Money, money, money… In this episode, we're talking about how we've enabled FinOps at Adaptavist with CloudZero as a way to highlight anomalous spending through simple chatbots and give teams a sense of cost ownership. We've got Chalky on as our special guest, talking to Rasmus, Matt and Laura about the inevitability of overprovisioning at the start of a new venture, controlling Kubernetes through Crossplane – and the concept of efficient scaling. There's a lot to unpack – but while it's all about money, the heart of the matter comes down to linking people and process, through FinOps. If you l ..read more

We're back – still riding high after our last episode with Gene Kim, whose words are still echoing in our minds as we talk about our upcoming business transformation ebook, hackathons, and, of course… AI. Once again, artificial intelligence dominates the news, as OpenAI launches Sora – and deepfakes make for headlines we never thought we'd read. We discuss the ethical ramifications of AI leading to job cuts and whether DevOps roles are on the line. We also cover cloud repatriation, ongoing big tech layoffs, and AWS's latest move around IPs. And we all learned a new favourite word – it was 2023 ..read more

In this very special episode of DevOps Decrypted, we are joined by none other than Gene Kim – the bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Cookbook and The Unicorn Project.  It's a really great chat where Gene talks to us about his latest book, Wiring the Winning Organization. With our very own Laura, Rasmus, Jobin, Matt – and CIO Neal, join us in this fascinating discussion about slowing down to speed up, the limits of limitless communication, and the “social wiring” of companies that operate at the highest levels. There was so much to discuss that we’re just going to have t ..read more

Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted, where we unpack the events of KubeCon and BackstageCon. Host Laura and our resident DevOps Decrypted gang (Jobin, Rasmus and Jon) are joined by Mike Maheu – GM and Co-Founder of Venue.sh, part of the Adaptavist Group. And this episode arrives just in time to prove some of our predictions… Last year, we highlighted platform engineering as one of our picks for "the next big thing", and it looks like we're about to see it come of age. Mike and the team talk about Venue.sh, the difference between DevOps and platform engineering, and how together ..read more

Welcome to episode 20 of DevOps Decrypted, a milestone achievement for our podcast! Milestones like this allow us to reflect on everything we've achieved, what we could improve, and how to shape our future – through the magic of metrics.  So it was probably good that we talked to our guest, Chris Boys from Umano, on this episode. Umano is a platform dedicated to understanding the human side of team performance metrics, and Chris tells us all there is to know about it. Jobin tells us about DevOpsDays in London, where Adaptavist will have a booth and a speaker taking the stage as Laura and ..read more

It looks like Rasmus has gone rogue in this episode… He’s kicked Laura out as host and commandeered the DevOps Decrypted podcast to further his own agenda – ranting about open-source drama! We're kidding about Laura, she’s just taken a break for this episode. But we're certainly not kidding about the open-source drama; it's actually a huge topic that could have far-reaching consequences for devs and providers globally. Of course, we're referring to HashiCorp's decision to move Terraform to the business source licence, or BSL. Jon, Jobin and Rasmus discuss what this all means, how it reminds th ..read more

Welcome back to another episode of DevOps Decrypted! In this episode, Laura, Jobin, Rasmus and Jon are joined by special guest Sandesh Kumar – an Engineering Manager at Adaptavist Group. Sandesh tells us about how his team is using AI in quality engineering and testing and why it's not the existential threat to jobs that everyone's making it out to be. But the big story on the agenda is Adaptacon 2023, our internal, global conference. Jon explains the challenges of organising an event like this and its benefits – even when the talks appear to have nothing to do with our business. Have you miss ..read more

Is there a war against third-party app developers? Well, it sure might feel like it if you’ve been following the Reddit fiasco. But it’s not an isolated incident, and it could be down to how AIs are mining data… In this episode, Jon, Jobin, Laura and Rasmus talk about how third-party applications are handled by companies like Reddit, Stack Overflow – and Atlassian. The team also dives into the “slackening” of Slack and how Discord is starting to eat into Slack’s customer base. And finally, the conversation turns as Jon and Jobin start dropping SBOMs all over the place (we promise there's no sw ..read more

Welcome again to DevOps Decrypted – where we're unpacking Amazon's seemingly shocking decision to ditch serverless for their Prime Video product. Does this move mean serverless is dead? Join Laura, Jobin, Jon and Rasmus, along with our special guest Erko Knoll from Stitch It, as we discuss the architecture agenda and how some groups use Amazon’s decision to push their own narratives. We discuss the benefits and limitations of a serverless architecture and why it probably won’t go anywhere soon. We also get to hear all about Stitch It – a code-first cross-platform integration tool, and how it c ..read more

Welcome to DevOps Decrypted Episode 15, where we ask; are Kubernetes tools doomed to be complicated? In this episode, some new voices (and faces, if you're watching on YouTube) join Romy and Rasmus. We welcome Michael Guarino, CTO and Co-founder of Plural, who shares his knowledge on deploying open-source software onto Kubernetes. We also speak with two more of our fellow Adaptavists; Timothy Chin, Platform Team Lead for our new venture, Venue DevOps – and Daniel “Chalky" Chalk, Engineering Manager for our business services infrastructure. It's an in-depth episode that'll resonate with anyone ..read more