Tiny DevOps

Charles Max Wood is the founder of Top End Devs, a platform focused on teaching developers how to achive top 5% status in their chosen field, and in this episode we talk about what that means, and how six simple practices can help you achieve that goal.

We discuss whether everyone ought to aim for the top 5%, and why most people don't make it. We talk about the daily, weekly, monthly, and other habits that can help anyone climb the ranks quickly.

Resources
Adventures in DevOps Podcast
Top End Devs
Book: The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

Guest
Charles Max Wood
Top End Devs half off!
Twitter: @cmaxw

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Will Button, co-host of the Adventures in DevOps podcast and DevOps "YouTuber" joins me to discuss his nascent DevOps media empire.

Will talks about his motivation to start doing online training and his YouTube channel, his core audience, and walks us through some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of his content creation, along with a healthy dose of encouragement for anyone else interested in dipping their toe into the YouTube water.

Resources
Adventures in DevOps podcast
Egghead.io
Pluralsight
Packt Publishing
DevOps for Developers on YouTube
Video: DevOps Future
Video: DIY DevOps Projects
My daily list: The Daily Commit
The Million Dollar Homepage

Guest
Will Button
YouTube channel: DevOps for Developers
Twitter: @wfbutton

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Rob Walling, co-founder of the TinySeed accelerator for bootstrapped SaaS founders, joins me to discuss what investors and potential acquirers look for in the technology they're investing in.  What technology choices matter to potential investors or acquirers of your company?  Can tech debt sink a deal?  Does it matter at this level if you use Kubernetes?

Resources
Podcast: Startups For the Rest Of Us
TinySeed
MicroConf Connect
MicroConf YouTube Channel

Guest
Rob Walling
Twitter: @robwalling

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In this week's episode we strive to define some confusing and controversial terms:

• DevOps
• Agile
• MVP
• API
• Done
• Hacker/Hacking
• Engineer vs Developer
• Tiny

Resources
Video: 10+ Deploys Per Day 2:08
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Book: The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
Humans are Turing Complete
Tiny DevOps Episode 19: Mastering Evolutionary Design with J.B. Rainsberger 44:15

Co-host
Amando Abreu
LinkedIn

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Steve Wells is a former developer, Scrum master, and agile coach who now builds online games and simulations related to Agile software development practices.

Resources
Agile Cambridge 2018 talk: Efficiencies in interdependent agile teams
No Estimates Board Game by Matt Philip
Book: The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Book: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
The Pareto Principle
The Phoenix Project DevOps Simulation

Guest
Steve Wells
Contact via web site: https://agilesimulations.co.uk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hogsmill/

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Parham Doustdar, Engineering Manager of Accessibility at Booking.com, joins me to discuss life as a fully blind sofware engineer, and how we can make engineering tools more accessible for everyone, not just those with disabilities.

Whether you have a disability or not, whether it's visible or invisible, accessibility affects you.  Parham talks about the benefits to everyone of clean code, explict error messages, and using multiple modes of communication. He talks about his experience getting into tech, the unique challenges, and joys, of doing so without the benefit of physical sight, and gives some tips for how every one of us can improve the quality of life of everyone else who uses the systems we build.

Resources
Microsoft Accessibility resources
Apple's developer resources
Book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

Guest
Parham Doustdar
Twitter: @PD90
Web site: https://parhamdoustdar.com/

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Jillian Rowe, who you may know as a regular co-panelist on the Adventures in DevOps podcast, joins me to talk about her work at the crossroads of bioinformatics, Data Science and DevOps.  We have a casual conversation about her business as a freelancer and early-stage startup founder, and some of the unique challenges that come when working with Big Data and bioinformatics, and how she is addressing scaling challenges as a solo operator.

Resources
Science Daily
Strapi headless CMS
Hugo static site generator
Discourse
BioAnalyze on GitHub
BioAnalyze newsletter
Bioinformatics on AWS YouTube Channel

Guest
Jillian Rowe
Twitter: @jillianerowe
LinkedIn: Jillian Rowe

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Ola Ellnestam, along with co-author Daniel Brolund, wrote the book The Mikado Method, which describes an incremental approach to code refactoring, as well as project management.  In this interview Ola discusses the application of the technique, common pitfalls and objections to it, and provides insight into how the technique can be used to help communicate technical debt and dependencies with non-technical stakeholders.

Resources
Book: The Mikado Method by Ola ellnestam and Daniel Brolund
Blog post: test && commit || revert by Kent Beck
Video: The Mikado Method: Increase Productivity, Workflow Management, and Sex Appeal! by Jonathan Hall
The Mikado Tool

Guest
Ola Ellnestam
Twitter: @ellnestam
LinkedIn: ellnestam
Email: [email protected]

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Ashleigh Cornelius is the founder of Localise, a UK-based startup on a mission to bring consumers together with local, independent businesses. We talk about the vision and story of Localise, and some of the challenges he's faced as a (mostly) non-technical founder building a technology startup.

Resources
Localise web site
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn

Guest
Ashleigh Cornelius on Instagram

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Andy Suderman of Fairwinds joins me to talk about the pros and cons of each of the big three cloud providers, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS, and helps point new Kubernetes adoptors to the optimal provider for their needs.

Guest
Andy Suderman
Find him on the Kubernetes slack or CNCF slack

Resources
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
Fairwinds Insights to simplify Kubernetes

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