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DevOps Paradox — 352 episodes

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DOP 348: Now It's Time to Panic

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DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform

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DOP 346: Fighting AI in Your Project Is a Terrible Mistake

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DOP 345: From Chat Prompt to Working Software with Kiro

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DOP 344: KubeCon EU 2026 Review

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DOP 343: Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door

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DOP 342: Your Company Documentation Is Useless for AI

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DOP 341: AI Widened the Highway but Nobody Rebuilt the Bridge

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DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave

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DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet)

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DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything

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DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data

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DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore

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DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot

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DOP 334: If Code Is the Easy Part, What Should Developers Actually Be Doing?

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DOP 333: The Hidden Problems Behind Every Data Pipeline

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DOP 332: 2026 - The Year of Discovery

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DOP 331: Looking Back on Our 2025 Predictions

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DOP 330: Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else)

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DOP 329: Vibe Coding and The Technical Debt Time Bomb

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DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions

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DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue

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DOP 326: Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead

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DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review

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DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling with Zesty

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DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding

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DOP 322: How to Build Apps That Never Go Down Even When Servers Die

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DOP 321: Model Context Protocol for Standardizing AI Tool Integration

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DOP 320: Why Dashboards Alone Are Not Enough for Incident Response

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DOP 319: AI-Powered Infrastructure: Beyond Hype to Reality

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DOP 318: WireMock and the Changing Landscape of API Development Tools

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DOP 317: The Human Cost of AI Automation in DevOps

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DOP 316: Bringing Back the Original Internet Vision Using Tailscale

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DOP 315: Why Good Developers Spend More Time Designing Than Coding

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DOP 314: Building Your Speaking Career From Meetups to Main Stage

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DOP 313: Harnessing AI for Smarter Development

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DOP 312: Transitioning from VMWare to KubeVirt

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DOP 311: Harnessing AI for Accelerated Project Development

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DOP 310: The Misconceptions and Realities of DevOps, Agile, and Leadership

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DOP 309: Using AI Agents in Daily Development Tasks

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DOP 308: The Truth of CI/CD

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DOP 307: Kubernetes in 2025

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DOP 306: Understanding GraphQL's Role in Modern APIs

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DOP 305: The Episode I Thought I Would Never Record

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DOP 304: Strategies for Successful Talent Retention

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DOP 303: How To Develop a CLI in 2025

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DOP 302: Using AI To Help With Your Programming Tasks

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DOP 301: Exploring OpenRewrite and the Future of Code Modernization

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DOP 300: How To Become an AI Native Engineer in 2025

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DOP 299: Managing Your AI Workloads With KitOps

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DOP 298: Tools Versus Culture

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DOP 297: Streamline Access Control Using Cerbos

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DOP 296: 2025 - The Year of Not Yet

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DOP 295: If You Are Listening to This, Go Back to Bed

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DOP 294: Looking Back on Our 2024 Predictions

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DOP 293: Attracting and Retaining Talent in a Changing Tech World

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DOP 292: No Project Is Truly Open Source

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DOP 291: The Future of Software Development in an AI-Driven World

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DOP 290: KubeCon North America 2024 Review

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DOP 289: When to Build Your Own vs. Using Off-the-Shelf

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DOP 288: The Laws of Software Evolution

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DOP 287: Automating Dependency Updates with Renovate

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DOP 286: The Hidden Costs of Free Services

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DOP 285: Navigating the Challenges of Legacy Software in Modern Enterprises

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DOP 284: From Scratch Isn't Really From Scratch

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DOP 283: OpenTelemetry Meets Mobile

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DOP 282: How To Measure Software Complexity

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DOP 281: The Impossibility of Competing with Tech Giants

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DOP 280: Understanding the Importance of Policy as Code for Cloud-Native Success

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DOP 279: Exploring Grafana Alloy

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DOP 278: GUI versus Command Line in Development

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DOP 277: Making Security Tooling Easy for Developers

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DOP 276: Why APIs Matter More Than Ever

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DOP 275: Managing Modern Infrastructure with GitOps

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DOP 274: What Is the XY Problem?

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DOP 273: Adapting Three Tier Architecture for Platform Engineering

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DOP 272: How To Become a Speaker at Conferences

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DOP 271: Solving Real Problems in Platform Engineering

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DOP 270: Why Should a Developer Consider Using Devbox from Jetify?

