Intro to The Ship Show

2015 was the year that we saw the issue of systemic, professional burnout make its unfortunate entrance onto the stage of high technology and DevOps. In this episode, we interview the world's foremost expert on burnout, Dr. Christina Maslach, a psychology professor and researcher at UC Berkeley about burnout, its causes and effects, and most import…

The DevOps community has long resisted a push to define the movement via instruments like cookbooks or manifestos, creating an interesting thread of "lack-of-definition" when describing DevOps and DevOps practices. This issue has come to a head in 2015, as some proponents think we're long overdue to provide a stronger framework around what DevOps a…

Back in 2013, Pager Duty's Ranjib Dey surmised that it would take ages for traditional operations teams to learn and adopt mainstream development technologies. The opinion sparked quite a lively discussion around what those mainstream development technologies are, what hurdles exist for operations team to adopt them, and whether it all would be as …

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Nicholas Grava, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 13. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | A More Perfect Union E:13 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Networ…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Nicholas Grava, and Bobby DeMuro with special guest Travis Van Winkle discuss episode 12. The crew of … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Cry Havoc E:12 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 11. The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Valkyrie E:11 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Nicholas Grava, Kate Aquillano, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 10. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Friendly Fire E:10 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

So many of the companies who build the tools we use daily take special care to cultivate and nurture a community of users. But that doesn't just happen magically. For episode 57, we sit down with community managers from Chef, Perforce, and VictorOps to talk to them about their experiences building community, the difficulties with community engageme…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Nicholas Grava, Kate Aquillano, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 9 Steven Kane. The crew of … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Uneasy Lies the Head E:9 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV N…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Nicholas Grava, Bobby DeMuro, Kate Aquillano and special guests Jocko Sims (Lt. Carlton Burk) and … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Safe Zone w/ Jocko Sims & Kevin Michael Martin E:8 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow a…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Kate Aquillano and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 7. The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Alone And Unafraid E:7 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Nicholas Grava, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 6. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Long Day’s Journey E:6 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Bobby DeMuro, and Kate Aquillano discuss episode 5. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Achilles E:5 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos and Kate Aquillano discuss episode 4. The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Solace E:4 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos, Kate Aquillano, Nicholas Grava, and Bobby DeMuro discuss episode 3. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | It’s Not a Rumor E:3 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

If DevOps is CAMS--culture, automation, metrics, and sharing--then it makes sense there'd be a conference on monitoring and metrics...and there is: Monitorama! In episode 56, the crew gets together with Jason Dixon, aka obfuscurity, the founder of Monitorama to talk about the fourth incarnation of the conference. We do a deep dive into what all is …

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Monse Bolanos and Kate Aquillano discuss episodes 1 & 2. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:2 | Unreal City; Fight The Ship E:1 & E:2 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Netwo…

Do you test? Do you want to test? For many operations and build/release engineers (and even some developers!), testing can be a bit of a foreign concept. It's hard to pay attention to getting to 100% code coverage on your unit tests for your inrastructure cookbooks and manifests when the infrastructure is on fire! But... maybe that's why it's on fi…

It's a part of software developers hate writing and operations teams hate dealing with: packaging, installers, and upgrade scenarios. In Episode 54, the team looks at the fundamentals of packaging, tools that make the job both harder and easier, installer horror stories, and some good practices to make sure your packages don't make others want to r…

It's been awhile, but we're finally back, and special guest Katherine Daniels (aka @beerops) is with us to talk over career development in a DevOps context! We discuss All The Things related to leveling up your career, including specialization vs. generalists, training and learning (especially if you don't have a degree in computer sciency things),…

When looking at all the organizations that are doing interesting technological, cultural, and scaling things in the DevOps space, one of the common architectural patterns is the use of microservices. For episode 52, the panel sits down to talk a bit about microservices: what they are, the benefits they provide, the costs, the issues around releasin…

Has it really been five years since the Patrick Debois launched the first DevOps Days in Ghent Belgium?! Turns out: time flies when developers and operations are getting along and getting bits shipped. We sit down with an all-star panel, live from DevOps Days Ghent, including Dave Mangot, Steve Pereira, Kris Buytaert, Gareth Rushgrove, John Willis,…

For many, the words "continuous integration" are synonymous with Jenkins. Love it or hate it, we all use it and we tend to trick out our Jenkins installations with all myriad plugins. But as your trusty butler, does Jenkins always know what you need? For Episode 50, the panel takes a look at issues and usecases for Jenkins installations large and s…

Has it really been almost a decade since Puppet was created? It turns out it has, and that realization was a constant theme of PuppetConf 2014. We sit down with a distinguished panel including Ryan Coleman, Deepak Giridharagopal, Kris Buytaert, Nigel Kersten, and Dawn Foster to discuss the announcements, keynotes, talks, and themes of the conferenc…

We hear a lot about continuous delivery, but is that all there is when it comes to continuity? How do we handle the design? What about the data? How do we synthesize it into a useful business? For episode 48, we sit down with FlowCon program committee members Esther Derby, John Esser, and Jez Humble, live from FlowCon 2014 to discuss how we can hel…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Monse Bolanos, and Marina Santos discuss episode 10. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | No Place Like Home E:10 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

