In this lighter episode of DevOps Decrypted, Jon and Jobin meet to discuss a heavy subject: the massive CrowdStrike outage of summer 2024. Everyone in tech (and many outside of the industry) remembers the day it happened. But what have we all learned from it? Well, we might have the answers. Adaptavist surveyed more than 400 participants from medium and large organisations, all of whom were affected by the CrowdStrike outage. Some of the results are pretty thought-provoking. Jon and Jobin run through the findings of our exclusive report, revealing what actions have been taken since—and whether ..read more

In this episode, our Adaptavist panel is joined by a very special guest – Frank Merla from BetaNXT. Together, we discuss an extensive business transformation case study that we carried out at BetaNXT, the complexities of transitioning from legacy systems to a modernised, scalable platform, and how, in the end, it all comes down to people. Frank shares BetaNXT’s journey, highlighting the challenges of driving change across multiple business units with distinct processes and long-standing workflows. We discuss the importance of having internal champions to encourage adoption and reflect on the i ..read more

In DevOps Decrypted episode 28, we're all feeling a little… meh. Why? Maybe it's all the stagnant innovation, monopolising, and open-source rug-pulling. Whatever it is, it's got Rasmus (today's stand-in host) a little down in the dumps. To lift him out of his funk, he’s joined by Jon and Matt, who discuss the current state of DevOps and the technology landscape. What's going on with the stalled evolution of the iPhone, with software versioning – and with monopolistic cloud services? Has the whole tech industry reached a plateau in innovation? Maybe less rapid innovation is a good thing, and st ..read more

Welcome to this "minisode" edition, with Rasmus, Jon and our special guest, Jennifer Davis – Google Engineering Manager and author of Effective DevOps and Modern System Administration. Of course, we're talking about CrowdStrike… But from a different perspective, the human one. It's all too easy to get caught up in the technical nuts and bolts of an issue like this one, but Jon and Jennifer remind us that, at the core of this outage, there are people. And some of them are going to be having a pretty tough time right now. Join us as we discuss the human element in DevOps and how there can never ..read more

Is AI finally in a place where it's useful in DevOps? It might just be, as we discover in another fascinating panel discussion from the usual DevOps Decrypted gang – plus special guest Lilly Holden. Lilly joined us to speak about her role in the Platform Team at Adaptavist, where she's working on a DevEx initiative aimed at de-complexifying Kubernetes. It's no coincidence that we're doing this episode as Kubernetes celebrates its tenth anniversary—it gives us a chance to look back over its history and try to figure out where it all got so complicated… We discuss what humans will do when AI doe ..read more

It's episode 25 of DevOps Decrypted – and we're talking about some big news in DevOps. It was recently revealed that a backdoor had been intentionally planted in XZ Utils, an open-source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. We talk about the ramifications and ask, surely things would be better if they weren't open source? We'll let Rasmus stew on that one for a bit… The conversation leads us to the importance of observability and alerts, and we circle back to a past episode about SBOMs. We wrap up with some events on our ..read more

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