DevOps Paradox

#215: Thoughtworks recently released Volume 28 of their Technology Radar. Darin and Viktor take some time to break it down and discover that they might be in the wrong jobs.   Thoughtworks Technology Radar https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar   Today’s sponsor: Save 25% on your first Barbaro Mojo order using the code "DevOps25" https://barbaromojo.com/discount/DevOps25   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#214: When we first start developing applications, we probably also use a database. But at some point in time, we’ll probably hit a wall with that database because of changing business requirements. What are we supposed to do then? In this episode, we speak with Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize, about of a number of items ranging from why you should move from the no-win scenario of self-hosting to fully managed services and why you may be doing too much when building and orchestrating microservices.   Arjun’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/narayanarjun LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunravinarayan/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#213: You've been tasked with bringing a new SaaS product to market. Where do you start? Logically, or maybe not so much so, it's important to start by defining your target audience, understanding their needs, and developing a solution that meets those needs. You’ll also probably end up fighting the build from scratch versus modifying something that already exists battle. In this episode, we speak with Mav Turner, CTO of DevOps at Tricentis, about his thoughts on how to correctly assemble teams to get a product successfully launched and learning to love constraints.   Mav’s contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mav-turner-b5542a4/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#212: Let’s assume for a moment that you are building a SaaS that you want to turn into a product. Sure, you need to make sure your authentication works, but that’s really step 1 of potentially thousands of steps. Should you create all the services you really need to run a SaaS or should you pull something off the shelf? In this episode, we speak with Anton Zagrebelny, the co-founder and CTO of Stigg, about some of the reasons why you should use solutions that solve your problem instead of trying to build it yourself.   Anton’s contact information:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-zagrebelny/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#211: With the advent of video games like Minecraft and Roblox, kids are starting to learn to code at much younger ages than before. The question is are these kids going to be ready to become the computer programmers for the next generation?  In this episode, we speak with Jim Douglas, CEO at Armory, about the reality of what programming will look like in the future and what skills we need to be learning now if we don’t want to be displaced by middle school students.   Jim’s contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jidouglas/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints  https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#210: If you're feeling frustrated and overwhelmed due to your current database deployment and management process not working as expected, then you are not alone! Think about how many times you’ve needed to maintain the schema of your database and then you give up because it’s either going to break things or it’s going to take too long for a migration to happen.  In this episode, we speak with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, about how running your own database should be considered a thing of the past and that you really shouldn’t be scared to make changes to your database schema when it's as simple as doing a rewind.   Sam’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/isamlambert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#209: Many people think they want to take their applications and run replicas of those applications on different cloud providers to mitigate risk. What if instead you created your applications to leverage the benefits of all the different cloud providers? In this episode, we speak with Chetan Venkatesh, CEO and founder of Macrometa, about why using multiple cloud services to run cookie cutter versions of your applications is actually a bigger problem than it might seem on the surface.   Chetan’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/chetan_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetanvenkatesh/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#208: KubeCon season has started again and in this episode, we give you our thoughts on KubeCon EU 2023, along with our friends Whitney Lee and Engin Diri.   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#207: When you begin building a SaaS product, it’s pretty straightforward. Open an account with one of the big 3 hyperscalers, upload your code, then profit! Ok, only those first two are guarantees. The third one is up for interpretation. In this episode, we speak with Yaniv Leven, VP of SaaS products at SQream, about what it was like to build a “native” SaaS product in 2016 and how that differs to converting a classical on-premise application to SaaS in 2023.   Yaniv’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/yanivleven LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanivleven/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#206: As an application developer, you’re probably used to pulling libraries from Maven Central, PyPI, or npm Registry. Has it ever crossed your mind how secure is this thing that I’m pulling or do you just YOLO so you can get the job done? In this episode, we speak with Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations at JFrog, about Pyrsia, an open source project that helps protect the open source supply chain so you can have confidence in the libraries that you use.   Stephen’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/steveonjava LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveonjava/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/