Adventures in DevOps

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.PanelCharles Max WoodSponsorsDev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.PanelCharles Max WoodGuestJason WeimannSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.PanelCharles Max WoodSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.PanelCharles Max WoodSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod.He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.Join the Dev Heroes Accelerator at https://devchat.tv/hero PanelCharles Max WoodSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.PanelCharles Max WoodSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorLinksAdventures in DevOps - Devchat.tvDependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other CompaniesDevchat.tv | JSJ 357: Event-Stream & Package Vulnerabilities with Richard Feldman and Hillel WayneMalicious code found in npm package event-stream downloaded 8 million times in the past 2.5 monthsGitHub | The Node Security PlatformPicksCaleb- Have a plan to mitigate damage if someone is able to get inside your network. Don’t just secure the public side of your technical infrastructure, make sure your internal security as just as strong as your external security.Charles- Dev Heroes Accelerator | Devchat.tvCharles-  The Umbrella Academy | NetflixCharles- Personal RetreatJeffrey- Asset management: Know and document where all of your digital assets reside. Whether servers, VMs, EC2 instances, and all of your structured and unstructured data.Jeffrey- You can’t secure what you don’t know about  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This is a repeat episode of Adventures in DevOps. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/adventures-in-devops/devops-018-how-we-killed-devops-with-adam-nowak/ SponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialSpecial Guest: Adam Nowak. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mikolaj Pawlikowski wrote a book about Chaos Engineering. His book is a practical guide to using the tools to test your infrastructure. He's a tech lead at Bloomberg running Kubernetes. He walks us through the various tools and techniques for making sure that your systems will stand up to things that can destabilize them by scripting different failure scenarios.PanelCharles Max WoodGuestMikolaj PawlikowskiSponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorPicksCharles- Talk to people you don’t agree withCharles- Podcast: Writing ExcusesCharles- The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussCharles- The Way of Kings - Stormlight Archive Book 1 by Brandon SandersonMikolaj - Looking into the numbers of climate changeSpecial Guest: Mikolaj Pawlikowski. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy