DevOps Chats 2017

The most widely anticipated book in the DevOps world was officially released today. The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, John Willis, Patrick Debois and Jez Humble is here. We sit down with Gene how tells us about this labor of love and learning that was over 5 years in the making. With over 40 case studies of companies who have make the transformation to DevOps and high performing IT, this book serves as a guide to DevOps success. Gene gives us a preview to the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco this November. This is a great episode, not to be missed! Read full transcript here: https://devops.com/devops-chat-g/

DevOps Chat

Gene Kim, DevOps Handbook

Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonah Kowall of Appdynamics. Jonah is very bright and dialed into the DevOps scene. He talks with us about APM and its continuing evolution and diversification. Lots of great information here!

The Evolution of APM with Jonah Kowall of Appdynamics

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study.

CI/CD with Travelers and Urban Code

This DevOps Chat is with Mark Blach of Diamanti. Diamanti recently came out of stealth with a purpose built appliance optimized for containerized applications. What is that you say, why use an appliance and not the cloud? Good question. Mark and the Diamanti guys have a great answer to. Have a listen and hear for yourself.

Mark Balch, Diamanti on Purpose Built Appliances for Containerized Applications

Sanjeev Sharma of IBM has a new book out called the DevOps Adoption Playbook, a guide to adopting DevOps in a multi-speed IT enterprise. Let me say that this is no book for dummies either.

The DevOps Adoption Playbook represents the sum total of the many DevOps lessons and learning that Sanjeev has accumulated in his role as a CTO and leader of DevOps at IBM. Much of it is based on the workshops he has done all over the world with literally dozens of enterprises.

As I told Sanjeev after reading the book, "in a market full of books on "what is", this is a book on "how to".  I think you will enjoy this chat.

The DevOps Adoption Playbook, Sanjeev Sharma

Omed Habib is a Director of Product Marketing at AppDynamics. Omed actually has an engineering background and is really sharp. We had a great discussion on Maslow's Theory of Happiness and how it relates to developers, ops and DevOps.

You never know what you will learn about on a DevOps Chat ;-) Hope you enjoy!

Maslow's Theory of Happiness & DevOps w/ Omed Habib, AppDynamics

Jose Quaresma is DevOps Lead DK at Accenture. Jose is based in Denmark and is part of the Advanced Technology & Architecture practice. He is a featured speaker at DOES London this year. We had a chance to sit down with Jose and understand why he felt compelled to speak at DOES this year and some of why he is excited about DevOps.

DOES London 2017 - Jose Quaresma, Accenture

We sit down with Nigel Kersten of Puppet who will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th at the QE II Conference Center. Nigel will be speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble of DORA to announce the findings of the 6th annual State of DevOps Survey.

DevOps Enterprise Summit, London 2017 w/ Nigel Kersten, Puppet

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DORA, DevOps Research and Analysis will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th to announce the findings of this years State of DevOps Survey. She will be joined by Jez Humble (her co-founder at DORA) and Nigel Kersten of Puppet.

Dr. Forsgren gives us her take on why DOES is a special event for her and what we might see in this years survey analysis.

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, DORA

DOES London 2017 Program Committee member and speaker, Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox tells us about what he will be speaking about at DOES. We also talk about what it is like to be a member of the program committee for DOES, what kind of submissions they saw, what are the themes for this years show and more. Jonathan is a sharp fellow and always a pleasure to speak with.

Jonathan Fletcher, Hiscox

The Jenkins community was just given a major upgrade yesterday with the release of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean puts Continuous Delivery within reach of every team. 
This release was a long time in the making, with lots of hard work and thought behind it. Here from two of the Jenkins community leaders on what it is and why it could be a game changer for you!

Jenkins Blue Ocean

Rob England, IT Skeptic was once a DevOps skeptic (what do you expect, he is the IT skeptic), but even this skeptic has been won over to the ways of DevOps. So much so in fact that he is presenting at this years DOES London conference Rob is presenting on the importance of people in the DevOps equation. If even the IT skeptic can see the advantages of DevOps, you should too? I don't know, but have a listen as we catch up with always entertaining Rob England in advance of DOES London.

Rob England, DOES London 2017

Value stream mapping, what is it? Sure you have heard of it, but what does it really mean and how can it help you? We discuss value stream mapping in some detail with Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. Great discussion on how this Lean based idea can really help in your DevOps transformation.

Value Stream Mapping with Eric Robertson, CollabNet

Our guest on this DevOps chat is Dr. Steven Mayner who is a confirmed speaker for DevOps Enterprise Summit, London 2017. Steven is of the worlds foremost experts on Scaled Agile Framework. He has helped organizations the world over achieve great results with the SAFe framework. An engaging speaker, you will enjoy this interview.

Dr. Steve Mayner of Scaled Agile on DOES London 2017

Michael Olson of Puppet's product team is our guest on this episode of DevOps Chats. Michael gives us the scoop on Puppets 3 major announcements around product updates, new products and new global expansion. 

New versions of Puppet Enterprise and Puppet open source, new products include Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery. New partner offerings with AWS, Cisco and others, as well as new offices in Singapore and Seattle.

Taken together it paints the picture of Puppet continuing its growth into a global enterprise provider of DevOps solutions. You can read more on my take on these at https://wp.me/p4upoP-tRu

Puppet's Big News with Michael Olson

Using any tool or technology because it is the "cool thing to do" is never a good idea. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Flint Brenton, CEO of Collabnet. Flint has been around long enough to know that if you are not using the right technology for a given task, you are not going to have the success you might have otherwise. Picking the right tool for the job is as important as doing the job itself. Flint also gives us some good background on CollabNet which has been servicing the developer and ops communities long before DevOps was cool

Collabnet CEO on Waterfall and DevOps

ChefConf 2017 is right around the corner, May 22-24 in Austin. We had a chance to catch up with Ken Cheney, CMO Chef to get the scoop on what are the highlights of this years big Chef conference. Have a listen and there is still time to go. Get info at https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/

ChefConf 2017 Preview with Ken Cheney

Design thinking? What does it mean? Why should you care? I had a chance to sit down with Sarah Plantenberg of IBM who is my go to person on Design Thinking. Sarah has recently taken on a new role within IBM helping to bring design thinking to IBM customers. 
This DevOps chat is a great conversation with Sarah, who is a bright and engaging subject. I am sure you will enjoy!

Design Thinking w/ Sarah Plantenberg, IBM

Logs are increasingly becoming a big data analysis issue. So why not bring some AI to this big data problem? Loom Systems is doing just that and as a result is making it easier to analyze log data for actionable and meaningful results. I had a chance to sit down with Loom Systems CEO Gabby Menachem to discuss what AI means for the log analysis space and how it can make your job easier.

AI Log Analysis w/ Gabby Menachem, CEO, Loom Systems

DevOps.com caught up with Gene Kim prior to DOES London 2017. However due to some sound engineering issues, this chat was not able to be edited in time for the preview of the great DOES London 2017 show it was intended to be. With more time we have cleaned up the file and while not perfect it is indeed very listenable with some great info from Gene. If you like you can also check the keynotes from the show, many of which Gene mentions here on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnmJCc95ns&list=PLvk9Yh_MWYuyBf9AAlnI7Q6-zy_iDqRoh

DOES Lodon 2017 w/ Gene Kim

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