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GenerationshipEp. #34, Together with Nathen HarveyIn episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience. He and Rachel dive into how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and broader reflections on engineering culture and career growth.The post appeared first on Heavybit.2025-04-1726 min
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #34, Together with Nathen HarveyIn episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience. He and Rachel dive into how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and broader reflections on engineering culture and career growth.The post appeared first on Heavybit.2025-04-1726 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedGenerationship - Ep. #34, Together with Nathen HarveyIn episode 34 of Generationship, Nathen Harvey brings data, humor, and heart to a conversation about AI, DevOps, open source, and developer experience. He and Rachel dive into how AI is influencing software engineering, the role of platform engineering, metrics for assessing performance, and broader reflections on engineering culture and career growth.2025-04-0326 min
The New Stack PodcastWhat’s the Future of Platform Engineering?Platform engineering was meant to ease the burdens of Devs and Ops by reducing cognitive load and repetitive tasks. However, building internal development platforms (IDPs) has proven challenging. Despite this, Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will have a platform team.In a recent New Stack Makers episode, Mallory Haigh of Humanitec and Nathen Harvey of Google discussed the current state and future of platform engineering. Haigh emphasized that many organizations rush to build IDPs without understanding why they need them, leading to ineffective implementations. She noted that platform engineering is 10% technical and 90% cultural change, re...2025-03-2726 min
DevOps Diaries051 — Nathen Harvey: How to Measure Success in the Age of AIHow do DORA metrics apply to the unique challenges of Salesforce development? Join Jack McCurdy and Nathan Harvey as they dive into the evolving landscape of software delivery, exploring the intersection of platform engineering, AI, and human performance. They discuss practical strategies for implementing DORA metrics, navigating the shift to agile, and reducing developer burnout. In this episode they uncover how to foster empathy, improve team collaboration, and leverage AI to enhance your Salesforce development processes. Expect insights on effective tooling, communication strategies, and the importance of questioning the status quo to drive innovation.2025-03-0655 min
Engineering UnblockedThe state of DORA and developer productivity with Nathen Harvey from Google CloudIn today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Nathen Harvey who leads the DORA group at Google Cloud. Nathen shares insights from the 10th annual DORA report, covering topics like the relationship between AI adoption and software stability, the importance of transformational leadership, and the role of quality documentation.
Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/nathen-harvey-google-cloud/
Timestamps
(0:00) Introductions
(0:24) Nathen’s journey to DORA
(3:21) The 10th annual DORA report
(6:20) How DORA collects data on AI
(11:52) Testing hypotheses with qualitative data
(13:49) Communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
(20:04) The importance of transformational leadership
(26:08) Qualifying productivity and valu...2024-12-1646 min
The IT Guy ShowEpisode 8: The Art of Continuous ImprovementWe all seem to have this vision of “arriving” at some tech paradise where everything “just works”. After 17 years in IT, I’d say it's safe to say that will never happen. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for better. Teams that embrace the chaos can make huge strides towards improving their environment.
