek's advice here and you might just transform successfully.

In our continuing series of "The CEO's View" with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs we take a bit of a deep dive into DevSecOps and how it has risen to the top of the list in Derek's conversations with organizations around the world. Great discussion with some keen insights, enjoy!

In this special edition DevOps Chat we speak with acclaimed DevOps leader and author, Gary Gruver, DevOps pioneer and thought leader, Helen Beal and Electric Cloud executive Sam Fell about the upcoming DevOps Workshop which will follow the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The workshop takes place on June 27th. You can get information and tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devops-worksho...

It's always great to catch up with Robert Reeves, CTO, founder of Datical. Datical just released a new survey about the State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery (https://www.datical.com/whitepapers/survey-the-state-of-database-deployments-in-application-delivery/). Have a listen to our chat and be sure to download the survey report!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Kurt Glazemakers of Cyxtera, the makers of AppGate SDP. SDP stands for software defined perimeter and the Cyxtera security division has a new release out with some exciting new features. Have a listen to get the scoop.

Yaniv Yehuda of DBMaestro has his ear to the ground on what is happening with DevOps for databases. He talks to us about the state of the market and what is the latest from DBMaestro. Have a listen and learn

SRE is a very hot field right now. Some say it is "the ops in DevOps". We chat with Stig Sorenson of the Bloomberg SRE team about how Bloomberg is using SRE to make their business more responsive to their customers. Stig and the Bloomberg team are really at the forefront of what is happening in the SRE field, so this is a great look in.

Sinead Glynn of IBM discusses a couple of trends in cloud service management. How does DevOps, ITIL, ITSM, SRE, as well as Machine Learning and AI factor into this. Hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud. Sinead has a great catbird seat to observe all of these changes. It is an exciting time to be in Ops and Sinead gives us a peek inside.

DOES London 2018 speaker, Ann Marie of IBM gives us a preview of her session on whether audit and compliance is a DevOps Killer. Have a listen to get a preview of her talk and be sure to register for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018: https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/

In this DevOps Chat our guest is Andrea Martinez Crawford, distinguished engineer and CTO for DevOps at IBM's Hybrid Cloud division. Andrea and Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief of DevOps.com talk about what is a "modern application" versus a legacy app. With special emphasis on what this means for DevOps. Great discussion!

Mirco Hering is a DevOps expert with Accenture. He is also an accomplished blogger and now a DevOps author. His book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise from IT Revolution is available on Amazon and other sites that sell books. Mirco in his role with Accenture is also very tuned into the Asia-Pacific region's DevOps scene, as well as Europe. We discuss a little bit about both AP and Europe as well as...

Chris O'Malley is bullish on mainframes. As you would expect someone who is the CEO of Compuware. But it is more than just bullish. Today's mainframes can run as fast as you need them too. Want to run Java or JS node? No problem. There is no reason to treat the mainframe as if it is not a native of today's computing environments. In fact for many tasks the mainframes is the best tool for the job....

Appian World is just a few weeks away. Featuring a hackathon, keynote by The Woz and more, it promises to be a great time down on Miami Beach. DevOps.com will be there shooting video, reporting on the conference and talking to real, live practitioners. We spoke with Malcom Ross, VP of product marketing for Appian and a keynote speaker at Appian World himself. He gave us some great insight into con...

Tim Hockin is Principle Software Engineer at Google. He is also one of the founders of the Kubernetes project and works on Google Cloud Platform. When he talks about containers and microservices, pay attention. :-) We caught up with Tim and spoke with him about microservices and how to refactor your applications if it makes sense. Enjoy1

Interop China has been growing steadily since its inception in 2013. It is part of the Cloud Connect conference. This year they are featuring both DevOps and DevSecOps tracks and talks. Jayne Groll of the DevOps Institute is the DevOps track chair and Alan Shimel of DevOps.com and Security Boulevard is speaking at DevSecOps.com. We sat down with Molly Huang and Kelly Yao of UBM China to discuss th...

When two legends in the InfoSec world start a new company, people take notice. Jeremiah Grossman and Robert "RSnake" Hansen recently announced their new venture BitDiscovery (http://www.bitdiscovery.com) was coming out of stealth, fresh off a venture raise and the acquisition Robert's company, Outside Intel. BitDiscovery offers a radically different way of doing asset inventory and website discove...

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of CA Automic about the modern software factory, software pipelines, CD/ARA and more. That is a lot packed into just about 15 minutes! Scott is always an interesting guest with good things to say and learn from. Enjoy!

In this chat we spoke with Prem Chandraskearan, VP of Software engineering at Barclaycard. Prem has led the DevOps transformation there. He sums up his learning with this: The best way for an organization to approach DevOps is from a collaborative angle. When development and operations experts actively work together in a cohesive effort, solutions are well designed, efficient and smart from both a...

Aqua Security have established themselves as a leader in the container security space. Rani Osnat, VP of Aqua Security and a frequent guest gives us an update on the latest developments around Kubernetes, security controls and the newest version of AquaSec, 3.0.

This is the first in a new series of DevOps Chats that we will be recording featuring Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. Derek will be sharing his unique view as the CEO of one of the leading agents of DevOps transformation in the enterprise, XebiaLabs. If you are an executive looking at digital transformation, you should listen to what Derek has to say. Enjoy!

In his role as chief product officer at New Relic Jim Gochee has had a front row seat to dozens, if not hundreds of organizations undergoing digital transformation. He gives us some of his observations and tips in this interesting DevOps Chat. Enjoy!

In this DevOps chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the health care industry before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for ITOps and DevOps teams. As a result OnPage has expanded beyond its Health Care industry...

Harry Sverdlove has a long history in security first at Carbon Black and now as the founder CTO of EdgeWise Networks which emerged from stealth last August. Edgewise has solutions around Network Security and the cloud. Many think network security does not apply to cloud, but oh yes it does. By the same token (no pun intended), network security plays with DevSecOps as well. Harry and I have a great...

GitLab has a very complete and ambitious plan to offer a complete DevOps solution to its customer base. Leveraging open source plus great service and premium feature sets, GitLab has become a leader in the DevOps field. I spoke to GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij and new VP of product marketing, Ashish Kuthiala about the vision of GitLab being a single application for the whole software development and o...