Matt is joined by Facebook Production Engineer Phil Dibowitz to talk about the state of Open Source today, the changes it has gone through in his career, as well as some of the best ways to get started in the world of Open Source.

If you build, deploy, and operate software in production, you have a platform. Andrew Clay Shafer and Kelsey Hightower discuss different choices available in the platform space, from unstructured to structured with all the considerations along the road to operational maturity.

We’ve made it through two years of ADO! It seems like only yesterday that we recorded our first year-end episode (which you can listen to at arresteddevops.com/27). And we’re back again to talk about what 2015 was for us, in the world of DevOps, and the world of ADO. Plus, Matt and Bridget wax nostalgic about cable management from when we managed data centers.

Chef's Dr. Nicole Forsgren has a frank talk with Matt about the often neglected portions of CAMS theory - Measurement and Sharing. She gives real-world, practical tips on how to use data to drive a transformation...and even how culture can be measured.

DevOpsDays Core Organizer John Willis drops by to talk with the crew about some of the challenges (and fun) of organizing a DevOpsDays event. We also discuss the history of DevOpsDays, and share some fun war stories.

What are some of the gotcha's that exist when switching operating systems? Trevor talks with Matthew Walter about the differences that exist and their own challenges as they've started their journeys into new operating systems.

Special guest Eric Sorenson of Puppet Labs chats with Matt about all the new hotness with Puppet, including Application Orchestration. Plus, Matt and Eric put on their pundit hats and talk about the acquisition of Ansible by Red Hat.

Testing your infrastructure code is critical. But exactly HOW do you go about doing this? Matt talks with Arthur Maltson and Michael Goetz about using tools such as Test Kitchen, Chef Audit Mode, InSpec, and Chef Compliance to help you build confidence in your infracode.

Holiday! It’s a time of merriment… and terror. Let’s talk about how to prepare for a known spike in traffic, and what’s worked (and hasn’t)!

What's this ITIL thing all about? How can it complement DevOps? Can't we all just get along? Special guest Steven Boyd joins us to discuss how ITIL can help an organization, and help correct some misconceptions about what ITIL is (and is not).