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DOP 269: Using Human Centered Computing in Platform Engineering

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DOP 268: What Is Kubernetes Used For?

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DOP 267: To Fork or Not To Fork

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DOP 266: The Evolution of Data Structure Languages

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DOP 265: The Impact of Kubernetes and GitOps on the Tech Landscape

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DOP 264: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Open Source

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DOP 263: Navigating the Complex Path to Becoming a DevOps Architect

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DOP 262: Rethinking Project Success The Iterative Way

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DOP 261: Visionary Views on Internal Developer Platforms and Portals with Port

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DOP 260: Artificial Intelligence Will NOT Replace You. Devs Using AI Will.

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DOP 259: Reimagining The Terminal Experience with Wave Terminal

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DOP 258: Reflections on Startup Infrastructure Choices

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DOP 257: Scaling at Adobe: Kubernetes, Global Networking, and Platform Innovation

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DOP 256: KubeCon EU 2024 Review

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DOP 255: What Is Developer Observability?

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DOP 254: What Is Infrastructure As Code in DevOps?

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DOP 253: Deconstructing The Platform Engineering Maturity Model

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DOP 252: How To Upgrade Kubernetes

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DOP 251: Demystifying Modern Message Brokers with Memphis.dev

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DOP 250: From Godfather of DevOps to Godfather of AI

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DOP 249: How To Choose Between Open Source and Commercial Software

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DOP 248: How To Use ChatGPT for DevOps

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DOP 247: Navigating the Nuances of Developer Relations

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DOP 246: How To Become a DevOps Architect in 2024

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DOP 245: Building Your Best Team Ever

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DOP 244: What Every DevOps Should Learn in 2024

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DOP 243: Looking Back on Our 2023 Predictions

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DOP 242: Take a Break. That's the Message.

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DOP 241: From Restaurant Server to KubeCon Keynote in Under 4 Years

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DOP 240: Supercharging Developer Workflows with Simplified Platform Engineering

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DOP 239: What's in Your From Line? A Conversation With Chainguard

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DOP 238: Unlocking the Potential of Modern Architectures Using Service Mesh

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DOP 237: KubeCon North America 2023 Review

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DOP 236: Efficient Cloud Cost Optimizations with Profisea Labs

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DOP 235: Diving Into Platform Engineering Trends With Humanitec

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DOP 234: Better Bare Metal Infrastructure Management With RackN

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DOP 233: Upskill Your Knowledge Using Wilco

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DOP 232: Real-Time Application Security Using Arnica

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DOP 231: Automating API Development With Hasura

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DOP 230: Simplifying End-to-End Encryption With Smallstep

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DOP 229: The Evolution of Installing Applications into Kubernetes

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DOP 228: The Customer Is the True North Star

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DOP 227: Layoff-Proofing Your Career

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DOP 226: When Cloud Services Let Us Down

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DOP 225: The Rise of Kubernetes: From Google to Global Phenomenon

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DOP 224: Are Developer Bootcamps Worth It?

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DOP 223: Vendors and Communities Working Together in Open Source

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DOP 222: Finding Performance Bottlenecks With Ddosify

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DOP 221: Treat Security Like a Bug With Seemplicity

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DOP 220: What Are the Top Challenges for Implementing DevOps?

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DOP 219: What Is NoSQL?

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DOP 218: Continuous Testing With BlazeMeter

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DOP 217: Learning eBPF With Liz Rice

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DOP 216: Simplify Microservice Development With Signadot

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DOP 215: Reviewing Thoughtworks Technology Radar Volume 28

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DOP 214: Taking SQL to the Next Level With Materialize

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DOP 213: Unlocking the Secrets to a Successful Product Launch

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DOP 212: Build and Release SaaS Pricing Changes Faster With Stigg

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DOP 211: Learning To Code in the Age of AI

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DOP 210: Mastering Database Scalability with PlanetScale

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DOP 209: Move From Multicloud to Polycloud With Macrometa

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DOP 208: KubeCon EU 2023 Review

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DOP 207: What Did It Take To Bring SQreamDB to SaaS?

