DevOps Paradox

#240: Imagine being handed a nicely-wrapped box containing Platform Engineering, much like when we were sold DevOps in a Box. An enigmatic gift, with …

#239: In this episode, Ville Aikas and Matt Moore from Chainguard join us for a discussion about open-source projects, distroless containers, and …

#238: You might just now be reaching the point of containerizing your workloads and running them in Kubernetes. However, how do you go about accessing those workloads? You might have started with an ingress, because …

#237: Darin catches up with Viktor and Whitney Lee just minutes after they've finished up at KubeCon NA 2023. We discuss the good things and bad …

#236: As you are heading into budget season for 2025, you're probably trying to figure out how to eliminate as much wasteful cloud spend as you can. …

#235: In the mid-2000s, Werner Vogels introduced the idea of "you build it, you run it". This concept suggested that the same team responsible for …

#234: The shift to cloud computing has greatly increased the popularity of infrastructure as code.

But think about it. Cloud is nothing more than an …

#233: When you first start a job, you'll probably be doing good to get paired up with a senior person to walk you through the ropes. What if instead …

#232: More than eighteen months in, Log4J appears to still be a huge problem for many organizations. What if there was a way to make sure those types …

#231: We never thought that exposing our databases to the public internet was a good thing. However, when we started creating middleware API services that sat in front of those databases, we probably ended up doing …

#230: In today's digital age, it's no secret that relying solely on passwords for security is no longer an effective solution. We all understand the …

#229: When Kubernetes was first released in September 2014, the only way we could get applications installed to the cluster was by using kubectl …

#228: The Agile Manifesto is now more than 20 years old. However, even after all this time, instead of helping organizations create and deliver …

#227: Imagine this. You walk into your office and your manager pulls you to the side and says “Pack up your belongings. You’ve been made redundant. …

#226: Dependency on third-party providers is an inescapable reality of modern operations. However, expecting third-party providers to solve …

#225: How did Kubernetes become the predominant choice for modern-day DevOps teams? From changing how applications run to reshaping security parameters, learn how this open-source platform continues to turn heads.

In …

#224: Are boot camps and CS degrees always necessary for landing a job? Or, can hands-on learning through eLearning platforms bridge that gap?

In today’s episode, we speak with Lane Wagner, creator of boot.dev, to learn …

#223: Maybe you’ve been in the tech space for years and you’re ready to get into open source. On the other hand, you may be fresh out of school and …

#222: Where do you start when you are having performance bottlenecks in your application? You might start looking at a log or a dashboard. What if there was a better way?

In this episode, we speak with Kursat and Fatih, …

#221: As an application developer, how often do you receive spreadsheets of findings from your security team? Do you drop everything you’re doing and work your way through the 57,239 findings during your existing …

#220: DevOps has revolutionized software development and operations, enabling organizations to deliver software faster, with improved quality and …

#219: In a world overflowing with data, traditional relational databases struggled to keep up with the demands of scalability, flexibility, and performance. Enter NoSQL, a groundbreaking approach to database management …

#218: Continuous testing has become an integral part of modern software development and delivery. It enables organizations to maintain high quality and agility in the face of rapid software iterations. But how can we …

#217: Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, or eBPF, has been making waves in the tech industry over the past few years. It's a technology that enables …

#216: As your team continues down the microservices journey, at some point you’ve probably hit the wall on being able to test against the versions of …

#215: Thoughtworks recently released Volume 28 of their Technology Radar. Darin and Viktor take some time to break it down and discover that they …

#214: When we first start developing applications, we probably also use a database. But at some point in time, we’ll probably hit a wall with that database because of changing business requirements. What are we supposed …

#213: You've been tasked with bringing a new SaaS product to market. Where do you start?

