Software Delivery in Small Batches

Adam welcomes Markus Schirp to the show. Markus is an independent software professional. He calls himself a "dynamic language exorcist." He's also the man behind the Mutant mutation project for Ruby.Adam and Markus discuss the first principles for software development, laddering up to higher-level abstractions, and how tooling helps developers.Markus Schirp's LinksMy GithubMutantMy TalksAdam Hawkins' LinksSoftware Architecture Talk (2014) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam welcomes Sebastian Dahlgren to the show. Sebastian is now the CTO at Saltside. Sebastian joined Saltside just after the rewrite completed and continues to work there today.Adam & Sebastian worked closely together to grow the team in Bangalore until Adam left Saltside in 2017. Adam & Sebastian discuss if the rewrite delivered on its promise, what worked, what didn't work, and if those architectural bets made years ago paid off. Sebastian Dahlgren's LinksTwitterLinkedInSaltside Engineering BlogAdam Hawkins' LinksSaltside Engineering: Building our Helm ChartSaltside Engineering: Our First Kubernetes Outage ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.Adam's LinksShipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.Adam Hawkin's LinksShipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.Adam's LinksShipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.Adam's LinksShipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.Adam's LinksShipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam welcomes Alex Hidalgo to the show. Alex is the Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives.Adam & Alex discuss the ins-and-outs of SLOs. It's assumed you are already familiar with the basic concepts of SLIs & SLOs so please listen to the previous episode (linked below) before listening to this conversation. Some of the take-aways: run your SLOs for a least a month before you consider them ready and alerting on SLOs is a really hard problem! Lots of great pro-tips in this episode.Adam Hawkins' LinksSLI's, SLO's, & SLA's on Small Batches #14Implementing SLOs from the SRE WorkbookAlex Hidalgo's LinksImplementing Service Level Objectives (Book) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam welcomes Keith Pitt to the show. Keith Pitt is the founder as CTO of Buildkite.com. Buildkite is CI/CD platform.Adam invited Keith on the show to discuss software delivery inside a company building software delivery tools. It turns out that Buildkite has a fearless continuous deployment pipeline. So listeners, if you need a software delivery North Star then just listen to Keith. It's all here in this episode. Keith Pitt's LinksBuildkiteAdam Hawkins' LinksContinuous Deployment to K8s using Buildkite ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Viktor Farcic, a Principal DevOps Architect at CodeFresh and member of esteemed tech communities, dives into the world of GitOps and ArgoCD. He discusses the importance of defining everything as code and the transformative power of a Git-centric workflow. Viktor critiques traditional documentation methods, advocating for code as the primary source of truth. The conversation also explores innovative deployment strategies like canary and blue-green deployments, underscoring the balance between automation and quality in software delivery.