134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot
from Programming Throwdown Hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci with Guest Benjie De Groot
How do you test changes to your web backend or database? Many people have a "production" and one "development" database, but the development database can easily become broken by one engineer and thus unusable for the rest of the team. Also, how would two engineers make changes in parallel to the development environment? What if you could spin up hundreds or thousands of development databases as you need them? Today we have Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder and CEO of Shipyard to explain ephemeral environments and how virtual machines and containers have made massive improvements in devops!
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Chapters
- 0:15 Shipyard for Students
- 2:31 Challenges of Multi-Repo Environments
- 6:34 Education and Career Path to Shipyard
- 9:36 The unique culture of small teams
- 11:43 The origin story of Shipyard
- 14:26 The Role of Containers
- 17:33 The Evolution of SysAdmin to DevOps
- 21:15 VMs vs. Containers
- 24:23 Modern Development Workflows
- 25:58 Defining Development Environments
- 28:04 Customization Challenges
- 35:28 Automated Testing in Ephemeral Environments
- 38:55 Defining DevOps vs. SRE
- 42:33 SRE vs. DevOps
- 44:30 Shipyard's Mission
- 46:54 The Path to Becoming a DevOps Engineer
- 51:04 Hiring for Shipyard
- 55:37 Identifying the ICP
- 57:41 Bottom-Up Adoption and the Role of Heavybit
- 59:28 Benefits of Ephemeral Environments
- 1:01:57 Access for Students and the Future of Shipyard
- 1:04:23 Outro
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