DevOps Accents

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'DevOps Accents', a bi-weekly mkdev podcast on everything around DevOps, Public Cloud and Cloud Native topics, with your hosts Pablo, Leo and Kirill.... more

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The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.

DevOps Accents episodes:

April 07, 202434: Is DevOps capable of reshaping the healthcare industry? with Sergiej Soft from Caspar Health
What is the place of DevOps and Cloud in Health Tech, and what is the future of the Health Tech itself? What are the biggest challenges it faces and what could be the solutions? Sergiej Soft, Head of Tech at Caspar Health is here with us today to discuss the many perturbations of healthcare digitalization.
Where do you draw the line defining DevOps?

Health data in the age of cloud;

What stops us from healthcare data standardization?

How sensitive can healthcare data really be?

Centralization vs. Decentralization: what is the way forward for Health Tech?
Our guest, Sergiej Soft:
- Learn more about what Sergiej does professionally.
- Connect with Sergiej on Linkedin.
- Subscribe to his personal podcast where he discusses business and AI with founder ans tech leaders.
- Don't miss the episode with Kirill (co-founder of mkdev) for deeper dive into cloud evolution.

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March 24, 2024#33: Internet of Things and Home Security with Florian Merz from KIWI
What are the definitions of the Internet of Things? How do you make a lock without a physical key? What are smart cities? How do you optimize your digital lock? Florian Merz, Head of Product and Engineering at KIWI, is here with us to discuss all of that and more.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT) and why is this term to broad to be actually useful?

How do digital locks work and how do older people cope with such technology?

How important is reliability in IoT for home security and how do you test for it?

Are cloud providers solutions useful in this industry?

What kinds of open source tools, stacks and protocols are there for people interested in IoT?

What will the future of IoT look like for the next 10-15 years?
Our guest, Florian Merz.

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1h 2min
March 10, 2024#32: Platform Strategy and the future of Platform Engineering with Jean-Francois Landreau
Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss Platform Engineering with Jean-Francois Landreau and also talk about “Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization”, a book he contributed to.
The relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering;

Writing tech books and having them stay relevant;

The future of automation and the amount of work in Platform Engineering;

The problems of standardization in Platform Engineering.
Our guest, Jean-Francois Landreau.
Meet Jean at CI/CDay in Paris this April: https://www.cicday.com
Listen to Jean's talks at Devoxx Athens 2024: https://devoxx.gr
Check out the book by Gregor Hohpe he contributed to.

Show Notes:
AWS Copilot CLI.

Platform Engineering on DevOps Accents.

Observability and Monitoring on DevOps Accents.

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February 25, 2024#31: Understanding Platform Engineering with Sergiu Petean from Allianz Direct
The evolution of DevOps is inevitable and we have long lived in a paradigm where Platform Engineering is no longer the Next Big Thing, but a necessity. We decided to talk to our friend Sergiu Petean from Allianz Direct and CNCF, who is very advanced in both theory and practice, and shared with us his observations on what Platform Engineering is today and how it changes depending on the type and size of the organisation.
In this episode:
What is platform engineering?

What's the difference between a DevOps engineer 10 years ago and a platform engineer today?

How do you make infrastructre for a big company with very different verticals?

Why would you rebuild a platform from scratch?

What are the solutions for smaller companies?
Follow Sergiu Petean on LinkedIn to keep updated on most valuable insights: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteanusergiu/
Follow CNCF to learn more from Sergiu's community efforts: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/01/official-kickoff-of-the-cncf-end-user-technical-advisory-board-tab/
Make sure to visit KubeCon and engage us there: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/

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February 11, 2024#30: Vision Pro and WeaveWorks
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo, and Kirill discuss Twitter's changes, Apple's Vision Pro impact, VR's future role, and tech dependency.
Episode Celebration: 30th episode and 4K YouTube milestone.

Twitter Changes: How is Twitter's evolving ecosystem impacting users?

Apple Vision Pro: What will be the impact and public reaction to its release?

Tech Advancements: How are technological advancements affecting society?

VR in Society: What role will VR play in our future?

Tech Dependency: Are we becoming too dependent on technology?
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1h 6min
January 28, 2024#29: Is there a Cloud cost scam? Availability zones, egress fees & background jobs
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill are all about cloud costs, the main topic of mkdev content in January.
Availability zone fees are annoying;

What's scammy and what is clear about cloud closts?

Are there people whose job it is to track cloud expences?

Why aren't cost analysis features turned on by default?

Is all of this common knowledge?

When do companies decide to optimize their cloud costs?

Do you need to worry about background jobs?

How to educate yourself on cloud costs?
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January 14, 2024#28: What Data Protection means in 2024? with Filip Verloy from Rubrik
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Filip Verloy, a Field CTO at Rubrik
The need for data management systems is increasing;

What's Ruby and how can generative AI be used for data security?

How Rubrik's AI was trained;

What should we protect more in the age of AI?

AI in detecting malicious intent;

What is Double Extortion Ransomware?

The flipside of digital transformation;

There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity.
Our guest
Connect with Filip via his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verloy/

Rubrik, a data management and security company: https://www.rubrik.com
Things we've talked about
What does it mean to be a Field CTO? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-field-cto-anyway-filip-verloy

What is Double Extortion Ransomware? https://www.rubrik.com/insights/rubrik-ransomware-vs-cyber-extortion

23andMe Data Breach: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
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1h 1min
December 31, 2023#27: Saying Goodbye to 2023
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill are wrapping up 2023, discussing the biggest news, trends and breakthroughs of the year.
2023 for mkdev;

AI reaching the wide audience it has now;

Job markets in the age of AI;

2024 and AR;

Elon Musk (of course);

Generative AI in design;

Human cognition and what's to come.
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1h 14min
December 17, 2023#26: Software Configuration Management with David Sandilands from Puppet
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet.
What was the role of Puppet before and what is it now?

How many companies use Kubernetes?

The effect of inertia in technologies for bigger companies;

How much time does it take to scale up?

On prem vs. On cloud: cost effectiveness;

Will VMs ever go away?

Puppet and AI?

What do companies ask for when they ask for AI?
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56min
December 12, 2023#25: Observability and Monitoring with Dotan Horovits from logz.io
In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Dotan Horovits, a developer advocate from logz.io
What is developer advocacy and developer evangelism and why it's not marketing?

Observability and Monitoring: how important are they in the Pipeline today?

How did it work before and why is it a separate thing at all?

Who should interpret the data that this tooling collects?

Why is it so expensive to have Observability?

Should each individual developer monitor their own data?
Our guest, Dotan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits
personal blog, https://horovits.medium.com

professional blog, https://logz.io/author/dotan-horovits

Dotan's podcast, OpenObservability Talks, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability
Interesting articles:
Expensive metrics and the high cardinality problem, https://logz.io/blog/expensive-metrics-monitoring-data

FinOps Observability, https://www.apmdigest.com/observability-into-your-finops-taking-distributed-tracing-beyond-monitoring

Monitoring Kubernetes Cost and OpenCost project, https://logz.io/blog/finops-observability-monitoring-kubernetes-cost
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FAQs about DevOps Accents:

How many episodes does DevOps Accents have?

The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.