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DevOps Chat: Chef Goes All-In on Open Source

Alan Shimel April 2, 2019 Chef, chefconf, devops chat, devops tools, it automation, open source, podcast No Comments

In front of next month’s ChefConf in Seattle, Chef has announced a major refinement to its business model. Affirming and clarifying its commitment to open source business models, Chef will now and in the future release all of its software as open source. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Computing on the Edge, with Swim.ai’s Simon Crosby

Alan Shimel April 1, 2019 devops chat, edge computing, Simon Crosby, Swim.ai No Comments

Simon Crosby has made a career of technology on the edge. From leading the charge with the Xen hypervisor to microVMs with Bromium and much more in between, Crosby has led some of the most innovative technology developers in the industry. He is now the CTO of Swim.ai which is ... Read More

DevOps Chat: The CD Foundation, with CloudBees’ Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Tracy Miranda

Alan Shimel March 21, 2019 CD Foundation, CI/CD, cloudbees, open source, podcast No Comments

A new foundation, the CD Foundation, has been formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation to serve as the home base for a vendor-neutral movement committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms. The first projects to be hosted ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Doing Agile, with AgileCXO’s Jeff Dalton

Alan Shimel March 15, 2019 agile culture, AgileCXO, Great Big Agile No Comments

Agile has a bit of a longer history and subsequent maturity than DevOps. Despite this, how can an organization say that it is in fact an “agile organization”? What does that even mean? Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jeff Dalton, founder of Broadsword consulting, author of “Great Big ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Customer Experience and DevOps with Cyara’s Alok Kulkarni

Alan Shimel March 8, 2019 customer experience, developers, devops No Comments

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Cyara CEO and co-founder, Alok Kulkarni, about how DevOps is helping in the customer experience arena. Cyara has carved out a leadership role in bringing DevOps to CX. Alok is a delight to speak with and very wired into this space. As usual, ... Read More

DevOps Chat: AppSec and DevSecOps with Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams

Alan Shimel March 4, 2019 application security, devops, devops chat, devsecops, podcast, security No Comments

I have known of Jeff Williams in the security industry for more than several years. He is a well-respected thought leader in AppSec and OWASP. I finally got a chance to catch up with Jeff and talk with him about Contrast Security, the company he co-founded and how it is ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Repos and Nexus Firewall Access, with Sonatype

Alan Shimel February 28, 2019 artifacts, code, devops chat, devsecops, podcast, repositories, security, sonatype No Comments

There are really only two repositories of any scale for software components today: the Nexus repo managed by Sonatype and the Artifactory artifact repo managed by JFrog. Up until now they were separate and apart, and working with one was independent of another. In a big move toward keeping DevOps ... Read More

DevOps Chat: JFrog Acquires Shippable

Alan Shimel February 21, 2019 acquisition, application development, CI/CD, continuous delivery, continuous integration, devops chat, jfrog, Shippable 1 Comment

The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise+ platform and further expands JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Mainframe DevOps Update With Compuware’s Chris O’Malley

Alan Shimel February 21, 2019 development, DevOps and mainframe, devops chat, mainframe, podcast No Comments

Christopher O’Malley is one of the leading voices in the DevOps for mainframe community. He is relentless in advocating how the mainframe platform can not only exist but also thrive in today’s Agile/DevOps environments. His evangelism keeps his company, Compuware, front and center in the mainframe DevOps discussion and it ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Serverless and Abstraction with Nimbella’s Anshu Agarwal

Alan Shimel February 18, 2019 cloud, cloud infrastructure, Nimbella, podcast, serverless 3 Comments

Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself. Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud-agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Identity Management with ForgeRock’s Peter Barker

Alan Shimel January 11, 2019 devsecops, ForgeRock, IAM, identity management, security 1 Comment

Two megatrends for 2019 and beyond is scale and automation. The identity management space is a perfect example. Considering all of the IP-enabled devices (machines) coming online and the billions of people and their identities, managing these billions and billions takes systems that will redefine scale and, almost by definition, ... Read More

DevOps Chat: AIOps and APM with Unravel’s Kunal Agarwal

Alan Shimel January 4, 2019 AIOps, apm, big data, devops chat, podcast 1 Comment

Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal about what makes Unravel a must-have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri

Alan Shimel January 25, 2019 AWS, cloud migration, clouds, hybrid cloud, infrastructure, professional services 1 Comment

Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in ... Read More

DevOps Chat: Crowdsourced Continuous Testing with Rainforest’s Derek Choy

Alan Shimel January 14, 2019 continuous testing, crowdsourcing, podcast, software development life cycle, testing 1 Comment

Scaling your testing is the scourge of many software teams. While test automation and continuous testing have made great strides, it still is difficult to automate every QA test. Also, engineering resources who can script these tests are difficult to find. Enter Rainforest. Rainforest has a unique crowdsourcing solution to ... Read More

DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Testing with Ryan Lloyd of SmartBear

Alan Shimel January 21, 2019 DevOps Testing, podcast, SmartBear, test management, testing 1 Comment

The testing landscape in DevOps is a big one, with lots of established players feeding the machine. SmartBear is one of those companies. The force behind Swagger, SoapUI and others is perhaps not as well-known as its brethren in the DevOps testing space, but it cuts a wide swath. And, ... Read More

DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Transformation with Tasktop’s Carmen DeArdo

Alan Shimel January 15, 2019 Carmen DeArdo, devops culture, DevOps processes, DevOps transformation No Comments

Carmen DeArdo is well-known in the DevOps space mostly because of his work at Nationwide, where he was DevOps leader and technology director. In August of last year, Carmen moved to Tasktop, where he works with other DevOps luminaries Mik Kersten and Dominica DeGrandis, helping organizations along their transformational journeys ... Read More