Ship Happens: A DevOps Podcast
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome to Ship Happens where we interview interesting people in the DevOps and engineering community and get real about their careers, paths to DevOps and all the highs and lows in between.
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Episodes
Sam Goldstein of GitLab Discusses Remote Work and Engineering Culture
April 20, 2020 21:40 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBHow to effectively communicate asynchronously In episode 7 of Ship Happens, Sam Goldstein explains what it means to communicate with a global team in an asynchronous fashion. While 9-to-5 offices typically expect real-time responses to Slack messages, Sam explains what it means when you're constantly working with people on the other side of the world. See how GitLab prioritizes their meetings and consistently documents human workflows in order to help teams work asynchronously wit...
Tammy Butow Chats SRE, Chaos Engineering and How to Train On-Call Teams
April 08, 2020 22:05 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBMaintaining availability and velocity in a highly-regulated environment Tammy talks about what it takes to maintain available, secure services in a highly-regulated environment. See how teams think about their delivery pipelines and services when applications and infrastructure need to adhere to strict Australian governmental regulations. Tammy's path to SRE and the organizational value of SRE Through personal experiences, Tammy discovers the value of SRE in a very real way. Tam...
Andi Mann Talks SecOps and The 2019 State of DevOps Report
March 23, 2020 22:10 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBHear Andi's story and his contributions to the State of DevOps Report Andi Mann has worked in nearly all departments of IT, software engineering and advocacy in his 35+ years in the industry. Now, Andi leads the innovation research and advisory team for Splunk’s IT Markets business, helping support leading-edge customers with DevOps, SRE, AppSec, CI/CD etc., as well as promoting the numerous use cases for Splunk itself. He uses his expertise and his background to learn about how th...
Gene Kim Discusses His New Book, The Unicorn Project, Enhancing Development Pipelines, and DevOps Culture
February 04, 2020 21:35 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBGene's New Book: The Unicorn Project Gene Kim discusses his re-exploration of the Parts Unlimited universe from a different angle and how he came up with the Five Ideals that he surfaces in the book. Benton and Gene take a deep dive into the problems the book's protagonist, Maxine, faces in her DevOps journey, the reasons why those problems exist, and actionable solutions. Encouraging Psychological Safety and an Inclusive DevOps Culture Explore psychological safety, leadership an...
Kim Wachtel Discusses the Efficiency of Product-Led Growth Engineering for SaaS Applications
January 22, 2020 21:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBFrom Developer to Growth Engineering Kim talks about her 20+ year working in software – from developer to growth engineering, with a sprinkle of UX and product management too. Learn how Kim’s broad skill set drives powerful data-driven decisions and helps customers realize product value faster. The Rotating Flywheel of Software Development and Product Marketing Kim and Benton discuss the concept of a rotating flywheel for software engineering, testing, deployment and product mark...
Patrick Croot on Why Raygun “Eats Their Own Dogfood” to Create Tight Feedback Loops
October 18, 2019 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBThe (Frustrating) Path to DevOps Like many developers, Patrick’s path to DevOps was paved with frustration in slow, inefficient processes. Now, Patrick specializes in teaching DevOps to team members. What it Means to Be Truly Bootstrapped Raygun doesn’t just throw money at problems. The company takes a strategic approach to solving all issues, whether development or team lunch related. In order to iterate and deliver customer value quickly, Raygun is their own customer. On...
Bethany Abbott on Transforming On-Call at NS1 and Tackling the Gender Gap in Tech
October 04, 2019 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBTransforming On-Call at NS1 Like many companies, NS1 struggled to create a humane on-call culture for the team responsible for keeping its services up and running 24/7. When Bethany Abbott was hired to lead the TechOps team, she set out to transform the on-call culture by making strategic hires, tweaking on-call rotations and enlisting the right technology. Getting Singled Out as a Woman in Tech Long before Bethany was running TechOps for major tech companies, she experienced ineq...