Adventures in DevOps
by Will Button, Warren Parad
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The Engineering Scoreboard and an Addiction to Speed
The Engineering Scoreboard and an Addiction to Speed
About this podcast
Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.
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- The Engineering Scoreboard and an Addiction to Speed · 47 min · Episode 287Share Episode We sit down with veteran Principal Engineer Justin Abrahms to discuss why having a clear engineering scoreboard is critical to winning the software delivery game…
- How can browser and mobile app testing be so difficult? · 1 h 5 min · Episode 286Share Episode We welcome David Burns, Head of Open Source at BrowserStack and previously Mozilla, this week to help explain how can browser and mobile app testing be so bad…
- SQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones · 38 min · Episode 285Share Episode From your feedback, we know that on-call issues, especially those that arise at the database layer are always the most challenging to solve. This episode builds on…
- The excitement and value of quality · 37 min · Episode 284Share Episode Sauce Labs CTO Anoop Tripathi addresses the root causes of broken test suites and why teams frequently become numb to intermittent test failures. Anoop shares…
- How to land a software job in the age of LLMs · 1 h 2 min · Episode 283Share Episode In this episode, we sit down with Nikhil Mungel, Head of AI R&D at Cribl, to discuss how LLMs have dramatically transformed the tech hiring landscape. The…
- Why does anyone use Crossplane? · 42 min · Episode 282Share Episode Pushkar Gopalakrishna, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Snap, previously Cruise and AWS, joins to explore why engineering organizations pivot away from Terraform…
- Building Observability for the Innovators · 42 min · Episode 281Share Episode Co-Founder of Grafana Labs, Anthony Woods, joins to share his perspective on how open source solutions are thriving despite the deluge of pull requests being…
- When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't · 1 h 9 min · Episode 280Share Episode As it turns out, the entire artificial intelligence boom is essentially running on Wikipedia's free labor, but while knowledge is free, physical server…
- Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer · 1 h 0 min · Episode 279Share Episode We are joined this week by Mark Hay, CTO and co-founder of TextQL and former lead of Text Classification Infrastructure at Meta, to uncover the hidden complexities…
- Who Needs Testers Anyway? · 55 min · Episode 278Share Episode We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word…
- You Wouldn't Implement A Database · 53 min · Episode 277Share Episode We talk with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo about Semantic Web origins, dodging DDoS attacks, and the absolute horror of a database that randomly deletes its own files. He…
- What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build · 50 min · Episode 276Share Episode Developers spend more than 50% of their time reading code, making it the single largest expense in software engineering. Despite this massive cost, the industry…
- DR: Staying resilient in the cloud · 1 h 5 min · Episode 275Share Episode Welcome back to another hopefully, relief from architectural existential dread. This week, we've pulled in Seth Eliot from Arpio, (Ar-Pi-O, RPO, get it?), to dive…
- Eat your security vegetables · 59 min · Episode 274Share Episode This week's adventure tackles the absolute absurdity of modern enterprise infrastructure, where a single company can easily find itself running multiple different…
- Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead · 40 min · Episode 273Share Episode We grabbed Donald Nguyen, co-founder and CTO at Corvic, to discuss the absurd complexities of enterprise data and multimodal inference. We explore how…
- The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code · 1 h 4 min · Episode 272Share Episode Down to business with GitHub's Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, where we try to untangle the existential dread of modern software…
- Who needs a server? · 55 min · Episode 271Share Episode Founder of Bespinian and long-time cloud solutions architect, Lena Fuhrimann, sits down with us to clarify the widespread confusion around serverless architecture…
- How to build a monolith the right way · 45 min · Episode 270Share Episode We sit down with Ian Duncan, senior staff engineer on the stability team at Mercury, to discuss the delicate balance of choosing your tech stack and the…
- Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking · 53 min · Episode 269Share Episode We explore the past and AI-driven future of Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Posse's Erik Osterman, discussing various IaC traumas. Erik maintains the world's…
- GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us · 41 min · Episode 268Share Episode We sit down with Jaikumar Ganesh, Head of Engineering at AnyScale, to explore the intricacies of heterogeneous compute. He unpacks the growing CPU/GPU divide…
- Upskilling your agents · 53 min · Episode 267Share Episode In this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern…
- There's no way it's DNS... · 52 min · Episode 266Share Episode How much do you really know about the protocol that everything is built upon? This week, we go behind the scenes with Simone Carletti, a 13-year industry veteran…
- Getting better at networking · 49 min · Episode 265Share Episode We are joined by Daan Boerlage, CTO at Mavexa as we tackle the long-awaited arrival of IPv6 in cloud infrastructure. Here, we highlight how migrating to an…
- Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins · 58 min · Episode 264Share Episode In this episode, we examine how the software industry is fundamentally changing. We're joined by our expert guest, Matt Edmunds, a long-time UX director, principal…
- DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags · 32 min · Episode 263Share Episode We dive into the shifting landscape of developer relations and the new necessity of optimizing documentation for both humans and LLMs. Melinda Fekete joins from…