Monitoring is a big part of DevOps, but what's the best way to get started? Infrastructure monitoring? Application monitoring? What should you monitor? Where should that data go? How can you turn data into information and monitoring into alerts? What about alert fatigue and humane monitoring? Join the special guest Bridget Kromhout and the panel as…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Monse Bolanos, and Marina Santos discuss episode 9. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Trials E:9 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

How exactly do we know, we know what DevOps is? For episode 46, we sit down with Praxisflow's Kevin Behr (whom you might recognize as one of the authors of the Phoenix Project) and Jabe Bloom to talk about these and other heady questions, including: what can we learn from the Agile community? Where is DevOps headed in the next five years? Who is Fr…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Charlotte Broadbent, Monse Bolanos, and Marina Santos discuss episode 8. Also joining the conversation is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Tommy Savas Guests on Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar E:8 | AfterBuzz TV …

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Charlotte Broadbent, Monse Bolanos, and Marina Santos discuss episode 7. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | SOS E:7 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Charlotte Broadbent, Monse Bolanos, and Marina Santos discuss episode 6. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Lockdown E:6 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

When most of us think of where the gravitational pull is in DevOps, places like San Francisco, New York, and Belgium spring to mind. But the Midwest? You bet, pardner! For episode 45, we take a field trip to Minneapolis for its first ever DevOps Days. With a panel of organizers and speakers from the event (including Patrick Debois!), we discuss the…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Charlotte Broadbent, Monse Bolanos, Marina Santos, and special guest Alex Fernandez (Ervin Delgado) discuss episode 5. The … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | El Toro E:5 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz T…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Marina Santos, and Charlotte Broadbent discuss episode 4. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | We’ll Get There E:4 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Monse Bolanos and Charlotte Broadbent discuss episode 3. The crew of a naval destroyer is … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Dead Reckoning E:3 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Marina Santos, Monse Bolanos and Charlotte Broadbent discuss episode 2. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Welcome to Gitmo E:2 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Networ…

For episode 44, we sit down with Lanette Creamer, a proponent of context-driven and agile QA practices to discuss what "quality" means in a world moving toward DevOps practices. Lanette started in QA back when solving "the blank screen" involved "typing in win.exe" and has been testing everything from publishing to medical records software. We figu…

AFTERBUZZ TV – The Last Ship edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of TNT’s The Last Ship. In this show, hosts Bobby DeMuro, Marina Santos, Monse Bolanos and Charlotte Broadbent discuss episode 1. The crew of a naval … Read the rest The post The Last Ship S:1 | Pilot – Phase 6 E:1 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network…

As tech companies implement all sorts of ways to increase their output, the often-undiscussed tradeoff is how it impacts employees. Most tech workers have struggled with burnout in a role, at a company, or even in the area of tech they've focused their career; some of us have even suffered through burnout without noticing it: we only became aware w…

For episode 42, listeners might be hoping that we'd delve into the meaning of life, the universe, and everything... and if your universe consists of deploying and managing applications on Windows, that's exactly what we'll be doing! The panel sits down with Steven Murawski, site reliability engineer with the venerable Stack Exchange and Microsoft c…

Bring up the topic of tech industry recruiting with any developer and you're likely to get an ear-full: stories of recruiters treating candidates disrespectful, clueless recruiters who don't know any of the acronyms, recruiters continuing to talk to you even after you've asked them to stop... the list goes on and on. In fact, it's so prevalent, Twi…

It's time again for all the Chefs to get together in the kitchen in San Francisco and look at all of the developments in the last year, plus look forward to the next year in the configuration management space, industry trends in DevOps and, of course, Chef! We grab a bottle of bourbon, some bacon, and sit down to discuss all of the "shenanigans" at…

Creating that initial environment for your application to run in is a solved problem. Or is it? On the market today, there are a seemingly ever-increasing number of tools to facilitate that process: CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Ansible, Salt Stack, Rundeck... the list goes on. In episode 39, the panel takes a closer look at one of these…

At some point in every discussion of DevOps or organizational transformations, The Phoenix Project, the seminal book by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim, and George Spafford comes up. More than just "A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win," it's become a "water cooler" book for everyone from sysadmins in the basement to CxOs in the boardroom. …

Our topic for Episode 37 was originally on scaling self-service of configuration management (the source code kind, not the infrastructure kind!) good practices, but quickly morphed into a discussion of what organizations need to pay attention and foster to support their tools teams in their often-cited mission of creating a self-service culture and…

In episode 36, we sit down with Shanley Kane and Amelia Greenhall to talk about people and communities within the technology industry and startup/VC culture. We were first introduced to Shanley in episode 24, where the crew discussed her post on microaggression in management. We touch again on that topic today, but also look at the power structures…

For episode 35, the crew takes a look at a core component of continuous delivery: the application update mechanism. We talk a bit about our collective experiences supporting update paths, how some of the players in our industry conduct their updates, and whether or not that's actually good for customers, or it's just a myth we hear parroted constan…

To ring in 2014, the panel discusses some of the core elements of release engineering infrastructure for all sorts of applications, from web services to shipped-software. We talk about the challenges of coming into a new environment and having to support an existing infrastructure, a few methods for changing taking the infra over and starting to re…