Logically, or maybe not so much so, it's important to start by defining your target audience, understanding their needs, and …

#212: Let’s assume for a moment that you are building a SaaS that you want to turn into a product. Sure, you need to make sure your authentication works, but that’s really step 1 of potentially thousands of steps. …

#211: With the advent of video games like Minecraft and Roblox, kids are starting to learn to code at much younger ages than before. The question is are these kids going to be ready to become the computer programmers …

#210: If you're feeling frustrated and overwhelmed due to your current database deployment and management process not working as expected, then you are not alone! Think about how many times you’ve needed to maintain the …

#209: Many people think they want to take their applications and run replicas of those applications on different cloud providers to mitigate risk. What if instead you created your applications to leverage the benefits …

#208: KubeCon season has started again and in this episode, we give you our thoughts on KubeCon EU 2023, along with our friends Whitney Lee and Engin Diri.

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#207: When you begin building a SaaS product, it’s pretty straightforward. Open an account with one of the big 3 hyperscalers, upload your code, then profit! Ok, only those first two are guarantees. The third one is up …

#206: As an application developer, you’re probably used to pulling libraries from Maven Central, PyPI, or npm Registry. Has it ever crossed your mind …

#205: At the end of 2022, Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, published a blog post about the tech predictions for 2023 and (more importantly) beyond.

In this episode, Darin and Viktor dig into a couple of those predictions, …

#204: When you think about managing data in an organization, you’re probably familiar with the concept of ETL: extract, transform and load. But in …

203: Given a choice, would you rather have broken builds or flaky tests? At least with a broken build, you have certainty of what is happening. How …

#202: How many people love Helm? Yeah, that’s what we thought. A lot of the time, you’re probably looking for an easier and simpler way to manage installing applications into a Kubernetes cluster.

You might be wishing …

#201: As an application developer, we’re used to adding logging to our applications. We also work with our operations counterparts to enrich those logs to help them out when troubleshooting. But what happens during an …

#200: We’ve reached episode 200!!! As we do with all our divide by 50 episodes, we invited our friend Patrick Debois back to discuss topics ranging from digital twins to the metaverse to AI to becoming a manager.

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#199: You’re probably used to hearing about using OpenTelemetry for your production troubleshooting. But have you considered using OpenTelemetry during your development lifecycle?

In this episode, we speak with Ran …

#198: It’s the dream that many of us have. We set out to build a service that gains a lot of adoption. However, we when reach that goal, we find that …

#197: Do you feel like you are working in a company that is not only behind the times but behind the century? If you feel stuck, is it because you’re too scared to search for another job and losing all the benefits …

#196: Where do you start when you work on optimizing the performance of your application? The number of options can seem overwhelming. Do you start with memory, CPU, network, or somewhere else? Even if you get it right, …

#195: Most companies have decades of legacy systems running their day-to-day business. They're difficult to replace with newer systems, and they're …

#194: Whether you are doing greenfield development with microservices or are doing brownfield development migrating monoliths to microservices, …

#193: As a database administrator, you probably want to spend more time trying to make things better for people using your database instead of always chasing down the latest tuning parameters or queries that are causing …

#192: Have you decided what you're going to be learning in 2023? In their annual attempt to read the crystal ball, Darin and Viktor talk about the things that you need to learn or that you will probably be learning in …

#191: In this episode, we recap all of the predictions we made at the beginning of 2022 and see how we did.

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#190: Darin and Viktor look back over 2020 part 3, in other words, 2022. Also, for something new this year, listen all the way to the end of the …

#189: In the distant past, we used punchcards and dumb terminals to program. Then came the advent of the personal computer and we started developing locally on our machines. There are now new offerings that allow us to …

#188: Just because you’ve run some chaos experiments against your system doesn’t mean you are ready to fend off wide ranging and prolonged attacks. …

#187: When writing tests that need to talk to a data source, you're usually faced with a couple of options. The first one is that you setup a database server on your machine. The problem with that is what happens when …

#186: Most companies say they want their application developers to be shipping more code faster and faster. However, those same companies don’t do …

#185: You've been told that you have to reduce your AWS bill. You also know that you cannot make any major changes to your infrastructure quickly. By …

#184: The public cloud is a powerful tool that allows businesses to outsource their data and compute to ensure security, availability, scalability, …

#183: Darin catches up with Viktor just minutes after he finishes up at KubeCon NA 2022. We discuss the good things and bad things that he experienced and some surprises that you might not have seen coming.

#182: As developers, we've all started at least a few side projects. Sometimes they're just for fun, or as a way of learning something new.

