Adventures in DevOps

GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. Today on the show, Will and Jonathan interview Tanmay Bhat to discuss the GitOps framework, advantages and disadvantages, and favorite tools.

In the episode…

• GitOps vs CDIC automated deployment
• GitOps vs infrastructure as code
• Who should use GitOps?
• Favorite tools and recommendations
• Getting started with GitOps
• Flux and RODC
• Pitfalls with GitOps

Connect with Tanmay via email: [email protected]

Logging in today's DevOps landscape has become more difficult than ever. DevOps needs visibility into workloads that security, development, and operations teams collaboratively manage and provide. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will discuss various strategies to logging and log management and what you can start implementing today.

In this episode…

• Who owns the logging process?
• Lack of strategy in logging
• Building the library
• Debugging and error management
• Following structured logging patterns
• Basic monitoring
• Building dashboards vs 3rd party services

Top Dev Ops global influencer, award-winning tech writer, and developer advocate Pavan Belagatti joins the show today to share the importance of personal branding as a developer, plus tactical strategies you can implement today.

In this episode…

• How to get started and get noticed
• Building your brand through networks
• Benefits of building a brand
• Writing tech articles to get an edge
• Utilizing Google alerts
• Refining your thoughts and communication delivery

You just finished some code that can have a positive impact on your customers, and you are motivated to release it as quickly as possible, but your team members are also incredibly busy working on their own code. This conflict is The Pull Request Paradox. Today on the show, the panel interviews Yishai Beeri to share his insights on how to manage this paradox and the best PR strategies you can implement today.

In this episode…

• Where do pull requests come from
• Collaborating and empowering developers
• Differentiating and managing PR lanes
• The ship show ask model
• Optimizing pull requests
• Rule based models

Today on the show, the panel discusses the intersection of data and DevOps, including various topics such as data warehousing, analytics, and source data, DVC and AWS Batch, and Snowflake integrations.

In this episode…

• Data warehousing
• Analytics with source data
• Data Version Control (DVC)
• AWS Batch
• Production database schemas
• Real time data
• Snowflake integrations

With the current economic downturn, companies big and small are facing layoffs, hiring freezes, and altering job offers. Today on the show, Jonathan and Will share their decades of industry knowledge on various strategies you can implement to stand out in a crowded job search process.

In this episode…

1. Having a public profile
2. Listing your projects on your resume
3. Sharing your accomplishments, not just your responsibilities
4. Knowledge options
5. Leveraging social media
6. Stack Overflow
7. Soft skills

Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss the latest tools they have been using for CDIC deployments. Specifically, they discuss the Next.js framework, which allows DevOps teams to provide richer application experiences without relying as much on backend infrastructure. That shift has implications for everything from the amount of network bandwidth consumed to the performance of web applications. Moreover, within the Next.js family, the Vercel platform employs caching, routing, and a React framework to optimize application performance.

Managing uptime is critical for customers and it can be a powerful customer activity that connects engineers to the value that customers receive from your product, however it can also be a heavy source of burnout for engineers. Brian Scanlan with Intercom has created a volunteer management infrastructure that increases the efficiencies of on-call engineers while also reducing the inherent disruptive nature to the job. Today on the show, the panel interviews Brian about his process and architecture to this on-call management infrastructure.

In this episode…

1. The on-call burden
2. Alarm management
3. Escalation paths
4. Incentives for the volunteer teams
5. Deployment processes
6. Improving standards and expectations
7. Human centric vs. machine centric

Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team operationalize the Accelerate State of DevOps Report, surveying over 32,000 professionals worldwide in the DevOps industry. Dave Mangot joins the show today to share how he leverages these metrics to improve companies within their technology organizations.

In this episode…

1. DORA metrics
2. Speed and quality
3. Monoliths vs. microservices
4. Uptime and failure rates
5. Mean time to recover
6. Deployment frequencies
7. Production monitoring

Jonathan shares about the new job offer he received and the progression we went through to navigate the process. Jonathan, Will, and Jillian also discuss the various aspects of the current DevOps job market, starting a new job, and how you can grow in your career.

In this episode…

1. Stack overflow and blogposts
2. What do you do when you first start?
3. Contracting gigs
4. Social life in the workplace vs. financial transaction
5. Single points of failure