
Software Delivery in Small Batches
Adam Hawkins presents the theory and practices behind software delivery excellence. Topics include DevOps, lean, software architecture, continuous delivery, and interviews with industry leaders.
Latest episodes

Feb 8, 2021 • 54min
Saltside Chronicles with Sebastian Dahlgren
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
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Dec 18, 2020 • 22min
Saltside Chronicles #5: Retrospective
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)
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Dec 17, 2020 • 34min
Saltside Chronicles #4: A New Architecture
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)
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Dec 16, 2020 • 14min
Saltside Chronicles #3: The Snow Ball
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)
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Dec 15, 2020 • 14min
Saltside Chronicles #2: Technical Debt Calls
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)
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Dec 14, 2020 • 22min
Saltside Chronicles #1: Overview
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)
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Dec 7, 2020 • 49min
Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo
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)
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Nov 30, 2020 • 32min
Software Delivery at Buildkite with Keith Pitt
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
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Nov 16, 2020 • 1h 2min
GitOps & ArgoCD with Viktor Farcic
Adam welcomes Viktor Farcic to the show. Viktor Farcic is a Principal DevOps Architect at CodeFresh, a member of the Google Developer Experts, Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassadors, and Docker Captains groups, and a published author.Adam & Viktor discuss the how and why of GitOps and how ArgoCD fits in the deployment pipeline. Many fun sidebars in this conversation into the role of docs vs code and why you should never compromise on your workflow when quality is at stake. This is a fun and easy conversation. Best served with a beer instead of the usual coffee. Enjoy the laughs.Viktor Farcic's LinksWebsiteTwitterLinkedInThe DevOps Toolkit Book SeriesThe DevOps Toolkit Video SeriesDevOps Paradox PodcastArgoCDAdam Hawkins' LinksMy appearance on The DevOps Paradox: A Day in the Life of a SRENext Gen Deployments @ Skillshare (Webinar)
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Nov 9, 2020 • 45min
Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall
Adam welcomes Torin Sandall to the show. Torin is the Vice President of Open Source at Styra and the co-creator of Open Policy agent.Adam & Torin discuss the origin of the project, why create new language from scratch called Rego, why that language is awesome, how Adam fell in love with Conftest, and how to use all these tools to create more secure systems.The first five or so minutes are for Small Batches housekeeping and a special announcement!Adam Hawkins' LinksConftest (You really should try this!)My Kubernetes Manifest Rego PoliciesTorin Sandall's LinksOpen Policy Agent
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