Welcome to The IT Guy Show, your go-to destination for all things tech with Eric, your friendly neighborhood IT guy! Join Eric as he shares his wealth of knowledge, insights, and experiences gained from years of working in the IT industry. From troublesh...2024-10-0147 min
Reliability Enablers#56 Resolving DORA Metrics MistakesWe're already well into 2024 and it’s sad that people still have enough fuel to complain about various aspects of their engineering life. DORA seems to be turning into one of those problem areas.Not at every organization, but some places are turning it into a case of “hitting metrics” without caring for the underlying capabilities and conversations.Nathen Harvey is no stranger to this problem.He used to talk a lot about SRE at Google as a developer advocate. Then, he became the lead advocate for DORA when Google acquired it in...2024-09-0426 min
Typo LiveWebinar: The Hows & Whats of DORA | Nathen Harvey & Ido ShvekiTypo recently hosted an engaging live webinar titled “The Hows and Whats of DORA”, featuring DORA expert Nathen Harvey and special guest Ido Shveki. With over 170 attendees, they explored DORA and other crucial engineering metrics in depth.Nathen Harvey, the DORA Lead & Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, and Ido, the VP of R&D at BeeHero, one of Typo’s valued customers, brought their unique insights to the discussion.The session explored why only 5-10% of engineering teams actively use DORA metrics and examined the current state of data-driven metrics like DORA and SPACE. It also h...2024-08-0746 min
Hangar DX PodcastDORA metrics and AI with Nathen Harvey of GoogleSummaryIn this conversation, Ankit Jain interviews Nathan Harvey, the leader of DORA at Google Cloud, about the evolution and use of DORA metrics in software delivery and operations. The conversation covers the history of DORA, the design of surveys, the four key metrics for software delivery performance (lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change fail rate, and failed deployment recovery time), and the role of AI in software development. They also discuss the importance of security and compliance when adopting AI and the interplay between DORA metrics and internal surveys within organizations. 2024-07-2536 minDevOps Diaries032 — Nathen Harvey: Using DORA to measure your team performance with confidence!Nathen Harvey is Developer Advocate and the lead for DORA at Google Cloud, their DevOps Research and Assessment unit. For ten years Nathen has spearheaded tech communities and authored several reports that now form the industry standard for measuring DevOps performance. He was once a CRM system administrator too — he knows his stuff and the challenges we all face too!Nathen joins Jack on the DevOps Diaries podcast to discuss all things metrics. In an enticing and insightful conversation, Nathen shares with us how the DORA metrics came to be, what they are, and why measuring performance is...2024-05-3037 min
It's 5:05! Daily cybersecurity and open source briefingEpisode #265: Edwin Kwan: Who Should Bear the Cost of Invoice Scam?; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History; Olimpiu Pop: DORA Metrics - an agile, emotionally safe culture is the way; Shannon Lietz: Security in the DORA Report ; Nathen Harvey: Insights on AI in the DORA ReportFree, ungated access to all 265+ episodes of “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite podcast platforms: https://bit.ly/505-updates. You’re welcome to 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 if your followers will find this of value.The stories we’re covering today.Marcel Brown: November 3rd, 1957. The Soviet Union launches Sputnik the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and the first spacecraft to carry a living creature into orbit. Laika, the Siberian Husky dog, unfortunately only survived a few hours into the flight and died from stress and overheating.Edwin Kwan: Who should bear the cost of invoice scam? The victim, the company the...2023-11-0317 min
Engineering Enablement by Abi NodaKey findings from the 2023 State of Devops Report | Nathen Harvey (DORA at Google)This week’s episode dives into the DORA research program and this year’s State of DevOps Report. Nathen Harvey, who leads DORA at Google, shares the key findings from the research and what’s changed since previous reports. Discussion points:(1:10) What DORA focuses on(2:17) Where the DORA metrics fit (4:35) Introduction to user-centric software development(8:05) Impact of user-centricity on software delivery(9:40) Team performance vs. organizational performance (13:50) Importance of internal documentation(15:19) Methodology for designing surveys(19:52) Impact of documentation on software delivery(23:11) Reemergence of the Elite cluster(25:55) Advice for leaders leveraging benchmarks(28:30) Redefining MTTR(33:45) Changing how Change Failure Rate is...2023-10-2545 min
