DevOps Accents

The evolution of DevOps is inevitable and we have long lived in a paradigm where Platform Engineering is no longer the Next Big Thing, but a necessity. We decided to talk to our friend Sergiu Petean from Allianz Direct and CNCF, who is very advanced in both theory and practice, and shared with us his observations on what Platform Engineering is today and how it changes depending on the type and size of the organisation. In this episode:

• What is platform engineering?
• What's the difference between a DevOps engineer 10 years ago and a platform engineer today?
• How do you make infrastructre for a big company with very different verticals?
• Why would you rebuild a platform from scratch?
• What are the solutions for smaller companies?

Follow Sergiu Petean on LinkedIn to keep updated on most valuable insights: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteanusergiu/ Follow CNCF to learn more from Sergiu's community efforts: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/01/official-kickoff-of-the-cncf-end-user-technical-advisory-board-tab/ Make sure to visit KubeCon and engage us there: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo, and Kirill discuss Twitter's changes, Apple's Vision Pro impact, VR's future role, and tech dependency.

• Episode Celebration: 30th episode and 4K YouTube milestone.
• Twitter Changes: How is Twitter's evolving ecosystem impacting users?
• Apple Vision Pro: What will be the impact and public reaction to its release?
• Tech Advancements: How are technological advancements affecting society?
• VR in Society: What role will VR play in our future?
• Tech Dependency: Are we becoming too dependent on technology?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill are all about cloud costs, the main topic of mkdev content in January.

• Availability zone fees are annoying;
• What's scammy and what is clear about cloud closts?
• Are there people whose job it is to track cloud expences?
• Why aren't cost analysis features turned on by default?
• Is all of this common knowledge?
• When do companies decide to optimize their cloud costs?
• Do you need to worry about background jobs?
• How to educate yourself on cloud costs?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Filip Verloy, a Field CTO at Rubrik

• The need for data management systems is increasing;
• What's Ruby and how can generative AI be used for data security?
• How Rubrik's AI was trained;
• What should we protect more in the age of AI?
• AI in detecting malicious intent;
• What is Double Extortion Ransomware?
• The flipside of digital transformation;
• There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity.

Our guest

• Connect with Filip via his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verloy/
• Rubrik, a data management and security company: https://www.rubrik.com

Things we've talked about

• What does it mean to be a Field CTO? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-field-cto-anyway-filip-verloy
• What is Double Extortion Ransomware? https://www.rubrik.com/insights/rubrik-ransomware-vs-cyber-extortion
• 23andMe Data Breach: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill are wrapping up 2023, discussing the biggest news, trends and breakthroughs of the year.

• 2023 for mkdev;
• AI reaching the wide audience it has now;
• Job markets in the age of AI;
• 2024 and AR;
• Elon Musk (of course);
• Generative AI in design;
• Human cognition and what's to come.

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet.

• What was the role of Puppet before and what is it now?
• How many companies use Kubernetes?
• The effect of inertia in technologies for bigger companies;
• How much time does it take to scale up?
• On prem vs. On cloud: cost effectiveness;
• Will VMs ever go away?
• Puppet and AI?
• What do companies ask for when they ask for AI?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Dotan Horovits, a developer advocate from logz.io

• What is developer advocacy and developer evangelism and why it's not marketing?
• Observability and Monitoring: how important are they in the Pipeline today?
• How did it work before and why is it a separate thing at all?
• Who should interpret the data that this tooling collects?
• Why is it so expensive to have Observability?
• Should each individual developer monitor their own data?

Our guest, Dotan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits

• personal blog, https://horovits.medium.com
• professional blog, https://logz.io/author/dotan-horovits
• Dotan's podcast, OpenObservability Talks, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability

Interesting articles:

• Expensive metrics and the high cardinality problem, https://logz.io/blog/expensive-metrics-monitoring-data
• FinOps Observability, https://www.apmdigest.com/observability-into-your-finops-taking-distributed-tracing-beyond-monitoring
• Monitoring Kubernetes Cost and OpenCost project, https://logz.io/blog/finops-observability-monitoring-kubernetes-cost

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about the rising demand for AI and what it takes to have experience with it.

• Can you have many years of experience with LLMs?
• What's the difference between LLMs and Machine Learning of today and Machine Learning of yesterday?
• How do LLMs even work?
• Is it viable for a company to train its model from scratch?
• How to fine tune an LLM for the needs of your company?
• Does the AI you need have to be an LLM?
• How did AI change the hiring landscape?
• What is considered to have experience with AI?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill talk to Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc.

• Marcello's journey from Brazil to Europe;
• South America vs. Europe: Crime rate;
• Local services and startups in Brazil;
• You Should Think Global;
• Cultural differences and application marketing;
• Starting new companies with your own money;
• Entrepreneurship vs. Working for a company;
• Life/Work balance in Europe.

Our guest, Marcello De Polli, a staff engineer at BetterDoc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelodepolli

BetterDoc: https://www.betterdoc.org

Brex, a large international financial company originated in Brazil, founded in 2017: https://www.brex.com

Livedub, one of the first startups Marcello co-founded, an app for the bands for remote practice and rehearsal: https://livedub.app

Skore, now acquired by UOL EdTech, a digital learning platform co-founded by Marcello: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goskore

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Darko Fabijan, CTO and co-founder of Semaphore, a CI/CD tool for high-performance engineering teams.