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DOP 206: Open Source Supply Chain Security With Pyrsia

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DOP 205: Thoughts on Digital Twins and Custom Silicon

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DOP 204: Transform Data From Managed to Actionable With Rivery

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DOP 203: Dealing With Flaky Tests and Broken Builds With Aviator

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DOP 202: Go From Docker Compose to Kubernetes Using Shipyard

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DOP 201: Getting to the Root Cause With Zebrium

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DOP 200: From Digital Twins to Management – A Conversation With Patrick Debois

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DOP 199: Test Your Distributed Applications Using Helios

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DOP 198: Securing Your Runtime With Spyderbat

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DOP 197: Is Your Job Stuck 20 Years in the Past?

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DOP 196: Simplifying Performance Optimization Using Granulate

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DOP 195: Why Do Companies Not Replace Legacy Systems?

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DOP 194: How To Write Test Cases for Microservices

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DOP 193: Automatic AI-Powered Database Tuning Using OtterTune

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DOP 192: What Every DevOps Should Learn in 2023

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DOP 191: Looking Back on Our 2022 Predictions

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DOP 190: Have You Started Your Shopping Yet?

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DOP 189: Code Anywhere on Any Device With Gitpod

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DOP 188: Foster a Culture of Resilience With Steadybit

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DOP 187: Simplify Testing With Testcontainers

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DOP 186: Easily Get Your Code to the Cloud With Amnic

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DOP 185: What Is Cost Optimization in AWS?

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DOP 184: How To Reduce Cloud Costs Using Tenacity

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DOP 183: Viktor's Review of KubeCon 2022 Detroit

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DOP 182: Why You Should Start a Side Project

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DOP 181: Monitoring Kubernetes With Kubevious

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DOP 180: What is AIOps?

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DOP 179: What Are Service Level Objectives?

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DOP 178: Kubernetes Observability Using eBPF

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DOP 177: How To Modernize Legacy Applications

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DOP 176: Critical Skills That Every Engineer Should Master

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DOP 175: Applying DevOps Principles to Low-Code and No-Code Applications

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DOP 174: Security Concerns in Low-Code and No-Code Applications

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DOP 173: Drag and Drop Deployments for Kubernetes With Harpoon

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DOP 172: Dynamically Manage Cloud Costs With Zesty

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DOP 171: How Many Hours Do You Code per Day?

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DOP 170: Running Containers at the Edge

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DOP 169: How To Reduce Cloud Development Complexity

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DOP 168: Should You Use Docker Desktop in 2022?

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DOP 167: How To Secure Kubernetes

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DOP 166: Are in Person Events Dead?

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DOP 165: Looking Back at KubeCon EU 2022

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DOP 164: How To Monitor and Debug Microservices

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DOP 163: What Is Kubecost?

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DOP 162: Performance Testing With k6

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DOP 161: Why Incidents Are Slowing Down Companies

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DOP 160: I'm New to CI/CD. Where Do I Start?

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DOP 159: When to Use Kubernetes

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DOP 158: Powering Zero Trust With OpenZiti

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DOP 157: How to Create a Startup

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DOP 156: Validate Your API Specifications With Cherrybomb

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DOP 155: The Difference Between Projects and Products

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DOP 154: Reducing Developer Friction

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DOP 153: Eliminate Cloud Chaos With Firefly

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DOP 152: An Internal Developer Platform Story

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DOP 151: What Is OpenTelemetry?

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DOP 150: Diagrams As Code

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DOP 149: What Is FinOps?

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DOP 148: Is Kubernetes Ready to Run Databases?

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DOP 147: Should You Use a Recruiter When Looking for a Job?

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DOP 146: Context Means Everything in Security

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DOP 145: What Does a DevOps Engineer Do?

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DOP 144: Is Open Source Sustainable?

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DOP 143: How to Get Started With CI/CD

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DOP 142: Do We Need Coding for DevOps?

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DOP 141: Five Reasons to Leave Your Job

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DOP 140: What Every DevOps Should Learn in 2022

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DOP 139: Is Markdown Good for Documentation?

