Parham Doustdar, Engineering Manager of Accessibility at Booking.com, joins me to discuss life as a fully blind sofware engineer, and how we can make engineering tools more accessible for everyone, not just those with disabilities. Whether you have a disability or not, whether it's visible or invisible, accessibility affects you.  Parham talks about the benefits to everyone of clean code, explict error messages, and using multiple modes of communication. He talks about his experience getting into tech, the unique challenges, and joys, of doing so without the benefit of physical sight, and ..read more

Jillian Rowe, who you may know as a regular co-panelist on the Adventures in DevOps podcast, joins me to talk about her work at the crossroads of bioinformatics, Data Science and DevOps.  We have a casual conversation about her business as a freelancer and early-stage startup founder, and some of the unique challenges that come when working with Big Data and bioinformatics, and how she is addressing scaling challenges as a solo operator. Resources Science Daily Strapi headless CMS Hugo static site generator Discourse BioAnalyze on GitHub BioAnalyze newsletter Bioinformatics on AWS YouTube ..read more

Andy Suderman of Fairwinds joins me to talk about the pros and cons of each of the big three cloud providers, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS, and helps point new Kubernetes adoptors to the optimal provider for their needs. Guest Andy Suderman Find him on the Kubernetes slack or CNCF slack ResourcesAmazon EKS Google GKE Azure AKS Fairwinds Insights to simplify Kubernetes Watch this episode on YouTube ..read more

Bryan Finster is a co-creator of Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery, and in this episode we talk about how this concept was born, what problems it aims to address, and how you can use it on your team to improve your continuous delivery. Resources minimumcd.org eBook: Trunk-Based Development by Paul Hammant Guest Bryan Finster LinkedIn 5 Minute DevOps blog Watch this episode on YouTube ..read more

J.B. Rainsberger is a long-time XP practitioner, who believes in helping developers simplify their work lives. In this second of a two-part interview, J. B. offers practical advice on how to "get over the hump" of evolutionary design, and really, how to learn any new skill. Resources Geoffrey Moore's chasm theory Chunking article from Wikipedia Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Book: The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt 7 minutes, 26 seconds talk by J. B. Rainsberger (34:37) The World's Best Intro to TDD Guest J.B. Rainsberger Personal Site Blog Listen to part 1 Watch this episode on You ..read more

Steve Pereira describes the concept of value stream mapping, and how it, and related techniques, can be used to improve the flow of practically any process from product ideation to delivery and customer experience.  Steve is the founder of Visible, and is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. Resources Book: Project to Product by Dr. Mik Kersten Free eBook: Flow Engineering by Steve Pereira Value Stream Management Course Newsletter for upcoming book: Inside Out Guest: Steve PereiraLinkedIn Email: steve@visible.is Ultimate link Watch this episode o ..read more

In this episode I speak with Lukas Vermeer, former head of experimentation at Booking.com, and currently working with Vista. He answers the question of whether A/B testing makes sense in small companies and startups,  and with small numbers of customers. We also discuss the broader topic of experimentation in general, and applying the scientific method to business development. Resources Dutch TV interview with Edsger Dijkstra in which he expounds his theory on software versions Edmond Halley on Wikipedia Book: Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H ..read more

This episode is a replay of my Scrum Day Europe 2021 presentation, Scrum Isn't Enough: Why DevOps is essential for Agile success. When Scrum was formulated, it was seen as a “wrapper” for more technical agile practices, such as Extreme Programming. A conscious choice was made to focus on the relationship between software developers and management. It was assumed that Scrum would be used to promote more technical developer practices, which Scrum leaves unaddressed. DevOps not only works hand-in-glove with Scrum to fill in these missing gaps, it is more and more seen as an essential tool for Agi ..read more

Jonny Williams works at Red Hat as an agile Delivery Lead, and he joins Tiny DevOps to cut through the confusion surrounding "Delivery Management". In this episode... What is "Delivery Management"? The discipline vs the role Comparisons to Product Management, Agile, Lean, Scrum, ITIL, and ITSM History of Delivery Management How does Delivery Management fit into "Agile"? Where is Delivery Management most popular? How can you start benefiting from the Delivery Management discipline in your organization? How to get started as a Delivery Manager Who should avoid Delivery Management Guest Jonny ..read more

Gorjan Jovanoski is the co-founder of AirCare, the mobile app that helps you know what you breathe. He joins me to tell the story of founding AirCare, and share some of the surprises, good and bad, along the way. In this episode... What is AirCare, and what does it do for you? What is its business model? AirCare's origin story AirCare's tech stack: Flutter, PHP, MongoDB, DigitalOcian Request volume and seasonality How to aggregate 35,000 data sources in PHP Detecting and responding to a DoS attack The software development cycle at AirCare Observability at AirCare Scaling challenges along the ..read more