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Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Parad

Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.

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290 episodes

  1. The Engineering Scoreboard and an Addiction to Speed 47:23
  2. How can browser and mobile app testing be so difficult? 1:05:07
  3. SQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones 38:21
  4. The excitement and value of quality 37:22
  5. How to land a software job in the age of LLMs 1:02:13
  6. Why does anyone use Crossplane? 42:25
  7. Building Observability for the Innovators 41:58
  8. When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't 1:09:50
  9. Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer 1:00:28
  10. Who Needs Testers Anyway? 54:36
  11. You Wouldn't Implement A Database 52:52
  12. What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build 49:55
  13. DR: Staying resilient in the cloud 1:05:16
  14. Eat your security vegetables 59:17
  15. Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead 40:11
  16. The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code 1:04:33
  17. Who needs a server? 55:18
  18. How to build a monolith the right way 45:02
  19. Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking 52:42
  20. GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us 40:57
  21. Upskilling your agents 53:18
  22. There's no way it's DNS... 52:12
  23. Getting better at networking 49:01
  24. Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins 58:19
  25. DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags 32:00
  26. The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment Metrics, and the Art of Deleting Code 50:36
  27. Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering 50:42
  28. Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review 58:31
  29. Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here! 49:44
  30. Are we building the right thing? 36:02
  31. Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring 32:58
  32. AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20
  33. Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59
  34. The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases 29:34
  35. Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research 55:29
  36. The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds 52:41
  37. How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale 45:31
  38. The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos 59:25
  39. FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend 55:07
  40. The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures 53:24
  41. Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? 1:06:35
  42. Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight 1:17:55
  43. Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig 1:04:57
  44. No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding 1:00:38
  45. Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela 52:45
  46. Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System - DevOps 242 1:10:05
  47. Decentralized Chaos: Web3 Infra, NodeOps, and the Art of Blockchain Load Balancing - DevOps 241 1:16:25
  48. Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela - DevOps 240 1:21:08
  49. Building Engineering Excellence with Ganesh Datta of Cortex - DevOps 239 51:01
  50. Modern DevOps Challenges: Automation, AI, and Scaling in 2025 - DevOps 238 1:18:49