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Modern Updates to CDIC Deployments - DevOps 122
Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss the latest tools they have been using for CDIC deployments. Specifically, they discuss the Next.js framework, which allows DevOps teams to provide richer application experiences without relying as much on backend infrastructure. That shift has implications for everything from the amount of network bandwidth consumed to the performance of web applications. Moreover, within the Next.js family, the Vercel platform employs caching, routing, and a React framework to optimize application performance. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams - Vercel Jenkins Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework Picks Jonathan – Agile Tour Vienna 2022 Will- All You Zombies Will- Pulumi - Universal Infrastructure as Code
Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure - DevOps 121
Managing uptime is critical for customers and it can be a powerful customer activity that connects engineers to the value that customers receive from your product, however it can also be a heavy source of burnout for engineers. Brian Scanlan with Intercom has created a volunteer management infrastructure that increases the efficiencies of on-call engineers while also reducing the inherent disruptive nature to the job. Today on the show, the panel interviews Brian about his process and architecture to this on-call management infrastructure. In this episode… The on-call burden Alarm management Escalation paths Incentives for the volunteer teams Deployment processes Improving standards and expectations Human centric vs. machine centric Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Intercom's On-Call Strategy to Avoid Engineer Burnout [2021] 10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace) - Inside Intercom Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe Brian Scanlan Twitter: @brian_scanlan LinkedIn: Brian Scanlan Picks Brian- speedtapefilms Jonathan- Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra Will - ThirdWeb.com
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Metrics with Dave Mangot - DevOps 120
Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team operationalize the Accelerate State of DevOps Report, surveying over 32,000 professionals worldwide in the DevOps industry. Dave Mangot joins the show today to share how he leverages these metrics to improve companies within their technology organizations. In this episode… DORA metrics Speed and quality Monoliths vs. microservices Uptime and failure rates Mean time to recover Deployment frequencies Production monitoring Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Mangoteque - Get good at delivering software℠ The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations DevOps Solutions | Google Cloud Picks Dave- An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding Jillian- Twitter: @PayGapApp Jonathan - Toothpowder is better than toothpaste
How to Navigate the Job Market in DevOps - DevOps 119
Jonathan shares about the new job offer he received and the progression we went through to navigate the process. Jonathan, Will, and Jillian also discuss the various aspects of the current DevOps job market, starting a new job, and how you can grow in your career. In this episode… Stack overflow and blogposts What do you do when you first start? Contracting gigs Social life in the workplace vs. financial transaction Single points of failure Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jonathan - (Reverse Pick) Looking for a Terraform for Drip configuration tool. Does this exist? If so, email jonathan@jhall.io. Jillian- Appsmith | Build & self-host internal tools Jillian - Workspaces for Mac Jillian- Setapp | The best apps for Mac in one suite Will- The Power of Go: Tools - Bitfield Consulting Will - Trustified.io
Elements to Make an App DevOps Ready - DevOps 118
Today on the show, Will talks about his latest project, Trustified.io and the steps he is considering to make it DevOps ready. Will and Jonathan discuss creating the dev environment, standardized logging, CI/CD, health checks, standardized reporting dashboards, configuring the app, database migration tools, user management, and ORMs. Elements to Make an App DevOps Ready: Creating the dev environment Standardized logging CI/CD Health checks Prometheus Standardized reporting dashboards Configuring the app Database migration tools User management ORMs Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jonathan- 49" CHG90 QLED Gaming Monitor Monitors - LC49HG90DMNXZA Will- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age Will- Trustified.io
Anti-Patterns in DevOps - DevOps 117
An anti-pattern is a pattern that you use to fix a short-term problem at the expense of your long-term goals. The insidious thing about anti-patterns isn't that they don't work or fail outright, but that they work in the short term while causing long-term failure and pain. Today on the show, Jonathan, Jillian, and Will discuss the various anti-patterns and cargo culting in software engineering, including password management, team structures, mean time to recover, and docker files management. In this episode… What is cargo cult software engineering? Favorite anti-patterns Password management Team structure and silos Mean time to recover Docker files management Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jillian - AWS ParallelCluster 3 Jillian- Data Version Control · DVC Jillian- Bioanalyze project Jonathan- Nest Cam Jonathan - Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Will- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Will - Trustified.io
Deployment Strategies - DevOps 116