0800-DEVOPS2023 State of DevOps Report with Nathen HarveyThis episode is a special one for me since, for the first time, I have a reappearance in the show – my friend Nathen Harvey, the godfather of the DORA community! We talked about the community, the inaugural DORA Summit, and the freshly published 2023 State of DevOps Report. Nathen touched upon a couple of very interesting insights and shared a ton of advice!An interesting insight is about trunk-based development influencing burnout. Community is working hard to explain this so feel free to join the DORA community trunk-based development discussion that is scheduled for Thursday, December 7 at 6PM...2023-10-2236 min
Dev InterruptedUnpacking DORA’s State of DevOps Report | Nathen HarveyWhat does this year’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023 mean for your team?LinearB & DORA have officially joined forces. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, co-host Conor Bronsdon interviews Nathen Harvey, Head of Google Cloud’s DORA team. With data gathered from over 36,000 global professionals, this year’s report investigated how top DevOps performers integrate technical, process, and cultural capabilities into their practices for success.Listen to learn how your team can focus on three core outcomes of DevOps: enhancing organizational value, boosting team innovation and collaboration, and promoting team member we...2023-10-1745 min
Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Romance, Historical[Spanish] - Dulce encuentro bajo la luna by Verónica MengualPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683036 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dulce encuentro bajo la luna Series: #2 of Bajo la luna Author: Verónica Mengual Narrator: Estela Benita Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Harvey Peterson es el hijo menor de una americana con demasiado carácter. La antigua condesa de Lancaster, Clarise, está segura de que algo ha hecho mal con Harvey. En especial cuando se presenta ante su puerta la joven hija del vicario apuntando a su pequeño como el padre del b...2023-04-2403 min
Engineering Enablement by Abi NodaA masterclass on DORA – research program, common pitfalls, and future direction | Nathen Harvey (Google)Nathen Harvey, who leads DORA at Google, explains what DORA is, how it has evolved in recent years, the common challenges companies face as they adopt DORA metrics, and where the program may be heading in the future.—Discussion points:(1:48) What DORA is today and how it exists within Google(3:37) The vision for Google and DORA coming together(5:20) How the DORA research program works(7:53) Who participates in the DORA survey(9:28) How the industry benchmarks are identified (11:05) How the reports have evo...2023-01-2554 min
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know • Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey & Chris WilliamsThis interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview hereEmily Freeman - Head of DevOps Product Marketing, Head of Community Engagement at AWS & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"Nathen Harvey - Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"Chris Williams - Cloud Therapist at World Wide TechnologyDESCRIPTIONMigrating to the cloud has become a "sine qua non" these days. The compact articles in 97 Things Every...2023-01-1343 min0800-DEVOPS2022 State of DevOps Report with Nathen HarveyNathen Harvey needs little introduction in DevOps community. He is Developer Advocate at Google, co-author of State of DevOps Report and co-author of a great book called “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know”. We talked about insights and surprises from this year’s State of DevOps Report. And Nathen shared his view on recent hot takes that “DevOps is dead” 🙂Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report – The latest Report is out! As always, it’s full of valuable insights with a special focus on software supply chain security and a lo...2022-11-2243 min
Google Cloud Platform Podcast2022 State of DevOps Report with Nathen Harvey and Derek DeBellisOn the show this week, we’re talking updated DevOps practices for 2022 with hosts Stephanie Wong and Chloe Condon and our guests Nathen Harvey and Derek DeBellis. Nathen and Derek start the show with a thorough discussion of DORA, the research program dedicated to helping organizations improve software delivery and operations, and the state of DevOps report that Google publishes every year. This year, the DevOps research team strengthened their focus on security and discovered that one of the biggest predictors in security practice adoption is company culture. Open, communicative, and trustful company cultures are some of th...2022-10-0544 min
Tech Lead Journal#68 - 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report - Nathen Harvey“Many organizations think in order to be safe, they have to be slow. But the data shows us that the best performers are getting both. And in fact, as speed increases, so too does stability."
