Arrested DevOps

Naga Sujitha Vummaneni and Sundeep Bobba join Matty to talk about their book, which reframes CI/CD pipelines as control systems: actuators, feedback signals, and constraints. They dig into what that model demands once AI agents start shipping code at machine speed, and why a bypassed control is a design signal, not a compliance failure.

Doug Pagnutti spent fifteen years as an automation engineer caught between the IT and OT worlds inside manufacturing plants. The friction sounds a lot like what's been happening in DevOps for over a decade. Matty and Doug dig into why industrial operations never got the memo, and what OT and IT could still learn from each other now that the wall between them is collapsing.

The software industry is experiencing another seismic shift. After decades of agile transformations, cloud migrations, and DevOps revolutions, we're now navigating the integration of AI into the software development lifecycle. But this time feels different—the pace is faster, the technology less mature, and the stakes feel higher. Matty Stratton sat down with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner to explore what this transformation means for developers, operations teams, and the organizations they serve.

Kat Cosgrove is back to talk about everyone’s favorite party topic: security. From container vulnerabilities to the chaos of patching, Matty and Kat dig into why “never not hot” feels like security’s permanent brand. Tune in for equal parts practical insight and DevOps-flavored sarcasm.

In this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty and guest Kat Morgan discuss the ethical, practical, and technical implications of AI. They explore how AI can assist with coding, improve efficiency, and handle tasks, while emphasizing the importance of good practices and staying informed about the impact of AI.

Andrew Zigler (Mattermost) delves into the world of open-source development and the unique challenges faced by an "open-first" developer community. Andrew shares his deep insights into fostering collaboration, building trust, and navigating the intricate dynamics of open-source projects.

Jessitron is joined by Chelsea Troy, Staff Data Engineer at Mozilla, and one of the all-around most interesting people in software today, to discuss staff engineering, machine learning operations, and maybe also surfing.

It's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast.

What happens when you suddenly are In Management? Matty is joined by Ben Greenberg to talk through the challenges of first-time management.

DevOps is not a department. It's a set of concepts and ideas that are human-centric and driven through Agile practices. It's applying Big A Agile to operations: fast feedback loops, deeper collaboration with stakeholders (which is the engineering team), and invoking people over process and tools. A current problem hamstringing organizations is that they treat DevOps like a commoditized department: one that writes shell scripts and deploys Jenkins servers, and not the value engine that those teams could be. They took the tools team, applied a light version of DevOps ideology, and said, "Hey, that's it. That's DevOps. Hashtag winning."

Most developers are familiar with two sources of data about their applications: 1) static code analysis, and 2) observability tools monitoring their system in production. However, a new data source is gaining popularity: Runtime analysis. Runtime analysis is a technique where an application's dynamic behavior is recorded and analyzed during development time, allowing flaws and other insights to be revealed before that code is deployed to production.

It's a complex world! Matty and Michael Stahnke wax philosophical about whether our systems need to be as complicated as we have made them

Matty is joined by Ohad Maislish and Cory O'Daniel for some updates on the Open Terraform project.

Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.

When you're in the tech industry, your personal brand matters both internally and externally. This brand can help you stand out in your current organization or when you're looking for new opportunities.

Guest Sarah Morgan helps dig into how we can apply the principles of product management into our DevOps approaches!

Special guest Michael Isbitski joins us to talk about cloud native security and reviews the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report. Michael and Matty discuss some common security challenges and findings from the report, and how to address them.

Let's take another look at the topic of Platform Engineering, but perhaps with a different perspective. Pete Cheslock turns his attention to Platform Engineering, and if it's really anything new, or just what DevOps has always meant?

Looking for a job? Did you get laid off? It's rough out there. Let's talk about it with Sidney Miller.

Let's dig into the world of data, with Aiven's Francesco Tisiot.

Is DevOps dead? Did Platform Engineering kill it off? Matty chats with Daniel Bryant (Ambassador Labs) about Platform Engineering.

Courtney Nash and Casey Rosenthal from Verica join Matty for a deep dive into the results of the VOID (Verica Open Incident Database) report.

Roni Dover, founder of [Digma.ai](https://digma.ai), joins Jess to chat about continuous feedback and what's missing in every DevOps loop.

One of the most innovative and popular virtual conferences of 2020 was Deserted Island Devops. The event was back again in 2021, and Matty chatted with organizers and speakers about what made this event so special.

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and stuff about pets.

Author and technical agile coach Emily Bache chats with Matty on testing, software engineering practices, and ensemble programming.

What is DevSecOps? Is it different from DevOps? What's up with shift left? Steve Giguere joins Matt to dig into some more fun security conversations.

Bridget chats with Kent Rancourt about Brigade.

Emily Freeman, Principal, DevOps Solutions at AWS and Matt have a frank conversation about how DevOps has changed, where it's going, and the merits of the Oxford comma.

Bridget chats with Phillip Gibson and Annie Wang about multicluster service mesh.

"If you invest enough into foundational practices you can ignore them" - this is a heady statement, and special guest Johan Abildskov takes us through a journey to explore what our foundational practices are, and how we can improve our learning and implementation of them.

Matt is joined by Ashton Rodenhiser, who has become a fixture at many conferences where she provides graphic recordings of various talks and presentations!

In this episode, Jess talks with guest Cat Swetel about her career, writings, and thoughts on DevOps.

Does tech ask more from its community than other industries? What does it mean to be part of a community and what is expected of us?

Bridget chats with Justin Cormack and Donnie Berkholz of Docker.

Learning, as well as teaching, are both skills. Skills that we can develop with intentionality and practice. Shelby Spees, a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, shares her insight into this topic.

Sources differ on where this started, but Kurt Vonnegut posited that there are basically six story types. Matt wondered if there was similarly only six stories that are told on tech Twitter. Guests Sasha Rosenbaum, Kat Cosgrove, Quintessence Anx, Aaron Aldrich, and Jeremy Meiss dig into this as well as discuss the ups and downs of tech Twitter culture.

Releasing software is more that just having a clever pipeline. Scott Hain (Hashicorp) digs into some of the practical considerations of improving your release engineering process.

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, Jeff, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and a deep dive into 90s-era sci-fi.

Tim Banks joins Matt for a blunt discussion about how to break down gates and barriers in tech. Also, chili is discussed, in depth.

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 was the first time the long-running conference went virtual. A panel of speakers and organizers discuss the event, how it was produced, and what the experience was like!

Bridget chats with Alice Goldfuss and Ian Coldwater.

Alyssa Miller (Snyk) discusses the findings of the Synk State of Open Source Security report with Matt and Jessica

So you've had an incident. What can you learn from it afterwards? Amy Tobey, Alex Hidalgo, and Rein Heinrich talk with Matt about strategies and techniques for great incident retrospectives.

Aaron Blohowiak joins host Jessica Kerr to discuss his DevOps work at Netflix.