Other …

#181: Once you have your Kubernetes cluster up and running, what do you do next? One option is to monitor it and make sure everything is running smoothly.

On this episode, we talk with Ruben Hakopian, the founder of …

#180: At a time when big data and machine learning are transforming the enterprise, it is hard to see what is coming next. The answer: artificial intelligence. The transformation of AI into AIOps — machine learning in …

#179: For many decades, the use of service level objectives (SLOs) in IT has been a routine part of day-to-day business. The objectives are based on measurable impacts that each individual customer or operational unit …

#178: Observability has been around since the dawn of computing. Around 1992, BPF was introduced. It gave us the ability to do network packet filtering. Around 22 years later in 2014, eBPF was included in Linux kernel …

#177: Imagine this. What if you could magically turn your 20 year old Java and .NET applications into modern, containerized applications without …

#176: Many people ask us what they need to do in order to start a career in DevOps. The usual initial question is “what technologies do I need to …

#175: When most people start with low-code and no-code applications, they log in to a user interface, fill in some forms and do a lot of pointing and clicking. As we’ve learned over the years, that is just an invitation …

#174: As more and more companies start to use low-code and no-code solutions within their organizations, how many of them are actually evaluating …

#173: How much time have you wasted writing YAML files, helm charts or Kustomize configurations? What if deployments to Kubernetes could be as simple …

#172: As a developer, we might think we know how our application is going to run in production. We know we’ll need a web server, an application …

#171: How many hours a day do you think you code? 5? 4? Maybe 3?

What if I told you that you were only averaging 52 minutes each day?

In this …

#170: Containers are one of the quickest ways we can move away from a traditional server-centric architecture, as they allow us to host software "in the cloud" without over-provisioning resources or managing …

#169: With the development trend toward cloud services, developers need to build and deploy applications in this new paradigm. However, it may be …

#168: At DockerCon 2022, Docker announced a number of improvements to Docker Desktop, including extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux. What is it going to take for Viktor to install Docker Desktop on his machine again?

#167: When you install vanilla Kubernetes, which security option do you take? Trick question. There are no options. It is always installed wide open. If you're just experimenting, that's probably not a big deal.

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#166: In-person events are starting to ramp back up. However, there are plenty of online conferences. Worse yet, some companies are still trying to do hybrid events.

In this episode, we dig into what makes for a bad …

#165: Viktor recently (sort of) attended KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia, Spain. In this episode, we talk about everything that Viktor saw and …

#164: When you create a monolithic application, it's usually not a huge deal to add in some form of monitoring to keep track of what is happening …

#163: When you first start out with Kubernetes, probably the last thing on your mind is how much it costs. So how does one figure out what a Kubernetes cluster costs?

In this episode, we speak with Webb Brown from …

#162: Ever since the release of web applications, performance testing tools have been around to help analyze load times and many other aspects of …

#161: When an incident happens in a company, what happens? Usually people are running around trying to figure out what is going on and not communicating very well.

Most likely, that is because there is not a clear …

#160: If you are new to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), you may be a little overwhelmed. There are so many tools and technologies …

#159: In the age of microservices and containers, Kubernetes has become one of the most popular ways to manage application deployment and lifecycle …

#158: Security is a paramount concern for many organizations today due to remote work. The typical starting point is a VPN client is installed on workers devices. But is using a VPN really that secure?

In this …

#157: You're sitting at home and all of a sudden, you have a new business idea. You message a few of your friends and they agree that it is a great idea. You take out a few pieces of paper and start brainstorming. But …

#156: When you are writing an API, do you first create an OpenAPI document and then generate code or do you create your code and then generate an OpenAPI document? Regardless of how you create it, how do you know that …

#155: Do you know what the difference is between a project and a product in your day job? After years of working with clients as well as working in open source, we've figured out the differences between a project and a …

#154: What are the right and wrong ways organizations help their application developers be more productive? Should those organizations have the …

#153: Cloud has been around in an organization for a number of years and has had many, many employees and contractors managing the cloud assets. These assets have been created in numerous ways. Sometimes Terraform was …

#152: Many companies are seriously starting to look into creating an internal developer platform for their developers. However, how many of those companies really understand what it takes to create a developer platform …

#151: As an application developer, you know you need data about your application. Usually, that data starts with logs. Over time, you add in metrics. At some point, you might add traces. With OpenTelemetry, you get all …

#150: Patrick Debois joins us for his almost-annual divide by 50 episode. We talk about items ranging from digital twins to diagrams as code to everyone’s current favorite topics, NFTs and blockchain.

