Software developers, platform engineers, and sysadmin/operators listen to the biweekly Ambassador podcasts in order to learn how to build cloud platforms and create an effective developer experience (DevEx) for deploying container-based applications to Kubernetes. We also discuss best practices for releasing functionality via continuous delivery pipelines, and we investigate the latest developer tooling, API gateway technology (e.g Envoy), and service mesh implementations. We interview pract ...
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The Pipeline: All Things CD & DevOps Podcast by The CD Foundation
Jacqueline Salinas, Director of Ecosystem & Community Development
The Pipeline: All Things CD & DevOps is created and hosted by the CD Foundation's Director of Ecosystem & Community Development - Jacqueline Salinas. This is a series of interviews with industry experts, leaders, and innovators. The Pipeline will cover a range of topics that are centered around CD & DevOps. The CDF’s goal is to educate, entertain, provide tips and insights to make the community better software engineers. The intent is to supply up-to-date industry news and innovations, as we ...
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The New Stack @ Scale podcast is about developing and managing elastic and dynamic services and systems.
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S4 Ep2: Unlocking Developer Velocity: API Design and Blackbird’s Game-Changing Tools
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We’re pleased to share that the "Livin’ on the Edge" podcast is back for Season 4 after our summer hiatus! We have a special episode for y’all ahead of our Blackbird, generally available release date on October 1, 2024, and with that we have a special guest host, myself (CEO Steve Rodda here).To kick off episode two, I sat down with James Higginbot…
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K8s and the cloud- chat with Civos kunal kushwaha
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We’re pleased to share that the "Livin’ on the Edge" podcast is back for Season 4 after our summer hiatus! With it, we have one new host, Jacob Caddy, and myself (Kay James) will also return as a fellow host. This season, we’re still going to be highlighting all the best Kubernetes practices, but we’re also going to be diving deeper into the world …
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S3 Ep 16: K8s Monitoring & Observability with Grafana's Vasil Kaftandzhiev
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On the latest Livin’ on the Edge podcast (and my last episode for Season 3), I interviewed Vasil Kaftandzhiev, a fellow Product Manager at Grafana. We explored the importance of observability in IT systems, particularly in the context of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes management. Observability is the constant monitoring of the system and of bu…
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S3 Ep15: Women in APIs & API Strategies feat. Claire Barrett
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On the latest Livin on the Edge Episode, Kay James sat down with Women in APIs and APIsFirst, Claire Barrett to discuss the following: - the Women in APIs program with apidays- Trends and strategies in the API space- Tackling common challenges that women face in the industryFor more, visit getambassador.io/podcasts.…
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S3 Ep 14: The Four P’s of Platform Engineering for Prosperity Insights feat. Erik Wilde
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In our latest Livin’ on the Edge podcast, I chatted with Erik Wilde, well known OpenAPI Initiative ambassador and Principal Consultant at INNOQ, as well as the host of the popular YouTube channel, “Getting APIs to Work.” After both of us attended APIDays New York a few weeks ago, we realized that platform engineering continues to be the talk of the…
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S3 Ep 13: Your Devs Want Effortless Auth feat. Keith Casey
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In our latest Livin’ On the Edge podcast episode, I interviewed Keith Casey, senior product manager at Pangea and one of the co-authors of API Developer Weekly. Pangea offers security services in a single platform of API-based security services that can be stacked onto an existing tech stack. We explored authentication and authorization as crucial …
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S3 Ep 12: Kubecrash 2024 with Danielle Cook |Bonus Mini Episode
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Join us for a special bonus mini episode with host Kay James and VP of appCD/ Kubecrash Co-Founder, Danielle Cook, as we dive into what you can expect ahead of Kubecrash Spring 2024. The theme is Platform Engineering: Building the Ultimate Internal Developer Platform. Kay got the inside scoop with Danielle on what to look out for and some can't mis…
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S3 Ep 11: Embracing Tech Change: Matthew Reinbold on Adapting to Industry Shifts
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In our latest episode we chatted with consultant Matthew Reinbold about the future of the API industry, how to stay sharp in this current economic climate, and the state of developer relations. For more, visit getambassador.io/podcasts. Resources: - matthewreinbold.com - netapinotes.com - APIFutures https://matthewreinbold.github.io/APIFutures- Mat…
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S3 Ep 10: Foundations of Formidable API Federation
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API Federation encompasses a collection of design principles, tools, and infrastructure that enable the exposure of services and event streams within a specific bounded context as a cohesive and standardized API for external customers. API Federation allows individual services within the bounded context to evolve and adapt without imposing addition…
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S3 Ep9- Developer Productivity: the Inner Dev Loop & Metrics feat. Guru Kamat
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Explore the crucial role of the inner dev loop and quantitative metrics to enhance developer productivity and build a sustainable engineering culture with Guru Kamat, Co-Founder of Neurelo.With over 20 years of experience, Guru has seen it all. From scaling small startup teams to being an integral part of leading technology companies such as Palo A…
