Come listen to experts in building infrastructure and enabling development and deployment processes discuss the ideas and technologies involved in DevOps.
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.
50 Shades of DevOps - DevOps 108
Is your DevOps title “hip”? What does it mean? Does it matter? In this episode, the gang discusses the fundamental differences between dev ops positions based on “hipness”, as well as if it actually matters in today’s world. In This Episode 1) What the “hipness” of your job means (and if you should care) 2) Why all of these positions refer back to this ONE important idea 3) The BEST advice to get started in dev ops (and how to not get confused with all of these fancy titles) Sponsors Tonic.ai Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Links Shades of DevOps Roles Picks Jillian- Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins Jonathan- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World Jonathan- A Radical Enterprise Will- The Mom Test Sponsored By: 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. 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.
To Reconfig or Not to Reconfig? - DevOps 107
Will needs some developer therapy, and maybe you do, too. In this episode, Will talks about reconfig issues he’s having with a client, and his loyal compadres help him find the light at the end of the tunnel. It may NOT include Airflow, though. Sorry, Jillian. In This Episode 1) What you NEED to look for to know if reconfiguration is the right answer for your…situation 2) Your No-B.S. guide to reconfiguring without making your client hate you 3) How to implement charts and other visual aids to help you and the client stay in sync Sponsors Tonic.ai Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Picks Jillian- Dash Overview Jillian- ShinyProxy Jonathan- Ozark | Netflix series Jonathan- Continuous Delivery - YouTube Will- DevOps Roadmap 2022 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.
AWS and IAM with Stephen Kuenzli - DevOps 106
Ready to add another tool to your toolkit? In this episode, the squad sits down with AWS connoisseur, Stephen Kuenzli. They lay out how to make integrating IAM a breeze, the EXCITING future of AWS, and why AWS hasn’t asked you this ONE question that, frankly, you should have asked already. “Even if you think you know AWS one Day 1, it’s changed on Day 2. It’s important to simplify how you access these resources.” - Stephen Kuenzli In This Episode 1) How AWS makes integrating IAM a breeze (with some really cool encryption tricks!) 2) Why AWS hasn’t asked you this ONE important question (and why you should!) 3) The BEST resource libraries to keep you feeling confident and in control (even if you’re new to AWS) 4) What the exciting future of AWS looks like for 2022 and beyond Sponsors Tonic.ai Top End Devs Links Effective IAM for Amazon Web Services Picks Jillian- Support your local book on crowd funding websites! (be gentle on your wallet) Jonathan- Will Button — The Inside Scoop on Teaching DevOps Jonathan- Panama Hats Stephen- Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick Stephen- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick Will- Acuity Eyedrops Will- Effective IAM for Amazon Web Service Special Guest: Stephen Kuenzli.Sponsored By: 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.
Server-less DevOps with Allen Helton - DevOps 105
Ready to pull the plug and go server-less? Hold your horses. In this episode, the DevOps fellows sit down with Allen Helton, a developer knows all about server-less ops. They discuss the biggest pros and cons for going server-less, why you HAVE to start with the big “A” to keep everything neat, and the NUMBER ONE mistake developers make when trying server-less for the first time. “ServerOps engineers are just as important as DevOps engineers are. There’s a lot of crossover.” - Allen Helton In This Episode 1) The HUGE pros for going server-less in 2022 (and why it doesn’t have to be too different from traditional DevOps) 2) Why server-less ops MUST start with the big “A” to keep everything tidy 3) The NUMBER ONE mistake traditional devs make when trying out server-less for the first time 4) How to learn Sever-less Ops efficiently and NOT overwhelm yourself (even if you’re a beginner) Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Ready, Set, Cloud! Picks Allen- Wyze Noise-Cancelling Headphones Jillian- Dabbleofdevops Jonathan- Jabra Elite 75t Will- DevOpsDays Austin 2022 Will- Forest Will- Rob Walling — Does "DevOps" Matter to Investors? Special Guest: Allen Helton.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.