The Trust Problem Returns Hannah Foxwell, who has spent over a decade in DevOps and platform engineering, draws a striking parallel to earlier transformations: “It used to be that testers didn’t trust developers and ops didn’t trust testers and there were all these silos. Now we’re putting AI agents in the mix. Can we trust them? Should we trust th…

Security: the one topic that’s guaranteed to turn any DevOps conversation into a mix of fear, eye rolls, and nervous laughter. In this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty welcomes back Kat Cosgrove to talk about the “never not hot” world of security and why it’s always lurking just over your shoulder (like that one compliance auditor who swears they’…

We’ve all been there: burning out on volatile tech jobs, tangled in impossible systems, and wondering what our work actually means. On this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty Stratton sits down with Kat Morgan for a heartfelt, funny, and sharply observant conversation about AI: what it helps with, what it hurts, and how we navigate all of that as hu…

Openness plays a significant role in propelling DevOps and organizational processes forward. This is not to imply that everything must be open, but the default should be openness unless a valid reason indicates otherwise. Andrew Zigler, developer advocate at Mattermost, and Matty from Arrested DevOps recently shared insights on this subject. They d…

Read more of Chelsea Troy’s writing here!By Jessica Kerr

Every ADO Cold Open Ever “Episode 0” of ADO “Old Geeks Yell At Cloud” videoBy Joe Laha

The First 90 Days “It’s not a promotion - it’s a career change” (Lindsay Holmwood) “Not All Leaders Are Managers” - (Aaron Bassett)By Matt Stratton

John Willis’s talk at DevOpsDays Atlanta 2016 on Burnout https://platformengineering.org/talks-library/internal-platform-enterprise-courtney-kissler ADO - How to Eff Up Devops with Pete Cheslock, Nathen Harvey, and Randi HarperBy Matt Stratton

OWASP Top 10 Stripe: The developer coefficient (quantifies the cost of bad code to companies to be $59B annually) Facebook: FAUSTA: Scaling Dynamic Analysis with Traffic Generation (how runtime analysis was used at WhatsApp to catch design flaws before they reached production) Dragan Stepanović - Async code reviews are choking your company’s throug…

It's a complex world! Matty and Michael Stahnke wax philosophical about whether our systems need to be as complicated as we have made themBy Matt Stratton

Arrested DevOps - The Database: The Elephant in the Room Arrested DevOps - Data! Data! Data! With Francesco Tisiot Arrested DevOps - The New DevOps With Adam JacobHistory of databases talk from Matty and Kat CosgroveBy Matt Stratton

Arrested DevOps - DevOps With Better Marketing with Pete Cheslock Arrested DevOps - Platform Engineering with Daniel Bryant Arrested DevOps - Platforms with Kelsey Hightower and Andrew Clay Shafer Lean Enterprise The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering Charity’s talk from devopsdays NYC Jess Kerr’s blog that Matt mentioned Cargo Cult Science…

https://www.instagram.com/ziggy.odoodle/?hl=en https://twitter.com/opentofuorg https://github.com/opentofu https://linkedin.com/company/opentofuorg https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu DevOps World is back for 2023, and you won’t want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event! This year’s program is packed with exclusive insights, immersive workshops…

Links to Resources Mentioned 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr *The DevOps Handbook The System Initiative Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard DevOps World is back for 2023, and you won’t want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event! This year’s program is packed with exclusive insights, immersive workshops, and unp…

The Importance of Your Personal Brand Whether you’re working for a startup or a corporate giant like Visa, Target, or JP Morgan Chase, your personal brand helps to define your professional identity. This brand is not just about showcasing your GitHub contributions, but about telling your unique story. It’s about how you solved a particular problem …

“Everything is a Product” - Matty’s talk “More Buzzwords Won’t Help” - Andrew Clay Shafer Telemetry Hub channel on YouTube DevOps World is back for 2023, and you won’t want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event! This year’s program is packed with exclusive insights, immersive workshops, and unparalleled networking opportunities taking place acros…

Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report Pushing Left With Tanya Janca (ADO epsiode) Shifting Left Securely (Matt’s talk) DevOps World is back for 2023, and you won’t want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event! This year’s program is packed with exclusive insights, immersive workshops, and unparalleled networking opportunities taking pl…

Pete’s Video Project Pete’s TikTok Want to join a future version of Pete’s videos? Platform Engineering With Daniel Bryant (ADO Episode)By Matt Stratton

Sonia Gupta and Corey Quinn - Embarrassingly Large Numbers: Salary Negotiation for Human Talking pay in the public squareBy Matt Stratton

Kafka Connect tool Metadata parser Francesco’s SOFT blog postBy Matt Stratton

ADO Episode - Platforms with Kelsey Hightower and Andrew Clay Shafer Daniel’s Kubecon talk Daniel’s blog/tweet thread the kicked off his interest in Platform Eng Spotify golden paths Crossing the Chasm - Technology Adoption Lifecycle Backstage project Backstage as a serviceBy Matt Stratton

VOID The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) makes public software-related incident reports available to everyone, increasing understanding of software-based failures in order to make the internet a more resilient and safe place. After scrutinizing nearly 10,000 incidents, one thing is crystal clear: Resilience saves time. Taking the time to under…

Jess and Roni talk about what continous feedback: where it came from, what it looks like in the context of a dev proces, and the benefits it can bring to engineers and developers. They also discuss Roni’s observability project, Digma.ai… and his other passion, complicated board games.By Jessica Kerr

linkedin.com/in/dagnabieda www.themindfuldev.com How Dagna works with her clients https://www.arresteddevops.com/principal-engineer/By Matt Stratton

