DevOps Paradox

#108: If you cannot define a thing, how do you know what it is? Is a microservice a function, a container, a VM, all of the above or none of the above? Today, we give you our definition of what a microservice is and where microservices should fit into your application architecture.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-do-we-want-to-use-microservices-108/#transcript   YouTube ch...

#107: As a software development community, we're used to hearing the terms sprints, projects, and agile. However, the people that sign our paychecks, in other words, the business people, could care less and wonder why everything is taking so long and why it is so complex. Today, we speak with Steve Pereira, the found of Visible.is, a consulting firm focused on value streams, and flow engineering,...

#106: There seems to be a great debate about what a DevOps engineer is and what a SRE is. Today, we throw our hat in the ring and attempt to dispel the myths that we see running rampant throughout the industry.   Viktor's video for "What is the difference between SRE and DevOps?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgW4r9FxItI   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-difference-betwee...

#105: The following quote is attributed to Mark Twain, "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." Does this sound familiar? VMs. LXC. Containers. They are all (roughly) the same thing. So why do we keep recreating things that already exist?   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/does-history-repeat-itself-105/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   B...

#104: When a business decides to release code to production that hasn't been fully tested or is releasing because a date has been promised, that's a business decision and not a technical decision. However, at some point in the future, the debt will come due. Today, we speak with Dan Burns from Testifi about TDD, BDD, and why an organization must apply test automation the correct way or they'll fin...

#103: What is there was a way that you could harness the power of Kubernetes without having to learn all the ins and outs of Kubernetes? Enter Knative. Today with speak with Jacques Chester, the author of Knative in Action, about that at much more.   Order your copy of Knative in Action at: https://www.manning.com/books/knative-in-action and be sure to use the code "podparadox20" to save 40% off o...

#102: Are you a rule-maker or a rule-breaker? Hopefully we all agree that having guardrails up help us live a better life, whether personally or professionally. However, sometimes those rules get in our way of getting things done. Today, we take an introductory look at Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper and try to figure out how using Gatekeeper can make not only our lives but the lives of our end u...

#101: What happens when you're doing a demo and your technology fails? You can get angry and write a blog post that goes viral. Today, we speak with Nicolas Frankel about his move from minikube to Kind, how Gradle is no better than Ant, and how the conference circuit is not meant for people that only want to work from 9 to 5.   Nicolas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolas_frankel   Transcript:...

#100: In our 100th episode, we bring back Patrick Debois, the GodFather of DevOps (at least we think so), as our "divide by 50" guest. In very Patrick fashion, he turns the tables on us and we go down a number of paths that we didn't see coming.   Patrick's info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickdebois Website: http://www.jedi.be/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/course-corr...

#99: In the nineties and early 2000s, it wasn't strange to see operations people copy and pasting "code" from Word documents, also known as runbooks, into their terminals to get their job done. It's now 2021 and we still have people questioning whether or not they should be writing code to do their work.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/do-devops-engineers-need-to-know-how-to-c...

#98: How many times have you been put into the situation to debug a production issue and you have no idea where to start? Probably more than you can count. Worse yet, your employer expects that you can troubleshoot the issue without having access to all the tools that you need. Today we speak with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, a startup developing the next-gen troubleshooting platf...

#97: A chess player knows to write down their moves so they can replay their matches and learn from them. Having the ability to replay those matches also gives you the ability to start over and see where something goes wrong. In today's episode, we speak with Viktor (Vik) Gamov about Apache Kafka and how it can help you breathe new life into systems that may not have been written in a way to take...

#96: With the advent of software like Crossplane, we are beginning to see the Kubernetes API coming more to the forefront. In today's episode, we attempt to tackle why it appears that events are still not completely understood.   Crossplane: https://crossplane.io/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-kubernetes-api-is-becoming-omnipresent-96/#transcript   YouTube channel: https...

#95: You would think in 2021, we still wouldn't be having this conversation. However, it happens everyday. Should everything be automated? You might surprised at our answer.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/should-everything-be-automated-95/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devops...

#94: Some people like reading text. Some people like watching videos. Which one are you when it comes to learning and building your skillset? Today, we talk about what we like as both producers and consumers of content.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/are-videos-or-text-better-for-learning-94/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses...

#93: Many times, probably most, people don't leave your company only for more money. There's usually more to it than that. Today we discuss different things that a company can do to keep people from leaving that normally would.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/creating-a-healthy-working-environment-93/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and...

#92: On this podcast, we spend a lot of time discussing backend and infrastructure. Today, we speak with Grady Saccullo, a front end developer for Cycle, a container orchestration platform. We talk about what it's like to work in a smaller shop in 2021 and how some workflows are very different than much larger enterprises.   Grady on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/grady-saccullo   Transcript: h...

#91: The Docker of 2021 is not the same as the Docker of 2016, especially when it comes to the tools around the Kubernetes ecosystem. Today, we talk about how Docker Compose should not be used to manage Kubernetes and how you should be developing Kubernetes based applications in 2021.   Kaniko - Building Container Images In Kubernetes Without Docker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgwVQN6GNJg   Fo...

#90: Email. Slack. Kubernetes. These things have at least one thing in common. They are all event-driven. Even if you don't agree with that statement, we can agree that asynchronous development has taken off in the past few years, thus exploding the concepts of event-driven. We are now starting to see these concepts arriving in tooling space. We speak with Andi Grabner about Keptn, an event-based...

#89: 2020 is in the rear view mirror. 2021 is out the front windshield. The items that are going to be the most important are going to be those items that are the most irrelevant. In today's episode, we try to unwind what that means and why it matters to you.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/2021-the-year-of-the-irrelevant-89/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/d...

#88: 2020 was quite a year. Your year may have been great or it may have been horrible. Hopefully it trended towards great, even if did not live up to your expectations. In today's episode, we look back over some of the items that we encountered and that you probably did too.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/devops-in-2020-year-in-review-88/#transcript   YouTube channel: https:...

#87: This is a little different episode. With it being Christmas week, Darin and Viktor take a step back and think about all the things that they are grateful for in this crazy year that is 2020.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/god-bless-us-everyone-87/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https...

#86: Just because you are running your application on Kubernetes, that doesn't mean it was simple to get to that outcome. Today, we speak with Alan Barr about how his company is trying to not only make Kubernetes operationally simple, but also how it is important to also make it simple for application developers to use.   https://www.alanmbarr.com/blog/internal-developer-platform/   Alan's informa...

#85: It's simple to quantify the hard costs of DevOps. Labor. Hardware. Software. However, it's a lot harder to calculate the hidden costs of DevOps. Today we talk with Yuval Oren about what he is seeing in the industry and how technical debt may be the answer to your problems.   Yuval's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuvalo   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-hidde...

#84: In these times, everyone is familiar with Slack and Microsoft Teams. However, there are other companies that offer similar solutions. Today, we talk with PJ Hagerty from Mattermost and find out how Mattermost sets itself apart from its competitors.   PJ's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aspleenic   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/mattermost-saves-a-30-year-old-d-d...