The Confident Commit

Rob sits down with Drew McManus, CEO of 33 Teams to discuss Agile development. Hear stories from Drew's time at Pivotal Labs and the valuable lessons he's taking with him. This episode covers how to suggest change, finding the best Agile practices for you, and how working with the right people may be worth a career shift. Tune in today! Have a topic you want us to discuss? Someone you wa...

Incident response can tricky. How do you create a culture prepared to handle it in a healthy and efficient way? What should and shouldn't leaders be involved in? How do you create a psychologically safe environment? Find out in this episode as Rob as he interviews Jeli founder Nora Jones on the do's and don'ts of incident response. 

Rob is joined by Amazon EKS GM, Chandler Hoisington to discuss the speedy rise of Kubernetes. Chandler explains the power of getting the right tooling for your team and how sometimes the costs of moving fast may be worth the risk. Tune in today! Have a topic you want us to discuss? Someone you want us to interview? Reach out to us on Twitter @circleci!

Rob is joined by Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering at eBay to discuss how to deliver fast, without losing quality. Learn about the value of consistent teams, having a long-term vision, and diligently measuring against key success metrics. Tune in today to find out how your team can increase productivity and move even faster.  Have a topic you want us to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter at @circlec...

If you can’t get through Okta, you can’t do your job. But failures happen. With this reality is not about preventing failure but about getting really good at dealing with failure. Rob is joined by Hector Aguilar, former VP of Technology at Okta shares how he helped create a culture expecting and prepared for failure. Get answers to questions like,  What does it mean to be really good at failure in...

Docker CTO Justin Cormack joins Rob Zuber to discuss how Docker moved from very few paid users among millions of others to their current level of success. In this episode, Cormack shares the paths Docker took to transform its massive user base into a sustainable business model. Hint: sometimes product-market fit might be right in front of you.

CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber reflects on season 1 of The Confident Commit, finding the common threads that emerged, including these top 3 themes for software leaders: complexity, scale, and people.  Listen to Rob's take on where software is headed and hear about the upcoming season 2 of The Confident Commit. Tune in today! Have a topic you want to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter @circleci!

Rob sits down with Nathan Mellis, Director of Engineering at Modzy to discuss all things ML and AI in the space of software development. Get answers to questions like,  How will ML and AI tools help the unique problems of software development?  Does modern DevOps still apply to models?  Can you apply continuous updates to training data? What does it looks like to run AI in production?  How importa...

Rob sits down with Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief of The New Stack, to discuss the several changes occurring in software development. Alex shares what he's been hearing on everything from API management to synchronizing supply chain to programmable infrastructure.  Tune in today to find out how your team can stay ahead of the complexities of the ever-changing landscape of software...

Rob sits down with Replicated co-founder and CEO, Grant Miller to discuss the evolution of orchestration and shifting fast to find product-market fit. Grant recalls a time when Replicated needed to change its model quickly to achieve the success it has today. Tune in to hear more of Grant's story! Have a topic you want us to discuss? Reach out to us on Twitter at @circleci!

Rob sits down with Pulumi staff developer advocates, Matt Stratton and Kat Cosgrove to discuss the complexities of systems and team management. Join the discussion on important topics such as,  The importance of automating of repeated tasks Cultivating a zero blame environment How companies should be viewing hiring If there’s something you want us to hear discussed on a future episode, reach out t...

Rob sits down with Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO of Puppet to discuss the lessons they've learned through years as software leaders. Deepak shares the history and trajectory of Puppet, navigating shifting roles as your company scale, and his top leadership practices learned. Rob and Deepak dive into how to implement simplicity when complexity is often favored. Tune in today!

In this special episode of The Confident Commit, Rob celebrates CircleCI's 10 year anniversary with two CircleCI guests: the company's longest-tenured engineer, Gordon Syme, and one of our newest employees, our SVP Engineering, JP LeBlanc, to discuss the company's past, present, and future. Join us as we celebrate 10 years of working to help organizations build software better and f...

Rob sits down with Charity Majors to discuss the journey to creating Honeycomb, business building practices, and the importance of proper CI/CD and monitoring. Charity gives us the latest insights on observability and the necessities for engineering team success. What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure? Which ones are not? Tune in today to find out. 

Rob sits down with Lightstep CEO, Ben Sigelman to discuss observability and how it connects with delivering change with confidence. Get answers to questions like, What is observability vs monitoring, tracing, and logging? Do they all have their own jobs or is there overlap? Where is the split between validating before production and validating in production? Are we making software more complex tha...

Rob sits down with Marko Gargenta to discuss helping developers build real knowledge about delivering software effectively. Marko shares how he came to realize how vital learning, training, and empowering new knowledge is for aspiring technical professionals.  For many organizations, investment in knowledge building through education and training has slashed time waste, inspired new development, a...

Rob interviews Andrea Goulet, Co-Founder of Corgibytes, and a prominent thought leader in the technology industry. Get answers to big questions like,  - Is there a change afoot in software that makes empathy more relevant now? Or is talking about empathy long overdue in our industry? - Can empathy be learned?  - What long-term impacts can developers make by building more empathy into their practic...

Rob interviews co-author of Team Topologies and founder of Conflux, Matthew Skelton on how to structure your team for a fast flow of change.  Discover the signs, symptoms, and proper metrics that indicate your organization's structure may need a redesign. Tune in today!

DevOps pros know that architecture can enable or inhibit a team’s ability to make changes quickly and confidently. Rob interviews Chris Richardson about engineering metrics that can help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their architecture.  Rob and Chris discuss how good architecture provides the foundation teams need to balance rapid delivery and finding product market fit with getting to a st...

Rob is joined by Brad Henrickson to discuss the interaction between human motivations and delivering great software. Brad and Rob dive into the leadership skill of cultivating space for employees to share their work motivations as a means to operating well together. Tune in today!

Rob interviews Elisabeth Hendrickson on system and flow.  Elisabeth shares how to get your team to understand the system of software delivery and how to get your team to measure success properly. Tune in today!

Rob interviews HashiCorp's Armon Dadgar about the inspiration of HashiCorp, infrastructure challenges and opportunities, and the future of security. 

Rob interviews Olaf Molenveld, CTO and Co-Founder of Vamp. Vamp’s release orchestration capabilities combined with CircleCI’s CI/CD platform will be transformative. Tune in today to hear about it!

Host Rob Zuber and CircleCI CEO Jim Rose discuss where DevOps came from and where it is headed.   To learn more about the history and future of DevOps, visit: https://circleci.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-devops-part-iv-continuous-delivery-and-continuous-deployment/