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In this episode, Anne Dalton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat’s NAPS Division, talks about parallels that can be drawn between neuroscience and software, teaching government agencies and other clients “The Cloud” and helping them to navigate how to go about implementing it successfully by using S.M.A.R.T. goals, all while relaying why observability and transparency are crucial.

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In this episode, Tammy Bryant, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Gremlin, talks about specializing in chaos engineering and incident management. Connect with her further on her website, tammybutow.com.

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In this episode, Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, talks about OpenTelemetry, an observability framework for cloud-native software that is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior.

He also tells Jonan how he started/threw together Deserted Island DevOps during the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how overwhelmingly successful and loved it was. DIDevOps was a single-day virtual event that was livestreamed on Twitch this past April. All presentations took place in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the event pulled ~15,000 unique viewers on the day of the conference alone!

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In this episode, Mando Escamilla talks about his transition from a DevOps individual contributor to becoming a manager, the relationship between engineering and Ops, striving to be on the same page as a team, and attempting to do best work while wanting do what's best for the company as a whole and the customers they serve. It’s all about coming together, growing together, and having empathy.

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In this episode, Matt Stratton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat’s NAPS Transformation Office, talks about his career in DevOps, developer advocacy and relations, why monitoring matters, discoverability, resilience engineering, and systems thinking.

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In this episode, Kelsey Hightower talks about the new mesh revolution in Kubernetes while teasing his upcoming book: Mesh The Hard Way. The idea is that we can write applications that talk to other applications and that there's a lot of stuff that happens in the middle of those two things. 

Kelsey talks about what observability means, and that as it stands, developers have a tendency to collect metrics, but most of the time, they’re not really sure why they’re collecting them. He says that there is a balance between collecting data and being able to create something actionable and that it's what you do with data is where power comes from. 

Challenges come and go, and you can get depressed about them and complain about them, or you can look at challenges as an opportunity to overcome things. You may ask yourself how you can keep up with all of the observability tools out there, but most of the tools we see today are no different than most of the tools that existed ten or fifteen years ago. They may have better UIs and workflows, but fundamentally they are all roughly the same. 

Kelsey urges developers to take comfort in that, be patient, learn what you can, and go as deep as you can. More than likely what you're learning now will be applicable in the future. Understand that you have control over the pace of information you let in, and the pace of things you choose to adopt, and you can also take a break and it will all be okay.

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We are joined today by Ben Curtis, from Honeybadger. Ben is a web developer and entrepreneur for the past 20 years. He enjoys working on the web, building products, and seeing people get to use those products.

Ben talks about the why and the how of building Honeybadger (currently just a five-person team!), the beauty of a good developer blog such as their own, replacing conference engagement digitally now that people aren't conferencing right now, engaging with users via newsletters, and how they use technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Fargate and Amazon AWS in production.

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We are joined today by Sally Lehman. Sally has spent the past eleven years as a Site Reliability Engineer. She joined Oracle as a part of the Add This team and managed an upwards of over 10,000 nodes at the same time.

Sally talks about what she likes about using Kubernetes as opposed to YAML and Salt, where she thinks Kubernetes is currently, and where she sees it going in the future, Prometheus, an open-source monitoring solution, and Thanos, a CNCF incubating project.

Additionally, Sally, who now works in primarily Python, compares this community with other programming language communities around the Web such as Ruby and Go.

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This week we were joined by Bobby Tables of Firehydrant.io, world-renowned purveyor of artisanal handcrafted incident response services that are in fact the opposite of that; perfectly replicable and entirely automated.

Bobby talks us through some of the motivation behind the path he and his co-founders walked (sprinted?) when starting their company and the market circumstances that have created a demand for automated incident response.

We also touch on the distinction between DevOps and SRE, the pros and cons of microservices, and one particularly memorable incident involving a platypus and a fire hydrant.

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Alex Ellis takes us on a tour of modern cloud ecosystems and tells us how organizations like the CNCF are making decisions that will shape our collective future. He also shares some thoughts on open-core licensing and other strategies that open source maintainers can use to ensure their work is sustainable.

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