DevOps Accents

DevOps Accents

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DevOps Accents episodes

  • #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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      Podcast editing: Mila Jones, https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones / [email protected]

      57 min
    • #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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            Podcast editing: Mila Jones, https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones / [email protected]

            1 hr 1 min
          • #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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              Podcast editing: Mila Jones, https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones / [email protected]

              1 hr 14 min
            • #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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                Podcast editing: Mila Jones, https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones / [email protected]

                56 min
              • #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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                      Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

                      50 min
                    • #24: Who Has Experience in AI?

                      In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about the rising demand for AI and what it takes to have experience with it.

                      • Can you have many years of experience with LLMs?
                      • What's the difference between LLMs and Machine Learning of today and Machine Learning of yesterday?
                      • How do LLMs even work?
                      • Is it viable for a company to train its model from scratch?
                      • How to fine tune an LLM for the needs of your company?
                      • Does the AI you need have to be an LLM?
                      • How did AI change the hiring landscape?
                      • What is considered to have experience with AI?
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                        Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected] / https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones

                        1 hr 4 min
                      • #23: Startup the Brazilian Way with Marcello De Polli from BetterDoc

                        In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc.

                        • Marcello's journey from Brazil to Europe;
                        • South America vs. Europe: Crime rate;
                        • Local services and startups in Brazil;
                        • You Should Think Global;
                        • Cultural differences and application marketing;
                        • Starting new companies with your own money;
                        • Entrepreneurship vs. Working for a company;
                        • Life/Work balance in Europe.
                        • Our guest, Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelodepolli

                          BetterDoc: https://www.betterdoc.org

                          Brex, a large international financial company originated in Brazil, founded in 2017: https://www.brex.com

                          Livedub, one of the first startups Marcello co-founded, an app for the bands for remote practice and rehearsal: https://livedub.app

                          Skore, now acquired by UOL EdTech, a digital learning platform co-founded by Marcello: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goskore


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                          Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected] / https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones

                          1 hr 7 min
                        • #22: CI/CD with Darko Fabijan from Semaphore

                          In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Darko Fabijan, CTO and co-founder of Semaphore, a CI/CD tool for high-performance engineering teams.

                          • How was Semaphore created?
                          • How do you go from consulting to supporting a technical tool?
                          • Why do we still need to convince people that CI/CD is a necessity?
                          • What is Semaphore's customer base?
                          • What is CI and what is CD?
                          • Feedback Loop in DevOps;
                          • Canary deployment;
                          • What is the future of CI/CD pipeline?
                          • Semaphore: https://semaphoreci.com

                            What is Feedback Loop in DevOps in context of CI/CD: https://www.getclockwise.com/blog/devops-feedback-loops

                            What is canary deployment: https://semaphoreci.com/blog/what-is-canary-deployment

                            Spinnaker: https://spinnaker.io

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                            Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected] / https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones

                            1 hr 7 min
                          • #21: devopsdays London 2023, and GCP vs. AWS

                            In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss our recent conference experience in London and slightly pit GCP and AWS against each other.

                            • "Google Cloud Run & Databases" Webinar;
                            • Is there something like AWS Proxy in GCP?
                            • What do GCP and AWS do better than the other?
                            • AWS vs. GCP: permissions and organisation;
                            • The city of London vs. other great cities of Earth;
                            • devopsdays London vs. Munich and Amsterdam;
                            • How Hard is it for technical specialists to give public talks?
                            • What's up with open space talks?
                            • IT stereotypes.
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                              Pablo's free webinar: https://mkdev.me/webinars/connecting-cloud-run-to-a-database

                              Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected] / https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones

                              58 min
                            • #20: Chip Wars and Typescript

                              In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Kirill discuss news from the world of TypeScipt and the history of microchip wars.

                              • Hotwire and Turbo leaving TypeScipt behind;
                              • The over the top reaction from the community;
                              • Who feels threatened by this change?
                              • Semiconductors history;
                              • ARM architecture family;
                              • TSMC and the insane number of chips they produce;
                              • What problems does the semiconductors industry face?
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                                Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected] / https://www.instagram.com/m.ila_jones

                                59 min

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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.