Arrested DevOps

Jacquie Capur, a senior developer advocate at Nebius, joins Matty to talk about keeping meaningful control over the tools you depend on: knowing what they're tied to, verifying they do the job, and having a realistic way out. The conversation runs from configuration management's first magic moment to data residency rules in healthcare, tools that change every two weeks, and the case for open models.

Marino Wijay joins Matty to ask the question everyone in tech is quietly panicking about: what the hell is actually going on right now. They dig into the pace of change since the zero interest rate era, the collapse of infrastructure roles into a human-plus-AI layer, and why most of what looks like a bubble is really just an accounting hack that goes back decades.

Naga Sujitha Vummaneni and Sundeep Bobba join Matty to talk about their book, which reframes CI/CD pipelines as control systems: actuators, feedback signals, and constraints. They dig into what that model demands once AI agents start shipping code at machine speed, and why a bypassed control is a design signal, not a compliance failure.

Doug Pagnutti spent fifteen years as an automation engineer caught between the IT and OT worlds inside manufacturing plants. The friction sounds a lot like what's been happening in DevOps for over a decade. Matty and Doug dig into why industrial operations never got the memo, and what OT and IT could still learn from each other now that the wall between them is collapsing.

The software industry is experiencing another seismic shift. After decades of agile transformations, cloud migrations, and DevOps revolutions, we're now navigating the integration of AI into the software development lifecycle. But this time feels different—the pace is faster, the technology less mature, and the stakes feel higher. Matty Stratton sat down with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner to explore what this transformation means for developers, operations teams, and the organizations they serve.

Kat Cosgrove returns to talk with Matty about why security stays in the news, why most CVEs never get fixed, and which tools belong in every production environment. The conversation ends on burnout and the case for touching grass.

In this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty and guest Kat Morgan discuss the ethical, practical, and technical implications of AI. They explore how AI can assist with coding, improve efficiency, and handle tasks, while emphasizing the importance of good practices and staying informed about the impact of AI.

Andrew Zigler of Mattermost and Matty talk about what makes an open-first developer community hard to run: the echo chamber, the pull of the paid staff, what can stay closed, and how to get more people advocating than just the ones with the title.

Jessitron is joined by Chelsea Troy, Staff Data Engineer at Mozilla, and one of the all-around most interesting people in software today, to discuss staff engineering, machine learning operations, and maybe also surfing.

It's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast.

What happens when you suddenly are In Management? Matty is joined by Ben Greenberg to talk through the challenges of first-time management.

DevOps is not a department. It's a set of concepts and ideas that are human-centric and driven through Agile practices. It's applying Big A Agile to operations: fast feedback loops, deeper collaboration with stakeholders (which is the engineering team), and invoking people over process and tools. A current problem hamstringing organizations is that they treat DevOps like a commoditized department: one that writes shell scripts and deploys Jenkins servers, and not the value engine that those teams could be. They took the tools team, applied a light version of DevOps ideology, and said, "Hey, that's it. That's DevOps. Hashtag winning."

Most developers are familiar with two sources of data about their applications: 1) static code analysis, and 2) observability tools monitoring their system in production. However, a new data source is gaining popularity: Runtime analysis. Runtime analysis is a technique where an application's dynamic behavior is recorded and analyzed during development time, allowing flaws and other insights to be revealed before that code is deployed to production.

It's a complex world! Matty and Michael Stahnke wax philosophical about whether our systems need to be as complicated as we have made them

Grant Fritchey returns after almost ten years to talk about databases and DevOps, and why treating the database like code is still the most useful message.

Matt Kuritz of The Farmer's Dog explains how a platform team that owns nothing works alongside product teams, with a monorepo and a code generator standing in for a portal.

Matty is joined by Ohad Maislish and Cory O'Daniel for some updates on the Open Terraform project.

Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.

When you're in the tech industry, your personal brand matters both internally and externally. This brand can help you stand out in your current organization or when you're looking for new opportunities.

Guest Sarah Morgan helps dig into how we can apply the principles of product management into our DevOps approaches!

Special guest Michael Isbitski joins us to talk about cloud native security and reviews the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report. Michael and Matty discuss some common security challenges and findings from the report, and how to address them.

Let's take another look at the topic of Platform Engineering, but perhaps with a different perspective. Pete Cheslock turns his attention to Platform Engineering, and if it's really anything new, or just what DevOps has always meant?

Looking for a job? Did you get laid off? It's rough out there. Let's talk about it with Sidney Miller.

