We made a march towards continuous development, and we changed the way we develop, build, deploy, secure, and monitor software.
Do you think you missed this march? The good news is that it's actually happening continuously. Join us! We' re part of it too. We observe it, we document it, and we tell it.

In each episode of The DevOps FaunCast, we'll treat you to an in-depth talk about a topic related to DevOps, SRE, distributed computing, Kubernetes, cloud computing, containers and other similar concerns.

You'll listen to the stories behind the stories and learn new things. www.faun.dev/podcast

We Made a March Towards Continuous Development: Introducing The DevOps FaunCast

For some of us, the interest we have for software engineering started when we played our first video game when we were young; for others, it started with coding bootcamps, and others started having an interest in software engineering in college.

Whether you started this or that way, there's a common thing that most of us share; we initially started with the intention of building visible code, whether it's a game, a website, or a mobile application.

At this early stage of our understanding of software engineering, you very rarely hear of people who want to develop APIs, manage networks, or maintain production systems... In the beginning, we were charmed by the light and colors shining out of our screens, but with time, driven by wonder and curiosity, we start asking questions on what's really running inside, how it's running, and more importantly, how to create a similar thing.

We started seeking the answers, and this is when we discovered a new fascinating world of possibilities: The backend that powers the frontend. The technologies that everybody uses, but no one sees. The foundation of the base.

From there, choices and possibilities diverged. Many chose to stay in development, as is the case with backend developers. Others have chosen to go into infrastructure and networks like system and network engineers. Each took a different track, but these tracks met once again with DevOps.

Today, we're going to talk about the short story of DevOps, but before that, we're going to travel back in time to the first crisis in software engineering, passing through agile methodologies, and arriving to DevOps.

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The first crisis in software engineering, the roots of Agile and the short story of DevOps

We live in a world built by our collective ingenuity and imagination. We see further and more than our predecessors, not because of keener vision or greater heights but because we are standing on the shoulders of giants that came before us.

The Japanese word "sensei" literally means the person who came before.

Do you remember the first time you touch the computer keyboard?

Do you remember the typewriter clanging sound?

Do you remember your first HTML rendered on the world wide web or your first "hello world" application?

Maybe you were a gamer, and you blew the cartridges on your family computer?

No doubt, your first lines of code relies on the combined outcomes of thousands of years of accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

Today, we will navigate through history to discover how our ancestors made knowledge out of information. We'll talk about the technologies that have marked contemporary and modern history. Then we'll go back to modern times to talk about the first web server, virtualization, cloud computing, Docker and Kubernetes. This is the tale of computing, in which humans are heroes, and their greatest weapon is the imagination.

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From Abacus to Containers - A Brief History of Computing

We made a march towards continuous development, and we changed the way we develop, build, deploy, secure, and monitor software.

Do you think you missed this march? The good news is that it's actually happening continuously. Join us! We' re part of it too. We observe it, we document it, and we tell it.

In each episode of The DevOps FaunCast, we'll treat you to an in-depth talk about a topic related to DevOps, SRE, distributed computing, Kubernetes, cloud computing, containers and other similar concerns.

You'll listen to the stories behind the stories and learn new things. www.faun.dev/podcast