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Platform Engineering PodcastBuilding Real-World Platforms: Abby Bangser on CNCF, Kratix, & SyntassoWhen organizations grow beyond using third-party platforms, they face a critical challenge: how to build internal platforms that enable teams to work efficiently while maintaining security and compliance. Abby Bangser, founding principal engineer at Syntasso, shares insights on creating real-world platforms that strike the right balance between standardization and flexibility.Key InsightsThe shift from external platforms to internal ones often comes from specific business needs, like compliance requirementsSuccessful platform engineering requires finding the right balance between prescriptive standards and flexible customizationPlatforms should offer multiple levels of abstraction - from simplified "paved paths"...2025-04-0253 min
The Vernon Richard ShowHow Testers Can Thrive in CI/CD Without Being GatekeepersIn this episode of the Vernon Richard Show, the hosts delve into the nuances of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, exploring how testing practices evolve in these environments. They discuss the skills required for testers, the importance of risk management, and the cultural shifts necessary for effective quality assurance. The conversation highlights the need for collaboration within teams and the role of testers as facilitators rather than gatekeepers. The episode concludes with reflections on the importance of understanding quality and risk in software development.Links to stuff we mentioned during the pod:01:35 - Quality TalksCheck out...2025-03-0455 min
Geeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on Reinventing Yourself with Whitney LeeAbout our guest:Whitney is a lovable goofball and a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV, and she also co-hosts the streaming show You Choose! - a 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure'-style journey through the CNCF landscape alongside Viktor Farcic.Find our guest on:YouTubeLinkedInBlueskyMastodonFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bent...2025-02-1150 min
The Vernon Richard Show2024 Reflections and A Look to 202500:00 Introduction02:00 Happy to be Employed05:00 Vernon Wrote a Book08:00 Talking at a Developer Conferences16:20 PeersCon20:24 Our Podcast21:50 Agile Testing Days Experience22:20 Our Podcast again28:30 Bluesky32:30 Vernon’s New Newsletter41:00 Generalist Specialist and AI51:00 Discipline and Consistency54:00 Vernon’s Personal Reflection55:40 Richard’s Personal ReflectionLinks to stuff that we mentioned:05:00 - Mark’s and Nicola’s Book - The Software Tester’s Journey05:01...2024-12-2457 min
Software Defined InterviewsPlatform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby BangserAs if platform engineering and expat'ing in the UK weren't enough, Whintney and Coté discuss the forgotten technology of business cards wih Abby Bangser.
Check out Abby in LinkedIn, and Kratix the platform engineering project from Syntasso. Also, check out the CNCF Platforms White paper and Cloud Native Maturity Model.
We had video recording problems during this episode, so this is from the backup recording. Pardon any weirdness, especially Coté making nose noises.Special Guest: Abby Bangser.2024-11-281h 19Software Defined InterviewsPlatform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby BangserAs if platform engineering and expat'ing in the UK weren't enough, Whintney and Coté discuss the forgotten technology of business cards wih Abby Bangser.
Check out Abby in LinkedIn, and Kratix the platform engineering project from Syntasso. Also, check out the CNCF Platforms White paper and Cloud Native Maturity Model.
