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DevOps Cafe Podcast

50 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 36 ratings

In this interview driven show, John Willis and Damon Edwards take a pragmatic look at the technology, tools, and business developments behind the emerging DevOps movement.

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Episodes

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe

August 13, 2018 05:39 - 1 hour - 35.5 MB

Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 

DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed

July 23, 2018 05:11 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MB

John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John

June 20, 2018 21:22 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MB

A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 76 - Guest: Randy Shoup

October 12, 2017 06:20 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

John and Damon chat with Randy Shoup (Stitch Fix) about what he's learned building high-scale systems and teams through multiple generations of technology and practices... and how he is doing it again today. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 75 - Guest: Barbara Bouldin

September 21, 2017 05:31 - 59 minutes - 82 MB

John and Damon chat with Barbara Bouldin about her first-hand view of the good -- and the ugly -- through the past few decades of the technology industry. From Bell Labs to the breakup of AT&T ("Ma Bell") to enterprise software to transforming government agencies today, Barbara's journey has been an interesting one. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 74 - Guest: Alan Shimel

August 29, 2017 05:56 - 1 hour - 86.8 MB

Alan Shimel (DevOps.com) joins John and Damon for a freewheeling conversation that draws connections between DevOps transformations and Alan's background in the security, investment, and publishing industries.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 73 - Guest: Patrick Chanezon

July 12, 2017 03:02 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MB

Patrick Chanezon (Docker) chats with John and Damon about trends that are changing how Developers work. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 72 - Guest: Kelsey Hightower

June 19, 2017 04:32 - 1 hour - 91.4 MB

John and Damon chat with Kelsey Hightower (Google) about the future of Operations, Kubernetes, Docker, containers, self-learning, and more!

DevOps Cafe Ep. 71 - Guest: Courtney Kissler

May 26, 2017 05:12 - 1 hour - 94.3 MB

John and Damon pick Courtney Kissler’s brain (Starbucks) on the techniques that enable her to be a hands-on technology leader with a track record for getting teams to find and fix what is getting in the way. http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 70 - Guest: James Turnbull

October 27, 2016 03:03 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MB

James Turnbull joins John and Damon to chat about monitoring, automation, and the changing art of operations. In addition to his current work as a practitioner (Kickstarter) and past as vendor (Puppet Labs), you might also have read some of James's popular books on Monitoring, Puppet, Logstash, Docker, and Linux.

DevOps Cafe Ep. 69 - Guest: Justin Cormack

September 19, 2016 06:07 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB

Justin Cormack (Unikernel Systems / Docker) joins John and Damon to discuss the rise of unikernels, containers, microservices, serverless, and other trends that are threatening to change not only what our systems look like, but how we interact with them.

DevOps Cafe Ep. 68 - Guest: Patrick Debois

July 07, 2016 22:38 - 1 hour - 92.1 MB

John and Damon welcome back the always insightful Patrick Debois to get his practitioner point of view of going "serverless", delivering mobile apps, and the continued evolution of DevOps.  

DevOps Cafe Ep. 67 - Guest: Mark Imbriaco

June 08, 2016 18:19 - 1 hour - 86 MB

Mark Imbriaco (Operable) returns to discuss the changing role of Operations, ChatOps, and more.   Show notes at devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 66 - Guest: Damon interviews John

February 26, 2016 06:05 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Damon turns the tables and interviews John. The wide ranging conversations hits on everything from containers, to Docker, to microservices, to immutable infrastructure, to unikernals, and the impact of it all.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 65 - John interviews Damon

December 15, 2015 23:24 - 1 hour - 103 MB

In this special episode, John interviews Damon about Damon's #DOES15 presentation, "DevOps Kaizen: Practical Steps to Start & Sustain a Transformation". See the presentation slides and video in the show notes at http://devopscafe.org 

DevOps Cafe Ep. 64 - Guest: Nicole Forsgren

November 19, 2015 01:22 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB

John and Damon chat with researcher, data scientist, and IT operational performance expert, Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Nicole answers John and Damon's questions about the 2015 State of DevOps Report, highlights the areas that are groundbreaking, and gives advice on how to leverage it when you need to make the case for DevOps. Show notes are at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 63 - Guest: Josh Corman

September 02, 2015 22:56 - 1 hour - 94.8 MB

Josh Corman (Sonatype, Rugged DevOps, I am the Cavalry) joins John and Damon for a chat about why security means more than preventing theft and can't be separated from quality, why the software supply chain can literally be about life or death, wanting to be a superhero, burnout, and more. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 62 - Guests: Mary and Tom Poppendieck

August 17, 2015 05:46 - 1 hour - 88 MB

John and Damon talk to Mary and Tom Poppendieck about their groundbreaking work translating Lean product development principles to software development, "The Seven Deadly Sins", containers to reduce friction, their best-selling books, and what keeps them from actually retiring. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 61 - Guest: Jody Mulkey

July 27, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

Jody Mulkey (CTO, Ticketmaster) joins John and Damon to talk about the ups and downs of transforming a global enterprise. Topics include: Applying lean product development, building the alignment with the right metrics, finding your way to inspiring the organization, new operating models, facing burnout, and trying to be the Chief Obstacle Remover. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 60 - Guest: Paula Thrasher

May 18, 2015 19:19 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

John and Damon chat with Paula Trasher (CSC) about her work changing organizational behavior while simultaniousy getting the job done... and doing so in the face of classic government bureaucracy... and then going back for more.

