Episode 6

It's a rallying point, it's a business case... it's DevOps!

Guest: Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla)

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Notes:

• Jody Mulkey is the CIO and SVP Technology at Shopzilla (which also operates the BizRate, Beso, SparDeinGeld, and PrixMoinsCher brands globally)
• The tech.shopzilla.com blog is a worthwhile read
• Tuesday July 6 is the Silicon Valley DevOps Meetup (Damon will be there)
• Wednesday July 14 is the SoCal DevOps Meetup (John and Damon will be there)
• Join the DevOps Toolchain Google Group
• Shopzilla is hiring!

Episode 5

It was the week of all weeks... let's talk about it.

No guest this time. Guests will return next episode!

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards

Notes:

• O'Reilly's Velocity 2010 Conference (some videos available)
• DevOps Day US 2010 (videos coming soon on InfoQ!)
• DevOps Days Europe 2010 is coming in October
• Special thanks to Andrew Shafer, Patrick Debois, Gildas Le Nadan, and Daniel Francisco (and his LinkedIn team) for their hard work on DevOps Day US
  
  

Episode 4

Complexity theory could save the day... if it weren't so darn complex.

Guest: Tim Berglund (August Technology Group)

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Follow Tim Berglund on Twitter: @tlberglund

Notes:

• Tim is a speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Conference Tour
• We referenced Tim's Complexity Theory and Software Development presentation quite a bit
• Other links to source material from Tim's presentation:
  http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitchell/dp/0195124413
  http://www.amazon.com/Complex-Adaptive-Systems-Introduction-Computational/dp/0691127026
  http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=5181
• Jim Webbers's slide deck on HATEOS

Episode 3

Good things happen in threes.

Guests: Eishay Smith (Director of Engineering at kaching.com), Pascal-Louis Perez (VP of Engineering & CTO at kaching.com), Lee Thompson (Senior Consultant at DTO Solutions)

Update: KaChing is now called Wealthfront! Their excellent engineering blog is now http://eng.wealthfront.com/

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Lee Thompson on Twitter: @stagr_lee
Follow Eishay Smith on Twitter: @eishay
Follow Pascal-Louis Perez on Twitter: @pascallouis 

Notes:

• John talks a lot about the latest flurry of heated blog and twitter discussion in part kicked-off by Chris Hoff (@beaker) blog post. Like all great blog posts, the discussion in the comments is outstanding. 
• Lee Thompson's original dev2ops.org post interviewing Eishay and Pascal-Louis about their continuous deployment and continuous testing practices
• kaChing's engineering blog is worth the read 
• Eishay talked about system at Google that compares stack traces to code checkins in order to notify developers of possible problems that they caused
• KaChing 
• Pascal-Louis recommended the Google Testing Blog as a great resource. 
• Eric Reis post on O'Reilly Radar about Continuous Deployment 
• Eric Ries Startup Lessons Learned Blog should be mandatory reading (and not just for startups)
• kaChing is hiring!
• Velocity Conference is coming up
• So is DevOps Days! (June 25 at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View, CA)

Episode 2

We had so much fun, we did it again.

Guest: John Allspaw (VP of Technical Operations at Etsy; Frequent public speaker and writer)

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Follow John Allspaw on Twtter: @allspaw 

Notes:

- OpsCamp San Francisco and OpsCamp Austin were both great
- John's "How much time are you spending in the muck?"... no link available because he won't write it down :) 
- Opscode (John's current company)
- DTO Solutions (Damon's current company) 
- Today's guest is John Allspaw
- John Allspaw talked about his path from Friendster to Flickr to Etsy
- John Allspaw's presentation at Velocity '09: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr"
- Velocity Conference is coming up
- DevOps Days (US edition will be June 25 at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View, CA)
- John Allspaw's book "The Art of Capacity Planning" is available now
- John Allspaw's book "Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time" is available for pre-order
- John Allspaw blogs also
- Faceball: ready for a comeback? 
- A lot of the discussion focused on metrics and culture (as usual)
- John Allspaw likes ganglia 
- Etsy is hiring
- WebOps Visualizations photo pool on Flickr (people sharing their metrics dashboards)
- If you see John Willis at CloudCamp Detroit or Gluecon, buy him a beer