Nathen Harvey is the co-author of 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and a Developer Advocate at Google. In this episode, we discussed in-depth the latest release of the State of DevOps Report. Nathen started by describing what the report is all about, how it got started, and explained the five key metrics suggested by the report to measure the software delivery and op...2021-12-1347 min
Google Cloud Platform PodcastState of DevOps Report 2021 with Nathen Harvey and Dustin SmithThis week, Stephanie Wong and Carter Morgan are talking about the recently released State of DevOps Report. Guests Dustin Smith and Nathen Harvey tell us all about DORA, the research group working to study DevOps, and the findings of their years-long study aimed at improving workplace environments, fostering sustainable increased productivity, and ensuring quality output across industries. During their years of research, the DORA team has developed ways to measure team results and workplace culture. Our guests tell us about the five measures they use, including deployment frequency and reliability. The shared responsibility and collaboration of teams...2021-11-1045 min
Screaming in the CloudDriving State-of-the-Art DevOps with Nathen HarveyAbout NathenNathen Harvey, Cloud Developer Advocate at Google, helps the community understand and apply DevOps and SRE practices in the cloud. Nathen formerly led the Chef community, co-hosted the Food Fight Show, and managed operations and infrastructure for a diverse range of web applications. Links:cloud.google.com/devops: https://cloud.google.com/devops97 Things every Cloud Engineer Should Know: https://shop.aer.io/oreilly/p/97-things-every/9781492076735-9149Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathenharvey2021-05-2033 min
Page it to the Limit97 Things With Nathen Harvey and Emily FreemanGet Emily and Nathen’s book, 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, now available at O’Reilly.
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2021-02-0130 minPage it to the Limit97 Things With Nathen Harvey and Emily FreemanEmily Freeman and Nathen Harvey join Mandi to talk about their book *97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know* and some HugOps.2021-02-0130 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastDevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez HumbleHappy Thanksgiving! This week, Aja and Brian are talking DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble. Our guests thoroughly explain what DevOps is and why it’s important. DevOps purposely has no official definition but can be thought of as a community of practice that aims to make large-scale systems reliable and secure. It’s also a way to get developers and operations to work together to focus on the needs of the customer. Nathen later tells us all about DevOpsDays, a series of locally organized conferences occurring in cities around the world. The main goal is to b...2019-11-2734 min
Google Cloud Platform PodcastDevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez HumbleHappy Thanksgiving! This week, Aja and Brian are talking DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble. Our guests thoroughly explain what DevOps is and why it’s important. DevOps purposely has no official definition but can be thought of as a community of practice that aims to make large-scale systems reliable and secure. It’s also a way to get developers and operations to work together to focus on the needs of the customer.Nathen later tells us all about DevOpsDays, a series of locally organized conferences occurring in cities around the world. The main goal is to brin...2019-11-2734 min
DevOps Days PodcastInterdisciplinary EngineeringWhen building reliable services unexpected user behavior can prove deadly. Yet few engineering teams make use of talent from their product and design orgs if they are working on something internal. This talk will demonstrate how a product mindset and design thinking can super charge technical discussions and build stronger systems. Don't rely on the user to be "smart!" It can trap you in an impossible architecture.2019-08-0424 min
Achieving DevOpsNathen Harvey of GoogleWe have a nice little sit-down with Nathen Harvey, formerly of Chef, and now at a little mom-and-pop startup called Google! Nathen is a heckuva guy and has me rolling around a few times; he brings a ton of enthusiasm and experience to the table. Join us as we talk about the role of configuration management and provisioning tools alongside containers, how to go about getting executive buy-in, and the power of a small success story with something called a DevOps Dojo. We couldn't agree more with Nathen - no more horse manure with DevOps!2019-07-2455 minDevOps Days PodcastAll Tech is Debt All your tech is old. Even your new stuff is already old: somebody's already building something that's better. And they're probably going to give it away for free! So, what can you do about that? I have thoughts. We all spend a lot of energy trying to discover tech debt, and eliminate it. Fat chance! In this talk, I will convince you that all tech is debt, and that it's futile to try to live debt-free. Why? Because none of your tech is an asset; it's *all* liability. From the minute it's created, it's already old. It has security...2019-07-1405 minDevOps Days PodcastA Software Engineer's Guide to DevOpsI'm a software engineer who spends her time writing code and developing apps. I have a pretty good grasp of the vocabulary and technologies relevant to my job. But what happens when another facet of engineering, one