
Arrested DevOps
Arrested DevOps is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness.
Latest episodes

Aug 16, 2019 • 39min
Devopsdays Minneapolis 2019
Bridget and Matty chat with guests Liz Fong-Jones, Alice Goldfuss, and RJ Williams, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2019.
Liz Fong-Jones is a new organizer of devopsdays New York City. Alice Goldfuss is the MC for devopsdays Portland. RJ Williams is an organizer of devopsdays Raleigh.
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
Discount codes
ADO2019 for 20% off lots of devopsdays
Velocity Berlin Nov 4-7 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes; early price price ends 20 September.

Jul 20, 2019 • 50min
Protocols and Sympathy With Martin Thompson
Martin’s talk on protocols from J on the Beach
Mechanical sympathy:
https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mechanical-sympathy.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy
https://dzone.com/articles/mechanical-sympathy
Universal Scalability Law, Queuing theory, Little’s Law
http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/USLscalability.html
https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-scalability-law-to-organisations/
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/little-usl-scalability-performance/
http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-little-triplet.html
http://www.vissinc.com/2012/09/07/littles-law-isnt-it-a-linear-relationship/
https://medium.com/@__bbak/dont-be-fooled-by-littles-law-18e18dba3717
Florence Nightingale and Pie Charts
Dijkstra on the radical novelty of software
Image credit: Ylva, Ebba, and Kashti Grimm
Community
Velocity Berlin Nov 4-7 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes, and Best Price ends August 2.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!

Jun 13, 2019 • 49min
Pushing Left With Tanya Janca
Pushing Left, Like a Boss: Part 1
OWASP Serverless Top 10 Project

May 23, 2019 • 36min
Catching Up With Steven Murawski
Trevor chats with Steven Murawski of Microsoft about Azure DevOps, Windows Terminal and all the cool things from Microsoft Build 2019.

Apr 21, 2019 • 52min
Principal Engineering With Silvia Botros
On being a principal engineer - blog post by Silvia
Silvia’s talks
Image credit
Community
Velocity San Jose June 10-13 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!
CFP for devopsdays Chicago: open until May 3rd
Checkouts
Silvia: the Beyoncé movie came out on Netflix: Homecoming
Jessica: Do something outside! It’s spring!
Matty: Stocksy - for affordable stock imagery that benefits the artists and Super Team Deluxe for great pins and stuff

Apr 5, 2019 • 50min
Making DevOps Magic With Arup Chakrabarti
Image credit: photo by GotCredit
Community
Velocity San Jose June 10-13 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!

Mar 30, 2019 • 54min
Unreliable Things Can Be the Most Valuable Things
Mark’s talk from YOW! Australia: Principles of Reliable Systems
Progressive Delivery by James Governor of RedMonk
[Scientist](Scientist - https://github.com/github/scientist), a Ruby library for experiments
Dark, a language/IDE for coding into a running system
Entity Service Antipattern by Michael Nygard
Facebook PHP Typechecking example from Julien Verlaguet
the excellent closing loops / control plane talk by Colm MacCarthaigh
Safety II
That cool building in Sydney
Credit for the drawing of Mark goes to lyn.ia
Community
Velocity San Jose June 10-13 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!

Mar 22, 2019 • 38min
Certification Fun With Jay Gordon
Previous episode: Punk Rock DevOps
Oncall Nightmares Podcast
Image credit: aesthetictech.net
Community
Velocity San Jose June 10-13 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!

Mar 3, 2019 • 1h 1min
Shiny Objects With Jessie Frazelle and Andrew Clay Shafer
This is the unofficial pilot for their new podcast: weird trick mafia
Jessie’s job-shadowing blog posts: Government. Medicine. Capitalism? (Wednesday, February 27, 2019) and Trust and Integrity (Friday, March 1, 2019)
Andrew mentions a book: Team of Teams
Jessie wrote a blog post about Intel SGX.
Image credit: oldpatterns
Upcoming talks
Jessie: QCon London, dotGo Paris
Andrew: devopsdays Atlanta
Community
Velocity San Jose June 10-13 2019 - discount code “ADO2019” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
For any devopsdays, try the discount code ADO2019!

Jan 8, 2019 • 52min
The Database Calls Are Coming From Inside the DevOps
Greg Burrell at QCon SF 2018: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
Baron’s talk from QCon SF isn’t public yet, sorry. It will be. Meanwhile, here are the slides
Bonus: Baron tweeted to ask ppl about their favorite on-call resources, and Mike Julian compiled all the answers into https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/
What is DevOps?
According to…
Microsoft
Amazon
New Relic
Atlassian “DevOps is the next most famous portmanteau next to Brangelina”
Check these out
Jess: Quantum Mechanics Without the Observer
Baron: Podcast rec: http://www.sceneonradio.org/
Matty: John Allspaw on Incidents as We Imagine Them Versus How They Actually Are