• How was Semaphore created?
• How do you go from consulting to supporting a technical tool?
• Why do we still need to convince people that CI/CD is a necessity?
• What is Semaphore's customer base?
• What is CI and what is CD?
• Feedback Loop in DevOps;
• Canary deployment;
• What is the future of CI/CD pipeline?

Semaphore: https://semaphoreci.com

What is Feedback Loop in DevOps in context of CI/CD: https://www.getclockwise.com/blog/devops-feedback-loops

What is canary deployment: https://semaphoreci.com/blog/what-is-canary-deployment

Spinnaker: https://spinnaker.io

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss our recent conference experience in London and slightly pit GCP and AWS against each other.

• "Google Cloud Run & Databases" Webinar;
• Is there something like AWS Proxy in GCP?
• What do GCP and AWS do better than the other?
• AWS vs. GCP: permissions and organisation;
• The city of London vs. other great cities of Earth;
• devopsdays London vs. Munich and Amsterdam;
• How Hard is it for technical specialists to give public talks?
• What's up with open space talks?
• IT stereotypes.

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Kirill discuss news from the world of TypeScipt and the history of microchip wars.

• Hotwire and Turbo leaving TypeScipt behind;
• The over the top reaction from the community;
• Who feels threatened by this change?
• Semiconductors history;
• ARM architecture family;
• TSMC and the insane number of chips they produce;
• What problems does the semiconductors industry face?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo and Kirill talk to our first ever guest, Paul Larsen, a Data Scientist!

• How did Paul meet Kirill?
• From Data Science to DevOps: is it worth it?
• MLOps: what's that about?
• How does this work from the DevOps side?
• LLM excitement;
• Productivity factors in medium and big data;
• Small enterprise vs. a large project: what are the differences?
• Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Show Notes:

• Our guest, Paul Larsen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-larsen
• Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896fcaf2674f757a2463eba-Paper.pdf
• DevOpsDays London Program: https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-london/program
• Prefect workflow orchestration platform: https://www.prefect.io

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss HashiCorp adopting Business Source License.

• The business of HashiCorp;
• What is competitive offering?
• Is this change fair for the open source community?
• Will terraform be forked?
• Look what happened to CentOS!
• RedHat and Linux vs. Hashicorp and Terraform: what's the difference?
• Google vs. Amazon reaction;
• Who's happy with this decision?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk about KCD Munich 2023, the community built around Kubernetes and some recent mkdev updates.

• No beer at KCD Munich!
• The polarized politics and the world of DevOps;
• Why would you have Kubernetes-specific conferences in the first place?
• Should you go to a conference to find a job?
• Pablo's latest video: What's new in Terraform?
• Automated social media feeds and advertisement reasons behind them.

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss how and why 37signals, the company behind Basecamp and Hey, successfully left the cloud.

• Majestic Monolith;
• Spend less money and increase performance: what more do you need?
• How to make people believe in your unpoplular idea?
• The Boss vs. the Owner: who makes the tech decision?
• Focus on what you want to achieve, not on the technology to use;
• You might not need to know how to run a cable...
• But you might need to know the basics of networking;
• How did scaling change with Cloud?
• Can the same person maintain cloud infrastructure and on prem infrastructure?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss the latest conference we've sponsored and the conference experience in general.

• devopsdays Amsterdam 2023: conference impressions;
• Stamp collecting! (it's relevant, we promise);
• Porto vs. Amsterdam: the food, the space, the Beer Unlimited;
• Who visits the conferences anyway?
• The business side vs. the community;
• Why bigger companies choose to attend?
• GitHub vs. GitLab.

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo, Leo and Kirill discuss the dynamics between users, companies, 3rd party apps and prices for the use of different APIs.

• devopsdays Amsterdam 2023: what talks are we interested in?
• Reddit going quiet: what's that about?
• Companies and paywalls for APIs;
• Are free APIs still a thing?
• What can users do when they are not happy?
• Mastodon and Twitter: you can't just move people;
• Nonprofits like Wikipedia;
• Docker and money.

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo use Kirill's absence on vacation to talk once again about the consequences of AI boom we're observing.

• Buzz words: does ChatGPT steal our jobs?
• A history lesson and adaptation to new technologies;
• Everyone On the Internet Is an Expert On Tomatoes!
• Hey, remember books?
• New Adobe generative tool;
• Meta's library for identifying objects;
• Will our work environment change very soon?

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In this episode of DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo and Kirill talk about security and everything around it.

• Compatibility of open source and cyber security — can openess and security co-exist?
• What do you do when you find a vulnerability in software?
• How easy is it to be a hacker nowadays?
• The dangers of security of things: hack a car, hack a plane;
• Who tracks security issues in a company?
• How do you know if you're watched or tracked?
• + cloud costs automation.

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In this first episode, we will talk about DevOps Porto 2022 conference, why we went there, how IT is these days after the pandemic, and many more things. 

Talks mentioned in the podcast:

• https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/manuel-pais
• https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/mark-schwartz
• https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/philipp-krenn2
• https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/program/rinor-maloku

Full program and conference info: https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-portugal/welcome/

Our video highlights from podcast and conference: https://youtu.be/kmGNB8Lv1oI

Full recording of Kirill's talk: https://youtu.be/6D7clPr-1jw

We hope you enjoy it!