DevOps Squared

This week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the second installment we are discussing how to improve your DevOps skills as a developer. We discuss how the approach to DevOps for developers is different to operations engineers, how to further your understanding of DevOps as a developer, how to transition to a DevOps Engineer and answer the question do developers make better DevOps Engineers?

Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech companies improve developer productivity.

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This week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the first installment we are discussing how to become a better DevOps engineer. We discuss what it means to be a DevOps Engineer, as well as dive into how to grow as an engineer looking for a promotion to your next opportunity.

Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech companies improve developer productivity.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuvalo

This week I am joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO and Co-Founder at DeployHub. This week we are talking about the rise of microservices, what they are, how you should approach them, the pros and cons, as well as it's relationship with DevOps.

Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice management platform designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and deployments of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she is the elected General Member Representative.

Tracy is a recognized evangelist in microservices and the continuous delivery pipeline. She is the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape, a blog contributor for the CDF and speaks at many DevOps events such as CNCF’s KubeCon and CloudBees DevOpsWorld. Tracy is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and speaks at AWS Marketplace webinar educational events. She is also the leader of the New Mexcio CI/CD Foundation Meetups.   Prior to DeployHub, Tracy was the COO and co-founder of OpenMake Software, a build acceleration and management tool that is the heart of development for over 400 enterprise development teams. She served on the Eclipse Foundation Board as a founding member from 2004 -2007.

Tracy was recognized as a Women In Technology (WIT) Honoree for her work in the DevOps area. You may also find her as an expert panelist on Webinars along with some of her friends at GitLab and CircleCI, or quoted in SD Times articles around DevOps subjects.

Joining me this week is Nadeem Augustine, Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. This week we are discussing the implementation of DevOps tooling on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Nadeem is also a DevOps Ambassador with the DevOps Institute and for his day to day role is the Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. He is responsible for setting the enterprise release management strategy as well as developing and implementing release governance and defining the strategic direction for release management tools.