Breaking Down Gates with Tim Banks (previous episode with Tim)By Matt Stratton

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Melody: melody.devBy Matt Stratton

Favorite Episodes Drawing DevOps with Ashton Rodenhiser Multicluster Service Mesh With Phillip Gibson and Annie Wang Brigade With Kent Rancourt Most Popular Episodes Most listened-to episode in 2021 was All Things Docker Second most listened-to episode in 2021 was Foundational Practices With Johan Abildskov Number three was Doing Releases Right Wit…

Emily’s book ProAgile Emily’s blog Emily’s github Approval testing tools mentioned https://approvaltests.com/ https://github.com/texttest/texttestBy Matt Stratton

Matty’s dog on Twitter Shifting Left Securely (Matty’s talk at devopsdays denver 2017) Steve’s “Collaboration over competition” talk Trivy Checkov from bridgecrew Cosecast Pushing left with Tanya Janca (ADO episode) Cosecast with Tanya Janca We Hack Purple Security Chaos Engineering With Aaron Rinehart (ADO epsiode)…

Bridget chats with Kent Rancourt about Brigade, a tool for running scriptable, automated tasks (in Kubernetes). Brigade website Brigade GitHub org Brigade blog Brigade v2 docs Brigade on Kubernetes slack Brigade art by Ronan Flynn-CurranBy Bridget Kromhout

The Best DevOps Blogs (the review giving ADO 5 out of 5) DevOps For DummiesBy Matt Stratton

Previous ADO episode about service mesh with Michelle Noorali and Delyan Raychev Annie’s blog post about Multicluster Service Mesh Service Mesh Interface specification Open Service Mesh Service Mesh Comparison art credit: “Spiral” by roland - CC0 1.0By Bridget Kromhout

The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance “Zone of proximal development”By Matt Stratton

(episode art by Ashton Rodenhiser) Ashton’s ignite at devopsdays Texas Mike Tozer’s talk at DevSecCon Visual Communication Method - ebook by AshtonBy Matt Stratton

In this episode, Jess talks with guest Cat Swetel about her career, writings, and thoughts on DevOps. Jess: “Cat is known internationally for her Penguin Power Stance and for standing on the edge of now!”Cat: “I like working with things on the edge of now. So that’s either things that shouldn’t exist anymore or shouldn’t exist yet.” Jess and Cat ta…

Does tech ask more from its community than other industries? What does it mean to be part of a community and what is expected of us?By Matt Stratton

Docker Public Roadmap DockerCon CFP open until March 15th - How to Write a Great Talk Proposal for DockerCon LIVE 2021 Docker Career Openings Docker Hub Experimental CLI toolBy Bridget Kromhout

Learning Stuff With Ali Spittel - ADO Episode Managing Your Mental Stack - ADO Episode Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Sasha Rosenbaum’s talk about Mindset Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategyBy Matt Stratton

The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I. The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher BookerBy Matt Stratton

Systems and software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) — System and software quality models Operationalised Product Quality Models and Assessment: The Quamoco ApproachBy Matt Stratton

Favorite Episodes Matty “Breaking Down Gates” with Tim Banks “Deserted Island DevOps” with a cast of thousands Trevor “DevOpsDays Chicago 2020” Jessica “Don’t Worry, Do Care” With Aaron Blohowiak Bridget “Tea and Anarchy” With Alice Goldfuss and Ian Coldwater Jeff “DevOpsDays Chicago 2020” What happened in 2020? Trevor A year of PM land Streaming f…

Texas Chili Parlor in Austin Chili John’s - the chili place Matt’s friend brought him to in California Gatekeeping and the DevOps Revolution: We Haven’t Always Known Everything - Kat Cosgrove at All Day DevOps 2020 Lending Privilege - Anjuan Simmons levels.fyi/ Shout-out to Matt’s friend Marcelo for the link for Chili John’s (and for taking Matt th…

Matt’s blog post about “howto” Rich Burroughs’s wrapup post https://matty.wtf/yak-wtf https://twitter.com/SoSplush Love, Yaktually video Recording of the event livestreamBy Matt Stratton and Trevor Hess

Image credit: Tea and Anarchy, modified from Anarchist Revolt Font: 1403 Vintage Mono Pro by Jeff KellemBy Bridget Kromhout

Snyk’s State of Open Source Security report SnykCon is coming on Oct 21-22! Register now! Guess what you can threat model in devsecops! More about threat modeling in Pushing Left With Tanya Janca Alyss’s awesome t-shirtsBy Matt Stratton and Jessica Kerr

Alex’s book - Implementing Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to SLIs, SLOs, and Error BudgetsBy Matt Stratton

Cost Compression Aaron discusses the three big projects he’s working on. The first is cost efficiency, or, as Netflix thinks of it, “cost compression.” Jessica: “Oh, so you have to achieve cost compression without telling engineers not to spend money.” Aaron: “If you don’t believe you can predict very well, then what you should do instead is get re…

SMI Open Service Mesh OSM logo art credit: @flynnduismBy Bridget Kromhout

The Web We Want Webhint tool Designing For Crisis - Eric Meyer talk FrontCon - upcoming speaking appearance for Stephanie Stephanie’s current and past talks Stephanie’s talk on web controls Go to Stephanie’s YouTube channel for past talks!By Matt Stratton