Bridget and Matt (in his triumphant return) chat with Aneel Lakhani (SignalFX) and Jason Dixon about modern monitoring, alerting, event streams, and more.

Bridget goes to devopsdays Toronto, eh, and chats with speaker Sean Walberg (NFL), sponsor Sarah Kowalik (PagerDuty), and local organizers Steve Pereira (Statflo) and Dave Cliffe (PagerDuty). Special guest appearance by ADO editor and devopsdays Minneapolis organizer Joe Laha.

Bridget chats with lovable reprobate/returning guest Ben Hughes (Etsy) and badass container expert Jessie Frazelle (Mesosphere) about everyone's favorite topic: security.

Speaking at tech conferences: how do you get started? What should you expect? Ryn Daniels of Etsy (author, engineer, and frequent public speaker) chats with Bridget, offering insights about speaking at conferences.

Who owns your availability? Recent events in the npm community have rekindled the perennial discussion about dependency management and controlling points of potential failure. Long-time operations professionals Charity Majors (Hound) and Pete Cheslock (Threat Stack) join the ADO crew to discuss.

Want to be a change agent inside your organization? Your "personal brand" is a critical factor in your success. Being considered relevant both inside and outside of your organization gives weight to your opinions and recommendations, and will directly influence the impact you have. Guests Andrea Javor (Beam Suntory) and Michael Hedgpeth (NCR) discuss methods on growing your brand, without self-aggrandizing boasts or claims of "thought leadership".

GitLab's VP of Product, Job van der Voort, joins Matt for a frank discussion on GitLab's open company culture, the history of the project, and some of the challenges and benefits of working "in the open".

JJ Asghar joins us to help school Matt about what is going on in the OpenStack world

Arrested DevOps teams up with The Goat Farm (http://goatcan.do) to talk about the ways that sales folks, solution architects, and other vendor roles can help be a partner to your organization and not just a necessary evil

Rob Reynolds, creator of the popular Windows packaging tool Chocolatey, joins Trevor for a discussion on the future of the project, as well as some historical details on the journey so far.