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#149: You might just be starting out using cloud and your credit card is doing just fine. However, after a few months, you notice that you need to …

#148: The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to mature, but one area is still a challenge. That area is managing storage for stateful applications.

In …

#147: In the pre-internet days, you would look through the newspaper when you wanted to get a new job. However, if you wanted to get to a job faster, …

#146: Who owns security? Is it the Development team? Is it the DevOps or Shared Services team? Is the the Security team?

In this episode, we with speak with Dean Agron from Oxeye to determine what happens when you …

#145: In this episode, we discuss a blog post from spike.sh that analyzed 29 DevOps engineer job postings from a number of the large technology …

#144: Filippo Valsorda recently wrote a blog post titled “Professional Maintainers: A Wake-up Call" in which he discusses his thoughts about the sustainability of open source. Where do you think open source will be in …

#143: When you are first starting with CI/CD, where should you start? That’s the question that Ahmed asks us in this episode. Should it be tools? …

#142: We answer a new variation on a question that we get a lot. Sure, we all know we need to know how to code if we are doing DevOps, but do we also need to know how to use development frameworks and potentially even …

#141: In this episode, we attempt to answer Stan's question "name five things we should gauge with current employer if they are still doing that …

#140: Have you decided what you're going to be learning in 2022? Darin and Viktor attempt to answer a question from Konstantin about what a DevOps …

#139: When you sit down to write documentation, do you start with a Google Doc or Microsoft Word? Hopefully neither. Hopefully you start with plain …

#138: It's that time of year where we reflect on everything that happened over the past year and ponder what will be happening over the next year.

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#137: Many application developers have either been hearing about or having thrust upon them the concept of shifting left. But now in some places, even infrastructure is trying to get in on the game. However, to believe …

#136: Imagine you've just learned Kubernetes yourself, but now you've been selected to help train a new team member on what Kubernetes is and how to …

#135: Alexey asked us the following question:

​My company is considering migrating everything to Kubernetes. What stack of Kubernetes technologies …

#134: In this episode, we attempt to answer the following question from Karan: "How do you make a case to your organization to embrace open source, …

#133: Joyce Lin, the head of developer relations at Postman, joins us to discuss why software produced today should be done in a "API First" manner. …

#132: Since around March 2020, we've been working, or trying to work, remotely. That doesn't mean that it has been done efficiently or effectively.

In this episode, we speak with David Burkus, organizational …

#131: HashiCorp recently did their first-ever State of Cloud Strategy survey. In this episode, Rosemary Wang, developer advocate from HashiCorp, rejoins us to discuss the survey.

Patterns and Practices for …

#130: In this episode, we discuss a tweet made by John Cutler about the signs of high work in progress. How many of these do you encounter on a weekly, daily, or hourly basis?

We also discuss a blog post by Chris …

#129: In this listener question episode, we discuss the different ways to develop microservices: fully local, fully remote and hybrid. What do you …

#128: You know that securing environments with a secrets manager is something that needs constant upkeep. Sometimes secrets management can be …

#127: Even though it is 2021, many application development organizations still follow the decades-old process of throwing software over the wall to …

#126: If you're like most people, you're probably wondering what "bare metal" means. Turns out, it's a term that's been thrown around for decades. And if you're wondering how it can be applied to something like cloud …

#125: Low code is a movement that aims to further automate the development of systems and software. By doing so, it reduces the time spent on …

#124: If you are an application developer, more than likely you work with some sort of data set. But what do you do when you have sensitive data like credit card numbers, social security numbers or something as simple …

#123: When you have an application designed using the microservice architecture, where the microservice being developed interact with other services using events from messaging queues and HTTP requests, how can you …

