DevOps Paradox

#208: KubeCon season has started again and in this episode, we give you our thoughts on KubeCon EU 2023, along with our friends Whitney Lee and Engin Diri.   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast...

#207: When you begin building a SaaS product, it's pretty straightforward. Open an account with one of the big 3 hyperscalers, upload your code, then profit! Ok, only those first two are guarantees. The third one is up for interpretation. In this episode, we speak with Yaniv Leven, VP of SaaS products at SQream, about what it was like to build a "native" SaaS product in 2016 and how that differs t...

#206: As an application developer, you're probably used to pulling libraries from Maven Central, PyPI, or npm Registry. Has it ever crossed your mind how secure is this thing that I'm pulling or do you just YOLO so you can get the job done? In this episode, we speak with Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations at JFrog, about Pyrsia, an open source project that helps protect the open source supply...

#205: At the end of 2022, Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, published a blog post about the tech predictions for 2023 and (more importantly) beyond. In this episode, Darin and Viktor dig into a couple of those predictions, namely simulated worlds (digital twins) and custom silicon.   Tech predictions for 2023 and beyond https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/12/tech-predictions-for-2023-and-beyond....

#204: When you think about managing data in an organization, you're probably familiar with the concept of ETL: extract, transform and load. But in this world of new data tools, the order of transform and load can become problematic.  In today's episode, we speak with Itamar Ben Hemo, Co-Founder and CEO at Rivery, about why you might want to consider flipping that order. We also discuss why if you...

203: Given a choice, would you rather have broken builds or flaky tests? At least with a broken build, you have certainty of what is happening. How do you go about eliminating both from your environment? In this episode, we speak with Ankit Jain, CEO at Aviator, about different ways you can approach these two issues. We also dive head first into the debate about whether you should be using a monor...

#202: How many people love Helm? Yeah, that's what we thought. A lot of the time, you're probably looking for an easier and simpler way to manage installing applications into a Kubernetes cluster.   You might be wishing that you could use something as simple as Docker Compose to do that, but you can't see a way forward.   In this episode, we speak with Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder at Shipyard, abou...

#201: As an application developer, we're used to adding logging to our applications. We also work with our operations counterparts to enrich those logs to help them out when troubleshooting. But what happens during an incident when the logs are flowing so fast that neither you nor the operations people can keep up? That's where machine learning can help.   In this episode, we speak with Ajay Singh...

#200: We've reached episode 200!!! As we do with all our divide by 50 episodes, we invited our friend Patrick Debois back to discuss topics ranging from digital twins to the metaverse to AI to becoming a manager.   Patrick's contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickdebois LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdebois/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Bo...

#199: You're probably used to hearing about using OpenTelemetry for your production troubleshooting. But have you considered using OpenTelemetry during your development lifecycle?   In this episode, we speak with Ran Nozik, CTO and co-founder of Helios, about the current state of OpenTelemetry and how using OpenTelemetry may save us a lot of time troubleshooting issues in production if we first st...

#198: It's the dream that many of us have. We set out to build a service that gains a lot of adoption. However, we when reach that goal, we find that building something successful can make it an attractive target for attackers.   In this episode, we speak with Brian Smith, CTO of Spyderbat, about how traditional security tools don't meet the dynamic requirements of Kubernetes and that the processe...

#197: Do you feel like you are working in a company that is not only behind the times but behind the century? If you feel stuck, is it because you're too scared to search for another job and losing all the benefits you've accrued over the years at your current company?   In this episode, we talk about a couple of Reddit and Twitter threads that surprised us, but in reality, they shouldn't have. It...

#196: Where do you start when you work on optimizing the performance of your application? The number of options can seem overwhelming. Do you start with memory, CPU, network, or somewhere else? Even if you get it right, it's only right for right now and not next week when you release a new version of your application, at which point you start the performance optimization process all over again.  ...

#195: Most companies have decades of legacy systems running their day-to-day business. They're difficult to replace with newer systems, and they're costly to maintain. But they also offer security, stability, and consistency. The challenge is deciding how to make them work in the modern world.   In this episode, we talk with Robert Cooke, CTO and Founder at 3forge, about why replacing legacy syste...

#194: Whether you are doing greenfield development with microservices or are doing brownfield development migrating monoliths to microservices, there's one thing that you have to get right when testing those microservices, otherwise you will fail. What is that one thing?   Culture.   If you don't get the culture right, no amount of technology will fix the problems that you have now or in the futur...

#193: As a database administrator, you probably want to spend more time trying to make things better for people using your database instead of always chasing down the latest tuning parameters or queries that are causing problems. There are only 24 hours in a day and you're not sure if you'll ever be able to really make things any better with the schema changes and data volume that are constantly b...

#192: Have you decided what you're going to be learning in 2023? In their annual attempt to read the crystal ball, Darin and Viktor talk about the things that you need to learn or that you will probably be learning in 2023.   Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25" https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books an...

#191: In this episode, we recap all of the predictions we made at the beginning of 2022 and see how we did.   Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25" https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast...

#190: Darin and Viktor look back over 2020 part 3, in other words, 2022. Also, for something new this year, listen all the way to the end of the episode for a couple of hand-picked holiday tunes.   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: http...

#189: In the distant past, we used punchcards and dumb terminals to program. Then came the advent of the personal computer and we started developing locally on our machines. There are now new offerings that allow us to use pretty much any device that has a web browser to do all our programming. One of those offerings is Gitpod.   On this episode, we speak with Chris Weichel, CTO of Gitpod, about t...

#188: Just because you've run some chaos experiments against your system doesn't mean you are ready to fend off wide ranging and prolonged attacks. It just means that you might be ready for the attacks you've created experiments for. Why? Because you probably didn't actually fully load your systems with persistent and ever-changing attacks.   In this episode, we talk with Benjamin Wilms, CEO of St...

#187: When writing tests that need to talk to a data source, you're usually faced with a couple of options. The first one is that you setup a database server on your machine. The problem with that is what happens when other developers need to run those same tests? They have to setup the database too.   The other option is you can mock your database connections. However, it's hard to keep your mock...

#186: Most companies say they want their application developers to be shipping more code faster and faster. However, those same companies don't do enough to help the application developers be successful at doing that.   In this episode, we speak with Ankit Bhati, co-founder and CEO at Amnic, about how by providing a unified operating platform for your application developers will not only help spee...

#185: You've been told that you have to reduce your AWS bill. You also know that you cannot make any major changes to your infrastructure quickly. By carefully considering your needs and being willing to make some concessions, you can reduce your AWS bill significantly. But where do you start?   In this episode, we talk with Ganesh The Awesome from GlobalDots about where to start when trying to re...

#184: The public cloud is a powerful tool that allows businesses to outsource their data and compute to ensure security, availability, scalability, and reliability. But like many tools, they cannot be used best without understanding the total cost of ownership. By cost, we really mean cold, hard cash.   In this episode, we talk with Jason Yaeger, Co-Founder & CEO of Tenacity Cloud, about how Tenac...