DevOps Chat

DevOps.com sits down with DevOps industry veteran Justin Vaughan-Brown of AppDynamics. Justin is one of only a handful of people who have been involved with DevOps with several DevOps vendors. He has a great view into the market and where DevOps is heading. Justin shares some of this with us and specifically looks at the APM and BPM markets. This is a great chat with a DevOps insider and we are sure you will enjoy it!

DevOps.com catches up with Chef CMO Ken Cheney. Ken gives us an update aboutAWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, the latest on Chef Habitat and Ken gives us his view what is in store in the DevOps market this year. It is a great chat and you shouldn't miss it. Hopefully, Ken will be joining us regularly on DevOps Chats this year.

DevOps.com catches up with Nigel Kersten, Chief Technical Strategist at Puppet. While Nigel is a wealth of information and we could take days speaking with him, todays chat is all about the 2017 DevOps Survey presented by Puppet and DORA and is open now. After listening to this great 15 minute interview, head on over and take the survey at: https://devops-survey.com/register.php

Our first DevOps Chat of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. When not writing Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. Over the course of her career Aruna has been a code writing engineer, in addition to a business executive, so she brings a great perspective to what it takes to successfully lead DevOps transformations.

Our chat is actually a pre-cursor to a full Q & A webinar we will be producing with Aruna, where we will dive much deeper into the book's subject matter. The webinar is January 17th and you can sign up to attend for free at http://webinars.devops.com/devops-digital-leaders.

Aruna is a very interesting person and the book is great. It is also available for free in electronic form, as well for sale in hardcover on Amazon and other book outlets. All proceeds from the book go to charity to enable gifted student to attend university who would otherwise be challenged due to economic hardship. Just another reason to listen to the chat, attend the webinar and check out the book :-)

DevOps.com sits down with Jeff Schaeffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. Jeff discusses the launch of the new CD community on DevOps.com sponsored by CA, as well as the impact of Continuous Delivery on the way businesses are delivering software today. It seems we are moving to everything being done continuously. Jeff gives us some keen insight on this.

Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies is our guest on this DevOps Chat. Huw and Alan Shimel discuss Automation. Specifically that automation for automation's sake alone is not always a good thing. Building the right automation is key. Organizations need to understand what and why they are automating something before investing in automating it. Huw will be discussing this topic further in an upcoming webinar on DevOps.com.

Our guest for this DevOps Chat is Lucas Carlson, VP of Strategy, Automic. Carlson is fairly new to Automic, but no stranger to technology. He has founded several companies, had successful exits, worked in key positions at larger companies such as CenturyLink where he ran their lab and also written several books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Lucas discusses what he thinks is a fundamental challenge in DevOps. That is that DevOps appears to be Developer led and is by and for Developers. In Lucas's view it doesn't work as well for Ops and fundamentally something has to change to make it work. Have a listen to this provocative discussion and stay tuned for a deeper dive on this subject with Lucas and others soon!

IBM InterConnect 2017 is coming in March. The call for speakers is open until March 11th. You can get more info at http://www.ibm.com/interconnect. In the meantime I had a chance to catch up with Randy Newell, Director WorldWide Marketing DevOps. Randy gives us his own take on what the highlights of InterConnect 2017 will be, as well as upcoming IBM sessions at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco. Randy is very knowledgable about the market and a great conversation. Enjoy!

DevOps.com sits down with Tim Butel, VP Products at XebiaLabs to discuss what is the latest in DevOps, Continuous Delivery and at XebiaLabs. He talks to us about his own job duties, what he sees in the DevOps market and how XebiaLabs is setting its mark in the market.

Our guest in this DevOps Chat is Hayden Lindsey, VP of DevOps and Enterprise Systems and distinguished engineer at IBM. Beyond the title though, Hayden is a great gentlemen who I have had the pleasure of interviewing several times over the years.

Hayden and his team have done a great job of not only keeping the "big iron" systems working the world over, but in fact teaching some of these "old dogs new tricks". Hayden and IBM's Enterprise System Group have leveraged technologies like DevOps and Agile to make todays enterprise systems work better and faster, keeping up with even the highest performing IT teams. Hayden tells us about the latest offerings from his team as well as discussing "Cognitive DevOps."

I think you will enjoy Hayden's view of the market right now.