#122: In this episode, we speak with Randy Abernethy about a number of topics ranging from the costs of digital transformation, how companies are embracing hybrid cloud, and the differences between the Apache Software …

#121: Hooray! You've finally gotten around to implementing your infrastructure as code. But tomorrow is a new day with new problems that you didn't plan for in Day 1. Now what do you have to do in order to continue …

#120: From everyday conversations to important messages, words have a profound effect on our lives. As we are finding out in today's society (and really throughout time), words really do matter, especially from a …

#119: Many companies are hiring for Developer Advocates. Have you considered making the move from engineering to developer advocacy? Today we talk with Anaïs Urlichs, a SRE that is doing both developer advocacy and …

#118: Do you know who your customer is? If you think the answer is "I don't have any customers", you would be wrong. Everyone has awesome customers. …

#117: Many times, people question why gates exist in business. It's good to question why a gate exists. However, it's not ok to remove a gate without first doing the work necessary to figure out what will happen if the …

#116: Individuals typically love to chase the new bright shiny technology objects. However, most enterprises go in the exact opposite direction and …

#115: Are you still logging in and making manual changes to your servers and applications or have you started on the path to not only no touch production, but to no touch everything? If you aren't moving in that …

#114: Are you running your Kubernetes clusters by applying the Oprah effect (you get a cluster...you get a cluster...you get a cluster) or have you finally realized you have neither unlimited cash nor unlimited compute …

#113: Are specifications still relevant in today's software development lifecycle? It depends on who you ask..and how old they are. In this episode, …

#112: Are you still clicking around in consoles to create and manage your infrastructure? If so, you'll want to listen to today's episode with …

#111: Ever since Alex Birsan published his Dependency Confusion article in February 2021, the concept of the software supply chain has come to the …

#110: It seems that everyone thinks that microservices solves every problem that can be imagined. In fact, there's probably a good chance that you …

#109: You've made the decision that you're going to drop your monoliths and move to microservices. Have you given any consideration how you are going …

#108: If you cannot define a thing, how do you know what it is? Is a microservice a function, a container, a VM, all of the above or none of the above? Today, we give you our definition of what a microservice is and …

#107: As a software development community, we're used to hearing the terms sprints, projects, and agile. However, the people that sign our paychecks, …

#106: There seems to be a great debate about what a DevOps engineer is and what a SRE is. Today, we throw our hat in the ring and attempt to dispel the myths that we see running rampant throughout the industry.

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#105: The following quote is attributed to Mark Twain, "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." Does this sound familiar? VMs. LXC. …

#104: When a business decides to release code to production that hasn't been fully tested or is releasing because a date has been promised, that's a …

#103: What is there was a way that you could harness the power of Kubernetes without having to learn all the ins and outs of Kubernetes? Enter …

#102: Are you a rule-maker or a rule-breaker? Hopefully we all agree that having guardrails up help us live a better life, whether personally or …

#101: What happens when you're doing a demo and your technology fails? You can get angry and write a blog post that goes viral. Today, we speak with …

#100: In our 100th episode, we bring back Patrick Debois, the GodFather of DevOps (at least we think so), as our "divide by 50" guest. In very Patrick fashion, he turns the tables on us and we go down a number of paths …

#99: In the nineties and early 2000s, it wasn't strange to see operations people copy and pasting "code" from Word documents, also known as runbooks, into their terminals to get their job done. It's now 2021 and we …

#98: How many times have you been put into the situation to debug a production issue and you have no idea where to start? Probably more than you can count. Worse yet, your employer expects that you can troubleshoot the …

#97: A chess player knows to write down their moves so they can replay their matches and learn from them. Having the ability to replay those matches also gives you the ability to start over and see where something goes …

#96: With the advent of software like Crossplane, we are beginning to see the Kubernetes API coming more to the forefront. In today's episode, we attempt to tackle why it appears that events are still not completely …

#95: You would think in 2021, we still wouldn't be having this conversation. However, it happens everyday. Should everything be automated? You might …

#94: Some people like reading text. Some people like watching videos. Which one are you when it comes to learning and building your skillset? Today, we talk about what we like as both producers and consumers of content.