that is gaining a lot of traction and has a large footprint of its own starts becoming more and more relevant to my day to day tasks? Well, that's exactly what happened to me last year when DevOps became a big part of my role. This is my attempt to impart all of that knowledge onto you.2019-07-1426 minDevOps Days PodcastApplication Secret Management with AWSTaking advantage of AWS Parameter Store and some automation magic to make secret change management a problem of the past. We will talk about: The importance of secrets management Use Cases Parameter Store vs. Secret Manager Secret Vault and Application Integration points OSS Tools for Automation 2019-07-1328 minDevOps Days PodcastResilience Engineering: The What and HowResilience Engineering (RE) is both multidisciplinary field of study as well as a community of practitioner-researchers from multiple high-tempo, high-consequence domains such as aviation, medicine, power distribution, space operations, and critical infrastructure. In recent years, the world of software engineering and operations has become involved and more acquainted with this almost 20 year-old field and community. This talk will give a “lay of the land” on what RE is, what it is not, what efforts are relevant to the DevOps community, what attendees can do to learn more.2019-07-1339 min
Software Defined TalkSLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.
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On-Call Nightmares PodcastEpisode 24 - Nathen Harvey - Google<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/7e/ff/df/jaydestro73507/3000x3000_13848604.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Live from ChefConf 2019, I talk with Nathen Harvey about outages, lunch and a life spent in technology.
This was one of my favorite podcast interviews because Nathen is one of my major influences and mentors in what we do in Developer Advocacy and Relations in technology. He's taught me so much over the years and has done his best to check in with me during the tough moments, like another member of the on-call team...2019-05-2338 min
Community PulseBig Company, Little Company - the differences in DevRel at large & small companies (Ep 32)Checkouts
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Gmorning, Gnight...2019-01-2349 minDevOps Days PodcastIf you can polyfill for Internet Explorer, you can optimize for a screenreader. As developers, we take great pains to make our applications accessible to users on a range of devices and browsers. There are more adults with disabilities in the US than there are users of Internet Explorer. So why do we spend more time worrying about polyfills for out-dated browsers than we do on ensuring the accessibility of our applications for users of all ability levels? This talk will emphasize the importance of incorporating accessibility best practices throughout our design and development workflow. Simulated experiences of engaging with inaccessible software will provide insight into the realities that millions of users...2018-08-1334 minDevOps Days PodcastDevOps for AI Today--Incorporating AI into applications is as easy as a single API call. Once imbued with AI, these transformed applications can improve over time as they learn from user interactions. How do we manage these new learning systems to ensure that they take advantage of all available information while maintaining accuracy and minimizing bias? This talk will discuss common problems encountered when designing and implementing AI systems and how DevOps practices can be used to address these issues. DevOps practitioners will learn the relevance of their skillset and practices to the rapidly evolving AI domain. The problem of properly managing...2018-08-1304 minDevOps Days PodcastDevOps in Politics Working technology for a political campaign involves the shortest timelines, tightest deadlines, and highest stakes you will likely ever encounter in a technology career. Come hear a tale of two political campaigns - a state measure campaign and a presidential campaign - and the application of both DevOps technologies and culture to move fast, pivot quickly, and hopefully win. One of the key challenges of politics - as well as DevOps in general - is harnessing automation without losing the critical human touch which moves hearts and changes minds. Learn how to find the line where too much automation...2018-08-1325 minDevOps Days PodcastSecurity, Compliance, and Regulations: DevOps for Data Privacy GDPR is upon us, along with new requirements for protecting user data. Many of us in the DC ecosystem are no strangers to compliance! We have expertise in HIPAA, SOC, PCI, and of course the stringencies associated with government work. But GDPR's new requirements are taking effect at the same time that many users are demanding increased privacy and transparency about their data (as a backlash to the Cambridge Analytica scandal) regardless of regulation. We'll look at best practices for DevOps teams to respond to this increased need for privacy, transparency and security around user data. In...2018-08-1330 minDevOps Days PodcastWelcome to DevOpsDays DC 20182018-08-1309 min
Arrested DevOpsTheatre Geeks Unite and Tech Over the WorldOn this episode of Arrested DevOps, Trevor is joined by Chloe Condon, Nathen Harvey, and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Everyone on this episode has been a part of the theater community at some point in their lives. We talk about our individual journeys from theater into tech, the lessons we learned on the way, and how we leverage those lessons every day.
