ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ShipTalk is the podcast series on the ins, outs, ups, and downs of software delivery. This series dives into the vast ocean Software Delivery, bringing aboard industry tech leaders, seasoned engineers, and insightful customers to navigate through the currents of the ever-evolving software landscape. Each session explores the real-world challenges and victories encountered by today’s tech innovators.
Whether you’re an Engineering Manager, Software Engineer, or an enthusiast in Software delivery is your interest, you’ll gain invaluable insights, and equip yourself with the knowledge to sail through the complex waters of software delivery.
Our seasoned guests are here to share their stories, shining a light on the do's, don’ts, and the “I wish I knew” of the tech world.If you would like to be a guest on ShipTalk, send an e-mail to [email protected]. Be sure to check out our sponsors website - Harness.io
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Episodes
10 years into K8s; when is a problem worth solving? Ken Ahrens - Speedscale
March 12, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined with Ken Ahrens, CEO and Founder of Speedscale. Kubernetes is turning 10 this summer and we dig into how the ecosystem has been evolving. Learn more from Ken as he walks through his journey on: * Don't forget the fundamentals * 10 Years into K8s, what is still challenging * Enthusiasm, a very important skill
From Code to Culture: Matt Anger's Odyssey in Software Engineering at DoorDash
February 23, 2024 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBExplore the ins and outs of software engineering and organizational culture in the ShipTalk Podcast. In this episode, Dewan Ahmed, a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness, engages in a compelling conversation with Matt Anger, a Senior Staff Engineer at DoorDash. In this insightful discussion, Matt reflects on his career, from a fresh graduate to his current role as an engineering leader at DoorDash. The conversation covers the evolution of software delivery methodologies, touching on Matt...
Starting an SRE Practice in a Critical Industry - Vlad Ukis - Siemens Healthineers
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBWelcome to the latest season of ShipTalk! In this episode, we get to talk to Dr. Vlad Ukis, Head of R&D for Siemens Healthineers and author of Establishing SRE Foundations. We cover several great topics from starting and scaling an SRE function in a healthcare/regulated industry to how to go about renegotiating your SLOs. * Road to SaaS * How to renegotiate SLOs * Changes in SRE practices through the years
ShipTalk - S02E08 - Home automation, the remote worker to manager gap, and living in an RV - Scott Lee - Arch Mortgage Insurance Company
June 12, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company's Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Scott Lee, discusses his home automation solution, deep dives into the massive gap between remote workers and their managers, and share a story about that one time he lived in an RV for 18 months with his wife and 2 dogs. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Automate all the things at home Main topic - A doctoral discussion on remote working Just for fun #2 - Scott's life in an RV and how he inc...
ShipTalk - S02E07 - Cloud Native DevOps in Financial Services, Croatian magic, and health education for kids - Bijit Ghosh - Deutsche Bank
May 31, 2023 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, Deutsche Bank's Head of Cloud Engineering , Bijit Ghosh, takes us on a culinary journey to Croatia, discusses cloud native adoption and cultural change in the high stakes world of financial services, and brings us all home for meal time with the Ghosh family. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Bijit's favorite travel destination Main topic - Cloud Native adoption and cultural change in Financial Services Just for fun #2 - Bijit's favorite hobby
ShipTalk - S02E06 - Its All About the People - Imposter Syndrome - Deserted Island Foods
May 25, 2023 20:00 - 11 minutes - 7.87 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, our host Jim Hirschauer interviews many of the speakers from the WTF is SRE conference and discusses the many life lessons they express. This episode is packed with important lessons to help you interact with your co-workers and to succeed in life in general. The crew also has some fun discussing foods for a deserted island. Introduction What's your favorite...? If you could give yourself one...what would it be? Just for fun ... Deserted island food
ShipTalk - A new word for techies, using your observability data lake to do good, and some HEMA-toma inducing sword play - Hilliary Lipsig - Red Hat
April 25, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Red Hat's Chief Mermaid, Hilliary Lipsig, defines a new word that all techies should adopt into their vocabulary. For the main course, Hilliary describes how to use Observability data to do so much more than most companies are doing today. She also shares her favorite hobby which is something I have never heard of before. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Hilliary's new word - ooming Main topic - Using Observability data proactively Just for fun ...
ShipTalk - The value of IDP at AWS, the $1M cellular outage, and the most useless beer cooler ever - Kyle Shelton - Consultant to Toyota Racing
April 04, 2023 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Kyle Shelton tells us about his experience using and building developer platforms to enhance the developer experience. He also shares his favorite hobby and cautionary tale about a preventable outage that cost ~$1M ... ouch! Be sure to check out Kyle blog site at https://chaoskyle.com/ Introductions Just for fun #1 - Kyle's favorite hobby Main topic - The value of IDPs and some advice on getting started Just for fun #2 - Kyle's worst IT mess-up
ShipTalk - A "Civ tech tree" for SREs, the M-word, and a new unit of measure called "Micro-Jacksons" - Steve McGhee - DevRel at Google
March 28, 2023 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilities are required to achieve increasing levels of reliability (the nines). He also shares some interesting stories about misadventures with user files and how Google handled the news that Michael Jackson had passed away. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Steve's activities outside of work Main topic - r9y.dev, what it is, how to use it, how to co...