Let's dig into the world of data, with Aiven's Francesco Tisiot.

Is DevOps dead? Did Platform Engineering kill it off? Matty chats with Daniel Bryant (Ambassador Labs) about Platform Engineering.

Courtney Nash and Casey Rosenthal from Verica join Matty for a deep dive into the results of the VOID (Verica Open Incident Database) report.

Roni Dover, founder of [Digma.ai](https://digma.ai), joins Jess to chat about continuous feedback and what's missing in every DevOps loop.

Matty and career coach Dagna Bieda talk about why engineers need communication skills, what empathy means at work, assertiveness, marketing your work, and choosing employers that share your values.

A year after Breaking Down Gates, Matty and Tim Banks revisit the Great Resignation, who is pushing people back to the office, and how conferences can be more inclusive and affordable.

Sue Choi and Dominic of Mondoo join Matty to talk about why DevOps and security still struggle to work together, from paper security and false positives to supply chain and building trust.

One of the most innovative and popular virtual conferences of 2020 was Deserted Island Devops. The event was back again in 2021, and Matty chatted with organizers and speakers about what made this event so special.

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and stuff about pets.

Author and technical agile coach Emily Bache chats with Matty on testing, software engineering practices, and ensemble programming.

What is DevSecOps? Is it different from DevOps? What's up with shift left? Steve Giguere joins Matt to dig into some more fun security conversations.

Bridget chats with Kent Rancourt about Brigade.

Emily Freeman, Principal, DevOps Solutions at AWS and Matt have a frank conversation about how DevOps has changed, where it's going, and the merits of the Oxford comma.

Bridget chats with Phillip Gibson and Annie Wang about multicluster service mesh.

"If you invest enough into foundational practices you can ignore them" - this is a heady statement, and special guest Johan Abildskov takes us through a journey to explore what our foundational practices are, and how we can improve our learning and implementation of them.

Matt is joined by Ashton Rodenhiser, who has become a fixture at many conferences where she provides graphic recordings of various talks and presentations!

In this episode, Jess talks with guest Cat Swetel about her career, writings, and thoughts on DevOps.

Does tech ask more from its community than other industries? What does it mean to be part of a community and what is expected of us?

Bridget chats with Justin Cormack and Donnie Berkholz of Docker.

Learning, as well as teaching, are both skills. Skills that we can develop with intentionality and practice. Shelby Spees, a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, shares her insight into this topic.

Sources differ on where this started, but Kurt Vonnegut posited that there are basically six story types. Matt wondered if there was similarly only six stories that are told on tech Twitter. Guests Sasha Rosenbaum, Kat Cosgrove, Quintessence Anx, Aaron Aldrich, and Jeremy Meiss dig into this as well as discuss the ups and downs of tech Twitter culture.

Releasing software is more that just having a clever pipeline. Scott Hain (Hashicorp) digs into some of the practical considerations of improving your release engineering process.

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, Jeff, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and a deep dive into 90s-era sci-fi.

Tim Banks joins Matt for a blunt discussion about how to break down gates and barriers in tech. Also, chili is discussed, in depth.

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 was the first time the long-running conference went virtual. A panel of speakers and organizers discuss the event, how it was produced, and what the experience was like!

Bridget chats with Alice Goldfuss and Ian Coldwater.

Alyssa Miller (Snyk) discusses the findings of the Synk State of Open Source Security report with Matt and Jessica

So you've had an incident. What can you learn from it afterwards? Amy Tobey, Alex Hidalgo, and Rein Heinrich talk with Matt about strategies and techniques for great incident retrospectives.

Aaron Blohowiak joins host Jessica Kerr to discuss his DevOps work at Netflix.

Bridget chats with Michelle Noorali and Delyan Raychev about service mesh.

What exactly is "Developer Experience"? Stephanie Stimac (Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences) shares what DevEx is, and why it matters. We also discuss The Web We Want initiative and maybe even try to solve work item tracking issues!

The first-ever DevOps conference to take place in Animal Crossing happened on April 30. In another history-making event, Matty is joined by the largest panel of guests in ADO history, and talks with the event organizers, as well as the speakers, about what made this virtual conference so special.

So you feel like you've got a good handle on chaos engineering...but can you use it for security use cases? Aaron Rinehart of Verica (and the author of the upcoming O'Reilly book on the topic) walks Matt and Jessica through some of the exciting ways that chaos engineering can be used for security approaches.

Bridget chats with Matt Farina, Karen Chu, and Matt Butcher about the Helm community.

