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DevOps Chat

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"DevOps Chats" by Techstrong Group, the force behind industry-leading platforms like DevOps.com, Cloud Native Now, Security Boulevard, Techstrong.ai, DigitalCxO, and Techstrong.TV, is your premier destination for all things DevOps. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel and Mitchell Ashley, this podcast series delves deep into the world of DevOps, bringing you the latest trends, innovative strategies, and insightful discussions that matter.Each episode of "DevOps Chat" is a journey through the evolving landscape of DevOps, featuring interviews with thought leaders, practitioners, and change-makers who are shaping the future of technology. Whether you're a developer, operations professional, IT leader, or tech enthusiast, Alan and Mitchell ensure you stay informed, engaged, and ahead of the curve.From continuous integration and delivery to cloud-native development and cybersecurity, "DevOps Chat" covers the spectrum, offering valuable lessons, expert advice, and engaging stories. Tun

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Episodes

  1. AI Native Dev: Shaping the Future of AI-First Software Development - DevOps Chats Episode 12

    In this episode of DevOps Chats, Alan speaks with Patrick Debois, the man who coined the term DevOps to talk about his new passion AI NativeDev. Beyond giving it a name, Patrick has always been one of the leading lights of the community. After 12+ years in DevOps thought, Patrick’s enthusiasm was...

  2. Platform Engineering Scales DevOps and the AI Dev Bubble

    After a brief podcast hiatus, Mitch and Alan discuss why it isn't a DevOps versus platform engineering debate. Rather, platform engineering helps scale DevOps, among PE's many, many benefits. They discuss the launch of platformengineering.com and its new podcast. They also delve into the debate...

  3. DevOps Thrives and Software Supply Chain is the SBOM

    Mitch and Alan discuss what's required to take a holistic approach to software supply chain security and how DevOps has not only survived, but thrived as it's adapted over the years and helped for new XOps variations and platform engineering.

  4. Integrating AI Co-Pilots and DevSecOps

    In this episode of DevOps Chats, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley discuss the rapid integration of AI co-pilots in software tools, emphasizing the need for a unified AI interface to streamline user experience. They explore the evolving concept of DevSecOps, advocating for a holistic approach that...

  5. AI in DevOps: From Co-Pilots to Future Trends

    In this episode of DevOps Chats, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley discuss the rapid integration of AI co-pilots in software tools, emphasizing the need for a unified AI interface to streamline user experience. They explore the evolving concept of DevSecOps, advocating for a holistic approach that...

  6. GPT-4o, Open Source Clashes With Benevolent Capitalism

    After being on the conference circuit for weeks, Alan and Mitch explore whether GPT-4o might show the way for new web and mobile experiences, the upheaval happening in open source and what happens when business models and financial interests force business licensing changes and move away from the...

  7. DevOps Platform Debate, Copilot Alternative and Did your AI lose its mind

    Alan and Mitch discuss several AI and DevOps topics, including the debate of whether DevOps failed us or if platform engineering is ignoring history; Tabnine is a Microsoft copilot alternative to generate code ; and does your Gen AI get mentally stuck on one path of thinking. Reference Links:...

  8. Platform Engineering in 2024, CI/CD Frameworks and Securing Source to Production

    Alan and Mitch discuss whether platform engineering will be "the game changer" some predict will happen in 2024, the evolution of CI/CD frameworks (ArgoCD, Tekton), and Mitch's interview with Cole Kennedy, TestifySec CEO, about securing software from source to production. Links Referenced in...

  9. No No-Shift, DevOps Jobs, AI Tests Your Code, DevOps End Goal

    Alan and Mitch debate whether AI can make "no shift" vs. shift left a viable future testing software in production, the "five great DevOps job opportunities" series on DevOps.com, TabNine generative AI testing platform now adds your code into the LLM to generate tests and whether DevOps should be...

  10. DevOps Past, Present, Future and Cloud Development Environments

    In this episode of DevOps Chats, Alan and Mitch dive deep into the heart of DevOps. After 12 years of DevOps evolution, we're asking the big question: How has our investment in DevOps paved the way for organizational success in the years to come? This segment promises a thought-provoking look at...