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Ruby RoguesRR 348: Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-HarringtonPanel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-HarringtonIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panelist speak with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Nell is the Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, the CTO at Operation Code. Nathen is the VP Community at Chef. The topic of discussion is about Chef. Chef is a platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:What is Dev Ops? A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high-velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.Chef Automate...2018-02-061h 01DevOps Days PodcastSecuring the Death Star in Your Pocket - DevOpsDays DC - 2017Learn how we established a service providing development teams with a continuous integration, build, test, source code management, and an issue tracking environment for building mobile apps for a large Federal Agency. Mobile phones are the world's greatest surveillance tool, containing all our private information that we willingly carry in our pocket everywhere we go. How do we develop and operationalize applications for mobile phones in a safe and secure way? Our system performs iterative tests on apps to provide insights on mobile app security and privacy, in compliance with several Federal Agencies standard operating procedures for deployments. Learn...2017-09-0129 minDevOps Days PodcastPersistence with Devops: Handling Database Updates and Migrations - DevOpsDays DC - 2017One of the more unique and complicated areas of devops is dealing with database updates, especially those for databases with pre-defined schemas like relational databases. Databases generally: Need to stay online during updates Should not be destroyed and re-created Frequently have changes that can be long running and have impacts to the running application code Have implied or explicit dependencies between the database schema and application code or across shards in a sharded database Still have the same requirements as application code for being traceably updated And should be updated in an automated fashion as part of your de...2017-09-0133 minDevOps Days PodcastChange the Script: Deploy Improv, Not DevOps - DevOpsDays DC - 2017The cornerstone of bringing together "development" and "operations" is collaboration. Collaboration sounds great on paper, but when the scales tip, you may end up with anarchy, or a dictatorship. How do you balance all of that while still managing to get things done? Enter: improv. Learn from theatre artist Melanie Harker and artist/developer Sean Paul Ellis how to taking a more fluid and fun approach to your DevOps work will allow you to build empathy, a common language, and ultimately, an environment for innovation to cultivate.2017-09-0129 minDevOps Days PodcastChanging Diversity Constructs, My Journey as a Women in DevOps - DevOpsDays DC - 2017This is a deeply personal talk where I share my experiences as a woman in tech. Even though I'd worked for NASA and co-founded my own successful company, rampant sexism in IT and bad experiences speaking in public nearly destroyed my career. That continued to have ripples in my life until I found the DevOps community and the safe spaces it creates. I will examine common constructs about diversity and propose ideas to bring productive change to continue to build upon the solid foundation of inclusion we have created.2017-09-0124 minDevOps Days PodcastDevOpsDays DC 2017 - Hallway TrackInterviews and insights from participants of DevOpsDays DC 2017.2017-09-0144 minDevOps Days PodcastLessons learned defending web applications when embracing DevOpsThe standard approach for web application security over the last decade and beyond has focused heavily on slow gatekeeping controls like static analysis and dynamic scanning. However, these controls was originally designed in a world of Waterfall development and their heavy weight nature often cause more problems than they solve in today’s world of agile, DevOps, and CI/CD. This talk will share practical lessons learned at Etsy on the most effective application security techniques in todays increasingly rapid world of application creation and delivery. Specifically, it will cover how to:
1) Adapt traditionally heavyweight controls like stat...2017-09-0131 minDevOps Days PodcastBuild - Test - Monitor: Microservice Monitoring for Developers on a CaaS Platform - DevOpsDays DC - 2017For the past two years my team and I worked with a large federal agency to deploy & migrate to a new container-as-a-service platform based on Docker. The migration has enabled development teams to isolate components of their code for faster, more reliable development. But, we also saw that the additional tooling - such as monitoring technology - supporting these services doesn’t yet map to the model that developers need to efficiently monitor their own services. In essence, the Develop->Test->Monitor loop is still broken for modern environments. So how do you fix it? This presentation is...2017-09-0121 minDevOps Days PodcastRolling Boulders Forever Uphill - DevOps with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Custom Slackbots - DevOpsDays DC - 2017In Greek Mythology, the Gods cursed Sisyphus to spend eternity rolling a large boulder to the top of a mountain, where it would fall back of its own weight. In DevOps, we're forever rolling boulders uphill. We're making deploys faster, cheaper, smoother, and quicker. And once the boulder reaches the mountain top, the engineers rearchitect the application and the the process begins again. At Upside Travel, Slack is our central command hub. We run our full operations through Slack ChatOps. Engineers request code reviews, product managers examine tickets, and the Slack-integrated NOC works slack-alerted events. We also...2017-09-0128 minDevOps Days PodcastDevOps: Lessons Learned From Detroit To Deming - DevOpsDays DC - 2017In 1982, the city of Detroit saw 15,000 vehicles roll of its production lines every day. To achieve this goal, Detroit's line workers were being measured on velocity, often at the expense of quality. At the same time, auto workers in Japan -- applying lessons from W. Edwards Deming -- were implementing new supply chain management practices which enabled them to manufacture higher quality vehicles, for less cost, at higher velocity. As a result, from 1962 to 1982, the Detroit auto industry lost 20% of its domestic market to Japan. The parallels between the auto industry of 35 years ago and software development...2017-09-0130 min
The Web Platform Podcast96: DevOps & ChefNathen Harvey (@nathenharvey), VP of Community Development at Chef Software, joins us to discuss modern devops culture, tools, and practices as well as how Chef Software can help teams automate, scale, and reproduce tasks, and environments. Nathen defined devops as how to build high velocity organizations by reducing build and deployment cycles. Topics includes how to manage your infrastructure like code, devops community, Chef cookbooks and recipes, and improving your devops knowledge and processes as web developer. Resources Chef & Habitat http://www.chef.io - Main Website http://learn.chef.io - T...2016-07-0700 min
DevOps ChatDevOps Chat with Nathen Harvey, Chef on security & compliance scanningDevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sits down with Nathen Harvey, VP of Community Development. Nathen gave us his insight into the importance of security and compliance scanning while code is still on the developers work station. Security and compliance is everyone's responsibility and the earlier in the process it is done, the easier it is. Chef is playing a leading role in this mission and Nathen tells us a little bit about what they are doing. You can find more at http://www.chef.io/compliance.2016-06-0215 min
Community PulseMaking The Jump From One To Many (Ep 07)TL;DR:
Given that community management is a relatively new profession, it’s difficult to know how and when to expand the department. Add to that the nebulousness around what a community professional does depending on the goals of the company, and it’s near impossible! In this episode of Community Pulse we were joined by Nathen Harvey (VP of Community Development, Chef) and Phil Leggetter (Head of Developer Relations, Nexmo) to talk about learning to scale a community role.
