DevOps Shorts

Johnathan Hall (aka TinyDevOps) is a DevOps coach and consultant based in Netherlands. Jonathan has almost 3 decades experience in the IT industry out of which 2 decades were spent in leadership roles. Jonathan is focused on **helping small teams do amazing DevOps**.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- How love of IT is still about making tech do our bidding.

- Why DevOps is about fixing systemic problems

- What is still missing for small teams to be able to do great DevOps

Heidi Waterhouse is a prominent figure on the DevOps landscape. And she's also special at that - because her background is neither Dev nor Ops. For the whole of her career she's been a technical writer, a documentation specialist. And I find this wonderfully exciting - because first of all - DevOps has never been the sole concern of Devs and Ops only. And secondly - good documentation is such an important part of knowledge sharing that we all know lies at the very core of the DevOps movement.

Today Heidi is the Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly - the company that allows smart  feature management in production. She knows that adding or removing a feature is as easy as just flipping a toggle.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- How sewing is similar to IT, and also how it's different

- Why DevOps gives us a historical perspective

- Are we maybe running in circles?

- Why the future is just another feature

Continuous Delivery is the practice underlying the DevOps principles. That’s why for this episode of DevOps Shorts I’m incredibly excited to interview Tracy Miranda - the executive director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation.

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Today I'm very happy to have Viktor Farcic as my guest. Viktor is the author of the DevOps Toolkit Series, the host of the DevOps Paradox podcast and now also the Developer Advocate at Codefresh

Listen to the episode to learn:

- Why software engineers are a rare and lucky breed

- How lack of communication skills can make you fall in love with computers

- What can help you love IT again after you've been sick of it

- How impatience and frustration can bring on collaboration (isn't that the devops paradox?)

- Why Kohsuke Kawaguchi created Jenkins

- How to avoid becoming obsolete in the rapidly changing IT industry

Resilience engineering is one of the most forward-looking fields to surface in our industry in the last 5 years.

That's why I'm so excited to have J.Paul Reed as my guest. Paul is one of the most passionate promoters of resilience engineering practices. He's a co-organizer of REDeploy, a frequent speaker on related topics and now also a senior applied resilience engineer at Netflix.

And he's also a great story-teller!

This episode is also slightly longer than usual because in the end Paul goes into what I considered too important to stop him - the distinction between reliability and resilience.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- Why release engineers are the air traffic controllers of IT

- Why it's important to treat humans as humans

- What names Paul considers important mentioning when talking DevOps ;)

- What happens if a reliability engineer and a resilience engineer pick a fight

Ohad Maislish is the CEO at Env0 - the self-service cloud environments company.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- How to become the youngest employee at Microsoft

- How the magic of the cloud unfolded

- If Ohad prefers Pulumi over Terraform

- What's next for cloud infrastructure

Is this the peak of my career as a DevOps show host?!?!

I'm so excited about this - I succeeded to land an interview with the man who invented the **DevOps** word itself!

With the original DevOpsDays orgainzer  - the one and only Patrick Debois!

Beside being one of the most prominent DevOps thought leaders of our times, Patrick is now also the DevOps Relations director at Snyk

Listen to the episode to learn:

- Why not to quit even when there's no happy end to your IT movie.

- What really leads to a DevOps A-HA.

- How DevOps changes people's lives

- Why user interfaces need to evolve in order for DevOps to evolve

Philipp Krenn is a technologist, meetup organizer, conference speaker and developer advocate at Elastic.

He is very good at explaining and demoing exciting new technologies and he's now in the very epicenter of the observability movement - bringing the Elastic stack to eningeers all over the virtual world.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- What's the role of playfulness in IT

- Why you would want to be a developer advocate

- How automating your infastructure makes everything better - even education

- Why [Strigo](https://strigo.io) is so great that we both use it

- Is AIOps a real thing or just a BS hype

I'm so thrilled! My guest for tonight is Mark Burgess - a "technologist, scientist and author, specializing in the physics of Information Systems" (quoted from Mark's website).

Mark is probably best known to the IT crowd as the man who defined the ideas behind **desired-state configuration management** and the creator of the CFEngine CM tool that predated Puppet, Chef and Ansible and is still in use at quite a number of companies.

But for me Mark is first and foremost the mind behind Promise Theory which provides a new outlook on how effective collaboration between free agents occurs in complex systems.

I was thrilled and humbled to have Mark as my guest because his ideas and thier implications are omnipresent in the systems we build and those we're part of.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- What's the connection between physics and information

- Why IT moves so slowly

- If playing with Kubernetes can make society a better place

If you find Mark's ideas as fascinating as I do - make sure to check out his latest book Smart SpaceTime and a documentary series "Bigger, Faster, Smarter" on Youtube.

And if you really want to benefit from Mark's deep understanding of complexity - he's also providing consultancy to large IT organizations looking to adapt their systems and processes to the changing reality of our tumultuous world. 

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And our guest for tonight is Adi Shacham-Shavit - previously R&D manager at such companies as AppsFlyer and Lemonade, now EVP Engineering at an early stage startup called Clear.

Adi hates wasting time and making the same mistake twice.

First of all - it makes me happy that Adi is a woman - I feel like my show was lacking in diversity - I only got to interview white men until now. :(

And - Adi is both a seasoned manager and an ever-learning practitioner - which makes her point of view especially valuable.

Listen to the episode to learn:

- What is really so exciting about software and IT

- The pain a manager feels when DevOps is not working

- What to do when you feel the urge to leave tech

- What is still lacking in today's delivery processes