

Adventures in DevOps
Will Button, Warren Parad
Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.
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May 20, 2021 • 42min
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes on Bare Metal with Andrei Kvapil - DevOps 069
Andrei Kvapil joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes with Jeffrey Groman.Andrei breaks down how he and his company needed to set up Kubernetes to manage their blade server setup and how they wound up running Kubernetes in Kubernetes to gain the characteristics they needed.PanelJeffrey GromanGuestAndrei Kvapil

May 13, 2021 • 1h 2min
The Theft and Recovery of Perl.com with Brian D. Foy - DevOps 068
When Perl.com went down, its owner and others had no idea that the domain had been stolen months earlier and later resold. Brian D. Foy stepped in to run down leads and contact people on behalf of the folks who owned the website to find out what happened.He walks us through the process of finding out what happened, getting the domain back, and what you can do in order to keep it from happening to you and how to make it easy to recover when things do go wrong.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestBrian D. Foy

May 6, 2021 • 8min
DevOps for Developers with Will Button - DevOps 067
In a lot of ways, DevOps folks are essentially Developers. They encode infrastructure and processes often using code. This episode with Will Button dives into how Developers can jump into DevOps by learning the ropes of what they're coding against and the problem sets solved by DevOps. This show also goes into how to communicate and collaborate between development and DevOps.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestWill Button

Apr 29, 2021 • 60min
Getting Amazing Personal Productivity with Mason McLead - DevOps 066
Mason McLead is the CTO at Software.com. Software.com is a toolset that measures developer productivity and helps developers be more productive. He discusses the things that are likely the Achilles heel to your productivity and a few simple things you can do to make sure you're working efficiently.PanelCaleb FornariCharles Max WoodJeffrey GromanGuestMason McLead

Apr 15, 2021 • 60min
DevOps 065: Code Reviews with James Donohue
James Donohue is a developer at the BBC (British Broadcasting) and explains the new way that they approach code reviews in his division. He also explains the ins and outs of how they communicate about code and the different purposes that code reviews can serve within an organization. Jeff, Caleb, and Chuck also chime in with their experience with code reviews and other similar approaches in security and DevOps.PanelCharles Max WoodCaleb FornariJeffrey GromanGuestJames Donohue

Apr 1, 2021 • 41min
How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer
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 Weimann

Feb 23, 2021 • 10min
DevOps 064: Software Dependencies: Do you Know What's Lurking in your Software?
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 Groman

Feb 9, 2021 • 45min
DevOps 063: Chaos Engineering with Mikolaj Pawlikowski
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 Pawlikowski

Feb 5, 2021 • 18min
Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
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.

Feb 2, 2021 • 56min
DevOps 062: Behind the SolarWinds breach
In this week's episode, Charles Wood interviews Jeffrey Groman. They discuss how SolarWinds was breached, what it means going forward and lessons learned for protecting your business from attacks.PanelCharles WoodJeffrey Groman


