DevOps Cafe Episode 60 - Paula Thrasher

Federal agency or private enterprise, it's all just people.

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.

  

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Follow Paula Thrasher on Twitter: @paula_thrasher

 Notes:

• Paula talked about her work bringing Aglie and DevOps principles to federal projects
• Paula is an application delivery lead (and a transformation specialist) at CSC's North America Public Sector group.
• Damon works for SimplifyOps and DTO Solutions
• John works for Docker

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DevOps Cafe Episode 59 - Dave McCrory

Internet of Data Gravity Things

John and Damon chat with Dave McCrory (CTO, Basho) about Data Gravity, the data demands of Internet of Things, PaaS in the enterprise, and more.

  

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Follow Dave McCrory on Twitter: @mccrory

 Notes:

• Dave blogs about Data Gravity related topics at datagravity.org
• Dave is CTO of Basho
• Damon works for SimplifyOps and DTO Solutions
• John works for Docker

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DevOps Cafe Episode 58 - Zoran Perkov

Flashagalupe

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.

  

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards

Notes:

• Zoran was featured in Michael Lewis's best seller, Flash Boys
• Zoran now works for IEX (and is hiring)
• Damon works for SimplifyOps and DTO Solutions
• John works for Docker

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DevOps Cafe Episode 57 - John and Damon (Catch-up)

We're back for more 

In the 2015 return of DevOps Cafe, John and Damon catch-up on a wide range of topics. Yes, Docker and microservices come up... but so does organizational change, Conway's law, burnout, and more.

  

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards

Notes:

• Martin Fowler's and James Lewis's excellent introduction to Microservices
• John and Damon discussed the highly successful DevOps Enterprise conference
• John's article calling attention to the burnout issue
• Damon works for SimplifyOps and DTO Solutions
• John works for Docker

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DevOps Cafe Episode 56 - Sidney Dekker

Complexity and Failure. Like Peanut Butter and Jelly.

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.

  

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards

Notes:

• Many times we reference Sidney Dekker's excellent books (especially "Drift into Failure")
• Sidney is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia
• Damon works for SimplifyOps and DTO Solutions
• John works for SocketPlane and is an entrepreneur in residence at Pacific Crest

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