ShipTalk - Heavy Rock, Netflix vs. Google, Continuous Resiliency, and a Lost City - a conversation with Adrian Cockcroft
March 09, 2023 22:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Adrian Cockcroft shares his thoughts on "the 5th accelerate metric" - reliability - and the State of DevOps, using error budgets, and how to achieve continuous reliability. He shares some interesting stories about the differences between Netflix and Google, as well as some personal stories to boot. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Adrian's favorite hobby Main topic - State of DevOps reliability metric, error budgets, continuous resiliency Just f...
ShipTalk - Lean into pipelines for speed, efficiency, and reliability - Bryan Finster - Defense Unicorns
February 22, 2023 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Bryan Finster discusses how to ensure reliability and resiliency across the SDLC by making everything part of the pipeline. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Bryan's favorite hobby Main topic - Leaning into delivery pipelines to ensure reliability and resiliency while creating efficiencies. Just for fun #2 - Bryan's worst IT mess up Closing
ShipTalk - Don't Let Efficiency Nuke Your Reliability - Matt Schillerstrom - Harness
February 17, 2023 02:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Matt Schillerstrom shares stories from his time working in reliability at a nuclear power plant and at Target. We've changed up the format of ShipTalk to include some sections that are just for fun... Introductions Just for fun #1 - 1 truth and 1 lie Main topic - The impact of efficiency initiatives and how to avoid/minimize the negative consequences Just for fun #2 - Matt's worst IT mess up Closing
A Master Class in DevOps Executive Coaching - Joni - StackHawk
July 14, 2021 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Joni Klippert who is the CEO of StackHawk. Joni has been in leadership roles in the DevOps space for over a decade helping run and launch exciting products in an ever-evolving space. Joni dove into cloud computing and DevOps and has not stopped growing. In this Master Class, we dive into what it takes to start in a new space from scratch. Navigating lots of grey in product management to scaling and growing firms and teams. Joni touches on being...
A Time Before, During, and After Kubernetes - Santiago - GumGum
June 28, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk we are joined by Santiago Campuzano. Santiago is a Lead DevOps Engineer at GumGum and has seen his fair share of distributed systems. Santiago used to build distributed Java/JEE applications for the financial sector and has gone through the early days of containerization leveraging technologies such as Apache Mesos and Apache Marathon before leveraging Kubernetes. We go through in the episode describing the time right before containerization became popular to t...
What is O11Y? Observability Demystified - Chris Riley - Splunk
May 11, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Chris Riley who is a Senior Developer Advocate at Splunk. Chris's background spans years of professional services and being an advocate. Chris is part of the Observability Panel at {unscripted} 2021 and gives us a background in O11Y, aka Observability. With any new technology, there is an internal need to advocate for change. Chris also talks about tips and tricks for those bringing in new technology how to advocate for change and to leave thei...
From House Fires to Production Fires - James Bohrman - Cloudspeakers
April 23, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by James Bohrman who is the founder of Cloudspeakers. James had an interesting path to technology. James started his career as an emergency dispatch technician for a security monitoring firm. From receiving calls about literal house fires to putting out metaphoric fires in production as a Site Reliability Engineer. Making the initial jump from a dispatcher to a DevOps Engineer then to an SRE, James created a blog detailing what he has learned al...
DevOps in a Highly Regulated Industry - Donovon Carter - Dexcom
March 17, 2021 18:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Donovon Carter who is a DevOps Engineer at Dexcom, a medical device company. Dexcom is one of the firms leading the charge against diabetes with CGM, constant glucose monitoring technology. Donovon graduated from university with a political science degree, which comes in handy with all of the negotiations that a DevOps organization and engineer have to go through. Supporting the pipeline of innovation and regulatory requirements can be tricky. ...
Shifting Complexities in DevOps - Jim Shilts - NADOG/Shipa
March 08, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Jim Shilts who is the founder and organizer of North American DevOps Group or NADOG and is a developer advocate at the cloud-native firm Shipa. Jim has been working on solving engineering efficiency problems for over 20 years working at firms such as Build Forge and Electric Cloud, pre-dating the inception of Hudson/Jenkins. As Jim walks through his experience and how complexity and bottlenecks have shifted around in the decades gone by and wha...
Washing Away Imposter Syndrome - Bart Farrell - Data on Kubernetes Community
February 23, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Bart Farrell who leads the Data on Kubernetes Community. Bart certainly has not had a traditional path to technology with stops in theology and talent management. Bart has made two leaps, one into tech and one into a more bleeding edge/crypto part of technology, running stateful workloads on Kubernetes. Not being afraid of change and finding confidence in courage in incremental success is key. As an engineer, you might be looking at working wit...