#93: Many times, probably most, people don't leave your company only for more money. There's usually more to it than that. Today we discuss different things that a company can do to keep people from leaving that …

#92: On this podcast, we spend a lot of time discussing backend and infrastructure. Today, we speak with Grady Saccullo, a front end developer for …

#91: The Docker of 2021 is not the same as the Docker of 2016, especially when it comes to the tools around the Kubernetes ecosystem. Today, we talk …

#90: Email. Slack. Kubernetes. These things have at least one thing in common. They are all event-driven. Even if you don't agree with that statement, we can agree that asynchronous development has taken off in the past …

#89: 2020 is in the rear view mirror. 2021 is out the front windshield. The items that are going to be the most important are going to be those items that are the most irrelevant. In today's episode, we try to unwind …

#88: 2020 was quite a year. Your year may have been great or it may have been horrible. Hopefully it trended towards great, even if did not live up …

#87: This is a little different episode. With it being Christmas week, Darin and Viktor take a step back and think about all the things that they are …

#86: Just because you are running your application on Kubernetes, that doesn't mean it was simple to get to that outcome. Today, we speak with Alan Barr about how his company is trying to not only make Kubernetes …

#85: It's simple to quantify the hard costs of DevOps. Labor. Hardware. Software. However, it's a lot harder to calculate the hidden costs of DevOps. …

#84: In these times, everyone is familiar with Slack and Microsoft Teams. However, there are other companies that offer similar solutions. Today, we …

#83: When Spring Framework appeared on the scene over 18 years ago (October 1, 2002), the public cloud was just a glimmer in the eyes Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Fast forward to today. Spring has adapted over its …

#82: Today we speak with Olaf Molenveld, the CTO of Vamp.io, a Cloud-Native AIOps platform that provides self-service release and cost optimization …

#81: Today we speak with Christine Spang, CTO and co-founder of Nylas. We discuss the problems that Nylas solves for application developers so they …

#80: When you're first starting out in your business, you're probably going to outsource a lot of things, like HR, payroll and even server hosting. …

#79: In this episode, we with speak with Ant Weiss from Otomato about the differences between continuous integration and build automation. We also …

#78: Today we with speak with Adam Hawkins, a SRE for Skillshare and the host of the Small Batches podcast. We discuss what it's like to be a day-to-day SRE and how some companies still don't understand that it is …

#77: The unsung hero of any company. The NOC engineer. But what happens if your most skilled NOC engineer is on vacation and there was no backup for him? Enter NOC as a Service. Today, we talk with Avi Shalisman and …

#76: We know that there are numerous ways to provision infrastructure. Today, we talk with Joe Duffy, the CEO of Pulumi, about how everyone can …

#75: Declarative, imperative, CSV, JSON, and YAML. Do any of these items represent code? We attempt to answer that question in today's episode.

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#74: Many people today are still clicking around in consoles and copy and pasting instructions from Word documents. Today, we make the case for …

#73: If you don't want to run Elasticsearch for logging for your Kubernetes cluster, what do you do? As we found out from Vadim, one of our community members, the answer today is Loki.

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#72: In this episode, we speak with Gigi Sayfan, the author of Mastering Kubernetes. We speak with him about where Kubernetes is today and where he thinks it is headed in the future.

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#71: Observability can be broken down into three layers; software, infrastructure, and knowledge. Which of these things do you think is most important? Today, we discuss these items and more with Yotam Atad and Chen …

#70: Some people believe that high availability means 100% availability. That just isn't true. We attempt to disprove this age old myth in today's …

#69: Google Cloud Run vs Azure Container Instances vs AWS ECS. We discuss the pros and cons of each Containers as a Service solution in today's …

#68: Docker recently announced integrations with Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that makes it simple for developers to use native Docker commands to interact with these services. …

#67: We step away from serverless for a week to visit with Uma Mukkara about LitmusChaos. We discuss the origin story and how MayaData uses LitmusChaos on their SaaS platform to keep everything running so they can sleep …

#66: Viktor has finished the next section of the Catalog course. Today, we discuss the amazing, and not so amazing, use cases where you should use …

#65: Today we talk with Rodric Rabbah, creator and the lead contributor to Apache OpenWhisk as well as the CTO and co-founder of Nimbella, a serverless cloud platform.

