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 DevOps.com, 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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, DevOps.com, 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
DevOps.com 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 […]
DevOps Chat: Aruna Ravichandran, Co-Author, DevOps for Digital Leaders
Our first podcast of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. Of course when not authoring books or helping financially challenged but gifted students attend college, Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Aruna before on DevOps TV and discussed her career that has seen her […]
DevOps Chat: Huw Price, Smart Automation Is Key
Before the new year, I had a chance to sit down and chat with Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies. Given Huw’s title what do you think we spoke about? You guessed it, automation. Actually there is more to it than that. Automation for automation’s sake alone is not necessarily a good thing. […]
DevOps Chat: Jeff Schaeffer, CA Technologies, on Everything Continuous
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jeff Schaeffer, senior vice president and general manager of Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Jeff before, most recently at Jenkins World, where we did a video on our DevOpsTV YouTube channel. Jeff is a great interview who always gives […]
DevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an author, entrepreneur and executive. He also has a background of 20 years of programming to back it all up. He’s […]
DevOps Chat: InterConnect 2017 w/ Randy Newell, IBM DevOps
In this episode of DevOps Chats we are again joined by Randy Newell, Director World Wide Marketing for DevOps. Randy had a bunch of news he wanted to share with us including the call for speakers for IBM’s InterConnect 2017 which is open until November 11th. Randy also gave us a preview of the IBM sessions […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps & CD with Tim Butel, XebiaLabs
DevOps.com caught up with Tim Butel, VP of Products at XebiaLabs. Tim discussed some of the latest trends in DevOps & continuous delivery (CD) with us. He also gave us a great update on what XebiaLabs has been up to recently and why organizations including Gartner and others consider XebiaLabs a leader in the category. […]
DevOps Chat: Cognitive DevOps w/ Hayden Lindsey, Enterprise Systems and DevOps IBM
I recently had a chance to catch up with Hayden Lindsey, distinguished engineer and VP of Enterprise Systems and DevOps at IBM. I have spoken with Hayden several times as well as seeing him present at various conferences. Hayden truly understands how DevOps and related practices are changing the game for Enterprise Systems. Hayden and […]
DevOps Chat: Gene Kim on The DevOps Handbook and DevOps Enterprise Summit
Today was a red letter day in the DevOps world. Besides DevOps Connect: CD Summit’s being held in Atlanta and Berlin today. It was also the day of the highly anticipated release of the DevOps Handbook. The book was over five years in the making. It contains over forty case studies of real organizations and […]