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How open-source brings transparency to device management - with Mike and Zach (Fleet)

Listen on Spotify Mike, Zach and I chat about how they built open-source device management company Fleet and why we need better, more...

It's never okay to push to production from your laptop - with Ramiro (Okteto, Atlassian, Microsoft)

Listen on Spotify Ramiro is obsessed with developer experience (and developing experience - because AI enables non-devs to code, too). We...

Production is a hostile place and chaos engineering helps prepare for it - with Benjamin (Steadybit)

Listen on Spotify Benjamin gives us a friendly introduction to chaos engineering - and how he and his customers went down its path....

How to benefit from faster DBs - with Rafael (Rockset, Salesforce, Okta, VMware)

Listen on Spotify Rafael and I discuss databases and he shares a few interesting use cases and features of Rockset. We also touch upon...

Culture will be the last DevOps component to get disrupted by AI - with Rajesh (Humalect)

Listen on Spotify Rajesh and I sat down to talk about developer platforms and concrete ways to implement (better) DevOps processes. We...

Buy vs. Build in DevOps

If you want to learn more about Kubiya - the "ChatGPT for DevOps", click here. Join us for a lively discussion on the age-old debate of...

I analyzed 218 booths at KubeCon - here are the DevOps trends for 2023

TL;DR Buzzwords and trends: Increased emphasis on human factors, hiring, automation, and scale. The word 'platform' saw a significant...

GUI vs. terminal - simple rules for when to use which - with Laszlo (Gimlet, Falcon.io, Lufthansa)

Laszlo and I chat about being on-call in early stage startups, how he built Gimlet to give engineers the solution they would build if they

In 1 year, nobody will build APIs by hand anymore - with Tanmai (Hasura)

Tanmai and I talk about databases, e.g. the iteration speed and performance tradeoff. He’s got a great in-depth answer - and a short one for

How you benefit from scale even if you’re not at scale (yet) - with Sam (PlanetScale, Github, Meta)

Listen on Spotify In our conversation, Sam and I delved into the topic of scalability in databases and traced the origins of PlanetScale...

Certs aren't that hard - with Michael (Smallstep, Betable, Accenture)

Listen on Spotify Michael and I discuss the origins of DevOps in Silicon Valley and his path to founding Smallstep, an authorization and...

Stuck with Jenkins? Hear how these DevOps experts make the most of it

If you want to learn more about Kubiya and how it helps you use Jenkins from Slack, click here. Are you ready to take your Jenkins game...

Data, heuristics and culture for shorter downtimes - with Dev (CtrlStack, Wavefront, Google, PayPal)

In this interview, I sit down with Dev, co-founder of CtrlStack, to discuss their cloud stack troubleshooting model.

Resilient and cost-effective K8s for a greener planet - with Eli Birger (PerfectScale, IBM, Vonage)

Listen on Spotify Eli and I talk about how to differentiate between the 'cattle view' vs. 'pet view' on cloud resources, i.e. when to...

When is K8s overkill?

Join us for a lively debate on the topic of 'When is Kubernetes overkill?'. Four experts from Chronosphere, Microsoft, Zesty and Robusta...

Achieving multi-tenancy in Kubernetes - with Dario (Clastix, HAProxy Technologies, Namecheap)

Listen on Spotify Dario and I discuss multi-tenancy (in Kubernetes). Why does it matter? Where is multi-tenancy used? In what ways can...

Science & practice in AI and MLOps - with Mike (Salt Security, Agoda, Samsung)

Listen on Spotify Mike and I talk about security tradeoffs, MLOps, his AI research paper community and more. Mike:...

How we help optimize cloud-spent with our open-source software - with Mohamed (Tailwarden, Komiser)

Listen on Spotify Mohamed and I discuss different perspectives from his career: - How and why he built an open-source-first company -...

Bringing interactivity to the “interactive” shell - with Ilya (Next Generation Shell)

Listen on Spotify Ilya shares the origin story of bash starting in the 70s and why it's time for a new, interactive update. We also...

I'd like to see academic DevOps one day - with Amitai (Explorium)

Oof, there are so many interesting parts in this conversation - we talk about.

Often, there is too much “dev” in “DevOps” - with Farley (Neon Surge, Exodus, Couchsurfing)

Introducing Farley Farley Farley (yes, that's his real name - ask him about it, it's a great story).

How we help anyone apply Google's SLO mindset - with Kit (Nobl9, JFrog, Google, Microsoft)

Kit and I talk about the origins of Nobl9 and how his learnings around SLOs from Google can help achieve today's goals to innovate, stay up

My story from lead dev to designer and finally teaching K8s - with Daniele (Learnk8s)

Daniele and I talk about his diverse career and how he went about teaching thousands of people Kubernetes. We also touch upon where he think

Rightsizing, chatGPT and the magic of open-source startups - with Nándor (dyrectorio)

Nándor and I discuss Dyrectorio and how they use open-source to help companies deploy services in Docker & Kubernetes without vendor lock-in

We need to talk about engineering experience - with Lukasz (EPAM, AXA, Deloitte, Oracle, Samsung)

Lukasz and I talk about engineering experience (the concept and his newsletter with the same name), life-long learning and his approach to i

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