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DOP 138: Great Expectations

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DOP 137: Shifting Infrastructure Management Left

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DOP 136: Teaching Kubernetes to a New Team Member

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DOP 135: Migrate Everything to Kubernetes

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DOP 134: The True Cost of Open Source

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DOP 133: APIs Are Everything

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DOP 132: How to Manage a Remote Team

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DOP 131: The Cloud Skills Shortage Is Worse Than You Think

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DOP 130: Signs of High Work in Progress

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DOP 129: How to Develop Microservices

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DOP 128: Securing Your Environments With a Universal Secrets Manager

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DOP 127: Software Development vs Software Delivery

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DOP 126: What Is Bare Metal in Cloud Computing?

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DOP 125: What Is the Low Code Movement?

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DOP 124: Fake Data Rules the World

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DOP 123: Simplifying Microservice Development

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DOP 122: What Are the Costs of a Digital Transformation?

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DOP 121: Infrastructure As Code Meets Day Two

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DOP 120: Stop Using the D Word

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DOP 119: Developer Advocacy or Engineering?

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DOP 118: We Need More Silos, Not Less

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DOP 117: Understanding Why Gates Exist in Business

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DOP 116: Why You Should Choose Boring Technology

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DOP 115: How Far Are You From No Touch Production?

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DOP 114: Solving Multitenancy Problems In Kubernetes

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DOP 113: Are Specifications Still Relevant?

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DOP 112: Essential Infrastructure as Code

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DOP 111: What Are Software Supply Chain Attacks?

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DOP 110: The Problems With Microservices

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DOP 109: How to Test Microservices

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DOP 108: Why Do We Want to Use Microservices?

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DOP 107: Getting Into the Flow With Value Streams

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DOP 106: The Difference Between SRE and DevOps

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DOP 105: Does History Repeat Itself?

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DOP 104: Technical Debt Is a Business Decision

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DOP 103: Knative in Action

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DOP 102: Getting Started With Open Policy Agent

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DOP 101: What to Do When Technology Fails

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DOP 100: Course Correcting DevOps

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DOP 99: Do DevOps Engineers Need to Know How to Code?

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DOP 98: Kubernetes Troubleshooting Simplified With Komodor

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DOP 97: Processing Event Streams With Apache Kafka

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DOP 96: The Kubernetes API Is Becoming Omnipresent

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DOP 95: Should Everything Be Automated?

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DOP 94: Are Videos or Text Better for Learning?

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DOP 93: Creating a Healthy Working Environment

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DOP 92: Frontend vs Backend Development in 2021

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DOP 91: It's Past Time to Abandon Docker Compose

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DOP 90: Event Driven Continuous Delivery With Keptn

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DOP 89: 2021 - the Year of the Irrelevant

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DOP 88: DevOps in 2020 - Year in Review

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DOP 87: God Bless Us Everyone

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DOP 86: Your Internal Developer Platform Sucks

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DOP 85: The Hidden Costs of DevOps

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DOP 84: Mattermost Saves a 30 Year Old D&D Campaign

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DOP 83: Using Spring to Develop Cloud Native Applications

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DOP 82: Where You Live Shouldn't Define Your Pay

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DOP 81: Making Email Provider Integration Simple With Nylas

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DOP 80: What Should I Outsource to a Managed Solution?

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DOP 79: Are You Doing CI, CD or None of the Above?

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DOP 78: A Day in the Life of a SRE

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DOP 77: NOC as a Service with Xiteit

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DOP 76: How to be a Cloud Engineer with Pulumi

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DOP 75: What is Code?

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DOP 74: Using GitOps in Your DevOps Workflow

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DOP 73: Logging with Loki

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DOP 72: Mastering Kubernetes with Gigi Sayfan

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DOP 71: Observability in the Cloud with CloudWize

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DOP 70: High Availability Does Not Mean 100% Availability

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DOP 69: Is Containers as a Service Serverless?

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DOP 68: Is Docker Back?

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DOP 67: Orchestrating Chaos on Kubernetes using LitmusChaos

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DOP 66: AWS Lambda vs. Google Cloud Functions vs. Azure Functions for 2020

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DOP 65: Serverless Made Easy With Nimbella

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DOP 64: Do We Really Want To Use Serverless?

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DOP 63: Serverless 101

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DOP 62: Kubernetes Is Dead, Long Live Serverless

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DOP 61: How To Use PowerfulSeal To Create Chaos In Your Kubernetes Clusters

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DOP 60: Jenkins X: Why Good Is Better Than Best

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DOP 59: Why It Is Silly Not To Use Kubernetes If You're Moving To The Cloud Today

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DOP 58: Innovation And The Sunk Cost Fallacy

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DOP 57: Join An Open Source Foundation And Get Free Stickers!

