Podcast
Devchat.tv Episode Roundup
Hosted by Devchat.tv · EN
Contains all versions of all episodes from Devchat.tv
13episodes
Episodes
Newest firstAll episodes
DevOps 044: Organizing for DevOps
Jul 21, 2020Tap to summarizeIn this episode of Adventures in DevOps, the panelists discuss how companies can organize for greatest DevOps success. They dive into team structures and patterns, how an organization can embrace the principles of DevOps rather than just it's practices, and where project management lives in today's agile world. Panelists Jeff Groman Henry Jewkes Scott Nixon Sponsors Gravitational Teleport: SSH Properly! CacheFly Links What's the Difference Between DevOps and SRE? Picks Jeff Groman: Beyond The Phoenix Project Henry Jewkes: So You Think You Can Test? Follow on Social Media: Facebook: Adventures in DevOps Twitter: @DevOpsPodcast
Transcribe →DevOps 009: Learning DevOps
Sep 10, 2019Tap to summarizeEpisode Summary In this episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, the panelists talk about getting started with DevOps and learning its principles and technologies. Lee and Scott mention that they share a similar journey, initially starting as system administrators and working their way into DevOps. Nell says that she was a Ruby and .NET developer before learning cloud technologies such as Heroku, Chef, and Docker. To someone with a programming background wanting to get into DevOps, Lee highly recommends three books - The Practice of System and Network Administration, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services - Volume 2, and Time Management for System Administrators. He mentions that they are technology-agnostic and help in understanding what is really going on in the system. Scott stresses on the importance of understanding basic networking, linux systems and commands, bash scripting and knowing the core fundamentals and interactions of the underlying systems. He suggests going for online resources, tutorials and boot camps which are plenty nowadays and easily accessible as well. Nell advises listeners to pick a cloud provider such as Digital Ocean and learn the basics by working with it, which can later be applied to any other cloud provider. She also recommends learning programming languages to get a good software development foundation. The panelists talk about working on specific projects and getting hands dirty rather than traditional learning, to enhance their DevOps skills. Nell explains how they implement the 'learning by doing' concept at work. She mentions that understanding how virtual machines and physical servers work is crucial before moving on to learning about containers. Lee suggests Vagrant - a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments, as a good resource for the same. They caution that while it is important to learn things during our time off, self-care and setting healthy boundaries is paramount. It is ok to take longer to learn something given that DevOps as a whole can be extremely complex, and working in a non-pressure environment can be very beneficial. They recommend Ops School for beginners which is a comprehensive program aimed at people who want to get into operations engineering. They then share their insights on monitoring and how to get started with it. Lee recommends the book Practical Monitoring, and Sensu - a monitoring event pipeline, as good starting points. DevOps can be considered as a technical as well as a cultural movement. To that effect, they discuss where should people start learning the associated cultural elements. Nell recommends reading the books - Effective DevOps, and The Phoenix Project and Crucial Conversations. Lee advocates going old school with the writings of Richard Stallman, and books of the 80s and 90s such as The Art of C Programming. They mention that conve...
Transcribe →JSJ 324: with Kent Beck
Jul 31, 2018Tap to summarizePanel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Aimee Knight Special Guests: Kent Beck In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Kent Beck. Kent left Facebook 4 months ago after working for them for 7 years and is now self-unemployed so that he can decompress from the stressful environment that he was a part of for so long. He now travels, writes, creates art, thinks up crazy programming ideas, and is taking a breather. They talk about what he did at Facebook, what his coaching engagement sessions consisted of, and the importance of taking time for yourself sometimes. They also touch on what he has learned from his experience coaching, how to create a healthy environment within the workplace, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Kent intro/update Ruby Rogues Episode 23 Worked at Facebook for 7 years What were you doing at Facebook? Unique culture at Facebook His strengths as a developer didn’t match with the organization’s Coaching developers TDD and Patterns Advantages as an old engineer What did coaching engagement consist of? Takes time to build trust Discharging shame Need permission to take care of what you need to Being at your best so you can do your best work Vacation in place What have you learned in your time working with people? The nice thing about coaching Everyone is different How do we create a healthy environment within the workplace? Mentor in Ward Cunningham What is it costing us? Why did you decide to leave? And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 23 @KentBeck kentbeck.com Kent’s GitHub Sponsors Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Picks: Charles The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni <a href="https://...
Transcribe →