Devops Chat

There is a great new book coming out called the Kitty Hawk Venture. In the vein of Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project, Kitty Hawk is also a novel, rather than your typical business text. It is the story of a fictional company in the airline industry, but is based on a true story. It is due out in July but you can pre-order on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Hawk-Venture-Continuous-Delivery/dp/1484236602 In this DevOps Chat we speak with one of the authors of the book, CA VP, Aruna Ravichandran about the book, about continuous testing and her passion for DevOps. This is Aruna's 2nd book on DevOps, in addition to her many other activities. She is a dynamic personality and I think you will really enjoy this chat and the book!

In this episode of "The CEO's View" we again chat with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs. Derek tackles a tough question: What's killing your digital transformation? Hint: It might be you. No one ever said these transformations are easy. A few missteps could doom your progress. But don't give up, keep at it, follow some of Derek's advice here and you might just transform successfully.

In our continuing series of "The CEO's View" with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs we take a bit of a deep dive into DevSecOps and how it has risen to the top of the list in Derek's conversations with organizations around the world. Great discussion with some keen insights, enjoy!

In this special edition DevOps Chat we speak with acclaimed DevOps leader and author, Gary Gruver, DevOps pioneer and thought leader, Helen Beal and Electric Cloud executive Sam Fell about the upcoming DevOps Workshop which will follow the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The workshop takes place on June 27th. You can get information and tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devops-workshop-from-new-learner-to-executive-leader-with-gary-gruver-and-devops-institute-tickets-45409188104 . Also be sure to check out DevSecOps Days the day after this workshop in London! https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=44808855493

It's always great to catch up with Robert Reeves, CTO, founder of Datical. Datical just released a new survey about the State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery (https://www.datical.com/whitepapers/survey-the-state-of-database-deployments-in-application-delivery/). Have a listen to our chat and be sure to download the survey report!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Kurt Glazemakers of Cyxtera, the makers of AppGate SDP. SDP stands for software defined perimeter and the Cyxtera security division has a new release out with some exciting new features. Have a listen to get the scoop.

Yaniv Yehuda of DBMaestro has his ear to the ground on what is happening with DevOps for databases. He talks to us about the state of the market and what is the latest from DBMaestro. Have a listen and learn

SRE is a very hot field right now. Some say it is "the ops in DevOps". We chat with Stig Sorenson of the Bloomberg SRE team about how Bloomberg is using SRE to make their business more responsive to their customers. Stig and the Bloomberg team are really at the forefront of what is happening in the SRE field, so this is a great look in.

Sinead Glynn of IBM discusses a couple of trends in cloud service management. How does DevOps, ITIL, ITSM, SRE, as well as Machine Learning and AI factor into this. Hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud. Sinead has a great catbird seat to observe all of these changes. It is an exciting time to be in Ops and Sinead gives us a peek inside.

DOES London 2018 speaker, Ann Marie of IBM gives us a preview of her session on whether audit and compliance is a DevOps Killer. Have a listen to get a preview of her talk and be sure to register for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018: https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/

In this DevOps Chat our guest is Andrea Martinez Crawford, distinguished engineer and CTO for DevOps at IBM's Hybrid Cloud division. Andrea and Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief of DevOps.com talk about what is a "modern application" versus a legacy app. With special emphasis on what this means for DevOps. Great discussion!

Mirco Hering is a DevOps expert with Accenture. He is also an accomplished blogger and now a DevOps author. His book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise from IT Revolution is available on Amazon and other sites that sell books. Mirco in his role with Accenture is also very tuned into the Asia-Pacific region's DevOps scene, as well as Europe. We discuss a little bit about both AP and Europe as well as a preview of DOES London 2018. Great conversation with a real DevOps practitioner.

Chris O'Malley is bullish on mainframes. As you would expect someone who is the CEO of Compuware. But it is more than just bullish. Today's mainframes can run as fast as you need them too. Want to run Java or JS node? No problem. There is no reason to treat the mainframe as if it is not a native of today's computing environments. In fact for many tasks the mainframes is the best tool for the job. Chris is a great advocate and I think you will find this chat very interesting.

Appian World is just a few weeks away. Featuring a hackathon, keynote by The Woz and more, it promises to be a great time down on Miami Beach. DevOps.com will be there shooting video, reporting on the conference and talking to real, live practitioners. We spoke with Malcom Ross, VP of product marketing for Appian and a keynote speaker at Appian World himself. He gave us some great insight into conference, but more important into what is going on in the world of Low-Code. You can get more info at https://appianworld.appian.com/

Tim Hockin is Principle Software Engineer at Google. He is also one of the founders of the Kubernetes project and works on Google Cloud Platform. When he talks about containers and microservices, pay attention. :-) We caught up with Tim and spoke with him about microservices and how to refactor your applications if it makes sense. Enjoy1

Interop China has been growing steadily since its inception in 2013. It is part of the Cloud Connect conference. This year they are featuring both DevOps and DevSecOps tracks and talks. Jayne Groll of the DevOps Institute is the DevOps track chair and Alan Shimel of DevOps.com and Security Boulevard is speaking at DevSecOps.com. We sat down with Molly Huang and Kelly Yao of UBM China to discuss this years event. It sounds like it will be a great one!

When two legends in the InfoSec world start a new company, people take notice. Jeremiah Grossman and Robert "RSnake" Hansen recently announced their new venture BitDiscovery (http://www.bitdiscovery.com) was coming out of stealth, fresh off a venture raise and the acquisition Robert's company, Outside Intel. BitDiscovery offers a radically different way of doing asset inventory and website discovery. Rather than scanning when you want to discover your assets, with BitDiscovery, you just query the master database that the company has assembled and it tells you what it has already found there. This is possible because BitDiscovery keeps a snapshot updated constantly of just about the entire Internet. That is one Big Data based solution right there. Robert and Jeremiah are just the kind of guys to make something like this work. Also after speaking to them, I believe that with that kind of data, there will be a lot more uses for this technology that will present themselves to the BitDiscovery team. With the

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of CA Automic about the modern software factory, software pipelines, CD/ARA and more. That is a lot packed into just about 15 minutes! Scott is always an interesting guest with good things to say and learn from. Enjoy!

In this chat we spoke with Prem Chandraskearan, VP of Software engineering at Barclaycard. Prem has led the DevOps transformation there. He sums up his learning with this: The best way for an organization to approach DevOps is from a collaborative angle. When development and operations experts actively work together in a cohesive effort, solutions are well designed, efficient and smart from both a development and maintenance perspective. When operations is viewed as a software problem, Dev and Ops can work in tandem to implement a tool that is holistically a part of the process from start to finish. DevOps is always a work in progress, but the initiative can only improve with quality resources that implement a variety of backgrounds and perspectives on both Dev and Ops working together. Barclaycard has had some interesting challenges with DevOps due to being in the credit card/banking industry, so for example, the “you build it, you run it” mantra doesn’t work as well for us as it would for other enterpri

Aqua Security have established themselves as a leader in the container security space. Rani Osnat, VP of Aqua Security and a frequent guest gives us an update on the latest developments around Kubernetes, security controls and the newest version of AquaSec, 3.0.