DevOps Shorts

Today's episode is a bit of a departure from my regular format. And it's symbolic. The evolution of GenAI is definitely changing how we work in IT. The change may still not be very evident but we all know it's coming. And we still need to understand what changes. Beside the StackOVerflow drop in popularity that is. That's why my guest this time is Peter Guagenti - the President and...

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso building [Kratix] and is also the Platforms Working Group Lead at CNCF. So she's definitely the person I wanted to talk to about platforms. Listen to the episode to learn: - Why transition from QA to Plaftorm Engineering makes a lot of sense. - Why cross-functional teams don't scale well - What is becoming our main concerns as we build better platfo...

Omkar Kadam is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Cactus Communications and an AWS Community Builder It's always great to get the firsthand insights from practitioners. Listen to the episode to learn: - How DevOps is making developers fearless - How Platform teams and DevOps teams interact IRL - What AI can offer to help us get more sleep

Turjah Chaudhuri is an Associate Director of Cloud Practice at EY. Previous to his current role he's served as a Cloud Solution Architect at Accenture. And he also delivered Big Data and Cloud Computing training as a visiting professor at the FLAME University in Pune. Turjah has a very clear view of why enterprise delivery platforms are a necessity and how they should evolve. Listen to the epi...

Henrik Høegh is the Digital Platform Owner at Velux. He's been doing system administration and cloud native platforms since 2008 and is one of the organizers of the recent, wildly successful Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) conference in Kopenhagen. Listen to the episode to learn: - How internal delivery platform are like Lego. - What's there to hate about Terraform (yes OpenToFu too). - Wh...

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Wix, a singer, and DevOpsDaysTLV co-organizer.  She's also an acclaimed international speaker on the topics of both DevOps culture and technology. Listen to the episode to learn: - What's more important - pople, business or computers? - Why you should think twice before updating a Jira server. - Why DevOps will never be perfect without a magic wand. Th...

Natan Yellin is the CEO of Robusta - the company building an open-source platform for multi-cluster Kubernetes monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation. Listen to the episode to learn: - How to get high on solving technical problems - How a phone call in the middle of a family dinner can lead to DevOps innovation - All the wonderful things one can do with the help of AI even today - What is the...

Boaz Ziniman is a Principal Developer Advocate at AWS and one of first proponents of cloud computing in Israel. Prior to working at AWS he's spent a decade at Zend - the PHP company - also leading the cloudification of Zend services. Boaz has a great YouTube channel in Hebrew called מעונן חלקית (Partly Cloudy). Check it out here . Find Boaz on twitter and his own website Listen to the episode to l...

I first met Shauli when he and his co-founders were only planning to start ARMO Fast-forward 3 years and he's now the CTO of one of the leading Kubernetes security startups.  ARMO is also the company behind Kubescape - the great open-source tool for Kubernetes security scanning in production.   Listen to the episode to learn:   - Why building developer tooling feels so great  ...

Steve Pereira calls himself a Value Stream Guy . Today he is the founder of https://visible.is where he is helping teams define and optimize their value streams. Before that he's been a startup CTO, an agency consultant,  a systems and release engineer, a finance IT manager, a tech support phone jockey, and a pizza maker. All focused on the flow of value, all the time. Find him on twitter - a...

Johnathan Hall (aka TinyDevOps) is a DevOps coach and consultant based in Netherlands. Jonathan has almost 3 decades experience in the IT industry out of which 2 decades were spent in leadership roles. Jonathan is focused on **helping small teams do amazing DevOps** . Listen to the episode to learn: - How love of IT is still about making tech do our bidding. - Why DevOps is about fixing systemic p...

Heidi Waterhouse is a prominent figure on the DevOps landscape. And she's also special at that - because her background is neither Dev nor Ops. For the whole of her career she's been a technical writer, a documentation specialist. And I find this wonderfully exciting - because first of all - DevOps has never been the sole concern of Devs and Ops only. And secondly - good documentation is such an i...

Continuous Delivery is the practice underlying the DevOps principles. That’s why for this episode of DevOps Shorts I’m incredibly excited to interview Tracy Miranda - the executive director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation . Listen to the episode to learn: How contributing to open-source can help you love your job How easy it was to set up sane release practices for Jenkins What are the plans...

