DevOps Paradox

#245: Imagine this. You think you've been hired into a team of all A players. Think Wayne Gretsky, Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi, etc. Instead, what's really happened is you've been assigned to the team that is nothing more than the people that played behind the people that played behind the A players. Yeah, you've been demoted to the third string team.

You think, ok, at least I made a team and I'm not bagging groceries (is that still a thing?) down at the local market. Now that you're on a team, how do you plug in and help make the team better?

In this episode, we speak with Dr. David Burkus about his latest book "Best Team Ever". We go into the 3 key areas that both the manager and the players need to understand in order to actually create a team that might even be able to beat a team of A players.

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#244: 2023 is in the rearview mirror. Welcome to 2024, the year of our AI overlords.

In this episode, Darin and Viktor make their predictions about all the technologies that will potentially impact our day to day work for both the good and the bad. Not surprisingly, AI is at the top of that list, but maybe not for the reasons that you might think.

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#243: Here we are at the end of 2023. Darin and Viktor look back at the predictions they made back in episode 192.

Let's see how they did.

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#242: Darin and Viktor look back over the past year. What do you have to be thankful for this year?

Also, listen all the way to the end of the episode for a handful of holiday themed tunes.

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#241: On today's episode, we go in depth with one of our friends, Whitney Lee. You may know her from her Enlightening series on Tanzu.TV or maybe from the You Choose videos she does with Viktor.

But did you know just over 4 years ago, she was a server in a vegetarian restaurant and since that time she's spoken five times at KubeCon conferences - 2 of which were keynotes?

What'll you'll learn is that just because you don't have a CS degree doesn't mean that you can't do great things in tech.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiggitywhitney

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#240: Imagine being handed a nicely-wrapped box containing Platform Engineering, much like when we were sold DevOps in a Box. An enigmatic gift, with potential benefits yet accompanied by potential complexities. It calls to question - how is this different from the countless developer platforms we've seen companies launch over the years?

In this episode, we speak with Mauricio Salatino about his take on where platform engineering is today and where it's headed in the future.

Mauricio's contact information:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/salaboy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salaboy/

Platform Engineering on Kubernetes

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#239: In this episode, Ville Aikas and Matt Moore from Chainguard join us for a discussion about open-source projects, distroless containers, and software security. They share their stories about the creation and progress of ChainGuard, offering insights into the way the company operates and contributes to the open-source community.

They also delve into the value of improving the signal-to-noise ratio of vulnerability scanners and how this can aid in addressing software security problems.

They also explain their commitment to the APK format and its advantages, as well as the significance of Wolfi, their '(un)distro', in maintaining vulnerability-free software environments.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattomata

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmoor/

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#238: You might just now be reaching the point of containerizing your workloads and running them in Kubernetes. However, how do you go about accessing those workloads? You might have started with an ingress, because other options seemed like they were too complex.

However, you've now crossed the point where you need that complexity.

That's where service mesh can help you out. On this episode, we speak with Marino Wijay, Principal Developer Advocate at solo.io, about how service mesh has evolved over time, the challenges of adopting certain models, and the advantages of open-source solutions. We also talk about the differences between sidecar and sidecar-less models, and the circumstances in which either might be appropriate.

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#237: Darin catches up with Viktor and Whitney Lee just minutes after they've finished up at KubeCon NA 2023. We discuss the good things and bad things that they experienced while in Chicago.

Could one of those things be AI?

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#236: As you are heading into budget season for 2025, you're probably trying to figure out how to eliminate as much wasteful cloud spend as you can. But how did you get here? Instead of trying to reduce your cloud spend, maybe you should think about not spending the money in the first place.

In this episode, we speak with Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at Profisea Labs, about the necessity of building cost-efficient architectures and how AI is reshaping the FinOps landscape.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongrishko/

5 Effective FinOps Methods for Optimizing Your Cloud Costs

https://profisealabs.com/blog/article/5-effective-finops-methods-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs/

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