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S3, Ep8: The Evolution of Cloud-Native, Platform Engineering, & Gateways
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As they say, the one thing in life you can count on is change. Our latest guest on Livin' On the Edge podcasts is Krishna Modi, a Cloud Engineer at Cisco. The discussion covered a range of topics, including Krishna's professional journey, Cisco’s evolution, Identity and Access Management (IAM), trends in API gateways, and the rise of platform engin…
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S3 Ep7: Creating Developer-Happy Spaces with Telepresence, Automation, & More. Feat: Xavier Portilla
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On the latest Livin' On the Edge podcast episode, we interviewed Xavier Portilla Edo, Cloud and Infrastructure Team Lead from Voiceflow, a Canada-based company focused on a collaborative conversation design platform where conversational AI product teams design, test, and ship chat and voice assistants. Xavier is also an involved Community Advocate …
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S3 Ep6: The Evolution of DevOps & AI: Why "You Build It, You Run It" is a Lie feat. Natan Yellin
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On the latest Livin' On the Edge podcast episode, I interviewed the CEO of Robusta, Natan Yellin, about the evolution of DevOps, throwing AI into the mix, and debunking the DevOps statement of "You Build it, You Run it." https://youtu.be/O3DRVTEgtyo The 'You Build It, You Run It' Dilemma When discussing the evolution of DevOps teams, we can't get i…
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S3 Ep5: The Secrets of API Design & Development with Jason Harmon
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On the latest Livin' On the Edge podcast episode, Product Manager Jake Beck interviewed Stoplight CTO and host of the API Intersection podcast, Jason Harmon. We get into all things API design, API development, design best practices, and more. Plus, we break down the 'design-first' approach to your API management strategy. Tune in!…
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S3 EP4: Michael Levan, Platform Engineering: The Good, The Bad & The Buzzy
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On this episode of Livin' on the Edge we interview industry expert and CNCF member, Michael Levan. Michael takes us through all things platform engineering, what developers should actually be concerned with, and what's just marketing talk. Platform engineering is on the rise and here to stay, here's what you need to know to ensure your organization…
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S3 Ep3: Unlocking the Power of Istio and Coraza
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On Season Three, Episode Three of the Livin’ on the Edge podcast, I spoke with Jose Carlos Chavez, who is a software engineer at Tetrate and heavily involved with Istio, an open-source service mesh, that has been making waves in the world of microservices and cloud-native applications. Istio offers a range of features for traffic management, securi…
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S3 EP2: Flynn from Buoyant & Cloud-Native Happenings
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In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native technology, APIs, Kubernetes, and service meshes, it's crucial to stay up-to-date with the latest developments and insights from experts in the field. That’s why, there’s no better time to revitalize our popular podcast, Livin’ on the Edge. We’re proud to say we’re back and better than ever!To kick off…
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S03E01: Platform Engineering in 2022 - Onramps, Self-Service, and Standardization
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Full transcript and summary -> https://www.getambassador.io/kubernetes-expert-interviews/self-service/As discussion of developer platforms reaches a fever pitch, the industry still has not converged around a single definition of "platform". To get a variety of viewpoints, Ambassador Labs invited a small group of practitioners in the cloud-native de…
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S2E10: Toli Apostolidis of Platforms, Communities of Practice, and Cognitive Load
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Summary and full transcript -> https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-community-practice-engineers-point-of-view/Apostolis Apostolidis (better known as Toli) (@apostolis09), Principal Practice Engineer at UK-based car-purchasing platform, cinch, joined Ambassador Labs's Daniel Bryant in the latest Ambassador…
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S2E11: Alyssa Wilk on HTTP/3, Including Google's Adoption, and Benefits and Challenges
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Summary and full transcript -> https://www.getambassador.io/kubernetes-thought-leaders/http3/With HTTP/3 being supported by 70%+ of browsers (including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge), and the official spec being finalized in June 2022, now is the time that organizations are beginning a widespread rollout of this protocol to gain performance and reliabi…
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S2E06 (Updated): Kelsey Hightower on Software Supply Chains, Empathetic Engineering, and Infra
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Summary and the full transcript is available at: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-cloud-leaders-point-of-view/(This podcast has been republished/updated to fix the broken Spotify episode)Additional takeaways can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kelsey-hig…
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S2E09: Crystal Hirschorn on Socio-technical Systems, Building Platforms, and Developer Culture
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Full transcript and summary https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-an-engineering-directors-point-of-view/Crystal Hirschorn (@cfhirschorn), Director of Engineering - Infrastructure, SRE and Developer Experience at Snyk, shared some time with Ambassador Labs's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, to talk…
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S2E08: Bo Daley on Designing Platforms Using Kubernetes, Standards, and Developer Workflows