DevOps Cafe Ep. 59 - Guest: Dave McCrory

April 16, 2015 04:11 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 58 - Guest: Zoran Perkov

April 04, 2015 02:01 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 57 - John and Damon catch-up

March 24, 2015 22:27 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

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.

DevOps Cafe Ep. 56 - Guest: Sidney Dekker

October 20, 2014 23:04 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

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.  

DevOps Cafe Ep. 55 - Guest: Tom Limoncelli

October 01, 2014 00:55 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 54 - Gene Kim Interview John and Damon

September 05, 2014 20:48 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 53 - Guest: Mandi Walls

August 27, 2014 20:43 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 52 - Guests: Matt Ho and Alex Honor

August 18, 2014 20:53 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

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. 

DevOps Cafe Ep. 51 - Guests: Michael Coté & Jay Lyman

July 22, 2014 23:58 - 1 hour - 28.9 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 50 - Adrian Cockcroft

July 22, 2014 21:02 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 49 - Brandon Burton

February 20, 2014 17:41 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 48 - Guest: JR Rivers

February 20, 2014 05:03 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MB

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?

DevOps Cafe Ep. 47 - Guests: QCon London 2014 DevOps Track

February 06, 2014 00:06 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB

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...

DevOps Cafe Ep. 46 - Guest: Ben Golub

January 24, 2014 06:50 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep.45 - Guest: Michael DeHaan

December 08, 2013 05:27 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 44 - Guest: Gene Kim

November 20, 2013 05:52 - 1 hour - 28 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 43 - Guest: Tyler Jewell

October 29, 2013 23:18 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 42 - Guest: Brent Salisbury

September 29, 2013 00:05 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 41 - Guest: Dave Mangot

September 10, 2013 00:21 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 40 - Guest: Rob England (The IT Skeptic)

March 26, 2013 04:44 - 1 hour - 40.2 MB

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

DevOps Cafe Ep. 39 - Part 2

March 15, 2013 19:06 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MB

John and Damon continue their conversation about Dell World, the Lean Startup Conference, and other DevOps related happenings. Recorded Dec 2012.

DevOps Cafe Ep. 39 - Part 1

March 14, 2013 19:14 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB

Recorded back at the end of 2012, John and Damon catch-up and discuss the Lean Startup Conference and other DevOps related happenings.

DevOps Cafe Ep.38 - Guest: Dave Zwieback

February 09, 2013 05:57 - 1 hour - 29.5 MB

John and Damon chat with Dave Zwieback (Knewton) about his excellent talk from DevOps Days New York and the most difficult part of DevOps... hiring.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 37 - Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer

December 13, 2012 02:36 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB

John and Damon have a long form conversation with Andrew Clay Shafer that goes everywhere from DevOps, to Cloud, to Lean, to a trip down startup memory lane. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 36 - Guest: Jeffrey Snover

November 28, 2012 00:58 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB

Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft) join John and Damon for a chat about bringing DevOps ideas into a classic organization like Microsoft, inventing PowerShell, automating in a Windows environment, reaching out to open source tool makers, and a trip down systems management memory lane. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 35 - Live Roundtable at PuppetConf 2012

November 20, 2012 00:42 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MB

Second annual live PuppetConf episode. Panelists were James Turnbull (Puppet Labs), Richard Newman (Reliant Security), Kris Buytaert (Inuits), Ken Barber (Puppet Labs), John Willis (Entratus), and Damon Edwards (DTO Solutions). Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 34

November 12, 2012 22:40 - 1 hour - 40.1 MB

No guests this episode... just John and Damon catching up after PuppetConf, Velocity Europe, DevOps Days Rome, and more. It's a long conversation about a variety of topics. The next episode will feature a guest and a return to the interview format. 

DevOps Cafe Ep. 33 - Guest: Jez Humble

September 26, 2012 17:29 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB

Jez Humble joins John and Damon for a chat about DevOps, the history of Continuous Delivery, leadership, and changing culture.   Show notes are at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 32 - Guest: Joe Williams

September 06, 2012 00:41 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB

John and Damon catch up with Joe Williams to chat about life inside a SaaS infrastructure. The conversation ranges from lessons learned, to Joe's latest favorite technology, to what it's like working at Boundary.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

DevOps Cafe Ep. 31 - Guest: Simon Wardley

August 24, 2012 00:46 - 1 hour - 32.6 MB

John and Damon chat with Simon Wardley about DevOps, the Cloud, and the nature of competitive advantage between companies. In Simon's usual style, he bridges the gap between the practical and the deep theoretical.  Show notes are at http://devopscafe.org

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