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Arrested DevOpsHow AI Is Changing the SDLC With Hannah Foxwell and Robert WernerThe Trust Problem Returns
Hannah Foxwell, who has spent over a decade in DevOps and platform engineering, draws a striking parallel to earlier transformations: “It used to be that testers didn’t trust developers and ops didn’t trust testers and there were all these silos. Now we’re putting AI agents in the mix. Can we trust them? Should we trust them?”
This isn’t just déjà vu—it’s a fundamental challenge that resurfaces with every major shift in how we build software. As Robert Werner points out, management had to give up control and pus...
2025-10-0139 min
Software Defined InterviewsEveryday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah FoxwellIn this episode, Whitney and Coté talk about the integration of AI into daily life with Hannah Foxwell, organizer of AI for the Rest of Us, among many other doings. They talk about stuff like practical applications of AI in daily tasks like finding recipes and tech support to the complexities of adopting AI in professional settings. Hannah also talks about building AI communities and conferences in general. Also, you hear about the upcoming conference AI for the Rest of Us.
You can also watch the video recording of this interview, if you prefer that kind of t...
2025-09-171h 12Software Defined InterviewsEveryday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah FoxwellIn this episode, Whitney and Coté talk about the integration of AI into daily life with Hannah Foxwell, organizer of AI for the Rest of Us, among many other doings. They talk about stuff like practical applications of AI in daily tasks like finding recipes and tech support to the complexities of adopting AI in professional settings. Hannah also talks about building AI communities and conferences in general. Also, you hear about the upcoming conference AI for the Rest of Us.
You can also watch the video recording of this interview, if you prefer that kind of t...
2025-09-171h 12
Waves of Innovation by re:cinqThe Coddling is Over: AI and the New Era for DevelopersFeeling overwhelmed by the new wave of AI jargon? You're not alone. In this episode, we're joined by Hannah Foxwell, a tech leader who, after feeling "bamboozled" at an AI conference, founded the "AI for the Rest of Us" community. Her mission: to help everyone, not just the deep experts, develop the "AI fluency" needed to navigate this new era.Hannah draws fascinating parallels between the current messy, opportunity-rich moment and the early, culture-driven days of the DevOps movement. In a candid conversation, she argues that the era of "coddled developers"...
2025-07-2153 min
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechHow To Lead Through Transformation in Tech • Hannah Foxwell & Charles HumbleThis interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview hereHannah Foxwell - Independent Consultant & Founder of "AI for the rest of us"Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESHannahhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannahfoxwell.nethttps://medium.com/@hannahfoxwellhttps://x.com/HannahFoxwellhttps://github.com/hannahfoxwellhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-foxwellCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin...
2025-05-0950 min
Coffee with DevelopersWhat Does AI Mean for Web Development? - Laurie Voss, Rey Bango, Hannah Foxwell, Rizel Scarlett and Thomas SteinerIf you missed our recent WebDev and AI LIVE Day, then you’re in luck because we’re giving you free access to this fantastic panel of speakers.Laurie Voss, Rey Bango, Hannah Foxwell, Rizel Scarlett and Thomas Steiner joined us to discuss the state of AI, what it means for developers and what the future looks like.----------------------------------------Welcome to WeAreDevelopers, the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career.Stay upda...
2025-04-0447 min
The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrowAdapting your team culture for AI: DevOps Lessons Learned with Hannah FoxwellIn this episode of the AI Native Dev podcast, Simon Maple is joined by Hannah Foxwell, an independent consultant with significant experience in platform engineering, security, and AI. Hannah shares her journey from a release manager to leadership roles at Snyk and VMware, revealing her deep insights into the parallels between DevOps and AI adoption. As a community leader and event organizer, Hannah offers valuable perspectives on the cultural shifts necessary for embracing AI in development teams. Discover how AI is impacting both seasoned and novice developers, the importance of overcoming skepticism, and the future role of AI in...
2025-01-2142 min
FuturiseS2E1 - AgenticAI for the Rest of UsWelcome to the first episode of Season 2 of Futurise. Season 2 will focus in on AgenticAI, speaking to founders, funders and early adopters of the technology to share their insight and lessons learned. In the first episode, Rob is joined by Hannah Foxwell, founder of the AI for the Rest of Us conference, together with Cien Solon, founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade. Links AI for the Rest of Us event ciensolon.com - learn about AI , don't get left behind.launchlemonade.app - the canva for...
