DevOps Cafe Podcast (podcasts)
DevOps Cafe hosted by John Willis and Damon Edwards

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. 

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp79.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:39pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp78.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:11pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp77.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:22pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp76.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:20pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp75.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:31pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp74.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:56pm PDT

Patrick Chanezon (Docker) chats with John and Damon about trends that are changing how Developers work.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp73.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:02pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp72.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:32pm PDT

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.

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Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp71.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:12pm PDT

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.

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp70.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:03pm PDT

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.

Direct download: DevOps_CafeEp69.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:07pm PDT

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.  

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp68.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:38pm PDT

Mark Imbriaco (Operable) returns to discuss the changing role of Operations, ChatOps, and more.  

Show notes at devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp67.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:19am PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp66.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:05pm PDT

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 

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp65.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:24pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp64.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:22pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp63.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:56pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp62.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:46pm PDT

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.

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp60.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:19pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafe59.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:11pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafe58.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:01pm PDT

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.  

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp56.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:04pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp55.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:55pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp54.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:48pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp53.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:43pm PDT

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. 

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp52.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:53pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp51.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:58pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp50.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:02pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp49.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:41am PDT

DevOps Cafe Ep. 48 - Guest: JR Rivers

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?

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp48.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:03pm PDT

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.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp47.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:06pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp46.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:50pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp45.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:27pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp43.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:18pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafe42.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:05pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Ep._41_-_Guest__Dave_Mangot.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:21pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp39Part2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:06pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp39Part1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:14pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp37.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:36pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp36.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:58pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOpsCafeEp35.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:42pm PDT

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

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Ep._33_-_Guest__Jez_Humble.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:29am PDT

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

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Ep._31_-_Guest__Simon_Wardley.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:46pm PDT

Time to talk Kanban! John and Damon go straight to the Kanban source in a chat with David J. Anderson and Dominica DeGrandis. Topics include why Kanban works, where it came from, and where it is going.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:54pm PDT

John and Damon are live in Tokyo where they are joined by Jay Hotta (Creationline) for a quick chat about DevOps Days Tokyo. Be sure not to miss the part about the literal translation of "DevOps".

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org 

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_-_Episode29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:03pm PDT

Live from ChefConf 2012, John and Damon sit down for a roundtable discussion with Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Chris Brown, and Mitch Hill. Recorded in front of a live studio audience.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org 

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_28_-_Live_at_ChefConf_2012.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:06am PDT

Mark Burgess joins Damon and John for a chat about Mark's personal journey, cfengine, the new cfengine 3, promise theory, convergence, orchestration, and other fascinating topics. 

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_27_-_Guest__Mark_Burgess.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:59am PDT

John and Damon chat with Mark Imbriaco (Living Social) about the value of an internal platform for operations, building a "Developer Happiness Team", solving DevOps problems from a managers perspective, and much more. 

Show notes: http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:28pm PDT

John and Damon talk with Sean Porter (@portertech) about cool tools like Sensu and DevOps best practices.

Show notes: http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_24.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:06am PDT

John and Damon chat with Ben Rockwood (Joyent) about his path to DevOps, his recent keynote at LISA 2111, and what's getting him excited these days.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Episode_23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:34pm PDT

Meet a DevOps toolsmith. John and Damon interview Jordan Sissel, author of the popular fpm and logstash. Show notes at: http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOps_Cafe_Ep._22_-_Guest__Jordan_Sissel.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:43pm PDT

John and Damon are back in the saddle again. No guests this time. Just a quick catch-up (lots of changes!) and discussion on what is in store for DevOps, Cloud, and the podcast in 2012.

Direct download: DevOpsCafe21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:16pm PDT

John and Damon are back with a long form interview with Jesse Robbins of Opscode and Amazon fame.

Direct download: DevOpsCafe19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:25pm PDT

We are back! Lots of events coming up inlcuding Velocity and DevOps Days Mountain View. We talk to John Vincent (@lusis) about his Noah project and his DevOps experiences.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: Episode_18_-_Guest__John_Vincent.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:49pm PDT

Interview with Luke Kanies (Puppet Labs) about history of Infrastructure as Code and DevOps movements.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: Episode_17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:49pm PDT

Live from London it's the DevOps Roundtable with Julian Simpson, Chris Read, Stephen Nelson-Smith, Phil Dixon, Robert Cowham, John Willis, and Damon Edwards. See the video version at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:22pm PDT

John reports on his DevOps Days Hamburg experiences. DevOps Manifesto discussion. Listener mail/comments. 

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: Episode_15_-_DevOps_Days_Hamburg_Wrap-Up.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:20pm PDT

John and Damon interview some of the world class speakers assembled for the Cloud2Days / Java2Days conferences. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: Episode_14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:14pm PDT

John and Damon read mail and comments from listeners; Interview with Stephen Nelson-Smith from the upcoming DevOps Days Hamburg Conference; Interview with Emo Abadjiev from the upcoming Java2Days / Cloud2Days Conferences

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

 

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:29pm PDT

Patrick Debois, who we have to thank for the term DevOps, joins us live from Belgium. We talk about the origins of the DevOps movement, recent and upcoming events, and difficulties with DevOps evangelism.

Full show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:16am PDT

The Visible Ops authors stop by the DevOps Cafe. We talk about the history, present, and future of their efforts to improve how IT runs.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode10.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:20pm PDT

John and Damon are back from vacation and dig into various topics including the IT Philharmonic presentation from Velocity and OSCON. Guests return next episode.
Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode9.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:52pm PDT

John and Damon visit companies and get those companies to open up and show the tools and processes they use to solve their DevOps problems. Go to http://devopscafe.org to watch! 

Direct download: Announce_OpenMicEpisode1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:25pm PDT

John is fired up and comes out swinging. Then we interview Andrew Shafer about bringing Agile to operations, the DevOps movement, and clouds.

Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode8.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:41pm PDT

C.A.M.S. = Culture, Automation, Metrics, Sharing. Interview with R.I.Pienaar about the London-based DevOps community and MCollective.

Show notes at
http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode7.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:42am PDT

Interview with Jody Mulkey (CIO of Shopzilla). The business case behind DevOps. Agile and the Cloud meet DevOps. Changing Culture.

Show notes at:
http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode6.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:49am PDT

John and Damon provide their recap of the Velocity / DevOps Day action. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode5.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:41pm PDT

Interview with Tim Berglund about complexity theory and it's implications for software development, operations, and DevOps. Show notes at: devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode4.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:38pm PDT

 

People exclude themselves from the DevOps conversation and then feel left out?, Panel interview examining Continuous Deployment and Continuous Testing, The gap between leading operations groups and the rest of the pack is widening.

Show notes at:

http://devopscafe.org

 

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:56am PDT

OpsCamp surprise. How much time are you spending in the muck? Interview with John Allspaw.

Show notes at:

http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:51pm PDT

Episode 1 - Guest: Lindsay Holmwood

DevOps is a business problem. Interview with Lindsay Holmwood. Don't forget about monitoring

Show notes at:

http://devopscafe.org

Direct download: DevOpsCafe_Episode1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:52pm PDT