In this lighter episode of DevOps Decrypted, Jon and Jobin meet to discuss a heavy subject: the massive CrowdStrike outage of summer 2024. Everyone in tech (and many outside of the industry) remembers the day it happened. But what have we all learned from it? Well, we might have the answers. Adaptavist surveyed more than 400 participants from medium and large organisations, all of whom were affected by the CrowdStrike outage. Some of the results are pretty thought-provoking. Jon and Jobin run...

In this episode, our Adaptavist panel is joined by a very special guest – Frank Merla from BetaNXT. Together, we discuss an extensive business transformation case study that we carried out at BetaNXT, the complexities of transitioning from legacy systems to a modernised, scalable platform, and how, in the end, it all comes down to people. Frank shares BetaNXT’s journey, highlighting the challenges of driving change across multiple business units with distinct processes and long-standing...

In DevOps Decrypted episode 28, we're all feeling a little… meh. Why? Maybe it's all the stagnant innovation, monopolising, and open-source rug-pulling. Whatever it is, it's got Rasmus (today's stand-in host) a little down in the dumps. To lift him out of his funk, he’s joined by Jon and Matt, who discuss the current state of DevOps and the technology landscape. What's going on with the stalled evolution of the iPhone, with software versioning – and with monopolistic cloud services? Has the...

Welcome to this ”minisode” edition, with Rasmus, Jon and our special guest, Jennifer Davis – Google Engineering Manager and author of Effective DevOps and Modern System Administration. Of course, we’re talking about CrowdStrike… But from a different perspective, the human one. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the technical nuts and bolts of an issue like this one, but Jon and Jennifer remind us that, at the core of this outage, there are people. And some of them are going to be having a...

Is AI finally in a place where it's useful in DevOps? It might just be, as we discover in another fascinating panel discussion from the usual DevOps Decrypted gang – plus special guest Lilly Holden. Lilly joined us to speak about her role in the Platform Team at Adaptavist, where she's working on a DevEx initiative aimed at de-complexifying Kubernetes. It's no coincidence that we're doing this episode as Kubernetes celebrates its tenth anniversary—it gives us a chance to look back over its...

t’s episode 25 of DevOps Decrypted – and we’re talking about some big news in DevOps. It was recently revealed that a backdoor had been intentionally planted in XZ Utils, an open-source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. We talk about the ramifications and ask, surely things would be better if they weren’t open source? We’ll let Rasmus stew on that one for a bit… The conversation leads us to the importance of...

Money, money, money… In this episode, we’re talking about how we’ve enabled FinOps at Adaptavist with CloudZero as a way to highlight anomalous spending through simple chatbots and give teams a sense of cost ownership. We’ve got Chalky on as our special guest, talking to Rasmus, Matt and Laura about the inevitability of overprovisioning at the start of a new venture, controlling Kubernetes through Crossplane – and the concept of efficient scaling. There’s a lot to unpack – but while it’s...

We’re back – still riding high after our last episode with Gene Kim, whose words are still echoing in our minds as we talk about our upcoming business transformation ebook, hackathons, and, of course… AI. Once again, artificial intelligence dominates the news, as OpenAI launches Sora – and deepfakes make for headlines we never thought we’d read. We discuss the ethical ramifications of AI leading to job cuts and whether DevOps roles are on the line. We also cover cloud repatriation, ongoing...

In this very special episode of DevOps Decrypted, we are joined by none other than Gene Kim – the bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Cookbook and The Unicorn Project.  It’s a really great chat where Gene talks to us about his latest book, Wiring the Winning Organization. With our very own Laura, Rasmus, Jobin, Matt – and CIO Neal, join us in this fascinating discussion about slowing down to speed up, the limits of limitless communication, and the “social wiring” of...

Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted, where we unpack the events of KubeCon and BackstageCon. Host Laura and our resident DevOps Decrypted gang (Jobin, Rasmus and Jon) are joined by Mike Maheu – GM and Co-Founder of Venue.sh, part of the Adaptavist Group. And this episode arrives just in time to prove some of our predictions… Last year, we highlighted platform engineering as one of our picks for ”the next big thing”, and it looks like we’re about to see it come of age. Mike...

Welcome to episode 20 of DevOps Decrypted, a milestone achievement for our podcast! Milestones like this allow us to reflect on everything we’ve achieved, what we could improve, and how to shape our future – through the magic of metrics.  So it was probably good that we talked to our guest, Chris Boys from Umano, on this episode. Umano is a platform dedicated to understanding the human side of team performance metrics, and Chris tells us all there is to know about it. Jobin tells us about...