The Brass Tacks of Open Source - Tracy Miranda - Continuous Delivery Foundation
February 11, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Miranda who is the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation which is part of the Linux Foundation. Tracy has been leading open source communities prior to her time at the CDF at Cloudbees and has spent time on the governing board of the Eclipse Foundation. Tracy chats through her experience creating thriving open source communities and practices from inception to maturity. Open source projects especially at their inception...
Dev and Ops, DevOps from the Ops Side - Chris - ABC Fitness
February 03, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Chris Jowett who is a DevOps Architect at ABC Fitness. Chris has significant system engineering experience and has worked on several operations teams in various organizations. DevOps is the operational focus on development scaling e.g engineering efficiency. There is no one path for a DevOps engineer, learn from Chris as the evolution in operations teams occur how this translates to DevOps. For example number of services supported vs infrastructure ...
Finding Your Tribe - Tracy Ragan - DeployHub
January 19, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO of DeployHub. Tracy is no stranger to open source communities spending time with the Eclipse Foundation and Continuous Delivery Foundation [part of the Linux Foundation]. A software and open source community is more than just a place to get free software, the community aspect is crucial. Especially during the COVID pandemic, the human element is key to furthering the software engineering craft. Tracy talks about her c...
Finding Your Tribe - Tracy - DeployHub
January 19, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this episode of Ship Talk, we are joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO of DeployHub. Tracy is no stranger to open source communities spending time with the Eclipse Foundation and Continuous Delivery Foundation [part of the Linux Foundation]. A software and open source community is more than just a place to get free software, the community aspect is crucial. Especially during the COVID pandemic, the human element is key to furthering the software engineering craft. Tracy talks about her ...
Scaling to Scale
January 12, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode of Ship Talk, we are joined by Bob Chen who is a Director of DevOps at ADP. Bob has been practicing and now leading DevOps organizations since the inception of the term DevOps. Bob talks about the art and tact required to scale your team, technology, and to further the craft. The tips and advice can be used across any set of new technology paradigms.
Scaling to Scale - Bob Chen - ADP
January 12, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Bob Chen who is a Director of DevOps at ADP. Bob has been practicing and now leading DevOps organizations since the inception of the term DevOps. Bob talks about the art and tact required to scale your team, technology, and to further the craft. The tips and advice can be used across any set of new technology paradigms.
DevOps and Education, Closer Than You Think - David - GoSpotCheck
January 05, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we have a great conversation with David Sudia who is a Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck. Prior to being a DevOps Engineer, David was an educator then software engineer for a large eCommerce site. Balancing long and short-term goals, sometimes moving a mountain takes time and sometimes incremental confidence can happen in a sprint. Learn from David in his vast experience how to move the DevOps needle in your organization forward.
DevOps and Education, Closer Than You Think
January 05, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn this episode of Ship Talk, we have a great conversation with David Sudia who is a Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck. Prior to being a DevOps Engineer, David was an educator then software engineer for a large eCommerce site. Balancing long and short-term goals, sometimes moving a mountain takes time and sometimes incremental confidence can happen in a sprint. Learn from David in his vast experience how to move the DevOps needle in your organization forward.
Always Stay Curious - DevOps Leadership - Frank - DataStax
December 21, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Frank Moley who is a Senior Manager of platform engineering at DataStax. Having the ability to respect multiple points of views and opinions are critical in modern engineering roles. We are sum total of our experiences and opinions are usually formed by tangential thoughts and opinions of others. In this episode learn from Frank as he evolved from software engineering to DevOps/platform engineering leadership. An important lesson to always own your mi...
Scaling Your Career and DevOps Organization
December 14, 2020 23:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this episode of Ship Talk, Nidhi Allipuram who is the AVP of DevOps Platforms at Nationwide Insurance talks about a career journey to DevOps and how the genesis of the DevOps transformation at Nationwide started. In this excellent episode, we chat about empathy and how leaders can empathize. Nidhi has an interesting approach where she mob programs with her teams to keep her skills sharp. As her team's reach expands, calculating ROI for DevOps Teams which can be useful for a team of one or...
Scaling Your Career and DevOps Organization - Nidhi - Nationwide
December 14, 2020 23:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this episode of ShipTalk, Nidhi Allipuram who is the AVP of DevOps Platforms at Nationwide Insurance talks about a career journey to DevOps and how the genesis of the DevOps transformation at Nationwide started. In this excellent episode, we chat about empathy and how leaders can empathize. Nidhi has an interesting approach where she mob programs with her teams to keep her skills sharp. As her team's reach expands, calculating ROI for DevOps Teams which can be useful for a team of one or ...
Site Reliability Engineering 101 Podcast
November 03, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, we talk to Bob Strecansky who is a Staff SRE at MailChimp. A packed podcast about all things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Learn about how to become an SRE, the rise of blameless culture, a clear definition of black-box vs white-box approaches, and much more!
Site Reliability Engineering 101 - Bob Strecansky - MailChimp
November 03, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, we talk to Bob Strecansky who is a Staff SRE at MailChimp. A packed podcast about all things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Learn about how to become an SRE, the rise of blameless culture, a clear definition of black-box vs white-box approaches, and much more!