Today on the show, Will and Jonathan discuss deployment strategies, including rolling strategy, blue-green patterns, canary deployments, feature flags, and progressive delivery. They also discuss backward compatibilities and rollback and rollforward deployment strategies, plus share their current picks of the week. In this episode… Kubernetes orchestration Blue-Green deployment patterns Canary deployments Feature flags Progressive delivery Backward compatibility Rollback deployment Rollforward deployment Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jonathan - A Radical Enterprise Will - Let’s Go Further Will - Skyrim – Music and Ambience
Universal Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi - DevOps 115
Imagine being able to program the cloud and bridge the Dev and Ops divide with cloud. Pulumi is a universal infrastructure as code platform that allows you to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using familiar languages, tools, and engineering practices. Today, Jonathan and Will discuss all the ins and outs of Pulumi. In this episode… What is Pulumi and how does it work? Is Pulumi replacing tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform altogether? What is the learning curve? What languages is Pulumi limited to? When would you not use Pulumi? What are the processes for implementation? Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Pulumi Picks Jonathan- LooLoo Kids - Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs Will- The Murph Challenge Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Progressions Through Programming Languages - DevOps 114
Do I need to learn how to write code? What are the types of program languages required in DevOps? What are the pros and cons of each? Will, Jonathan, and Jillian discuss the progressions through programming languages and their insights and opinions with each. Learn about Bash, Go, Perl, Python, Python 2, Python 3, JavaScript, Node.js, Rust, Ruby, and Java. At the end, they provide their final concluding thoughts and share their top picks. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links How to program with Bash: Syntax and tools The Go Programming Language The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org Welcome to Python.org JavaScript.com Node.js Rust Ruby Java | Oracle Picks Jillian- The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Jonathan- Obviously Awesome Jonathan- neverworkintheory.org Jonathan- The Tiny DevOps Guy Will- Learning Go Will- DevOps for Developers Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Delivering Business Outcomes, Not Just Metrics - DevOps 113
How do you align engineering outcomes to business goals? On the show, Hersh Tapadia, Adam Dahlgren from Allstacks talk about value stream intelligence and how you can generate guiding insights for product stakeholders across engineering projects and tools so you can shape better outcomes and deliver stronger value. In this episode… “Metrics are just table stakes” Metrics vs feelings driven management How to evolve the conversation from data collection to value creation Understanding the why behind the work to retain engineers The “dining table problem” How do engineering teams respond to this approach? Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links How did we get here? The Complex Journey to Value Stream Intelligence New Engineering Performance Industry Benchmarks — What does good look like? Podcasts - Check out episode 37 LinkedIn: Allstacks Twitter: Allstacks ( @allstacksapp ) Twitter: Adam Dahlgren ( @adamdahlgren ) Twitter: Hersh Tapadia ( @hershtapadia ) Picks Adam- Follow influencer Geoffrey Moore Hersh- The Boys in the Boat Jillian- The Social Conquest of Earth Will- The Workshop Survival Guide Special Guests: Adam Dahlgren and Hersh Tapadia.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift - DevOps 112
Enjoy this philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry. Eric Tank joins the show and shares his perspective on how to “develop for deprecation”. Building a code that is documented, tested, monitored, and deployed is important, but can you easily pass it off to someone else, or be able to walk away from the code it entirely? Johnathan joins by saying that “software is never done until it’s deleted.” They finish the discussion referencing apprenticeship models and how accountability in this way could parallel other industries. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Evolutionary Design Without* Tests Mastering Evolutionary Design - Jonathan Hall Twitter: Erik Tank ( @eriktank ) Picks Eric- GitHub: ajeetdsouza/zoxide Jillian- Get an elliptical for health and exercise Jillian- BookBub Jonathan- Razer Kiyo Pro Streaming Webcam Jonathan-Jonathan Hall's Boldly Go YouTube Channel Will- Pulumi Special Guest: Erik Tank.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Infrastructure as code and Amazon CDK - DevOps 111
Have you considered the significance of infrastructure as code and its importance in the industry? Will, Jillian, and Jonathan deep dive into this topic, plus discuss Amazon CDK and current frameworks and tools for the best workflows. Sponsors Tonic.ai Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Jonathan- Kivick CLI Tool – Jonathan created a Go Driver tool that allows you to do a replication from file system to CouchDB instance. Jonathan- How to Automate Anything Jillian- Dash overview Jillian- His Dark Material Book Series Will- Open AI.com Will- DevOps Roadmap for 2022 Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how. Tonic.ai: Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that equips developers with the data they need to build products effectively, while achieving compliance and security. With Tonic, teams shorten development cycles, eliminate the need for cumbersome data pipeline work, and mathematically guarantee the privacy of their data. Using universal data connectors and flexible APIs, Tonic integrates seamlessly into existing pipelines and allows developers to shape and size their data through advanced subsetting and synthetic scaling technology. By leveraging the latest in differential privacy, Tonic bakes in peace of mind, eliminating friction for teams working to deliver solutions at the speed of thought.
