DevOps Paradox

#83: When Spring Framework appeared on the scene over 18 years ago (October 1, 2002), the public cloud was just a glimmer in the eyes Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Fast forward to today. Spring has adapted over its lifetime and still is considered the industry standard for Java development. Today, we speak with the Thomas Vitale, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action" from Manning Publications...

#82: Today we speak with Olaf Molenveld, the CTO of Vamp.io, a Cloud-Native AIOps platform that provides self-service release and cost optimization capabilities. We discuss numerous items from should where you live determine your salary to why does ColdFusion still exist.   Olaf's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/olafmolenveld LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/olafmolenveld   Transcript:...

#81: Today we speak with Christine Spang, CTO and co-founder of Nylas. We discuss the problems that Nylas solves for application developers so they don't have to figure out how to integrate with numerous email and calendar providers.   Christine's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/spang Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/making-email-provider...

#80: When you're first starting out in your business, you're probably going to outsource a lot of things, like HR, payroll and even server hosting. However, over time, you might start pulling some things back in house. The question is should you bring those items back in over time and, if so, when should you do it?   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what-should-i-outsource-to-a-m...

#79: In this episode, we with speak with Ant Weiss from Otomato about the differences between continuous integration and build automation. We also dig into what it takes to culturally change an organization to succeed at continuous delivery.   Ant's information: https://antweiss.com/ https://twitter.com/antweiss https://linkedin.com/in/antonweiss   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episode...

#78: Today we with speak with Adam Hawkins, a SRE for Skillshare and the host of the Small Batches podcast. We discuss what it's like to be a day-to-day SRE and how some companies still don't understand that it is possible to actually follow the "you build it, you run it" model of software development.   Small Batches podcast: https://smallbatches.fm/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/ep...

#77: The unsung hero of any company. The NOC engineer. But what happens if your most skilled NOC engineer is on vacation and there was no backup for him? Enter NOC as a Service. Today, we talk with Avi Shalisman and Asaf Matyas from Xiteit to understand how NOC as a Service can minimize risk so your favorite NOC engineer taking a vacation.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/noc-a...

#76: We know that there are numerous ways to provision infrastructure. Today, we talk with Joe Duffy, the CEO of Pulumi, about how everyone can become a cloud engineer using Pulumi.   https://www.pulumi.com/ https://cloudengineeringsummit.com/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/how-to-be-a-cloud-engineer-with-pulumi-76/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopspara...

#75: Declarative, imperative, CSV, JSON, and YAML. Do any of these items represent code? We attempt to answer that question in today's episode.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what-is-code-75/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Kubernetes Ch...

#74: Many people today are still clicking around in consoles and copy and pasting instructions from Word documents. Today, we make the case for changing your workflows to incorporate GitOps to minimize risk in managing your environments.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/using-gitops-in-your-devops-workflow-74/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   B...

#73: If you don't want to run Elasticsearch for logging for your Kubernetes cluster, what do you do? As we found out from Vadim, one of our community members, the answer today is Loki.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/logging-with-loki-73/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopsto...

#72: In this episode, we speak with Gigi Sayfan, the author of Mastering Kubernetes. We speak with him about where Kubernetes is today and where he thinks it is headed in the future.   https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-kubernetes-third-edition/9781839211256   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/mastering-kubernetes-with-gigi-sayfan-72/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://...

#71: Observability can be broken down into three layers; software, infrastructure, and knowledge. Which of these things do you think is most important? Today, we discuss these items and more with Yotam Atad and Chen Goldberg from CloudWize.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/observability-in-the-cloud-with-cloudwize-71/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopspara...

#70: Some people believe that high availability means 100% availability. That just isn't true. We attempt to disprove this age old myth in today's episode.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/high-availability-does-not-mean-100-availability-70/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devops...

#69: Google Cloud Run vs Azure Container Instances vs AWS ECS. We discuss the pros and cons of each Containers as a Service solution in today's episode.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/is-containers-as-a-service-serverless-69/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries....

#68: Docker recently announced integrations with Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that makes it simple for developers to use native Docker commands to interact with these services. Darin and Viktor discuss why this is a very big deal not only for Docker, but for the ecosystem as a whole.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/is-docker-back-68/#t...

#67: We step away from serverless for a week to visit with Uma Mukkara about LitmusChaos. We discuss the origin story and how MayaData uses LitmusChaos on their SaaS platform to keep everything running so they can sleep at night.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/orchestrating-chaos-on-kubernetes-using-litmuschaos-67/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparad...

#66: Viktor has finished the next section of the Catalog course. Today, we discuss the amazing, and not so amazing, use cases where you should use managed Functions as a Service in 2020.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/aws-lambda-vs-google-cloud-functions-vs-azure-functions-for-2020-66#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Catalog...

#65: Today we talk with Rodric Rabbah, creator and the lead contributor to Apache OpenWhisk as well as the CTO and co-founder of Nimbella, a serverless cloud platform.   Rodric's info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rabbah/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodric/ GitHub: https://github.com/rabbah/ Website: https://rabbah.io   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/serverless-made-e...

#64: In this next episode about serverless, we tackle the question if we should be using serverless or not. Our answer may surprise you.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/do-we-really-want-to-use-serverless-64#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/  ...

#63: In this first episode about serverless, we attempt to define the fundamentals of serverless in 2020.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/serverless-101-63#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Kubernetes Chaos Engineering With Chaos Toolkit And...

#62: We welcome back Ádám Sándor to continue our discussion about Kubernetes, Serverless and developer productivity.   Ádám's info: https://twitter.com/adamsand0r https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsandor/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/62#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries...

#61: Today with talk with Mikolaj (Miko) Pawlikowski, the creator of PowerfulSeal and the author of the new Manning book "Chaos Engineering: Crash Test Your Applications". We go through the how PowerfulSeal came to be and where Miko thinks chaos landscape will be in a few years. Be sure to listen all the way to the end of the episode for a chance to receive a code to get Miko's book for free.   Mi...

#60: As a followup from last week's episode, we talk about the specific problems that Jenkins X solves.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/60#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering With Chaos Toolkit And Istio https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/chaos/   Canary Deployments To Kubernetes Using Istio and Friend...

#59: Recently, Viktor has been hearing a number of people talking about choosing to use native services within cloud providers for their business applications instead of using Kubernetes. We attempt to tackle this flawed mindset.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/59#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering With Chao...