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#64: In this next episode about serverless, we tackle the question if we should be using serverless or not. Our answer may surprise you.

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#63: In this first episode about serverless, we attempt to define the fundamentals of serverless in 2020.

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#62: We welcome back Ádám Sándor to continue our discussion about Kubernetes, Serverless and developer productivity.

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#61: Today with talk with Mikolaj (Miko) Pawlikowski, the creator of PowerfulSeal and the author of the new Manning book "Chaos Engineering: Crash …

#60: As a followup from last week's episode, we talk about the specific problems that Jenkins X solves.

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#59: Recently, Viktor has been hearing a number of people talking about choosing to use native services within cloud providers for their business applications instead of using Kubernetes. We attempt to tackle this …

#58: We get the tables turned on us today by one of the Docker Captains, Nirmal Mehta. We discuss numerous items ranging from biases, fallacies and …

#57: On this episode, we have a conversation with Tracy Miranda, the current chair of the Governing Board of the Continuous Delivery Foundation.

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#56: We have a conversation with one of our listeners who challenges us on some previous comments that we've made on the necessity of growing your skills.

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#55: What's it like to actually operate multiple Kubernetes clusters at a global scale? We chat with Carlos Sanchez about his experiences and his …

#54: We recently released a course on Chaos Engineering. Today, we speak with Russ Miles and Sylvain Hellegouarch, a couple of the team members …

#53: Recently, the governor of New Jersey made a plea for COBOL programmers to help maintain the state's unemployment system. In this episode, we discuss the ramifications of not taking the maintenance of your systems …

#52: It's not uncommon to see software vendors bashing competitor's products. Recently, Viktor had this happen to the product that he manages. This …

#51: After a short Twitter fight with Viktor, we asked Ádám Sándor to join us to discuss his position that Kubernetes is not too hard for developers to learn.

Ádám's contact information:

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#50: For our 50th episode, we talk with the godfather of Patrick Debois. We talk about many things ranging from DevOps in a fully remote environment …

#49: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses have implemented their business continuity plans. Part of those plans include remote work. Today, we talk about both of our experiences with remote work and what are …

In this bonus episode of DevOps Paradox, we talk with James Rawlings and James Strachan about the challenges in doing continuous delivery in Kubernetes.

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#48: Today we have a conversation with two consultants that work in the financial sector in London. Also, we discover that unicorns live on islands …

In this bonus episode of DevOps Paradox, we talk with Mislav Stipetic of MSB (Magic Sandbox) to talk about their platform that makes learning Kubernetes easy.

https://www.msb.com/

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#47: You want to do the right thing for your clients, but you can't because your manager won't let you. What kind of excuse is that? Are you a 3 year …

#46: Today we have a conversation with Phil Estes, a Distinguished Engineer for IBM as well as one of the maintainers of the containerd project. We …

#45: Unless you're a Kubernetes administrator, why should you bother learning everything about Kubernetes? Our answers may surprise you.

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#44: What happens when your company is not allowed to run anything in the cloud and must run everything on premise? What can you do get get the best of both worlds? We'll attempt to answer these questions in today's …

#43: Many times we are asked how to implement continuous testing on top of continuous delivery. Today, we talk about how there is, in isolation, no …

#42: As a company grows, it's not unexpected to see executive leadership change. However, those personnel changes mean different things to different people, both internal and external. We discuss the far reaching …

#41: In today's episode, we talk about the evils (and not so evils) of UIs in their many different forms.

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#40: We've heard about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment. Today, with the help of our guest Eric Mizell, we discuss Continuous Reliability.

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#39: Is it possible that the biggest contribution from the Kubernetes project isn't container scheduling, but the Kubernetes API itself?

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#38: How important do you think you are to your company? It only takes one decision and you'll find out. In this episode, we step on more toes than …

#37: We take a walk through the continuum of deployment strategies.

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#36: Welcome to 2020! We make 4 predictions for the upcoming year. How many of them do you agree or disagree with?

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#35: We look back at many of the topics of the past year. And yes, we still continue to ramble.

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#34: Today we dig into what we believe the current state of Docker is and where we think they are headed.

