DevOps Cafe Podcast & Videos

Wednesday

Mar212012

DevOps Cafe Episode 25

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 1:30PM

PaaS is a four letter word if you aren't careful who runs it.

This week we switch it up and go for the manager's perspective. Mark Imbriaco joins us for a chat about his hip career path (37 Signals to Heroku to Living Social), how he puts the best of ideas of a PaaS to work, building a "Developer Happiness" team, distributed workforces, and more.

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Follow John Willis on Twitter: @botchagalupe
Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Mark Imbriaco on Twitter: @markimbriaco

Notes:

Mark currently works at Living Social
Mark used to run Ops at 37 Signals and then Heroku
John commended Mark for his early work with Chef
There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
John Willis works for Enstratus
Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions

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DevOps Cafe Episode 24

Friday, March 16, 2012 at 5:45AM

Sure it's about culture... but who doesn't love the cool tools?

"@portertech" is a one of the most common answers when we ask people to tell us "who is working on cool stuff?". So of course we had to get Sean Porter on the show to tell us what he is up to. When not trying to automate his day job, Sean is active cranking out cool tools like Sensu. In this episode, we not only talk to Sean about tools but we also talk about how a distributed and growing company like Sonian strives to build their world without DevOps problems.

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Follow John Willis on Twitter: @botchagalupe
Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Sean Porter on Twitter: @portertech

Notes:

Sean Porter's blog is portertech.ca
The "monitoring sucks" community was mentioned again
Sean started the Sensu monitoring project
See other stuff that Sean is working on (github)
There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
John Willis works for Enstratus
Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
Sean Porter works for Sonian

Please leave comments or questions below and we'll read them on the show!

DevOps Cafe Episode 23

Monday, March 5, 2012 at 2:36PM

DevOps... it's the "why?" not the "what".

You might know Ben Rockwood from his past work with the Open Solaris community or perhaps you caught his DevOps themed keynote at LISA 2011. He's always seemed to have a good knack from getting to the essence of of DevOps problems and solutions. In this episode we chat with Ben about a range of topics, including what he's learned from Lean and Operations Management to what tools he finds interesting these days.

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Follow John Willis on Twitter: @botchagalupe
Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Ben Rockwood on Twitter: @benr

Notes:

Ben's and his blog can be found at cuddletech.com
Ben's DevOps keynote from LISA 2011 (with his full reading list)
The "monitoring sucks" community was mentioned
Ben explained where SmartOS came from and why it's getting buzz
Ben is like where the Sensu monitoring project
Ben recommended Lean IT, Visible Ops, and Management Challenges for the 21st Century
There is an upcoming Kanban and DevOps meetup in Silicon Valley
John Willis works for Enstratus
Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
Ben Rockwood works for Joyent

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Saturday

Feb252012

DevOps Cafe Episode 22

Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 4:45PM

These tools have to come from somewhere.

John and Damon chat with Jordan Sissel about his work as a DevOps toolsmith (fpm, logstash), being a DevOps practitioner, and the DevOps community at large.