It looks like Rasmus has gone rogue in this episode… He’s kicked Laura out as host and commandeered the DevOps Decrypted podcast to further his own agenda – ranting about open-source drama! We’re kidding about Laura, she’s just taken a break for this episode. But we’re certainly not kidding about the open-source drama; it’s actually a huge topic that could have far-reaching consequences for devs and providers globally. Of course, we’re referring to HashiCorp’s decision to move Terraform to...

Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted! In this episode, Laura, Jobin, Rasmus and Jon are joined by special guest Sandesh Kumar – an Engineering Manager at Adaptavist Group. Sandesh tells us how his team uses AI in quality engineering and testing and why it’s not the existential threat to jobs that everyone’s making it out to be. But the big story on the agenda is Adaptacon 2023, our internal, global conference. Jon explains the challenges of organising an event like this and its...

Is there a war against third-party app developers? Well, it sure might feel like it if you’ve been following the Reddit fiasco. But it’s not an isolated incident, and it could be down to how AIs are mining data… In this episode, Jon, Jobin, Laura and Rasmus talk about how third-party applications are handled by companies like Reddit, Stack Overflow – and Atlassian. The team also dives into the “slackening” of Slack and how Discord is starting to eat into Slack’s customer base. And finally,...

Welcome again to DevOps Decrypted – where we’re unpacking Amazon’s seemingly shocking decision to ditch serverless for their Prime Video product. Does this move mean serverless is dead? Join Laura, Jobin, Jon and Rasmus, along with our special guest Erko Knoll from Stitch It, as we discuss the architecture agenda and how some groups use Amazon’s decision to push their own narratives. We talk about the benefits and limitations of a serverless architecture and why it probably won’t be going...

Welcome to DevOps Decrypted Episode 15, where we ask; are Kubernetes tools doomed to be complicated? In this episode, some new voices (and faces, if you’re watching on YouTube) join Romy and Rasmus. We welcome Michael Guarino, CTO and Co-founder of Plural, who shares his knowledge on deploying open-source software onto Kubernetes. We also speak with two more of our fellow Adaptavists; Timothy Chin, Platform Team Lead for our new venture, Venue DevOps – and Daniel “Chalky” Chalk, Engineering...

Welcome to Episode 14 of DevOps Decrypted, where Romy, Rasmus, Jobin and Jon talk about platforms, people, and processes. Just what exactly is a platform, and can we even define what an IDP is? Naturally, this leads onto the subject of Backstage – Spotify’s gift to the dev world: an open source framework for building developer portals. We discuss its limits, its power, and how culture and people-driven your tech stack really is. The talk turns to Google’s Service Weaver, which Jon has some...

Welcome to DevOps Decrypted! This month, guest host Ryan Spilken joins the conversation with Jobin, Jon and Rasmus. The group talks about a different kind of Ops – MLOps, specifically – and how you might build a chatbot with it… That’s all in a special interview segment with Péter Bozsó – Channel Solutions Architect for GitLab. Péter tells us all about his role in DevSecOps and working on the new MLOps features within GitLab. We also talk about the Atlassian Unleash event, where Adaptavist...

Happy New Year, and welcome to the first episode of DevOps Decrypted for 2023! It's a really exciting one – covering billionaires, Artificial Intelligence, and a major project we've released here at Adaptavist!Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted Like what you hear? Why not leave us a review to let us know how we're doing or highlight topics you would like us to discuss in our upcoming episodes? We love to hear...

In this month's episode we are joined by our CTO Jon Mort as we discuss Google's latest announcement around Open Source maintenance and our thoughts on Open Source Security, Maintenance and Culture.

In this month's episode, we discuss the recent Atlassian outage, a new spring Java framework zero-day, interview GitLab around CI/CD pipelines, and discuss the one thing you should be doing in DevOps. For a full transcript and show notes, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-10-tipping-the-cicd-scales

In this months episode we discuss DevOps in the cloud looking at people, processes and tools. Our upcoming sessions with BrightTALK - Day to Day DevOps - Modernizing Applications with DevOps and Cloud-Native Enterprise DevOps Summit. We share with you our latest whitepaper: DevOps in the cloud: evolving your tools, processes, and culture.

In this months episode of DevOps decrypted we share our thoughts and key take aways from author Gene Kim, DevOps Handbook second edition. Kubernetes documentary, have you seen it? We give our review of the documentary and why its an important story to share.  Our latest added value reseller, Docker, and what that means for our clients.  

For links and a full transcript, please visit https://www.adaptavist.com/blog/devops-decrypted-ep-7-value-streams-and-vulnerabilities