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DOP 56: What Happens When You Just Don't Have The Time To Learn?

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DOP 55: How To Setup And Operate Multiple Kubernetes Clusters At A Global Scale

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DOP 54: Achieving Continuous Verification Using Chaos Engineering

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DOP 53: Should You Maintain Your Systems Or Let Them Rot On The Vine?

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DOP 52: A Step By Step Guide To Trashing Other Vendor's Products

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DOP 51: Is Shifting Left All It Is Cracked Up To Be?

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DOP 50: DevOps In The Time Of Mandated Remote Work

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DOP 49: How Are You Adapting To Remote Work?

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BONUS: What Are The Challenges To Doing Continuous Delivery In Kubernetes?

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DOP 48: Regulations Aren't An Excuse For Not Doing The Right Thing

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BONUS: Continue building your Kubernetes skills using remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis

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DOP 47: Technology Isn't The Problem. You Are The Problem.

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DOP 46: Making Containers Great Again - A Conversation With Phil Estes

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DOP 45: (Almost) No One Cares Enough About Kubernetes To Learn It

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DOP 44: Is It Possible To Make On Premise Great Again?

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DOP 43: There Is No Such Thing As Continuous Testing

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DOP 42: Is Your CTO Always Going To Be Your CTO?

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DOP 41: Input Questions And UIs Are Evil

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DOP 40: Continuous Reliability: How To Avoid The Biggest Mistakes Developers Make

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DOP 39: One API To Rule Them All

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DOP 38: How Important Are You To Your Company?

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DOP 37: 50 Shades of Canary Deployments

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DOP 36: 4 predictions for DevOps in 2020

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DOP 35: Looking Back At 2019

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DOP 34: To All The Dockers I've Loved Before

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DOP 33: What Happens When There Are Tektonic Shifts In Technology

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DOP 32: Which Managed Kubernetes Service Sucks The Least - The Prelude

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DOP 31: Do Shared Services Teams Break The DevOps Rules?

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BONUS: Viktor's KubeCon 2019 review

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DOP 30: Site Reliability Engineering Traps To Avoid

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DOP 29: Elasticsearch: Is It A Database Or A Datastore?

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DOP 28: Is Service Mesh Your New Best Friend?

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DOP 27: What Would Burt Gummer Do?

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DOP 26: The Architect Role In Your Company Is Completely Useless

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DOP 25: Tips for Conference Attendees Who Want Learn a New Skill

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DOP 24: Deployment Strategy Myths Enterprises Actually Believe

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DOP 23: Do Feature Flags Even Matter?

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DOP 22: The Reasons That Motivate Us To Work, Learn, And Write

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DOP 21: Time Management Secrets Every Software Engineer Needs Now

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DOP 20: Configuration Management Mistakes Enterprises Make...And How To Avoid Them

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DOP 19: Are You A Hacker Or Developer?

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DOP 18: How To Avoid Issue Tracking Mistakes Teams Make

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DOP 17: The Learning Styles Of The Rich and Famous

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DOP 16: Don't Let Someone Automate You Out Of Your Job

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DOP 15: Silos Are For Farmers, Not Enterprises

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DOP 14: Creating Happy Customers Through GitOps

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DOP 13: What Tricks Does Viktor Have Up His Sleeve?

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DOP 12: Why Understanding English Is Important For Developers

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DOP 11: Is Serverless The New Wild West?

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DOP 10: Why Open Source is important to your business

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DOP 9: What Is The Maturity Level Of Your Continuous Deployment?

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DOP 8: How To Escape The Continuous Delivery Rat Race

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DOP 7: Continuous Integration Tips for Engineers Who Want Sleep Through The Night

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DOP 6: Five Career Tips Every Successful DevOps Professional Needs To Know

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DOP 5: Do We Still Need Configuration Management?

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DOP 4: Current Trends In DevOps

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DOP 3: How Jenkins X Simplifies Kubernetes

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DOP 2: Why Is Everyone So Crazy About Kubernetes?

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DOP 1: What is DevOps?

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DOP 0: Welcome