Software Delivery in Small Batches

Adam welcomes Matthew Skelton to the show. Matthew is co-author of the book "Team Topologies" and a DevOps Enterprise Summit speaker. This episode builds on the previous podcast introducing the team types and interaction models.

Adam and Matthew discuss the first principles in Team Topologies, building internal platform products, and the impact on software and team architecture. 

Adam's Links

• Team Topologies in Small Batches #18
• Team Topologies talks at the DevOps Enterprise Summit

Matthew Skelton's Links

• Team Topologies: Organizing Business & Technology for Fast Flow (book)
• Key Concepts
• Mini-book: Organization Dynamics with Team Topologies (in collaboration with TechBeacon)

Adam welcomes Markus Schirp to the show. Markus is an independent software professional. He calls himself a "dynamic language exorcist." He's also the man behind the Mutant mutation project for Ruby.

Adam and Markus discuss the first principles for software development, laddering up to higher-level abstractions, and how tooling helps developers.

Markus Schirp's Links

• My Github
• Mutant
• My Talks

Adam Hawkins' Links

• Software Architecture Talk (2014)

Adam welcomes Sebastian Dahlgren to the show. Sebastian is now the CTO at Saltside. Sebastian joined Saltside just after the rewrite completed and continues to work there today.

Adam & Sebastian worked closely together to grow the team in Bangalore until Adam left Saltside in 2017. Adam & Sebastian discuss if the rewrite delivered on its promise, what worked, what didn't work, and if those architectural bets made years ago paid off. 

Sebastian Dahlgren's Links

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Saltside Engineering Blog

Adam Hawkins' Links

• Saltside Engineering: Building our Helm Chart
• Saltside Engineering: Our First Kubernetes Outage

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.

Adam's Links

• Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.

Adam Hawkin's Links

• Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.

Adam's Links

• Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.

Adam's Links

• Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.

Adam's Links

• Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)

Adam welcomes Alex Hidalgo to the show. Alex is the Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives.

Adam & Alex discuss the ins-and-outs of SLOs. It's assumed you are already familiar with the basic concepts of SLIs & SLOs so please listen to the previous episode (linked below) before listening to this conversation. 

Some of the take-aways: run your SLOs for a least a month before you consider them ready and alerting on SLOs is a really hard problem! Lots of great pro-tips in this episode.

Adam Hawkins' Links

• SLI's, SLO's, & SLA's on Small Batches #14
• Implementing SLOs from the SRE Workbook

Alex Hidalgo's Links

• Implementing Service Level Objectives (Book)

Adam welcomes Keith Pitt to the show. Keith Pitt is the founder as CTO of Buildkite.com. Buildkite is CI/CD platform.

Adam invited Keith on the show to discuss software delivery inside a company building software delivery tools. It turns out that Buildkite has a fearless continuous deployment pipeline. So listeners, if you need a software delivery North Star then just listen to Keith. It's all here in this episode. 

Keith Pitt's Links

• Buildkite

Adam Hawkins' Links

• Continuous Deployment to K8s using Buildkite