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#33: This was supposed to be the results show for which managed Kubernetes service sucks the least. Well, life got in the way. Listen to today's …

#32: We begin the discussion about how to determine which managed Kubernetes service sucks the least.

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#31: We tackle the role of shared service teams in an organization's DevOps culture. We also attempt to define what are "DevOps rules".

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Viktor has arrived back from KubeCon 2019. We talk about everything that happened from his perspective. We also touch on the Mirantis acquisition of Docker's Enterprise business.

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#30: Matt Turner joins us today to discuss his role as a day-to-day site reliability engineer practitioner at Ziglu. He also tells us a cautionary …

#29: We speak with Philipp Krenn today about Elasticsearch. We go through it's history and some of the more interesting stories where it has been used.

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#28: Peter Jausovec joins us today to talk all things service mesh. We also break out the crystal ball and make some predictions about Kubernetes for 2020.

Service Mesh Patterns at Riga Dev Days:

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#27: We discuss one of the greatest B movies ever and how it relates to one of the more recent Docker security issues.

Graboid: First-Ever Cryptojacking Worm Found in Images on Docker Hub

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#26: In this episode, we propose that the architect role is useless within most companies. We also tackle having non-technical people in technical …

#25: We discuss difference conference types and the pros and cons of each.

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#24: We discuss numerous deployment strategies, ranging from blue/green to serverless.

Also, it appears we have our first real fight on our hands. You decide.

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#23: Today we speak with Erez Rusovsky from Rollout and talk all things feature flags. Who knew that code injection as a service could be so cool?

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#22: In today's episode, we answer Neven's question about what motivates us to learn, work, and write.

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#21: Neven asks us how we organize time for work, learning, and new stuff we’d like to try. We talk about some tools and tips that we both use. We …

#20: In our first guest episode, John Laffey joins us to discuss his disagreements with our episode about configuration management. Can we keep it a good, clean fight? You be the judge.

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#19: What are the big differences between hackers and developers? Our answers may surprise you.

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#18: Neil Gealy asks "What is the best way to track features, bugs, etc, going into a release for visibility to the rest of the company (outside the development team)? And how do you incorporate that into release notes …

#17: Ivor asks "How do you like to learn? People that like to learn have their own style. What's yours?"

https://twitter.com/ivorsco77/status/1154039680603529218

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#16:Vadim asks "when will we automate ourselves out of our jobs?"

Fire Someone Today by Bob Pritchett:

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#15: Silos exist throughout enterprises. We discuss if silos are bad or good and everything in between.

Here's the question from Joost:

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#14: We take our first listener question and it's all about GitOps.

Here's the question from Andrey:

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#13: With apologies to Shakespeare...to have opinions or not to have opinions? That is the question.

DevOps Paradox by Viktor Farcic:

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#12: Viktor is back from a recent trip through Asia. One of the things he encountered was the surprising "lack" of English throughout the region. We …

#11: We discuss a lot of different angles of serverless, including why it's a smart thing for you to start looking into serverless today.

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#10: With all the consolidation in the open source market, how can you and your company be a good citizen when it comes to open source?

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#9: Why are people scared of continuous deployment? Can everyone get to true continuous deployment? Darin and Viktor discuss these question as well as why delayed is sometime perceived as continuous.

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#8: You understand the impact that feature flags have on continuous delivery. However, have you thought about how refactoring should also be a part …

#7: It seems like Continuous Integration should be a simple and non-negotiable process in today's workplace. We discover that not everything is as it …

#6: Matt Klein recently tweeted his career advice to be a successful individual contributor. We take an in depth look at that concept in today's …

#5: Chef...Puppet...Ansible...Terraform...CFEngine. These are some of the big names in configuration management. In today's episode, we debate are …

#4: How today's workforce is driving many of the current trends in DevOps.

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#3: Convention over configuration. We know that it makes a developer's life easier (or it is supposed to...). Can we apply that same thought process …

#2: With apologies to Derek Zoolander, Kubernetes is so hot right now. Why is that? We ask that question and come up with a few answers that might …

#1: What is DevOps? The answer(s) we come up with may surprise you.

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