  11. Modernizing DevOps Pipelines, Open Source and Supply Chain Security

    Mitch and Alan discuss Dagger's Solomon Hyke interview on modernizing DevOps pipelines the current realities of open source, the growth in software supply chain attacks and the value of doing smaller code reviews. Links Referenced in Podcast:...

  12. DevOps, AI-Generated Code Quality and Platform Engineering

    From Boston, Alan and Mitch discuss their views on the state of the DevOps industry while on the road in 2024. They discuss several topics from DevOps.com, including Does Using AI Assistants Lead to Lower Code Quality?" by Bill Doerrfeld, who asks if we see code quality drop from the use of...

  13. DevOps, Jenkins and GenAI

    Description for Podcast page: Mitchell Ashley and Alan Shimel are once again hosting the Devops.com podcast. In this episode they discuss "the good news of DevOps". Gene Kim weighs in on why he changed the name of DOES. Also how Jenkins is still relevant if not dominant today and what we can…

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  14. Communications Tools – Stacey English, Theta Lake

    Stacey English, Theta Lake Director of Market Intelligence, shares the results of a report showing the usage of modern communications tools and video communications tools like Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and Zoom has accelerated at a breakneck speed in recent years, and it shows no sign of…

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  15. Maximizing The Benefits of DevSecOps, ZeroNorth

    John Worrall, ZeroNorth CEO, expands on the "why" of DevSecOps, focusing on the business benefit, gain and measurement of what we seek to accomplish through DevSecOps. John advocates we concentrate on the process and data enabling us to assess risk, prioritize the most beneficial security work....

  16. Security Policy Management and Hybrid Cloud, Tufin

    Colby Dyess, Director of Cloud Product Management at Tufin, joins Mitch Ashley, CEO of Accelerated Strategies Group, to discuss security policy management across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and cloud-native security. Colby shares experiences from working with customers during the rapid migration to...

  17. DevOps Unbound: Observability & Accessibility

    Observability and Accessibility are two keys to successful app development and deployment. They are also square within the sweet spot for DevOps teams to consider as part of delivering better applications better and faster. In this episode 7 of DevOps Unbound we are joined Sean Kelly of Trcentis,...

  18. Digital Transformation at the C level

    Home » Blogs » DevOps Unbound » DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation BY ALAN SHIMEL ON NOVEMBER 27, 2020 1 COMMENT (EDIT) Is C-level support required to have a successful digital...

  19. Outsourcing DevOps: Oxymoron or Truth?

    Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Ming Gong of UST Global, Chris Rolls of TTC and Robina Laughlin of Guardian Life for a discussion on outsourcing DevOps. Some say you really can't outsource DevOps, others say of course you can. Have a listen and decide for yourself

  20. ITIL 4 - Achieving High Velocity IT, AXELOS

    Mark Smalley of Smalley.IT, and Lead Editor with Axelos of the ITIL 4 High Velocity, IT joins ASG CEO Mitch Ashley to discuss his work creating this new contribution to ITIL 4. Mark shares the 5 value investments important for organizations seeking to operate at high velocity and some of the...

  21. ITIL 4 - Introducing & Adopting Agile + DevOps in Large Organizations

    Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join ASG CEO Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges…

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  22. Analyst Report: Kubernetes K8s Data Protection

    Software teams are rapidly adopting microservices, containers and container management to promote innovation and boost digital transformation. With any newly adopted technology comes questions about data and overall security. Accelerated Strategies Group conducted research into the security of…

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  23. ITIL 4 in the Age of Agile and Devops, Axelos

    ITIL is well established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates comprising to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in how create…

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  24. DevOps Unbound Ep 4: App Modernization and Mainframe DevOps

    App Modernization and the state of mainframe DevOps was the topic of episode 4 of DevOps Unbound. Our panel included Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM, Sam Knutson of Compuware and BMC and Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, joining MItchell Ashley and Alan Shimel. It was a lively conversation about real life...