2024-10-2117 min
Day Two DevOpsAI For the Rest of Us - New Conference Alert!AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps... Read more »
2024-09-1834 min
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers PodsD2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps... Read more »
2024-09-1834 min
The Fat Pipe - Most Popular Packet Pushers PodsD2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps... Read more »
2024-09-1834 min
The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers PodsD2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps... Read more »
2024-09-1834 min
Engineering Culture by InfoQContinuous Delivery, Psychological Safety and Inclusive Leadership in Software EngineeringThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Hannah Foxwell about her journey in the DevOps community, emphasizing the importance of continuous delivery, psychological safety and inclusive leadership in engineering practice
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4fCwGdR
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2024-08-1628 min
The Sports AgentsWill we ever see boxing at The Olympics again?As the first full week of relentless Olympic drama draws to a close, The Sports Agents, strike GOLD in the studio as Team GB rowers Lola Anderson and Hannah Scott stop in, to reflect on the most nail-biting finish of the Games so far... The pair speak honestly about shattering the traditional image of women in sport and the huge strides sports science is taking to prevent injury in female athletes. Later, Sky Sports' Boxing commentator Andy Clarke joins Gabby & Mark to explain GB Boxing's disastrous Olympics and why its very future, at The Olympic...
2024-08-0143 min
The News Agents - USAHow do you pick a jury for Donald Trump?How do you pick a jury of right-minded individuals to pass a fair verdict on Donald Trump? His lawyers say it's impossible, that this trial is a witch hunt, that he's been gagged AND denied the chance to go to his son's graduation. Meanwhile, the judge has just carried on. They're selecting a jury which will witness the first ever criminal trial of a former US president. We talk to criminal defence attorney - and hardened New Yorker - Randy Scott Zelin about whether justice can be served in such a politicised atmosphere.
2024-04-1638 min
The News AgentsIs Rishi Sunak prepared to pick a fight with China?Once you have revealed that China is hacking British citizens on a major and global scale, the next question is - well, what are you going to do about it? Well this is the one the prime minister is currently pondering. He's talking about putting China on an 'enhanced' list - which basically sounds like a glorified registration. But is he prepared to risk trading links? Or shut down Confucious institutes in the UK - China's soft power - or even say no to tiktok? Also - the Tavistock child gender identity services are shutting...
2024-03-2635 min
Tanzu Talk(Almost) everything you need to know about SRELearn more:
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Reliability Engineering for Humans
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A Service-Level What?
Getting good at messing up, negotiating SRE error budgets, and small talk topics
SLIs and Error Budgets: What These Terms Mean and How They Apply to Your Platform Monitoring Strategy
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2020-12-1834 min
Tanzu Talk(Almost) everything you need to know about SRELearn more:VMware TanzuVMware Pivotal LabsReliability Engineering for HumansA Quick Guide For Getting Up to Speed on SRESRE in 15 MinutesHow RBC adopted SRE culture to help it embrace cloud-native applicationsA Service-Level What?Getting good at messing up, negotiating SRE error budgets, and small talk topicsSLIs and Error Budgets: What These Terms Mean and How They Apply to Your Platform Monitoring StrategyFollow everyone on Twitter:VMware TanzuVMware Pivotal LabsHannah FoxwellDanielle BurrowDerrick Harris
2020-12-1834 minTanzu Talk(Almost) everything you need to know about SRELearn more:VMware TanzuVMware Pivotal LabsReliability Engineering for HumansA Quick Guide For Getting Up to Speed on SRESRE in 15 MinutesHow RBC adopted SRE culture to help it embrace cloud-native applicationsA Service-Level What?Getting good at messing up, negotiating SRE error budgets, and small talk topicsSLIs and Error Budgets: What These Terms Mean and How They Apply to Your Platform Monitoring StrategyFollow everyone on Twitter:VMware TanzuVMware Pivotal LabsHannah FoxwellDanielle BurrowDerrick Harris
2020-12-1834 min
Pivotal PodcastsPlatform operations, organization change, SRE, and HumanOps, with Hannah FoxwellHannah works on the platform operations team at VMware. Her teams helps organizations put platform teams in place that run their cloud native platform, like Pivotal Cloud Foundry. As she says, the platform team that delivers an internal platform as a service to the developers. Hannah has spent a lot of time finding and working with those operations people who end up being SRE-like, coding folks. They're running those centralized cloud platforms in large organizations. We discuss some approaches to changing ops people's work, working through resistance to change, helping ops people become systems programmers, a bit of SRE, and...
2020-02-2800 min
The Women in Tech Show: A Technical PodcastHumanOps (Hannah Foxwell)To develop and maintain software we can have systems that allow us to deploy to production and respond to incidents. Hannah Foxwell, Associate Director at Pivotal, explained the impact these systems can have on the developers and their health. We talked about extreme cases where deployments are done overnight requiring the engineers to be at the office. Hannah explained how processes can be improved to avoid this and metrics that we can use for guidance.
2019-06-1200 min