We had video recording problems during this episode, so this is from the backup recording. Pardon any weirdness, especially Coté making nose noises.Special Guest: Abby Bangser.2024-11-281h 19
Geeking Out with Adriana VillelaE16 ENCORE: The One Where We Geek Out on Breaking Barriers with Edith PucllaAbout our guest:Edith is a Tech Evangelist at Percona, a company known for its work with open source databases. She used to work as a DevOps engineer, helping IT companies and startups set up and use DevOps. After taking a break for two years, Edith started working with Open Source, which helped her get back into the job market. She has made valuable contributions to the Apache Airflow project during her time with Outreachy and is working on translating the Kubernetes website into Spanish. Edith is also an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, focusing...2024-11-1238 minGeeking Out with Adriana VillelaE15 ENCORE: The One Where We Geek Out on Being a Tech Journalist with Jennifer RigginsAbout our guest:Jennifer Riggins is a culture side of tech storyteller, journalist, writer, and event and podcast host, helping to share the stories where culture and technology collide and to translate the impact of the tech we are building. She has been a working writer since 2003, and is currently based in London.Find our guest on:X (Twitter)LinkedInMastodonBlueskyFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow Links:The New StackLeadDevAt QCon: Why Generative...2024-11-0543 min
Cloud UnfilteredPlatform Engineering in a Cloud-First World🎙️ Welcome to “Cloud Unfiltered,” where we tackle everything about platform engineering and the cloud-first world! 🚀 Today’s episode features an insightful chat with Abby Bangser, a Principal Engineer from Syntasso. Dive into the complexities of modern software development and the strategies that aid in streamlining operations in the tech-dominated business environment. 🔹 Who is Abby? Dive into the journey of Abby, who has traversed roles from QA to SRE and now a principal engineer, shaping the future of platform engineering with Craddocks at Centaco. 🔹 The Role of Platforms: Understand the critical role of platforms in providing businesses the tools...2024-08-1240 min
PurePerformancePlatform Engineering Maturity Model: Reaching 10x Efficiency with Abby Bangser"Meet your users where they are!" - For Platform Engineering Teams that means understanding the current way your engineers work, understand their pain, and provide a solution that doesnt force them to change their behavior but provides a 10x efficiency improvement. Thats not easy to achieve but is what we discussed with Abby Bangser in our latest episodeAbby is a Team Topologies Advocate, has spent years at Thoughtworks helping organizations transform through Delivery Platforms and is now a Lead at the CNCF Platform Working Group. Tune in and hear our discussions on Why Platform Engineering is nothing new, how...2024-06-1750 min
The Vernon Richard ShowConference Rejected, Networking and Joining a New TeamIn this conversation, Richard and Vernon discuss the experience of being rejected for conference talks and the importance of actionable feedback. They emphasize the need for clear and compelling abstracts, as well as the value of networking and building relationships within the industry. They encourage individuals to continue sharing their stories and knowledge through alternative platforms such as YouTube, blogs, and meetups.The conversation also touches on the power of diversity in conference lineups and the importance of providing opportunities for underrepresented voices. In this conversation, Richard and Vernon discuss the importance of networking and building relationships...2024-05-061h 07
Reliability Enablers#36 Avoiding Critical Platform Engineering MistakesPlatform engineering is replacing SRE and DevOps. Jokes aside, knowing the path to better platforms is key. Abby Bangser is the right person to tell us how to achieve greater maturity in this aspect of software operations. She's previously held SRE roles and currently works as Principal Engineer at Syntasso, the company behind the popular Kratix platform framework. Abby highlighted the need for concrete definitions and maturity models in platform engineering trends, cautioning against equating developer portals with fully functional platforms. 2024-04-0926 min
DevOps ParadoxDeconstructing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model#253: As we move forward in 2024, one thing stands firm - platform engineering remains a significant focus for companies and has become a key component in the digital transformation journey. This realization drove the creation of the Platform Engineering Maturity Model, a comprehensive guide that serves organizations in various stages of their platform engineering journey. In this episode, we speak with Abby Bangser, one of the lead authors of the Platform Engineering Maturity Model published by CNCF. Abby's contact information: X (Formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/a_bangser L...2024-03-0648 minGeeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on Breaking Barriers with Edith PucllaAbout our guest:Edith is a Tech Evangelist at Percona, a company known for its work with open source databases. She used to work as a DevOps engineer, helping IT companies and startups set up and use DevOps. After taking a break for two years, Edith started working with Open Source, which helped her get back into the job market. She has made valuable contributions to the Apache Airflow project during her time with Outreachy and is working on translating the Kubernetes website into Spanish. Edith is also an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, focusing...2024-01-3038 minGeeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on Being a Tech Journalist with Jennifer RigginsAbout our guest:Jennifer Riggins is a culture side of tech storyteller, journalist, writer, and event and podcast host, helping to share the stories where culture and technology collide and to translate the impact of the tech we are building. She has been a working writer since 2003, and is currently based in London.Find our guest on:X (Twitter)LinkedInMastodonBlueskyFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow Links:The New StackLeadDevAt QCon: Why Generative...2024-01-2343 min
Page it to the LimitPlatform Engineering With Abby BangserAdditional Resources
Syntasso
The CNCF Platforms Working Group
CNCF Platforms White Paper and Platform Engineering Maturity Model
Gregor Hohpe’s Platform Strategy
Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Manuel was featured on an earlier episode.