  25. Bringing DevOps to SAP, With Basis Technologies

    DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in the enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What's needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the...

  26. DevOps For Cloud and Mainframes, ASG Technologies

    The assumption that large, established enterprises — from insurance companies to government agencies— can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that…

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  27. DevOps Unbound, Episode 3: DevOps and Open Source

    DevOps Unbound episode 3 is about open source and DevOps. We have a great cast of Tracy Miranda, ED of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Alon Girmonsky, found of UP9 and Kevin Dunne of Tricentis. DevOps Unbound is an every other week video series about topics related to all aspects of Devops.…

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  28. DevOps UnBound DevSecOps/AppSec

    In this episode, Mitchell Ashley and Alan Shimel are joined by Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt.io (https://cobalt.io), Andrew Van Der Stock, executive director at OWASP, and Dr. Grigori Melnik, CPO at Tricentis, to discuss DevSecOps and AppSec.

  29. Devops Unbound - A Brief History of Testing w/Grigori Melnik And James Bach

    This is the first episode of DevOps Unbound. A new video/audio series produced by us here at MediaOps, sponsored by Tricentis. Episodes will run every other week. Once a month there will be a roundtable open to the public as well. In this episode, two respected leaders in the testing space, Dr....

  30. State of Software Delivery Management Report, Accelerated Strategies Group

    Accelerated Strategies Group has just delivered their State of Software Delivery Management Report, commissioned by CloudBees. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Mitchell Ashley, CEO, founder of ASG about the report and why it is important for everyone managing software delivery today

  31. StorPool software defined storage

    The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what they have been doing for a while now. They are the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps chat we speak with Boyan Krosnov, founder…

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  32. Make Work-From-Home Easy as Pie w/ strongDM

    strongDM wasn't founded to help with remote workers forced out of the office by COVID19. They have been around for 5 years now. But they do excel at allowing you to manage and audit remote access to all of your assets including DBs, servers and clusters (as well as apps and services) anywhere…

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  33. Shadow Code Security w/ Perimeter X

    When the cloud first caught on there was a problem with Shadow IT. Developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code has arisen. Code being added to apps that did not go through the entire...

  34. Software Delivery Leadership Forum & DevOps World 2020, CloudBees

    DevOps World/Jenkins World has long established itself as a leading venue for DevOps practitioners to learn, share their knowledge, build a top-notch community. But what about leaders, people in leadership roles at companies who utilize DevOps as a vital part of there business and technology...

  35. Adeya: Swiss, Simple Secure Collaboration

    The current situation with so many working from home has shined a spotlight on potential security issues with many of our collaboration solutions. Adeya, says they have the answer, offering Swiss, Simple collaboration on a military grade scale. I sat down with Francois Rodriguez of Adeya's exec...

  36. SpecOps Makes Password Auditor Free To Help WFH

    With so many working from home (WFH), security is being tested perhaps like it never has before. The good folks at SpecOps have made their password auditor product free during this trying time. We spoke with Darren James of SpecSoft about this release and some other tools they have released to…

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  37. Mobile, Monoliths & Microservices w/ LightStep

    Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower made a bit of a name for himself while he was at Google, as did his two co-founders. They were there at the birth of the microservices wave that has swept through the software world. They left Google and started LightStep to help all developers build better, more…

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  38. DevSecOps & OpenShift w/ Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat

    In this DevOps Chat we chat with Kirsten Newcomer,Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat. It is a great discussion on the state of DevSecOps and how the Red Hat Open Shift team is trying to make it easier for devs, DevOps and cyber folks to work together to create more secure applications.

  39. Free Remote Endpoint Protection From Qualys

    Many companies are responding to the large number of people working from home as a result of the public health situation. Today Qualys rolled out a totally free 60 day version of their cloud-based security and compliance solution at no charge. We spoke with Sumedh Thakar about the free release…

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  40. The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities

    WhiteSource one of the leaders in the Software Composition Analysis space recently released their annual report on "The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities". It is chock full of good data and findings on what is the current state of open source security and how things are trending. I…

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  41. What Is Your Data Really Worth? Data Innovators Know. Splunk

    Gaining real insights, often unique insights can catapult companies ahead of the competition, but that's easier said than done. Splunk recently released its new report, "What Is Your Data Really Worth?" which produced some very compelling results. Leading-edge data innovators use data to raise...

