
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 22, 2018 • 0sec
Fireside Chat With Christine Spang
Matty has a chat with Christine Spang of Nylas about company culture and on-call techniques and war stories.
Student Information Processing Board - MIT
Ksplice
Paying back technical debt - How we scaled infrastructure 20x and kept developers sane

Aug 20, 2018 • 0sec
Devopsdays Salt Lake City 2018
Matty chats with Nicole Forsgren, Wes Novack, a shadowy figure known only as Chris from Qualtics, Jason Vance, and Matthew Barlocker in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Salt Lake City 2018.
Matty’s talk at devopsdays Salt Lake City 2018
Nicole’s book: Accelerate
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
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 5% off GopherCon.

Aug 8, 2018 • 0sec
Devopsdays Minneapolis 2018
Bridget and Matty chat about organizing conferences with guests Jam Leomi, Debbie Gillespie, and Christian Herro, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2018.
Jam Leomi is a past organizer of devopsdays Silicon Valley, and they just moved to Minneapolis. Christian Herro is a founding organizer of devopsdays Madison, and Debbie Gillespie is a new organizer of devopsdays Minneapolis.
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
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 5% off GopherCon.
MATTY for 20% off REdeploy

Aug 1, 2018 • 0sec
Let’s Be Careful Out There
Guests J. Paul Reed and Mary Thengvall talk about resiliency, safety, and a great new conference - REdeploy!
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
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays
MATTY for 20% off REdeploy

Jul 22, 2018 • 0sec
Devopsdays Amsterdam 2018
On this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty and Bridget discuss conference speaking with participants at devopsdays Amsterdam 2018.
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
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 5% off GopherCon.

May 9, 2018 • 0sec
Theatre Geeks Unite and Tech Over the World
On this episode of Arrested DevOps, Trevor is joined by Chloe Condon, Nathen Harvey, and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Everyone on this episode has been a part of the theater community at some point in their lives. We talk about our individual journeys from theater into tech, the lessons we learned on the way, and how we leverage those lessons every day.
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
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.
Mongodb world: JAYGORDON for 25% off
Where We’ll Be
Chloe
Sentry Scouts every month
Nathen
London Infrastructure As Code
ChefConf
DevOpsDays DC
Velocity San Jose - Workshops on Habitat & InSpec
Nell
ChefConf May 22-25
DevOpsDays DC June 6-7
Trevor
Microsoft //build May 7-9
ChefConf May 22-25
Check Outs:
Chloe:
Search Party
Eric Butler’s talk from Def Con
Off Book Podcast
Nathen:
Lost in Space
The World Cafe
Tip…nobody pays full price for a conference
Nell:
Dear Evan Hansen Soundtrack
San Junipero episode - Black Mirror
Trevor:
Barry - HBO Series
Hazards of Love
JSON Viewer
Postman

Apr 28, 2018 • 0sec
GOTO Chicago 2018
Bridget curated the distributed systems track at GOTO Chicago 2018. In the last timeslot of the day, she gathered all the speakers from the track to discuss their topics.
Show notes
Jeff Hodges - Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems, 2018
Jordan Hendricks - Designing Features for Mature Systems: Lessons Learned from Manta
Erik St. Martin - Building Distributed Systems with Kubernetes
Alena Hall - Distributed Data Stores on Kubernetes
Kyle Kingsbury - Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling; Kyle’s distributed systems class
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
Velocity EU - CFP closes May 8
Discount codes
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.

Mar 12, 2018 • 0sec
Punk Rock DevOps With Jay Gordon
What is Developer Advocacy? - Ashley McNamara
Community Pulse podcast
Developer Avocados: The Good Kind Of Fat
The GitHub Memcached DDoS: It shouldn’t have happened
AW.. Sh*t: Amazon S3 borkage takes down GitHub, Yahoo Mail and more
What is devrel anyway?
DevOps Music Playlist
Wolverine Blues - Entombed
Heartwork - Carcass
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
You Will Never Be One Of Us - Nails
Highway 101 - Social Distortion
Raining Blood - Slayer
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Piles of Little Arms - Morbid Angel
Set It Off - Madball
Caboose - Snapcase
Rise Above - Black Flag
Last Caress - Misfits
Straight Edge - Minor Threat
Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
Who are You?? - Void
view on Spotify
Community & Event Stuff
Where are we going to be?
Matt will be at the devops meetup in MSP on March 20 and then home for a bit. In April he’ll be at DrupalCon in Nashville, Devopsdays Des Moines, and GOTO Chicago. See mattstratton.com/speaking for more.
Open CFPs Discounts
Lots of devopsdays: https://www.devopsdays.org/speaking/
Discount codes
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon
MongoDB World JAYGORDON for 25% off
Check Outs
Muzzle - simple mac app that turns off notifications when you are screen sharing
Tailor - iOS app that automatically detects overlapping screenshots and merges them

Mar 1, 2018 • 0sec
Devops Weekly With Gareth Rushgrove
Bridget discusses Devops Weekly with Gareth Rushgrove.
Referenced in this episode:
Devops Weekly
Velocity Debate Club, Amsterdam 2015
Luke Kanies - Should You Open Source Your Product? That’s the Wrong Question
Header image
Postbox
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
GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30.
Discount codes
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.
Checkouts
Gareth
kubeval
QCon London 2018 ethics track
Bridget
IOT DevKit
Male Ally Summit New York March 29

Feb 26, 2018 • 0sec
Hot Takes With Charity Majors, Jill Jubinski, and Eric Sigler
Definition of a hot take - “a piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event, whose primary purpose is to attract attention.”
Charity Majors (Honeycomb), Jill Jubinski (Fastly), and Eric Sigler (PagerDuty) sit down with Matt to have some fun with a few great DevOps “hot takes” and talk about what everyone is doing wrong.
Referenced in this episode:
Veteran of the Process Wars by Michael Ducy
Crucial Conversations
Charity’s tweetstorm about on-call
On-Call Doesn’t Have To Suck by Cindy Sridharan
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
DevOpsDays Chicago 2016 - DevOps’ing Recruitment by Jill Jubinski
Containers Won’t Fix Your Broken Culture by Bridget Kromhout
Matt’s LinkedIn post about DevOps Engineers
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
GopherCon: CFP closes March 15; Conference Aug 27-30.
Discount codes
ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf, 5% off GopherCon.