Devops Chat

Dynatrace is a company that really reinvented itself as it saw the world it played in changing over the last few years. They moved from tracing and APM to what they call Software Intelligence and Smart Monitoring. In this DevOps Chat we sat

Mark Schwartz is one of the rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec but can also analyze what works and doesn't work and write it up in a way that helps others. His "A Seat at the Table" is still one of my favorite DevOps books. Mark's new book is called War, Peace & IT. You can download an excerpt of it here: https://dl.orangedox.com/WarPeaceITExcerpt We speak with Mark about the book and some of the lessons behind it. Have a listen and check out the book ASAP

Machine data comprises a vast array of data sources including logs, messages, events, telemetry data, and application and domain-specific relevant data. Aggregating all of these types of data, from sources across the enterprise and devices connected to our networks, brings opportunities to create intelligent analytics and new insights for use by the business, service delivery, security, devops and IT operations. In this Devops Chat we talk with Colin Britton, Chief Strategy Office at Devo, exploring how organizations are combining machine data with analytical and visualization tools to elevate the value IT brings to the business. You may recall Devo CEO Walter Scott joined us on a previous Devops Chat. Its a fascinating topic so have a listen and check out Devo at devo.com

Adopting devops means changes from how you build software to organizational processes and cultural behaviors. Large enterprises have even greater challenges to overcome including supporting a large number of applications and addressing technical debt while also taking on new development initiatives like digital transformation. What can we learn from experienced devops practitioners? In this DevOps Chat we spoke with Mark Levy, Director of Strategy, Software Delivery at Micro Focus, covering seven keys to successful devops implementations at large enterprises. You can find out more about the company at www.MicroFocus.com

Lumigo finds itself in the middle of one of the biggest waves in infrastructure deployment today, serverless. This is no accident, the company was started about a year ago with the mission of providing a serverless intelligence platform. The founders are ex-Checkpoint folks who saw the need for a best practices based platform to help deploy serverless payloads (apps) across different public cloud providers including AWS Lamdba, Azure and Google Cloud. In this DevOps Chat we spoke with Aviad Mor, CTO, co-founder of Lumigo about the company and the serverless market. You can find out more albout the company at https://lumigo.io

In this day in age to stay at one company for 19 years is remarkable. In the tech sector it is almost unheard of. But Rajalakshmi "Raji" Srinivasan has been with Zoho for that long. She is a terrific advocate for the company. Most recently she has worked with the Site24X7 (http://site24x7.com)team. We had a great chat about AIOps, DevOps and life. I think you will enjoy it.

Capsule8 is focused on protecting Linux infrastructure whether in the cloud, in containers or even bare metal. The team is make up of industry veterans who understand the problems security pros face, as well as the frustrations of developers, devops and sys admins deal with every day. Their approach is more of a shift right DevSecOps, focusing on detecting attacks, threats and vulnerabilities on production infrastructure. I spoke with co-founder & chief architect, Pete Markowsky in this DevOps chat. Have a listen and hopefully learn

If you have massive amounts of data Devo wants to help. The company was founded in Madrid and specializes in the handling and processing of massive amounts of data. In this DevOps chat we spoke with Devo CEO Walter Scott to talk about the use cases for Devo in a data crazy world. Walter is a seasoned CEO in the tech sector. He knows a problem when he sees it and he thinks Devo is the answer. Have a listen to why and check out Devo at https://devo.com

The year 2019 is shaping up as a "coming home" year for Chef. After recently reaffirming its commitment to an open source strategy, they are gearing up for the best ChefConf yet. ChefConf is coming home to Seattle for 2019 and many of the Chef favorites including Adam Jacobs, John Willis and more will be speaking. I had a chance to catch up with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Development Engineer and Community Engineering Lead at Chef. Nell gave us a great preview of the whole event, as well as her own presentation and what her most anticipated sessions and activities are. You can still register for ChefConf, as well as get more information at: https://chefconf.chef.io/

Flashpoint is a business risk intelligence provider who has been protecting government and private sector assets for a long time. In fact to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, "we have been sleeping under the blanket of their security" for a while now. I had a chance to catch up with co-founder and CEO Josh Lefkowitz and discuss Flashpoint's offerings. They recently upgraded their dashboards to give users more info tailored to their specific verticals and greater insight into risk intelligence. Have a listen

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) was accepted for incubation by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/04/02/toc-votes-to-move-opa-into-cncf-incubator/). In this chat we spoke with one of the founders of the project Torin Sandall about OPA and why the CNCF is the right place for OPA. We also discuss the company he works for Styra, that works with OPA.

Accelerate - The State of DevOps Report by Dr. Nicole Forsgren and the folks at Dora (now part of Google)is far and away the most widely cited research in the DevOps field. Dr Nicole and her team have brought scientific rigor to the survey over these past 6 years and the results show it. Here is your chance to shape the future of the DevOps market by taking 25 minutes of your time and take this years State of DevOps Survey. These reports are only as good as the info they gather. So have a listen to our conversation and then please go take the survey! https://bit.ly/2UzLMH2

In this DevOps Chat we met with Jonathan Fries, VP of Engineering and Digital Transformation at Exadel. Jonathan tells us about the new Innovation Lab by Exadel as a place for organizations to accelerate their transformation. We also talk about the state of IT in general from his perch at Exadel, a company with 20 years of empowering IT. You can find out more about the Innovation Lab at https://exadel.com/innovation-lab/.

At the recent Cloud Foundry Summit, IBM Cloud made several significant announcements enhancing the service from IBM and enriching the Cloud Foundry platform. In this DevOps Chat we caught up with Jason McGee, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO of IBM cloud to get all of the details.

As the move to Cloud Native accelerates we are seeing the rise of the cloud first architect and his impact on DevSecOps, cloud security and more. In this DevOps Chat we sat down with Chris Hines of ZScaler to explore the importance of this position and how security is working with Dev and DevOps to make us all more secure.

Aqua Security one of the leaders in container and cloud native security announced they have raised $62m in a "C" round of investment, led by Insight Partners. We spoke with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit of Aqua about how this validates the cloud native security field that Aqua has helped develop. This interview is also available in a video format on http://digitalanarchist.io and https://devops.com

In front of next month's ChefConf in Seattle (https://chefconf.chef.io/), Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. Speaking with Corey Scobie, SVP of products and engineering, he explains that Chef will be adding services, training and support to the open source software, as well as packaging all of this together. For the full story be sure to listen to the podcast and check out the video version of this interview along with accompanying slides on https://devops.com

Taking the lessons they learned heading Apples offensive security team the Sqreen founding team is moving Application Security Management (ASM) into the mainstream. They just announced a $14m series A investment led by blue chip VC firm Greylock Partners. In this DevOps Chat we speak with CEO and co-founder, Pierre Betouin about how Sqreen is filling a need in the AppSec market between WAFs, DAST, STAST, etc. that is vital to locking down our applications. For more info check out https://sqreen.com

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Keshav Vasudevan, product manager for performance testing at SmartBear. Keshav talks about the move to "end to end DevOps", the importance of shifting left with testing and the latest state of the art in Performance and load testing with SmartBear.

Asaf Cidon is the VP of Email Security at Barracuda. In this DevOps Chat we sat down with Asaf and spoke about what some of the new threats and up and coming attack vectors in email security are. Asaf is in a unique position at Barracuda to be on the front lines of the battle for email security. You can find out more about what Asaf and Barracuda are doing around email security at http://barracuda.com and their blog where Asaf frequently writes about new email security threats