- The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment Metrics, and the Art of Deleting Code · 51 min · Episode 262Share Episode Dorota, CEO of Authress, returns to apply the US Supreme Court’s definition of obscenity to a scandalous topic: Engineering Productivity. In a world obsessed with…
- Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering · 51 min · Episode 261Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Rootly AI - https://dev0ps.fyi/rootlyai Paul Conroy, CTO at Square1, joins the show to prove that the best defense against malicious bots isn't…
- Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review · 59 min · Episode 260Share Episode "Those memes are not going to make themselves." Dorota, CEO of Authress, joins us to roast the 2025 DORA Report, which she argues has replaced hard data with an…
- Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here! · 50 min · Episode 259Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio "My biggest legacy at Google is the amount of systems I broke." — Sam Goto joins the show with a…
- Are we building the right thing? · 36 min · Episode 258Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Elise, VP and Head of UX at Unleash, joins us to talk all about UX. Self identifying as probably…
- Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring · 33 min · Episode 257Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Warren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of…
- AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking · 53 min · Episode 256Share Episode Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He…
- Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks · 50 min · Episode 255Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding…
- The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases · 30 min · Episode 254Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga, celebrating the release of…
- Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research · 55 min · Episode 253Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute Jenna Pederson, Staff Developer Relations at Pinecone, joins us to close the loop on Vector Databases…
- The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds · 53 min · Episode 252Share Episode This episode we are joined by Andrew Moreland, co-founder of Chalk. Andrew explains how their company's core business model is to deploy their software directly…
- How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale · 46 min · Episode 251Share Episode We welcome guest Ang Li and dive into the immense challenge of observability at scale, where some customers are generating petabytes of data per day. Ang explains…
- The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos · 59 min · Episode 250Share Episode In a special solo flight, Warren welcomes Meagan Cojocar, General Manager at Pulumi and a self-proclaimed graduate of “PM school” at AWS. They dive into what it's…
- FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend · 55 min · Episode 249In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, we dive into the world of FinOps, a concept that aims to apply the DevOps mindset to financial accountability. Yasmin Rajabi, Chief…
- The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures · 53 min · Episode 248Get ready for a lively debate on this episode of Adventures in DevOps. We're joined by Brian Pontarelli, founder of FusionAuth and CleanSpeak. Warren and Brian face off by diving…
- Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? · 1 h 6 min · Episode 247Episode Sponsor: PagerDuty - Checkout the features in their official feature release: https://fnf.dev/4dYQ7gL This episode dives into a fundamental question facing the DevOps…
- Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight · 1 h 17 min · Episode 246In this episode, Aimee Knight, an expert in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) whose experience hails from Paramount and NPM, joins the podcast to discuss her journey into SRE…
- Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig · 1 h 4 min · Episode 245In this episode, we delve into the concept of MCP (Machine Control Protocol) servers and their role in enabling agent interactions. Gil Feig, the co-founder and CTO of Merge…
- No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding · 1 h 0 min · Episode 244Warren talks with Nathan Goulding, SVP of Engineering at Vultr, about what it actually takes to run a high-performance cloud platform. They cover everything from global game…
- Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela · 53 min · Episode 243Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO and founder of Illumex, joins the crew to break down what it really means to make your data “AI-ready.” This isn't just about clean tables—it's about…
- Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System - DevOps 242 · 1 h 10 min · Episode 242Sylvain Kalache, Head of Developer Relations at Rootly joins us to explore the new frontier of incident response powered by large language models. We dive into the evolution of…
- Decentralized Chaos: Web3 Infra, NodeOps, and the Art of Blockchain Load Balancing - DevOps 241 · 1 h 16 min · Episode 241This week, Paul Marston from Ankr joins the crew to unpack the madness that is modern blockchain infrastructure. From his wild career transition out of financial services into…
- Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela - DevOps 240 · 1 h 21 min · Episode 240In this episode, Will and Warren welcome Adriana Villela — CNCF ambassador, Dynatrace advocate, and host of the Geeking Out podcast — for a wide-ranging conversation on…
- Building Engineering Excellence with Ganesh Datta of Cortex - DevOps 239 · 51 min · Episode 239In this episode, I (flying solo today!) sat down with Ganesh Datta, the CTO and co-founder of Cortex, to explore what it really means to drive engineering excellence at scale…
- Modern DevOps Challenges: Automation, AI, and Scaling in 2025 - DevOps 238 · 1 h 18 min · Episode 238Is AI making us more productive? And where's the value? That's the big debate in this episode as we sit down with Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp. Warp isn't just another…