Building and Organizing DevOps Teams - DevOps 110
Jillian, Jonathan, and Will break down the process of building a DevOps team. They address the breadth of skills from writing skills to provisioning cloud and server resources. They also dive into organizing human and other resources to successfully build and grow a DevOps team. Sponsors Tonic.ai Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Picks Jillian- Appsmith | Build & self-host internal tools Jonathan- A Radical Enterprise Will- Why putting a pane of glass on a pile of sh*t doesn’t solve your problem Sponsored By: Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Tonic.ai: Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that equips developers with the data they need to build products effectively, while achieving compliance and security. With Tonic, teams shorten development cycles, eliminate the need for cumbersome data pipeline work, and mathematically guarantee the privacy of their data. Using universal data connectors and flexible APIs, Tonic integrates seamlessly into existing pipelines and allows developers to shape and size their data through advanced subsetting and synthetic scaling technology. By leveraging the latest in differential privacy, Tonic bakes in peace of mind, eliminating friction for teams working to deliver solutions at the speed of thought.
Is Kubernetes Right for You? - DevOps 109
Everyone and their mother is talking about Kubernetes, but there’s something you need to know. In this episode, the gang talks about the TRUTH around Kubernetes for most scenarios. In This Episode 1) The BIGGEST reason NOT to use Kubernetes 2) If you’ve started Kubernetes, watch out for THIS common pitfall 3) How to leverage Kubernetes’ customization capability and feel confident in scaling without pieces falling through the cracks Be a guest on the show! https://go.oncehub.com/adventuresindevops Sponsors Tonic.ai Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Picks Jillian- Data Microservices in Apache Spark using Apache Arrow Flight Jillian- TALES OF ARISE | Official Website (EN) - Bandai Namco Jonathan- Kubernetes is the future of DevOps... or is it? Jonathan- Allen Edmonds: Men's Shoes | Dress, Casual, Boots & More Will- The YouTube Formula by Darrel Eves Sponsored By: Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how. Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Tonic.ai: Tonic.ai is a synthetic data platform that equips developers with the data they need to build products effectively, while achieving compliance and security. With Tonic, teams shorten development cycles, eliminate the need for cumbersome data pipeline work, and mathematically guarantee the privacy of their data. Using universal data connectors and flexible APIs, Tonic integrates seamlessly into existing pipelines and allows developers to shape and size their data through advanced subsetting and synthetic scaling technology. By leveraging the latest in differential privacy, Tonic bakes in peace of mind, eliminating friction for teams working to deliver solutions at the speed of thought.
Protecting Your Database with Adam Kamor - BONUS
In a world of fake data and security breaches, where do you go? In this episode, Charles chats with Adam Kamor from Tonic.ai, the fake data company that mimics your production data to keep your databases secure. “It’s a little control knob, allowing you to turn the dial between privacy and utility. That’s what Tonic.ai does.” - Adam Kamor In This Episode 1) How to prepare your infrastructure for the real world and keep your transformations simple 2) The Do’s and Don’ts of acquiring EXCELLENT data sets 3) Why most security questions are GARBAGE and won’t protect your customers Links Twitter: Tonic.ai ( @tonicfakedata ) Special Guest: Adam Kamor.