Today I'm very happy to have Viktor Farcic as my guest. Viktor is the author of the DevOps Toolkit Series , the host of the DevOps Paradox podcast and now also the Developer Advocate at Codefresh Listen to the episode to learn: - Why software engineers are a rare and lucky breed - How lack of communication skills can make you fall in love with computers - What can help you love IT again after you'...

Resilience engineering is one of the most forward-looking fields to surface in our industry in the last 5 years. That's why I'm so excited to have J.Paul Reed as my guest. Paul is one of the most passionate promoters of resilience engineering practices. He's a co-organizer of REDeploy , a frequent speaker on related topics and now also a senior applied resilience engineer at Netflix. And he's also...

Ohad Maislish is the CEO at Env0 - the self-service cloud environments company. Listen to the episode to learn: - How to become the youngest employee at Microsoft - How the magic of the cloud unfolded - If Ohad prefers Pulumi over Terraform - What's next for cloud infrastructure

Is this the peak of my career as a DevOps show host?!?! I'm so excited about this - I succeeded to land an interview with the man who invented the **DevOps** word itself! With the original DevOpsDays orgainzer  - the one and only Patrick Debois ! Beside being one of the most prominent DevOps thought leaders of our times, Patrick is now also the DevOps Relations director at Snyk Listen to the...

Philipp Krenn is a technologist, meetup organizer, conference speaker and developer advocate at Elastic. He is very good at explaining and demoing exciting new technologies and he's now in the very epicenter of the observability movement - bringing the Elastic stack to eningeers all over the virtual world. Listen to the episode to learn: - What's the role of playfulness in IT - Why you would want...

I'm so thrilled! My guest for tonight is Mark Burgess - a "technologist, scientist and author, specializing in the physics of Information Systems" (quoted from Mark's website ). Mark is probably best known to the IT crowd as the man who defined the ideas behind **desired-state configuration management** and the creator of the CFEngine CM tool that predated Puppet, Chef and Ansible and is still in...

And our guest for tonight is Adi Shacham-Shavit - previously R&D manager at such companies as AppsFlyer and Lemonade, now EVP Engineering at an early stage startup called Clear. Adi hates wasting time and making the same mistake twice. First of all - it makes me happy that Adi is a woman - I feel like my show was lacking in diversity - I only got to interview white men until now. :( And - Adi...

This episode of DevOps Shorts is probably the most exciting one I've recorded until now.  This time I was honoured to host none other but the great John Willis himself - the man who brought DevOpsDays to US, the originator of the CA(L)MS acronym, one of the authors of "The DevOps Handbook" and now - a senior director at RedHat Global Transformation Office.

Our guest for tonight is Derek Weeks  - the Vice-president at Sonatype and the co-founder of AllDayDevOps. The man who started doing global virtual conferences before they became cool.   Listen to the episode to learn :     Why continuous learning is such great thing   How visualizing feedback loops makes DevOps easier to grasp   What DevSecOps looks li...

I was so happy when Manuel Pais agreed to be my guest on this episode of DevOps shorts.  Manuel is a Lisbon-born, Madrid-based DevOps consultant and trainer  - but most importantly - a charismatic and inteligent human being. Listen to the episode to learn : - How one workshop with great trainers can change your vision - Was Gene Kim hiding in Manuel's office? - How IT orgs need to change...

Mike Druzhinin - Testing in Production and the Serverless Edge Our guest for tonight is Mike Druzhinin - Software Development Manager at Amazon.com and a Program Committee Member of the great DevOops conference . Mike took a short break from keeping Amazon up and running through the COVID-19 online shopping craze to talk to us about love, DevOps A-HA and the future. Mike talks about the how playfu...

Our guest for tonight is Carlos Leon - an independent cloud native and automation consultant  based in Netherlands. Carlos is the link between your business and your technical people - because he understands and speaks both languages. Short Notes: - Microsoft FrontPage - was a WYSIWYG web page editor from Microsoft - now discontinued.