John and Damon welcome Rob England to the show for a lively chat. Rob is famously known for being The IT Skeptic and previously casting his "skeptical" eye towards DevOps. Tune in to find out where Rob thinks DevOps gets it right, and where he still think that DevOps risks going off course.  

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Notes:

• Rob England works at Two Hills Ltd
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
• Rob's excellent talk at DevOps Days New Zealand
• Rob's online alter ego is the always informative and entertaining IT Skeptic 

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This is a two part episode. Who knew we liked to talk so much?. 

John and Damon chat about John's recent back-to-back travels to the Lean Startup conference and Dell World. How does that tie into DevOps? You'll have to listen to find out.

(Note: These were recorded at the end of December)

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John and Damon chat with Dave Zwieback (Knewton) about his excellent talk from DevOps Days New York and the most difficult part of DevOps... hiring. No matter if you are a manager who needs to recruit a team or an engineer who wants to make sure your co-workers are top-notch, hiring is an essential part of all of our success.

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Follow Dave Zwieback on Twitter: @mindweather

Notes:

• Dave Zwieback works for Knewton
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
• Dave's talk on DevOps and Hiring at DevOps Days New York
• Dave pointed out that the techniques of great recruiting come from many sources 

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Andrew Clay Shafer returns for a chat with John and Damon. As these conversations tend to go, a lot of ground was covered... from startups, to DevOps, to Cloud, to Lean. 

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Follow Andrew Clay Shafer on Twitter: @littleidea

Notes:

• Read more about Andrew's history and what he is up to.
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft) join John and Damon for a chat about bringing DevOps ideas into a classic organization like Microsoft, writing the Monad Manifesto, inventing PowerShell, automating in a Windows environment, reaching out to open source tool makers, and a trip down systems management memory lane.

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Follow Jeffrey Snover on Twitter: @jsnover 

Notes:

• Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft 
• Jeffrey is the Lead Architect for Windows Server and Windows System Center
• Jeffrey is inventor of PowerShell
• The Monad Manifesto (from 2002) was the seminal positioning paper that became PowerShell
• There is now a PowerShell Summit (currently sold out... waitlist only)
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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Last year's live DevOps Cafe at PuppetConf was so much fun that we decided to do it again. For the 2012 edition we decided to focus on the the points of interaction between Puppet users and Puppet Labs... the community and customer exprience. We aren't sure how well we stuck to that topic, but it was a great conversation anyway!

Panelists:

James TurnbullKris BuytaertRichard NewmanKen Barber

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Follow James Turnbull on Twitter: @kartar 
Follow Richard Newman on Twitter: @rsnhyperion
Follow Ken Barber on Twitter: @ken_barber
Follow Kris Buytaert on Twitter: @kris_buytaert 

Notes:

• PuppetConf was a well run event (again). Thank you, Jose Palafox.
• Video of last year's rountable can be found here (no video this year)
• Kris Buytaert works for Inuits
• Richard Newman works for Reliant Security
• Ken Barber and James Turnbull work for Puppet Labs
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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Coming off the tail end of some busy travel to PuppetConf, Velocity Europe, and DevOps Days Rome, this episode is just John and Damon catching up and chatting about a variety of topics. From DevOps to Deming, we cover a lot. If this isn't your cup of tea... don't worry, there is a slate of exciting guests booked for upcoming episodes. 

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Jez Humble's book "Continuous Delivery" makes a constant appearance in the DevOps movement. We finally get our friend Jez on the show to talk all about Continuous Delivery and whole lot more. We start with history and get all the way to leadership for transformation.

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Follow Jez Humble on Twitter: @jezhumble

Notes:

• DevOps Days Italy is coming up!
• Damon and John will also be at PuppetConf and Velocity London
• Buy Jez's book Continuous Delivery if you don't already own it.
• John mentioned Deming's 14 Points and Ben Rockwood's LISA talk
• Jez Humble works for ThoughtWorks Studios
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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Apparently John keeps a secret list of top engineers who know how to really build the guts of a SaaS. Joe Williams is on that list so, John and Damon got him on the show to talk shop. 

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Follow Joe Williams on Twitter: @williamsjoe

Notes:

• DevOps Days Italy is coming up!
• Damon and John will also be at PuppetConf and Velocity London
• Joe's Github account
• Joe mentioned codahale's metrics
• Joe is a fan of Erlang
• Joe wants them to hurry up and ship his Rasberry Pi
• Joe Williams works for Boundary
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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Few individuals can the gap between management theories and cutting edge technologies. Simon Wardley is one of those who can and has the experience (Canon, Fotango, Canonical, and now the LEF think tank) to back it up. In this episode, John and Damon get deep with Simon on the theories of managing organizations for competitive advantage, DevOps, and the Cloud. 

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Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards
Follow Simon Wardley on Twitter: @swardley

Notes:

• DevOps Days Italy is coming up!
• Damon and John will also be at PuppetConf and Velocity London
• This is a great list of Simon's publicly available writing and presentations
• Simon Wardley is currently a researcher for Leading Edge Forum (FEF)
• John Willis works for Enstratus
• Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions 

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