KubeCon | CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
PagerDuty Home Page
Episode edited by Mandy Moore
Transcripts by Rev
2024-01-0230 minPage it to the LimitPlatform Engineering With Abby BangserAdditional Resources
Syntasso
The CNCF Platforms Working Group
CNCF Platforms White Paper and Platform Engineering Maturity Model
Gregor Hohpe’s Platform Strategy
Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Manuel was featured on an earlier episode.
KubeCon | CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
PagerDuty Home Page
Episode edited by Mandy Moore
Transcripts by Rev
2024-01-0230 minGeeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on DevEx with Abby Bangser of SyntassoAbout our guest:Abby (she/her) is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.Abby is an international keynote speaker and is co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.Find our guest on:LinkedInX (Twitter)HachydermFind us on:All of...2023-11-1449 min
MaintainableAdriana Villela - On Being a Serial RefactorerRobby has a chat with Adriana Villela, a Senior Developer Advocate at Lightstep. Adriana highlights that well-maintained software should be software that one can understand when they go into the code even if they’re not super familiar with it. She shares why she values being a serial refactorer and describes what beautiful code should look like. Adriana views debuggers as her best friends because as she says, “I do find maintaining documentation very difficult. That’s where a debugger comes in very handy so that he can step through the code to figure out what is going on”She...2023-08-2251 min
Tanzu TalkWhat’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”?In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with Abby Bangser about the platform maturity model draft that the platform working group at the CNCF has been working on. While the draft is a work in progress, the model the team is developed is extremely useful for thinking about how you build and run your platform team. Check out the interview, and if you’re interested in more, take a look at the draft paper. If you’re really full of beans, you can also contribute.
You can also watch the video of this episode if you prefer.
2023-06-0753 min
Quality BitsObservability, Monitoring, and Platform Engineering with Abigail BangserWhat's the difference between observability and monitoring? What's a telemetry? Why do they matter, and how could we use them more beneficially? Abby Bangser shares her journey from a QA to a platform engineer in this episode. We discuss the similarities between testing and infrastructure-related areas like site reliability engineering. In addition, Abby explains observability and shares some sound advice regarding implementing it.Find Abby on:- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@abangser- Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_bangser...2023-05-0140 min
Slight ReliabilitySlight Reliability Episode 24 - Interview with Abby BangserSend us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Bangser about the transition from testing to SRE, the barriers thrown in front of testers (which SREs don't tend to face), being humble to be let in the door, and *much* more. You can find Abby on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/The book she mentioned was Infrastructure as Code by Kief Morris https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/books/infrastructure-as-code-2nd-editionYou can find Chastity Majors (cofounder of Honeycomb) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy...2022-09-1228 min
Software Crafts PodcastInterview with Abby BangserIn this episode, we host Abby Bangser. She is challenged with the heuristic “Timebox the unknown” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/timebox/). She shared a recent real-life example of how timeboxing can narrow the problem space towards a solution which can be helpful from day one. During our conversation, she shared some of her heuristics used daily. Abby recommends: Walking Skeleton: https://gojko.net/2014/06/09/forget-the-walking-skeleton-put-it-on-crutches/ Pragmatic engineer newsletter: http://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ Quality coaching: https://www.annemariecharrett.com/tag/book/ Hello stay sassy: https://stay-saasy-signup.ck.page/1cc4343737 Abby (@a_bangser) has ten year...2022-03-3039 min
