DevOps Chat: Hiscox CTO Jonathan Fletcher
Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox. Jonathan will be quick to tell you that he is actually “interm” CTO. But as I told him in our Chat, if Hiscox is as sharp a company as I think it is, it will make that title permanent soon. I have known […]
DevOps Chat: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs & DevOps with Omed Habib
OK, I admit it. Thinking of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and DevOps doesn’t seem like an obvious connection. But Omed Habib of AppDynamics gives us the connection of how Maslow’s theory applies to developers and DevOps people. Because after all, they are people too, right? Right? Anyway, this is a great conversation that I think […]
DevOps Chat: DOES London 2017 Speaker Jose Quaresma, Accenture
In anticipation of the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) London 2017, we are interviewing a series of the announced speakers who will be appearing there. The first in our DOES London 2017 speaker interviews is with Jose Quaresma of Accenture. Jose is a leader at Accenture and has a lot of knowledge on real DevOps transformations. […]
DevOps Chat: Dead-End Computer Languages with Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson from Automic is always a great source of knowledge around DevOps. I have spoken with him several times and he never disappoints. In this DevOps Chat, Scott talks to us about dead-end computer languages. Scott, who is a developer himself, often marvels at the explosion of languages available today and wonders how many […]
DevOps Chat: ‘The DevOps Adoption Playbook’ by Sanjeev Sharma
Before the recent IBM InterConnect conference I had a chance to sit down and chat with Sanjeev Sharma, CTO of DevOps Adoption at IBM. I have spoken to Sanjeev many times and he is a contributor to devopsy.kinsta.cloud, as well as the author of “DevOps for Dummies.” Sanjeev has a new book out called “The […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps and Databases w/ Steve Jones, Redgate
In this DevOps Chat, our guest is Steve Jones of Redgate and SQL Server Central. Steve talks to us about DevOps and databases, as well as the latest from Redgate SQL Clone. More and more we are hearing from DevOps teams that the database is becoming a constraint. We must take DevOps to the database! […]
Building a Bridge from Agile to DevOps, Scrum.org Partners with the DevOps Institute
Scrum.org, which is dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery, and the DevOps Institute, which is dedicated to fostering a community around emerging practices in Continuous Delivery and DevOps, today announced an alliance that seeks to build a bridge from agile to DevOps. It will include scrum teams, agile practices and DevOps. I think […]
DevOps Chat: Purpose Built Appliances for Containerized Applications with Diamanti’s Mark Balch
Back in my StillSecure days, building purpose-built appliances for security was all the rage. Over time, though, security-as-a-service captured much of the market (although security appliances are still a big seller). For containerized applications, you may think cloud is the way to go. But the folks at Diamanti say that purpose-built appliances for containerized applications […]
DevOps Chat: The Evolution of APM with Jonah Kowall, AppDynamics
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Jonah Kowall, VP of Market Developments and Insights at AppDynamics. Of course prior to that Jonah was a VP of Research IT Operations at Gartner. Jonah actually gave us a great overview of the evolution of APM and how the market has evolved. He also tells where we […]
DevSecOps @RSAC, My 2 Favorite Presentations
For the third year, devopsy.kinsta.cloud hosted a DevSecOps/Rugged DevOps event at RSA Conference. As with years before, we smashed attendance records. We had just shy of 900 people stop in on Monday of RSA Week to hear from the 11 presentations we hosted. Taken in total, the presentations presented a wide range of DevSecOps issues. […]
Help Us Understand CI/CD, DevOps & Job Scheduling
While plenty of vendors tell us what they think is happening in the market, the only way to really learn is from you, our readers. So we are asking you to take a few minutes to take this important survey on the adoption of CI/CD, DevOps and job scheduling. We will be giving a $50 […]
A “Deep Dive Into DevOps” with DOES17
As adult learners and leaders, we tend to glean less from theory and seem to derive more from people actually describing the real-world problems they are trying to solve. Ever since the DevOps Enterprise Summit began in 2014, we’ve been adamant about providing a unique venue for the technology leaders of large, complex organizations to […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with Travelers and Urban Code
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers about CI/CD. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study. As usual, immediately below is […]
What Is DORA and Why Should You Care?
Many of you may already know that Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren launched a new company called DORA. DORA stands for DevOps Research and Assessment. Some of you probably also know that DORA and the individuals behind it have been providing a lot of the science and analysis behind the State of DevOps […]
IBM InterConnect – CrowdChat, Preview and Panel Discussion
We are just about 2 weeks out from IBM InterConnect, which is shaping up to once again be heavy on DevOps and related technologies. Of course there are other things on the agenda besides DevOps (really?), like cognitive and Watson for instance. There will be plenty of cloud, IoT and more cutting edge technology subjects. […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps Virtual Summit Preview w/ Dr. Nicole Forsgren, DORA
In this DevOps Chat episode our guest is DORA co-founder, Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Dr. Nicole talks to us about her upcoming appearance at the DevOps Virtual Summit on Tuesday, March 7th at 12:30PM EST. Additionally, Dr. Forsgren gives us some news on upcoming activities and releases coming from the DORA team. It is always a […]
DevOps Chat: Madhura Maskasky, Platform9
This DevOps Chat is with Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and VP of product at Platform9. If you are not familiar, Platform9 offers an “open source as a service.” While that sounds pretty cool, think managed hybrid cloud and now managed Kubernetes in an infrastructure-agnostic service. Madhura does a great job of explaining this, so have a […]
DevOps Chat: Mik Kersten, Tasktop on Value Stream Visualization
In this DevOps Chat, we sit down with Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and co-founder of Tasktop. Mik besides being the founder of Tasktop, is also the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. Tasktop continues to lead the way in value stream visualization and software delivery integration. Mik gives us the latest on this […]
DevOps Chat: Why Real Transformation Starts with Culture, Bryson Koehler and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, IBM
While culture is of the utmost importance to enable digital transformation, there are many other milestones in a successful DevOps journey. In this DevOps Chat, join Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, devopsy.kinsta.cloud, as he hosts Bryson Koehler, GM, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Senior Software Engineer/IT Architect at IBM. […]
DevOps Chat: Justin Vaughan-Brown, AppDynamics
This episode of DevOps Chats is with Justin Vaughan-Brown of AppDynamics. This was recorded just prior to the announcement of Cisco’s intent to acquire AppDynamics for about $3.7B. So sorry, folks no insight into that deal here. Nevertheless, Justin is a DevOps veteran. While at AppDynamics for just a few months, Justin has worked and […]
DevOps Chat: Chris Lazzaro & Peter Klenk, IBM Bluemix and IBM Bluemix Garage
In this DevOps Chat, we catch up with Chris Lazzaro and Peter Klenk of IBM Bluemix and Bluemix Garage. With IBM InterConnect just a month or so away, it is a good time to hear what those innovative Bluemix folks are up to. Peter and Chris give us their take on new IBM Bluemix services, […]
DevOps Chat: Ken Cheney, Chef on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automation
devopsy.kinsta.cloud catches up with Chef’s busy CMO Ken Cheney. Ken give us the inside look at AWS’s OpsWorks for Chef Automate. While this is an AWS offering it is based on Chef and is a pretty big bet by AWS on Chef. In addition Ken brings us up to speed (pun intended) on other things […]
DevOps Chat: Nigel Kersten, Puppet, 2017 DevOps Survey
I had a chance to sit down recently with Nigel Kersten, chief technical strategist at Puppet. Besides the fancy title, Nigel is one of the smartest, nicest people you will meet. Always a pleasure catching up with him. We spent most of our time speaking about the Puppet 2017 DevOps survey, which is now open […]