Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration

Jun 12, 2024

Solomon Hykes, Co-Founder @Dagger_io, discusses the evolution of the container industry, advantages of Dagger in abstracting CI/CD pipelines, lessons learned from Docker days, and metrics for measuring Dagger's success. The podcast delves into streamlining DevOps pipelines, transitioning to containerized components, empowering app teams with Dagger, and integrating AI coding assistance in development ecosystems.

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Intro

00:00 • 3min

Streamlining DevOps Pipelines with Dagger

02:39 • 13min

Discussing Unique 'Snowflake' Software and Transition to Containerized Components

15:22 • 2min

Empowering Application Teams with Dagger for Improved Control Over CI Processes

17:22 • 11min

Integrating AI Coding Assistance in Development Ecosystems

28:45 • 7min

Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a number of times over the years and we’ve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.

Topic 2 - Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2a - Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 3 - Let’s go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an “industry” changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?

Topic 3a - What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?

Topic 4 - What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?

Topic 4a - I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, what’s in it for Ops?

Topic 5 - Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.

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