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Summary and full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-platform-engineers-point-of-view/By Ambassador Labs
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S2E07: Alan Barr on Platform Building. Creating a Business Case for Platforms, and DevEx
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Summary and full transcript -> https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-platform-builders-point-of-view/The unicorns of the tech world generate a lot of buzz in the cloud-native landscape. But the workhorse users who adopt cloud-native technologies slowly where it makes commercial sense don't get quite the sam…
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S2E06: Kelsey Hightower on Software Supply Chains, Empathetic Engineering, and Centralizing Infra
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Summary and the full transcript is available at: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-cloud-leaders-point-of-view/Additional takeaways can be found here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kelsey-hightower/Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower), Principal Engineer and Staff Deve…
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S2E05: Katie Gamanji on K8s Platforms, CNCF and community, and Cloud NativeDeveloper Education
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Summary and full transcript here: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-an-ecosystem-leaders-point-of-view/While cloud-native development has not been adopted into production environments everywhere, it is an increasingly visible force, bolstered by a robust community, several widely adopted emerging standard…
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Speaker: Brian Dawson Last episode of Season 2 wraps up with a bit of history behind the DevOps movement and it's connection to open source and finishes with predictions on where the DevOps movement is heading in 2022. Support the showBy Jacqueline Salinas, Director of Ecosystem & Community Development
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Four Keys Metrics to Measure Your DevOps Performance
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Speakers: Dina Graves Portman and Henrik Rexed Through six years of research, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has identified four key metrics that indicate the performance of a software development team: Deployment Frequency—How often an organization successfully releases to production Lead Time for Changes—The amount of time it take…
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S2E04: Nicki Watt on Cloud Platforms, Managing Data and Risk, and DexEv
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Summary and full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/developer-control-planes-a-ctos-point-of-view/Nicki Watt (@techiewatt) is the chief technology officer and CEO at OpenCredo, a software development consultancy with extensive experience in cloud-native development, and has been at the forefront of meeting these varied…
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Finding Your Way: A Survey of Supply Chains
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Speaker: Aeva Black With the explosion of interest in SBOMs, it's likely that you've just heard of a few projects for the first time -- even if those projects aren't new, they may be new to you, and you might be asking yourself, "how is X different from Y?" You might also be wondering which projects you should select in order to satisfy the require…
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Speaker: Ayelet Sachto Learn the considerations and strategies that can make designing for reliability in production more intentional; going beyond infrastructure into operational practices and best practices for application design and operational readiness when designing an application for production. In this episode learn more about why & what of…
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Site Reliability Engineering Adoptions: Setting up the Fundamentals
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Speaker: Spyridon Maniotis The session aims to provide an overview of the fundamental elements that foster a successful SRE adoption. Core to an SRE adoption elements such as; operating model, tenets, process engineering, skillset, technological capabilities/tactics, reconciliation with DevOps and ITSM, as well mechanisms such as "error budget" & "…
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How SolarWinds is Using Open Source to Secure Their Supply Chain
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Speaker: Trevor Rosen As you're no doubt aware, SolarWinds was hit in December 2020 with a sophisticated supply chain attack perpetrated by nation state actors. In the months since, they've been working to create an entirely new build system based on a number of CNCF and CDF projects. In this talk, you'll learn about what they're building, why it's…
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Speaker: Dan Lorenc SupplyChainSecurityCon is a new, vendor-neutral conference for security practitioners, open source developers and those interested in software supply chain security hosted by CNCF + CDF. Due to the uptick in supply chain attacks, this event is to bring the community together to discuss supply chain threats, best practices, mitig…
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Dev Loves CI/CD: Efficient Sec and Ops Pipelines
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Speaker: Michael Friedrich Continuous integration and delivery/deployment helps speed up development and review workflows. Developers can focus on code reliably tested in different environments. At some point, the operations team gets paged on broken pipelines and jobs being stuck. On top, the security audit unveiled plain text secret exposure and …
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6 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Pipelines
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Speakers: Diego Lemos de Resende & Derik Evangelista Pipelines are meant to be the road that will guide your team from code straight to production, automating everything on its way. Pipelines should be a source of joy for developers, the team's safe harbour. But the reality can be different, and many teams are struggling to get their pipelines righ…
