Curious about DevOps? In this podcast series we dive deep into the DevOps culture and chat with friends from small startups and large enterprises about what DevOps looks like in their organizations. Join us weekly to hear about the problems they are solving, how their teams work together, and the tools they are using to get the job done.
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Update those resumes and take a listen to Anna-Marie Gutierrez-Lee, the Director of Talent Acquisition at LogDNA. She’s passionate about mentoring recruiting teams and connecting talent to their dream careers while fostering a genuine and positive candidate experience. On this episode, we’re talking about how to recruit in a DevOps culture and why it’s so important to bring more underrepresented talent into tech.
2:45 Get to know AMG
3:56 What is DEIB?
7:13 What does DevOps mean to you?
9:15 How recruiting for a DevOps culture is different
11:30 What AMG looks for when recruiting for LogDNA
14:50 Burn out is real, especially as a woman in a male-dominated industry
18:00 The Great Resignation
22:11 Why isn't tech more diverse and how can we fix that?
28:16 Identifying your gaps
31:33 Combat group think with a diverse workforce
LogDNA Website (https://www.logdna.com/career-culture)
Find AMG on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/annamariegutierrez (http://www.linkedin.com/in/annamariegutierrez)
Find Liesse on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/liessejones (http://www.linkedin.com/in/liessejones)
15 Feb 2022
What do DevSecOps and Formula 1 have in common?
Is DevSecOps the answer to effective cloud migration? In this episode Liesse will talk to Josh Minthorne, Co-founder and Global Technology Director of Axcelinno.
18 Jan 2022
How AI and ML can empower your developers, with Nick Durkin from Harness
Episode Summary: In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Durkin, Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness. Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes including CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and more. Nick and I will discuss how to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best and why AI and ML are the future of DevOps.
About: Nick Durkin: Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness (https://harness.io/)
Nick Durkin has spent the last three years building Pre-Sales teams for Startups, Value Added Resellers (VARs), and Enterprise Sales Teams. He possesses over a decade of data center architecture knowledge combined with a wealth of certified training. Nick also owns over five years of Hadoop and Big Data experience, architecting systems and building big data applications for not only the Federal government, but also the world’s largest financial institutions. Nick has held the position of lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s FIVICS initiative, as well as developed many of the anti-fraud applications currently in use among the aforementioned financial institutions. Utilizing his successful history of innovative design involving data protection, fiscal responsibility and directive appreciation, Nick continues to develop purposeful solutions tailored to each of his client’s needs.
Chapters:
1:10 Nick’s introduction and background
3:00 What’s a Field CTO?
5:00 Start with why as a foundation
6:08 The problems that Harness solves.
6:15 Using AI & ML to solve CI/CD
10:20 Why compliance is important for your customers
13:25 How the cost factor changes throughout the growth journey
16:25 Intersection of cost and observability data management
20:00 AI & ML: defining the often misused terms
24:54 Why Nick wouldn’t work at a company not using AI & ML
27:08 Is AI as far advanced as the public thinks it is?
4 Jan 2022
The Future of DevSecOps with EMA Analyst, Chris Steffen
Episode Summary:
Start the new year off in a DevOps State of Mind. On this episode, Liesse chats with Chris Steffen, a research director for information security at EMA. EMA, formally known as Enterprise Management Associates, is a leading analyst and consulting firm that prides itself on going beyond the surface to provide deep insights about the IT industry. Listen in as Liesse and Chris make some DevSecOps predictions for 2022 and chat about what it takes to compete as a vendor today.
About: Chris Steffen (https://www.enterprisemanagement.com/about/team/Chris_Steffen.php) is
An experienced and high-performing information security industry expert with extensive experience in IT and security management, zero-trust security solutions, enterprise cloud security and architecture, public / private / hybrid cloud systems and enterprise cloud migration / optimization.
Enterprise Management Associates (https://www.enterprisemanagement.com/)
Chapters:
1:31 On this episode Chris Steffen
2:54 Number one risk industries aren’t paying attention to
5:00 Developer-focused attack on SolarWinds (The hunt for shared secrets!)
6:08 The importance of API security
9:17 Testing APIs before bringing on a vendor
10:23 Important tools and practices for protecting shared secrets
13:12 Are we more security-minded?
15:19 An insider's perspective
17:06 What are companies focusing on (so should be focusing on)?
19:43 Security considerations for sellers (What should companies looking to be acquired focus on?
22:30 What it takes to be competitive as a security vendor
26:30 Keeping security running smoothly during a transition
27:48 Automation’s role (Does it help or hurt?)
31:55 Recap
On the next episode, I chat with Nick Durkin, Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness. Nick and I will discuss how to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best and why AI and ML are the future of DevOps.
14 Dec 2021
Steve Pereira and the four key maps of DevOps
Ep5 - Steve Pereira
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Episode Summary:
In this episode of DevOps State of Mind I’m talking to Steve Pereira, a DevOps enthusiast and an expert in software team performance. Steve leads the largest Toronto DevOps community and is the founder of Visible where he coaches teams to boost flow and value using his 4 Key Maps of DevOps.
About: Steve Pereira
Founder of Visible (https://visible.is/)
Steve Pereira: Helping Teams Define and Optimize their Value Streams
Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on using mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards their true north. He's a former startup CTO, agency consultant, systems and release engineer, finance IT manager, tech support phone jockey, and pizza maker. All focused on the flow of value, all the time.
