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Adventures in DevOps

Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Parad 282 Episodes Sep 18, 2026

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.

Episodes

SQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones
SQL is the worst DSL, except for all the other ones Sep 18, 2026 2301 Share Episode                  From your feedback, we know that on-call issues, especially those that arise at the database layer are always the most challenging to solve. This episode builds on our Grafana Observability episode as we go deeper into the challenge of data ownership in data lakes. Apache Druid
The excitement and value of quality
The excitement and value of quality Sep 11, 2026 2242 Share Episode                  Sauce Labs CTO Anoop Tripathi addresses the root causes of broken test suites and why teams frequently become numb to intermittent test failures. Anoop shares concrete lessons from his career, detailing how bad practices like embedding fixed sleep routines instead of signal-base
How to land a software job in the age of LLMs
How to land a software job in the age of LLMs Aug 28, 2026 3733 Share Episode                  In this episode, we sit down with Nikhil Mungel, Head of AI R&D at Cribl, to discuss how LLMs have dramatically transformed the tech hiring landscape. The conversation opens with an honest look at the flood of AI-generated, low-quality resumes and remote interview cheating tacti
Why does anyone use Crossplane?
Why does anyone use Crossplane? Aug 7, 2026 2545 Share Episode                  Pushkar Gopalakrishna, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Snap, previously Cruise and AWS, joins to explore why engineering organizations pivot away from Terraform and HCL toward Kubernetes-native tools even when they might not be better. We unpack how developer friction, copy-pa
Building Observability for the Innovators
Building Observability for the Innovators Jul 31, 2026 2518 Share Episode                  Co-Founder of Grafana Labs, Anthony Woods, joins to share his perspective on how open source solutions are thriving despite the deluge of pull requests being thrown at them through their open source repositories.         Most importan
When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't
When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't Jul 24, 2026 4190 Share Episode                  As it turns out, the entire artificial intelligence boom is essentially running on Wikipedia's free labor, but while knowledge is free, physical server infrastructure definitely is not. We sit down with Moriel Schottlender, Principal Systems Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Fo
Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer
Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer Jul 10, 2026 3628 Share Episode                  We are joined this week by Mark Hay, CTO and co-founder of TextQL and former lead of Text Classification Infrastructure at Meta, to uncover the hidden complexities behind massive-scale machine learning. Mark explains why the most crucial features for identifying abusive behavior
Who Needs Testers Anyway?
Who Needs Testers Anyway? Jun 26, 2026 3276 Share Episode                           We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word "quality." This time we are asking the age-old question: Who needs t
You Wouldn't Implement A Database
You Wouldn't Implement A Database Jun 19, 2026 3172 Share Episode                  We talk with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo about Semantic Web origins, dodging DDoS attacks, and the absolute horror of a database that randomly deletes its own files. He revisits how a 25-year-old master's thesis on the Semantic Web evolved into a massive spreadsheet-driven database build
What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build
What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build Jun 12, 2026 2995 Share Episode                  Developers spend more than 50% of their time reading code, making it the single largest expense in software engineering. Despite this massive cost, the industry rarely discusses or optimizes how we read code. So we've brought in Tudor Girba, CEO at Feenk to help us rethink, just
DR: Staying resilient in the cloud
DR: Staying resilient in the cloud Jun 5, 2026 3916 Share Episode                  Welcome back to another hopefully, relief from architectural existential dread. This week, we've pulled in Seth Eliot from Arpio, (Ar-Pi-O, RPO, get it?), to dive headfirst into the beautiful, deeply expensive illusion that migrating your legacy infrastructure to a major hypersc
Eat your security vegetables
Eat your security vegetables May 29, 2026 3557 Share Episode                  This week's adventure tackles the absolute absurdity of modern enterprise infrastructure, where a single company can easily find itself running multiple different CI/CD platforms due to unchecked mergers and acquisitions. We've brought in Chris Farris, AWS Security Hero and cons

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