  42. Route Intelligence From

    Contrast Security has released the first "Route Intelligence" functionality in the latest version of their next generation security platform. https://www.contrastsecurity.com/contrast-news In this DevOps Chat we speak with Contrast's CTO/co-founder, Jeff Williams, about what route intelligence is...

  43. Liquibase, Open Source & Databases w/ Dion Cornett, President, Datical

    Datical has been a leader in the DevOps for databases since even before the term was used. What many may not realize was that the open source Liquibase project was a major contributor to Datical's success. So it should be no surprise then that in filling the open President's seat, they would tap…

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  44. Solving Complexity in Continuous Testing / Matt Wyman

    SauceCon 2020 (https://saucecon.com/) by the good folks at Sauce Labs is just about a month and half away (April 27). As part of our lead up to the show and our coverage including live broadcasting on Digital Anarchist, we caught up with newly minted, Chief Product Officer, Matt Wyman. Matt...

  45. Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence w/ Bruno Kurtic

    Sumo Logic has been one of the pioneers in DevSecOps and log analysis for many years now. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Founding VP of Product & Strategy, Bruno Kuric about the Sumo Continuous Intelligence Platform and how it is taking security into the next era. Have a listen as Bruno…

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  46. Esper.io Launches Platform for Android Deployment & App Managment

    A new company announced their launch and Series A funding. Esper (https://esper.io)is building a platform for android device deployment and application management. Not just for Android phones either. The Esper founders are betting that Android will be the dominant form for embedded devices in…

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  47. Kubernetes is the New Compute w/ Rancher Labs Sheng Liang

    Rancher Labs is a great example of a start up that was smart enough to sense the way the market was moving and adopted a strategy to capitalize on it. But if you know Rancher co-founder, CEO Sheng Liang, you should not be surprised. Sheng has been seeing the market and staying one step ahead for…

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  48. Tufin Secure Cloud Secures Hybrid Cloud Environments

    Tufin Technologies announced Secure Cloud https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200211005174/en/Tufin-SecureCloud-Enables-Companies-Secure-Hybrid-Cloud. The product combines and builds on Tufin Orca and Tufin Iris to offer one product for comprehensive cloud security policy. We had a chance to...

  49. Build & Measure Cyber Team Operational Skills w/ RangeForce

    How do you know if your cyber team is up to snuff? Like any good team, they need training and practice to stay on top of their game. The concept of cyber ranges for red and blue teams has been in use for a few years now. Gov and military organizations have been some of the big leaders in this...

  50. Secrets of Evaluating Security Products

    Ask any tech person what is involved in evaluating and purchasing tech tools and their eyes will often roll into their heads. While open source and free versions have made it easier to get the tools into people's hands, evaluating them to choose what is the best fit for your organization is still...

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"DevOps Chats" by Techstrong Group, the force behind industry-leading platforms like DevOps.com, Cloud Native Now, Security Boulevard, Techstrong.ai, DigitalCxO, and Techstrong.TV, is your premier destination for all things DevOps. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel and Mitchell Ashley, this podcast series delves deep into the world of DevOps, bringing you the latest trends, innovative strategies, and insightful discussions that matter.Each episode of "DevOps Chat" is a journey through the evolving landscape of DevOps, featuring interviews with thought leaders, practitioners, and change-makers who are shaping the future of technology. Whether you're a developer, operations professional, IT leader, or tech enthusiast, Alan and Mitchell ensure you stay informed, engaged, and ahead of the curve.From continuous integration and delivery to cloud-native development and cybersecurity, "DevOps Chat" covers the spectrum, offering valuable lessons, expert advice, and engaging stories. Tun

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