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Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Parad

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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45:02

How to build a monolith the right way

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2026/04/24

Share EpisodeWe 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 implications. That means explore the concept of the novelty budget or frequently known as "Choose Boring Technology". It emphasizes why companies should carefully spend their innovation tokens on things that actually move the needle, rather than reinventing the wheel.Mercury leverages simple technology like Postgres and EC2 instances

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52:42

Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking

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2026/04/17

Share EpisodeWe explore the past and AI-driven future of Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Posse's Eric Osterman, discussing various IaC traumas. Erik maintains the world's largest repository of open-source IaC modules. Looking back at the dark ages of infrastructure, from the early days of raw CloudFormation and Capistrano to the rise and fall of tools like Puppet and Chef, we discuss the organic, messy growth of cloud environments. Where organizations frequently scale a single AWS account into a

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40:57

GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us

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2026/04/09

Share EpisodeWe sit down with Jaikumar Ganesh, Head of Engineering at AnyScale, to explore the intricacies of heterogeneous compute. He unpacks the growing CPU/GPU divide, detailing how ML pipelines require precise orchestration — using CPUs for data reading and writing while leveraging expensive, massive-die GPUs for chunking and embedding.Warren brings the insight that, with AI agents rapidly changing how software is created, building is now a requirement of the business-focused team. And our

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53:18

Upskilling your agents

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2026/03/28

Share EpisodeIn this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern infrastructure. We examine how cloud platforms like Azure function as "building blocks". Which of course, can quickly become overwhelming without the right instruction manuals. To bridge this gap, one potential solution we discuss is the emerging reliance on AI "skills"—specialized markdown files. They can give coding agents the exact

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52:12

There's no way it's DNS...

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2026/03/20

Share EpisodeHow 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 and CTO at DNSimple, to explore the hidden complexities of DNS. We attempt to uncover why exactly DNS is often the last place developers check during an outage, drawing fascinating parallels between modern web framework abstractions and network-level opaqueness.Simone shares why his team relies on bare-metal machines instead of

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49:01

Getting better at networking

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2026/03/15

Share EpisodeWe 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 IPv6-native setup eliminates public/private subnet complexity and expensive NAT gateways natively. As well as entirely sidestepping the nightmare of IP collisions during VPC peering.Beyond the financial savings of ditching IPv4 charges, we explore the technical superiority of IPv6. Daan breaks down just how mind-bogglingly large the

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58:19

Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins

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2026/03/06

Share EpisodeIn 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 designer, and Principal UX Consultant at Tiny Pixls. The episode kicks, analyzing how early AI implementation in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) created rigid hiring processes that actively filter out the varied candidates who actually bring necessary diversity to engineering teams.Of course we get to the world of "vibe

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32:00

DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and...

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2026/02/20

Share EpisodeWe dive into the shifting landscape of developer relations and the new necessity of optimizing documentation for both humans and LLMs. Melinda Fekete joins from Unleash, and suggests transitioning to platform to help get this right by utilizing LLMs.txt files to cleanly expose content to AI models.The conversation then takes a look at the June GCP outage, which was triggered by a single IAM policy change. This illustrates that even with world-class CI/CD pipelines, deploying code using

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50:36

The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment...

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2026/01/30

Share EpisodeDorota, 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 AI-driven efficiency, Dorota and Warren argue that software development productivity has nothing to do with manufacturing "gizmos" and everything to do with feelings. They dismantle the factory-floor mentality that equates typing speed with value, suggesting instead that the most productive work often happens while staring out

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50:42

Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and...

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2026/01/16

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Rootly AI - https://dev0ps.fyi/rootlyaiPaul Conroy, CTO at Square1, joins the show to prove that the best defense against malicious bots isn't always a firewall—sometimes, it’s creative data poisoning. Paul recounts a legendary story from the Irish property market where a well-funded competitor attempted to solve their "chicken and egg" problem by scraping his company's listings. Instead of waiting years for lawyers, Paul’s team fed the scrapers "Project Yellow Brick

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58:31

Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review

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2026/01/02

Share 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 AI-generated narrative. From the confusing disconnect between feeling productive and actually shipping code to the grim reality of a 30% acceptance rate, Warren and Dorota break down why this year's report smells a lot like manure.>We dissect the massive 142-page 2025 DORA Report. Dorota argues that the report, which is now

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49:44

Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here!

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2025/12/15

Share 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 name that strikes fear into engineering systems everywhere. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Chrome team, Sam shares the hilarious reality of having the last name "Goto," which once took down Google's internal URL shortener for four hours simply because he plugged in a new computer.>Sam gets us up to speed with Federated

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36:02

Are we building the right thing?

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2025/12/04

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentioElise, VP and Head of UX at Unleash, joins us to talk all about UX. Self identifying as probably "The annoying lady in the room" and a career spanning nearly 30 years—starting before "UX" was even a job title — joins us to dismantle the idea that User Experience is just about moving pixels around. Here we debate the friction between engineering, sales, and the customer. We get to the bottom of whether or avoiding end-user

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32:58

Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring

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2025/11/20

Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentioWarren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of technical debt in modern software engineering. Olga reveals a shocking statistic: without maintenance, cloud-native applications often cease to function within just six months. And from our experience, that's actually optimistic. The rapid decay isn't always due to bad code choices, but rather the shifting sands of third-party

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53:20

AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking

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2025/10/31

Share EpisodeMicrosoft'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 reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month.The conversation dives deep into "Agentic AI," where John predicts developers will soon become "managers of agents". But is it all hype? John and Warren debate the risks of too much automation

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49:59

Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks

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2025/10/20

Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attributeIn the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are harsh and require a high level of rigor and discipline in the response process. Lawrence details the company's evolution, from running a monolithic Go binary on Heroku to

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29:34

The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and...

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2025/10/02

Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attributeWe're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga, celebrating the release of his book IT Dictionary. In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technology.Adam shares how he started in the industry, long before DevOps was a coined term, focused on making systems safer and avoiding mistakes like accidentally dropping a

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55:29

Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to...

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2025/09/24

Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attributeJenna Pederson, Staff Developer Relations at Pinecone, joins us to close the loop on Vector Databases. Demystifies how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and also unexpected applications.Jenna takes us beyond the buzzword bingo, explaining how vector databases are the secret sauce behind semantic search. Sharing just how "red shirt" gets converted into a query that returns things semantically similar. It's all about turning your

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52:41

The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds

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2025/09/17

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 into their customers’ cloud environments. This decision was driven by the need to handle highly sensitive data, like PII and financial records, that customers don't want to hand over to a third-party startup. The conversation delves into the surprising and complex challenges of this approach, which include managing granular IAM permissions

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45:31

How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale

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2025/09/07

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 that instead of building a database from scratch—a decision he says went "against all the instincts" of a founding engineer—Observe chose to build its platform on top of Snowflake, leveraging its separation of compute and storage on EC2 and S3.The discussion delves into the technical stack and architectural decisions, including the use of

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