Devops Chat

Rob England, IT Skeptic was once a DevOps skeptic (what do you expect, he is the IT skeptic), but even this skeptic has been won over to the ways of DevOps. So much so in fact that he is presenting at this years DOES London conference Rob is presenting on the importance of people in the DevOps equation. If even the IT skeptic can see the advantages of DevOps, you should too? I don't know, but have a listen as we catch up with always entertaining Rob England in advance of DOES London.

The Jenkins community was just given a major upgrade yesterday with the release of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean puts Continuous Delivery within reach of every team. This release was a long time in the making, with lots of hard work and thought behind it. Here from two of the Jenkins community leaders on what it is and why it could be a game changer for you!

DOES London 2017 Program Committee member and speaker, Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox tells us about what he will be speaking about at DOES. We also talk about what it is like to be a member of the program committee for DOES, what kind of submissions they saw, what are the themes for this years show and more. Jonathan is a sharp fellow and always a pleasure to speak with.

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DORA, DevOps Research and Analysis will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th to announce the findings of this years State of DevOps Survey. She will be joined by Jez Humble (her co-founder at DORA) and Nigel Kersten of Puppet. Dr. Forsgren gives us her take on why DOES is a special event for her and what we might see in this years survey analysis.

We sit down with Nigel Kersten of Puppet who will be speaking at DOES London on June 5th and 6th at the QE II Conference Center. Nigel will be speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble of DORA to announce the findings of the 6th annual State of DevOps Survey.

Jose Quaresma is DevOps Lead DK at Accenture. Jose is based in Denmark and is part of the Advanced Technology & Architecture practice. He is a featured speaker at DOES London this year. We had a chance to sit down with Jose and understand why he felt compelled to speak at DOES this year and some of why he is excited about DevOps.

Omed Habib is a Director of Product Marketing at AppDynamics. Omed actually has an engineering background and is really sharp. We had a great discussion on Maslow's Theory of Happiness and how it relates to developers, ops and DevOps. You never know what you will learn about on a DevOps Chat ;-) Hope you enjoy!

Sanjeev Sharma of IBM has a new book out called the DevOps Adoption Playbook, a guide to adopting DevOps in a multi-speed IT enterprise. Let me say that this is no book for dummies either. The DevOps Adoption Playbook represents the sum total of the many DevOps lessons and learning that Sanjeev has accumulated in his role as a CTO and leader of DevOps at IBM. Much of it is based on the workshops he has done all over the world with literally dozens of enterprises. As I told Sanjeev after reading the book, "in a market full of books on "what is", this is a book on "how to". I think you will enjoy this chat.

This DevOps Chat is with Mark Blach of Diamanti. Diamanti recently came out of stealth with a purpose built appliance optimized for containerized applications. What is that you say, why use an appliance and not the cloud? Good question. Mark and the Diamanti guys have a great answer to. Have a listen and hear for yourself.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study.

Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonah Kowall of Appdynamics. Jonah is very bright and dialed into the DevOps scene. He talks with us about APM and its continuing evolution and diversification. Lots of great information here!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Jones, evangelist at RedGate and founder of SQL Server Central. Steve talks to us how organizations are moving their databases into the DevOps mode. He also tells us about SQL Clone, the newest offering from RedGate. Great conversation!

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Scott Wilson of Automic. Scott has a long history in IT and DevOps. He gives us some great insights into some of the challenges he sees and hears from the many organizations he works with at Automic

Tuesday, March 7th CA is sponsoring the DevOps Virtual Summit. There are some great guests scheduled to speak including two of the founders of DORA, Gene Kim and Dr. Nicole Forsgren. DevOps.com had a chance to catch up with Dr. Nicole and ask her about her presentation at the virtual summit, what is new at DORA and what we may be seeing in the coming months. Nicole gives us some great info on new books and offerings from DORA as well as why you really should attend the DevOps Virtual Summit. If you would like to register to attend the summit, you can do athttp://resources.infoworld.com/ccd/show/200046726/01506610177859IFW4EV1XD3HMX/

DevOps.com sits down with Tasktop CEO and co-founder, Dr Mik Kersten. Mik gives us a look at the latest in task management and more insight into DevOps

Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and VP Product of Platform9 gives us an inside look at what is happening in the "open source as a service" company.

While culture is of the utmost importance to enable digital transformation, there are many other milestones in a successful DevOps journey. Join Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com, as he hosts Bryson Koehler, GM, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, and Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Senior Software Engineer/IT Architect at IBM. Learn about challenges that The Weather Company (TWC) faced during the transition from TWC, to being TWC: an IBM company. Koehler is CTO of IBM’s newly formed Watson and Cloud Platform, as well as GM and distinguished engineer for IBM. Prior to this role, he served as executive vice president, distinguished engineer and CIO/CTO of TWC. He has an extraordinary record of leading significant business transformations and underlying cultural shifts. To do so successfully, Koehler maintains cultural change must first be incited in tech companies at the developer level. While at TWC, Koehler built a DevOps culture and practice that encourages transparency, accoun

DevOps editor-in-chief, Alan Shimel sits down with Chris Lazzaro and Peter Klenk of IBM to talk DevOps, Bluemix, Bluemix Garage and more. Chris and Peter bring a wealth of information and experience to the table and it is always good to get their take on things. We also spend some time talking about the upcoming IBM InterConnect Conference at Mandalay Bay in March.

DevOps.com sits down with DevOps industry veteran Justin Vaughan-Brown of AppDynamics. Justin is one of only a handful of people who have been involved with DevOps with several DevOps vendors. He has a great view into the market and where DevOps is heading. Justin shares some of this with us and specifically looks at the APM and BPM markets. This is a great chat with a DevOps insider and we are sure you will enjoy it!

DevOps.com catches up with Chef CMO Ken Cheney. Ken gives us an update aboutAWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, the latest on Chef Habitat and Ken gives us his view what is in store in the DevOps market this year. It is a great chat and you shouldn't miss it. Hopefully, Ken will be joining us regularly on DevOps Chats this year.