Learn more about his work here (https://visible.is/)
More information here (https://vzbl.io/bio)
Chapters:
1:07 Meet Steve Pereira
2:01 Looking back and finding the positive
4:22 Misery loves company but things don’t always need to be hard to grow
6:18 What DevOps means to Steve
11:10 As a ‘movement”, has DevOps been successful?
15:04 How are massive enterprising doing right now?
19:23 The four kep maps of DevOps
31:46 To map or not to map - when does it make the most sense?
33:29 Asking “Why?” in a safe space
39:33 Learn more about mapping
41:18 What’s coming in the new year on DevOps State of Mind
7 Dec 2021
How to Build With Confidence with LaunchDarkly
Ep6 - LaunchDarkly founder, John Kodumal, on how to build with confidence
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Episode Summary:
Why are tools that help teams build with confidence essential to a successful DevOps culture? On this episode of DevOps State of Mind I talk to CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, John Kodumal! We discuss how he’s seen the market warm to the concept of feature management as DevOps crosses the chasm and his top tips for enterprises who are early in their DevOps adoption.
About:
LaunchDarkly gives product delivery teams the safeguards to move fast without breaking things. We do this through feature flags. Square, AMC, Intuit, Adidas, NBC, and other top organizations rely on LaunchDarkly to deliver and control their software. They ship code continuously, release features to individual customers at times that work best for them, learn about system performance and user behavior through experimentation, forge partnerships between developers and business stakeholders, and provide value in increasing measure. In a software-centered world, control is one of your greatest assets. Feature management gives you that control, and LaunchDarkly gives you feature management in its highest form.
Chapters:
2:05 - LaunchDarkly Introduction
3:40 - What is feature management?
5:14 - Feature flagging <> Feature management
7:22 - Evolution of feature management
11:25 - While moving quickly and delivering value, don't forget about the operator!
14:30 - Thinking about DevSecOps externally
16:25 - Advice for early adopters of DevOps
18:20 - Multi-year migrations forced to accelerate
22:30 - The importance of building with confidence
Resources:
LaunchDarkly Website (https://launchdarkly.com/)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/launchdarkly)
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyVjMONrMfeY9tsWZtUFtFw/videos)
30 Nov 2021
DevRel and DevOps, two peas in a pod
Episode Summary:
I shoot the shit with Joe Karlsson from SingleStore. He’s amazing and funny and we talk about why DevRel and DevOps go hand in hand.
About: Joe Karlsson / Developer Advocate at SingleStore/ He/Him/They/Them
Joe Karlsson is a software engineer turned Developer Advocate at SingleStore. He comes from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and yes, it does get really cold here, and no, not everyone here has the accent from the movie, Fargo). Joe has been primarily a Node and JavaScript engineer. He has been writing, teaching, and talking about code his entire career. Sharing what he knows and continuing to learn about programming is truly the thing he loves doing the most.
Joe is the co-creator of open source software, including bechdel.io, a web app that tells you if a movie script passes the Bechdel Test or not. In his free time, he is usually drinking Gin and Tonics, eating at a new restaurant, or tinkering on a new art project or open source project.
Chapters:
2:20 What is SingleStore?
3:08 What is data and how to use it to enable DevOps
4:43 Database trends
7:45 AI promises met or unmet?
9:15 DevRel and SingleStore
13:30 Finding community
14:05 Joe’s takes on developer advocacy
15:45 Don’t overlook the business value of Tik Tok
18:40 How DevRel contributes to a DevOps culture
20:45 Trust and solving the problem: Get out of your head for success
22:20 OKRs aren’t always OK
26:15 Remote work and communication
30:40 Consistency and the drive to move fast
Resources:
* Twitter - https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1 (https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1)
* TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson (https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson)
* GitHub - https://github.com/JoeKarlsson (https://github.com/JoeKarlsson)
* YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKarlsson (https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKarlsson)
* LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson/)
Try SingleStore for FREE! (https://www.singlestore.com/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=osm&utm_campaign=joe_karlsson)
Follow SingleStore on Twitter (https://twitter.com/singlestoredevs/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=osm&utm_campaign=joe_karlsson)
23 Nov 2021
Sean Tierney on giving people the power to participate
Episode Summary:
Sean Tierney, DevOps lead at Athos joins us on this episode. We’ll get into cross-team collaboration, implementing version control systems, and how to think about automation when you’re constantly iterating.
Chapters:
1:17 How Sean Tierney ended up in DevOps
3:21 DevOps is an adventure!
4:20 Athos captures human electrical data to help athlete performance
8:50 What DevOps means to Sean
13:01 Blockers and why communication is important
14:20 Tools to facilitate DevOps at Athos
17:09 A single source of truth
17:40 Covid, remote working, and collaboration tools
20:45 Cross team collaboration and unblocking the blockers
24:15 A foundation of trust
27:00 Software teams + Hardware teams
28:45 Automation
31:45 DevOps in a small company vs in a larger organization
36:15 On the next episode!
Resources:
Athos Website (https://www.liveathos.com/)
16 Nov 2021
Trust, tooling, and a no-blame culture with LogDNA
In our inaugural episode, we chat with the CEO of LogDNA and Ted Lasso fan, Tucker Callaway. We talk about trust, tooling, and creating a no-blame culture.
8 Nov 2021
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