Intro

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Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman - Author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery" & Co-Founder of Gruntwork
Kief Morris - Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Yevgeniy (Jim)
https://bsky.app/profile/brikis98.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/brikis98
https://github.com/brikis98/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbrikman
https://www.ybrikman.com

Kief
https://bsky.app/profile/kief.com
https://twitter.com/kief
https://github.com/kief
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiefmorris
https://infrastructure-as-code.com
https://kief.com

Link
https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io

DESCRIPTION
Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery", discusses his journey from app developer to DevOps advocate, triggered by LinkedIn's deployment crisis that required freezing all product development for months. The discussion with Kief Morris explores the practical definition of DevOps as efficient software delivery methodology, the relationship between infrastructure as code and application orchestration tools, the necessity of frameworks over custom wrapper scripts, and emerging paradigms including infrastructure from code, infrastructure as graph models, and interactive runbooks.

Jim emphasizes that while new approaches are interesting, maturity and standardization in existing tools often provides more value than constantly chasing new technologies.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Yevgeniy Brikman • Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery • https://amzn.to/3WMPMFU
Yevgeniy Brikman • Terraform: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/4otpxQL
Yevgeniy Brikman • Hello, Startup • https://amzn.to/3JmV0VR
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3X14qZK
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma

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