Episodes

Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 21 - Platform Engineering: The performance stage
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
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 and the team talk about Venue.sh, the difference between DevOps and platform engineering, and how together they can enhance experiences for everyone.
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Friday Oct 06, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 20 - The Magic of Metrics with Umano
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
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 DevOpsDays in London, where Adaptavist will have a booth and a speaker taking the stage as Laura and Rasmus steer the chat around meaningful measurements and behavioural change in teams.
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Friday Sep 01, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 19 - The Open Source Drama Broadcast
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
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 the business source licence, or BSL. Jon, Jobin and Rasmus discuss what this all means, how it reminds them of the Jenkins debacle, and what impact it could have on Adaptavist and the dev community at large.
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Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
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 about how his team is using 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 benefits – even when the talks appear to have nothing to do with our business.
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Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
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, the conversation turns as Jon and Jobin start dropping SBOMs all over the place (we promise there's no swearing!), exploring the importance of pinpointing supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 16 - A stitch in time
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
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 discuss the benefits and limitations of a serverless architecture and why it probably won’t go anywhere soon. We also get to hear all about Stitch It – a code-first cross-platform integration tool, and how it can be used to navigate and mitigate the limitations of serverless environments.
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted.
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Friday Apr 21, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 15 - Are Kubernetes Tools Doomed to be Complicated?
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
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 Manager for our business services infrastructure.
It's an in-depth episode that'll resonate with anyone who's juggled deployment with Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Rancher… And the main takeaway?
Kubernetes is hard. Will software and DevOps practitioners ever find a silver bullet solution?
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Thursday Mar 23, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 14 - Platforms; The good, bad and ugly
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
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 choice words for (and a little bit of praise, too!), before wrapping the show up with cloud complexity; is it really the cause of one in five cloud outages? Romy talks about some hands-on experience with increasingly complex cloud integrations and what happens when it all falls down.
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Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
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 announced a new DevOps platform called Venue DevOps, and we cover all the biggest news from the event.
Missed an episode? You can find all our previous episodes here: https://www.adaptavist.com/podcast/devops-decrypted
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Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
DevOps Decrypted: Ep. 12 - Musk’s Twitter, ChatGPT and other DevOps disruptions
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
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?
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