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Behind the Scenes of Keptn: Event-Driven Delivery & Ops Orchestration
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Guest Speaker: Andreas Grabner Andreas Grabner, DevRel at Keptn, will give us a deep dive on the latest version of Keptn. He will explain the event-driven architecture, the recent separation of control and execution plane introduced with Keptn 0.8, and guidance on how to best get started for integrating Keptn into your existing delivery tools and p…
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Guest Speaker: Christian Hernandez GitOps is a practice of DevOps teams that uses Git as a source of truth for their Kubernetes platform. Using GitOps, the entire system described declaratively, the canonical desired system state versioned in Git, and approved changes that can be automatically applied to the system. This gives you the advantage to …
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Speaker: Dibyo Mukherjee from Google Tekton Triggers is a project that adds eventing support to Tekton i.e. it provides a mechanism to declaratively create PipelineRuns and TaskRuns based on external events. With the recent v0.15 release, Tekton Triggers now has a beta API. So, what exactly does “beta” mean for Triggers? Tekton follows the Kubernet…
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S2E03: Cheryl Hung on Google DevEx, Cloud Native Development, and Infrastructure Challenges
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S2E03: Cheryl Hung on Google DevEx, Cloud Native Development, and Infrastructure Challenges by Ambassador LabsBy Ambassador Labs
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Speaker: Ricardo Castro GitOps is a paradigm or a set of practices that empowers developers to perform tasks that typically (only) fall under the purview of operations. It’s a way to do Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery by using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications. Being Git at the ce…
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Combining Progressive Delivery with GitOps and Continuous Delivery
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Speaker: Viktor Farcic Three phrases keep popping up when talking about modern workflows and development and deployment techniques. We have continuous delivery to automate the complete lifecycle of applications from a commit to a Git repository, all the way until a release is deployable to production. Then we have GitOps to define the desired state…
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Best Practices for Secret Management with GitOps
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Speaker: Kara de la Marck GitOps uses Git as the “single source of truth” for declarative infrastructure and enables developers to manage infrastructure with the same Git-based workflows they use to manage a codebase. Having all configuration files version-controlled by Git has many advantages, but best practices for securely managing secrets with …
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Shipwright - Framework for Building Container Images on Kubernetes
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Speakers: Sascha Schwarze & Adam Kaplan Join this episode to learn more about the CDF's newest incubating project. Support the showBy Jacqueline Salinas, Director of Ecosystem & Community Development
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S2E02 Kasper Nissen on GitOps, Developer Onboarding, and DevEx Freedom and Responsibility
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Full transcript: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-planes/developer-control-planes-a-platform-architects-point-of-view/Summary and extended notes: https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-kasper-nissen-from-lunar/The concept of "shifting left" at scale in a fully cloud-native organization may sound futuristic t…
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S2E01: Mario Loria on Cloud Platforms, Developer Experience, and SRE
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Mario Loria, Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) from CartaX, an electronic marketplace for private securities recently spoke with Daniel Bryant, Director of DevRel at Ambassador Labs. In a wide-ranging discussion they covered ground from the changing developer experience to the ideal role of SREs in a modern, cloud-native environment.Full trans…
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GitOps Summit Preview - Level Unlocked: GitOps to the Edge and Infrastructure Provisioning
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Guest Speaker: Katie Gamanji Within its 7 years of existence, Kubernetes has been the centerpiece of the cloud native landscape, elevating a pluggable system that led to the diversification of the technology ecosystem. As a result, multiple areas have developed in the industry, galvanizing solutions for components that introduce standardization, gu…
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Guest Speakers: Nikhil Kaul & Dustin Smith Google joins us to discuss what the State of DevOps Report is and focus areas of research for this year's survey. Tune in to learn more. Support the showBy Jacqueline Salinas, Director of Ecosystem & Community Development
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Spinnaker Summit Preview: Improving Visibility and Traceability of Deployed Container Artifacts via Spinnaker’s BuildCi
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Speakers: Nima Kaviani and Manabu McCloskey As containerization becomes an integral part of deploying software reliably, traceability and visibility over what gets deployed becomes ever more important. Ideally, as part of the deployment process, release engineers would be able to track deployed containers back to the right version of the written co…
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Distributed Tracing For CD Pipelines with Jenkins X & Dailymotion
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Guest Speaker: Vincent Behar We have been using Jenkins X since September 2018, just a few months after the initial release. With great success, because Jenkins X is now a core part of our infrastructure - but more importantly it gave us good practices, and a continually improving set of practices and platform. And because we love open-source at Da…
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