GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris
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Dec 30, 2025 Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman, an author and DevOps expert, shares insights from his journey in tech, spurred by a crisis at LinkedIn. He discusses defining DevOps as an efficient software delivery methodology and the balance between infrastructure management and application orchestration. Jim emphasizes the significance of frameworks over custom solutions and introduces Terragrunt as a Terraform framework. The conversation also explores emerging paradigms like infrastructure from code and interactive runbooks, while advocating for stable tools over fleeting trends.
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LinkedIn Deployment Crisis That Changed A Career
- Yevgeniy Brikman recounts LinkedIn's deployment crisis that froze all product work for months.
- The team implemented CI/CD, trunk-based development, automated deployments and feature flags to resume deploying hundreds of times per day.
Pragmatic Definition Of DevOps
- Brikman defines DevOps pragmatically as a methodology for doing software delivery efficiently.
- The book focuses on concrete techniques and technologies to deliver software reliably and repeatedly.
Two-Tier Tooling And The Dev/Ops API
- Brikman splits tooling into infrastructure-as-code for slow-changing infra and application orchestration for fast-changing app needs.
- He highlights CICD and the orchestration tooling as the API between dev and ops that teams must optimize.