Jessica and Matt spend a little time with Corey Quinn and Pete Cheslock of the Duckbill Group to dig into the mysteries of AWS billing, why product names are all terrible, and what exactly is a "cloud economist" anyway?

Bridget chats with Taylor Thomas and Brian Ketelsen about WebAssembly, Krustlet, and the Future.

Jessica chats with Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun, Daniel Sawano - authors of the book Secure by Design

Transformation is a big deal. You can't just say "let's just transform!" so what are some of the things we should be thinking about?

It can be hard to get into this whole 'DevOps' thing...Laura Santamaria (LogDNA) and Matt dig into what we can do to make it more accessible

Matt and Jeff sit down with Patrick Debois to talk about Patrick's journey from systems engineer to DevOps royalty

In this episode, host Jessica Kerr is joined by guests Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais to discuss their book, Team Topologies.

Matt talks about all things community with Jono Bacon, the author of the new book 'People Powered'

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the year in review, and, of course, airline status.

Matt chats with Ali Spittel at All Things Open 2019 about all things learning!

Bridget chats with Kelsey Hightower about Kubernetes and the future.

Bridget chats with Ian Coldwater about Kubernetes security

Bridget chats with the authors of Kubernetes Best Practices: Brendan Burns, Eddie Villalba, Dave Strebel, and Lachlan Evenson

Bridget chats with guests Peter Shannon, Jocelyn Harper, and Tim Gross in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Philadelphia 2019.

In this episode, Gene Connolly and Joan Freed discuss their DevOps transformation at Meltwater.

Matty talks with Ken Mugrage and Sasha Rosenbaum about DeliveryConf.

Bridget chats with Devi Moodley, Daniel Maher, Adrian Moisey, and Cobus Bernard at devopsdays Cape Town 2019.

In this episode, Nicole Fosgren and Jez Humble discuss the 2019 Accelerate State of Devops report.

Matty and Trevor chat with guests Jessie Frazelle, Veronica Hanus, and Jeff Smith in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Chicago 2019.

Bridget and Matty chat with guests Liz Fong-Jones, Alice Goldfuss, and RJ Williams, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2019.

Making performance changes is about working smoothly with hardware AND with people.

Tanya Janca of Microsoft joins Matty to talk about threat modeling, pushing left, serverless, and more!

Trevor catches up with Steven Murawski at Microsoft Build 2019 about learning from failure, testing infrastructure as code, PowerShell 7 and Windows Terminal, and the growing interest in SRE.

Matty and Jessica discuss Principal Engineering with Silvia Botros.

Making DevOps Magic: Matty chats with Arup Chakrabarti (PagerDuty).

How do you make change in a complex system that is always failing, but must never break?

Matty chats with Jay Gordon (Microsoft) about certification fun.

Bridget chats with Jessie Frazelle and Andrew Clay Shafer about what shiny objects have caught their attention recently.

in which we define DevOps and what it means for your code's database interactions

It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, tech trends and predictions, and, of course, airline status.

Matty is joined by Jessica Kerr, software engineer extraordinaire and co-host of the amazing Greater Than Code podcast.

Matty is joined by Corey Quinn for a special crossover episode with Screaming In The Cloud

Recorded live at DevOpsDays Chicago 2018, Matty and Trevor are joined by Aaron Kalin, Katie Prizy, and Jeff Smith to talk about bias and ethics in the tech industry.

Matty (with special guest host Jessica DeVita) is joined by Ana Medina, Dan Barker, Ben Clayton, and Monica Hart at DevOpsDays Kansas City 2018.

Trevor is joined by Jessica Deen at Microsoft Ignite 2018, and have a quick catch up on the event and the state of the DevOps world.

Trevor is joined by Edward Thomson at Microsoft Ignite 2018, and have a quick catch up on the event and the state of the DevOps world.

Trevor is joined by Steven Murawski at Microsoft Ignite 2018, and have a quick catch up on the event and the state of the DevOps world.

Trevor and Jason are joined by Donovan Brown at Microsoft Ignite 2018, and have a quick catch up on the event and the state of the DevOps world.

Matty is joined by VM (aka Vicky) Brasseur, Vice President of the Open Source Initiative, for a chat about contributing to open source software.

Matty chats with Nylas CTO Christine Spang

Matty discusses devopsdays Salt Lake City 2018 with a panel in front of a live studio audience.

Bridget and Matty chat about organizing conferences with guests Jam Leomi, Debbie Gillespie, and Christian Herro, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2018.