Devops Cafe Podcast

John and Damon chat with Dave McCrory (CTO, Basho) about Data Gravity, the demands of Internet of Things, PaaS in the enterprise, and more. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon chat with Zoran Perkov, one of the stars of Michael Lewis's hit book, Flash Boys. They discuss operations when milliseconds are a competitve advantage and a 22 second outage grabs global headlines. Simplicity and "complicated vs complex" is also discussed. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

In the 2015 return of DevOps Cafe, John and Damon catch-up on a wide range of topics. Yes, Docker and microservices come up... but so does organizational change, Conway's law, burnout, and more.

Why do disasters happen? How can they be avoided? Professor and noted author, Sidney Dekker, chats with John and Damon about the interaction of humans and complex systems.  

Tom Limoncelli (StackExchange) joins John and Damon to chat about the history and future of systems administration and operations as a craft and culture. Tom's books and community involvement are also discussed. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Gene Kim is back... and this time the tables are turned! Gene plays host and interviews John and Damon about DevOps in the Enterprise (or anybody that has large organizational complexity and scale) Show notes and conference discount code at http://devopscafe.org

Mandi Walls joins John and Damon to chat about the perspectives and insights she has gained through her journeys in  the DevOps movement... from a practitioner in high-scale web operations... to well-known community member... to working with customers as a tools vendor (Chef). Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Matt Ho (Loyal3) and Alex Honor (DTO Solutions and SimplifyOps) join John and Damon to chat about how financial services startup Loyal3 got through the growing pains and transformed into a nimble and scalable organization... all in the face of tight regulations and compliance concerns. Lots of Lean thinking and smart use of off-the-shelf tooling. A good story for startups and enterprises alike. 

John and Damon are joined by Michael Coté and Jay Lyman from The 451 Group to get an analyst view of DevOps and the enterprise. Also discussed is Jay and Cote's historical involvement with the DevOps movement.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon welcome Adrian Cockcroft to the show to discuss the lessons he's learned along his journey from Sun to eBay to Nextflix to Battery Ventures. Adrian talks about building resilient systems, company culture, micro-services, containers, the cloud... and how they are all intertwined.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon catch-up with Brandon Burton (Mozilla) to talk about his DevOps journey, the upcoming SCALE conference, and how DevOps patterns are really Lean patterns and apply everywhere. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

JR Rivers (Cumulus Networks) joins John and Damon for a chat about an approach to networking equipment that challenges the conventional thinking that the hardware and the software must come tightly bundled together from the same vendor. What does that mean for cost? managability? choice? and the ability to move faster?

John and Damon are joined by our largest panel of guests yet. What do they all have in common? The DevOps track at the upcoming QCon London 2014. Find out what these speakers will be talking about and what the thought process was behind putting together this track. Guests are Dave Farley, Daniel Schauenberg, Robert Benefield, Shane Hastie, Manuel Pais. If you want to go to QCon (March 5-7) you can use the code EDWA100 and save £100: http://qconlondon.com Show notes are at http://devopscafe.org

Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, joins John and Damon for a chat about Docker (the project) and Docker (the company). Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon chat with Michael DeHaan (Ansible Works) about configuration management and his approach with Ansible.  Video and show notes are at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon get a return visit from Gene Kim, co-author of The Phoenix Project, to discuss what he's learned in the 8 months since the book launched. You can find the show notes and leave comments at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon welcome Tyler Jewell (Codenvy) to the show to talk about developer productivity and his company's approach to eliminating waste in development environment setup. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon welcome networking guru Brent Salisbury (University of Kentucky) to the show for a chat software defined networks and the future of network administration.  Video and show notes at http://devopscafe.org

John and Damon welcome Dave Mangot (Salesforce.com) to the show for a chat about DevOps, organizational design, responsibility, and toolchain choices. Show notes at devopscafe.org

John and Damon welcome Rob England to the show for a chat. Rob is famously known for being The IT Skeptic and previously casting his skeptical" eye towards DevOps. Tune in to find out what Rob now thinks DevOps is doing right, and where he still think that DevOps risks going off course.  Show notes at http://www.devopscafe.org