Quality Coaching RoadshowEpisode 17 Quality Coaching Roadshow Abby BangserIn this episode, Abby talks about Site Reliability Engineering, Service Level Objectives, Toil, the power of Storytelling, influencing Management and why Quality Coaching and Site Reliability Engineering have a lot in common.2021-01-1227 min
Time SensitiveMonique Péan on the Transformative Nature of Fossils, Rocks, and MeteoritesNew York–based jewelry and object designer Monique Péan sees fossils and extraterrestrial materials as portals to another time, space, and place. Pyritized dinosaur bones, woolly mammoth tooth roots, meteorites, and lunaites are among her work’s mediums. She sources these from remote locations—including the Arctic Circle, where she located fossils with Native Alaskan Inupiat and Yupik tribes, and on Easter Island, where that site’s aboriginal Polynesian inhabitants helped her hand-carve cosmic obsidian, found on local terrain—and then transforms them into striking, sculptural works of art. Recently, Péan began working on a larger scale...2020-12-1657 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #16, Observability and Test Engineers with Abby Bangser of MOOIn episode 16 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Abby Bangser of MOO. They discuss observability from a testing engineer’s perspective, the key factors that lead a company to spin up a testing team, and the highlights of DeliveryConf 2020.2020-02-1330 min
O11ycastEp. #16, Observability and Test Engineers with Abby Bangser of MOOIn episode 16 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Abby Bangser of MOO. They discuss observability from a testing engineer’s perspective, the key factors that lead a company to spin up a testing team, and the highlights of DeliveryConf 2020.The post appeared first on Heavybit.2020-02-1330 min
Testers' Island DiscsTesters' Island Discs Ep31 - Joao ProencaPodcast Links:Inside the PRS Guitars factoryThe indie band survival guideMarty Was Right January Cool video - Spotify - BandcampRiskstormingTestSphereModern Testing Course - Alan PageAbby Bangser's keynote slides on observabilityRegular Links:Sign up to be a guest on the showTesters' Island Discs reading list on GoodreadsFollow us on Twitter2020-01-2050 min
MaintainableAbby Bangser: Building Trust In Your Deployment PipelineRobby speaks with Abby Bangser, Senior Test Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at MOO. They discuss how maintainable code leans on a dependable build and test process, what metrics Moo's platform engineering team measures, and codifying your pipeline – including having pipelines build on a regular basis.Helpful LinksFollow Abby on TwitterCareers at MooTester by ChoiceDeep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal NewportSubscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsOvercastSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.Join the discussion in the Maintainable Discord Community...2019-12-1630 min
Testers' Island DiscsTesters' Island Discs Ep20 - Mark WinteringhamPodcast Links:Automation in TestingMinistry of Testing Dojo course: Introduction To HTTP (by Mark Winteringham)Ministry of Testing Dojo course: Let's Build an API Checking Framework (by Mark Winteringham)Ministry of Testing Dojo course: The Building Blocks of the Internet (by Mark Winteringham)Screen Testing Ep6: Swordfish (featuring Mark Winteringham)Bandcamp: BiasesBandcamp: The WubMindTwitter: Simon PriorMeetup.com: Ministry of Testing AylesburyMeetup.com: South West Test #12 with Neil StuddTwitter: Abby BangserMinistry of Testing Dojo: TestBash 2018: Emily Webber - Communities of Practice, The Missing Piece of Your Agile OrganisationAmazon: John Timpson - Upside Down Managementmi.mu GlovesYouTube: Richard Bradshaw...2018-07-3146 min
The Agile RevolutionEpisode 93: I Like Big BoardsCraig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont. Stephen Vance shares highlights from … Continue reading →2015-08-2900 min