We talk about working closely with other departments that have similar (but not the same) goals and...2016-05-201h 15DevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Day 2 Ignites• Daniel Willis - Putting the R in Sports• Mark Morris - You, Me & StatsD• Sara Cowles - If you want to have an impact, Devops is not enough• Jason Hand - The Emergence of ChatOps• Matt Stratton - DevOps in the Machine2015-11-1026 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - not all devops luminaries2015-11-1038 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Let's Safety DanceI hate computers. How many times have you heard those words? Or said them yourself. Systems crash and go boom all the time. The easiest thing to do is to blame the person touching the keyboard when it happens. Especially when that person touching the keyboard is you. But how do we build safer systems? How do we build humane systems, systems that actually engage and even delight the user? Sidney Dekker says "Safety improvements come from organizations monitoring the gap between procedures and practice". How can you build a system for safety if the way the system is...2015-11-1025 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Cheffing Etsy: Do too many cooks really spoil the soup?It's an oft-quoted adage that too many cooks spoil the soup. But is this always true? At Etsy, we have roughly 40 Ops and Developers making upwards of 20 or 30 Chef changes per day.
In this talk, I'll look at the tools, techniques and workflows we leverage to enable tens of people spread across teams, timezones and even countries to work together to continuously deliver Chef changes with nearly the same frequency we ship code. Although the specific tooling discussed in this talk is designed to work with Chef, many of the techniques and practices I'll talk about are...2015-11-1039 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - The New New Software Game2015-11-1034 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Day 1 Ignites• Jenna Pederson - Stop Blogging About Women In Tech• Michael Lanyon - Effortless WebPerf Monitoring• Larye Pohlman - Vulnerability• Jason Clifford - GameOps• Jason Walker - Empathy, Fairness, and Contentment2015-11-0928 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Helping developers monitor their own applicationI'm a developer. I barely know what Nagios is, let alone how to set it up or configure new alerts. But I do know a lot about the application I'm working on, and I know how to code. By building a framework for easily adding new monitoring rules, the operations team at Swiftype has opened up application-level monitoring for the whole development team. I'll talk about the tools we wrote and explain how they allow developers to easily add new monitoring checks that probe our application (including web services, queues, and database) and alert the team by email, chat...2015-11-0931 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Rolling Your Own vs SaaSAt Bloom Health, we're operating in a highly regulated environment (including HIPAA & PII) while at the same time running our infrastructure in public cloud. This leads to a number of considerations and tradeoffs when choosing the various parts of our stack. I'll detail the considerations we've undertaken, the compromises and winding paths towards workable solutions, and the specific technologies we've found work better for us as in-house solutions versus those where we've found SaaS to be the optimal (or at least acceptable) choice.2015-11-0927 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - DevOps in the Public SectorThe IT community in the public sector has a sizeable, but frequently forgotten influence on peoples lives. Have you tried to renew a license plate online recently? How about navigated https://www.healthcare.gov/ to get health insurance? Used online learning tools for a public educational institution? Have any of these experiences been pleasant, or what you would expect from a well run modern website? These websites are your tax dollars at work. Are there reasons why we maybe aren't seeing the cultural ideas of DevOps reaching public sector IT shops as quickly?
Public sector organizations differ...2015-11-0932 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - DevOps: The Missing PiecesDevops has come a long way in the 5+ years since its inception. From simply breaking down silos and automating/measuring all the things, we’ve grown and started talking recently about complexity and inclusivity, burnout and empathy. We started trying to make people's professional lives better in the fields of development and operations; this expanded in two dimensions: both including more teams (QA! Databases! Even security!) and outside of the office, encouraging people to think about burnout and work-life balance.
What’s missing from this picture? Or rather, what’s next for devops? I’d like to propose...2015-11-0933 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Introduction2015-11-0907 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Day2 Ignites• How to make a shift from traditional model to DevOps? (Namrata Rao)• Repository as an deployment artifact (Inny So)• Developer Happiness at RedMart (Surya Dharma Tio)• DevOps and the CFO (Benjamin Henshall)2015-11-0921 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Devops meets Functional ProgrammingThis is a story of an Infrastructure team at Zalora that implemented DevOps using Haskell and Nix.
The story is about:
• drowning in inherent complexity of existing Puppet configuration• establishing a functional programming community inside the company• implementing configuration management using purely-functional language and package manager Nix and using NixOS as the base OS• challenges of using new tools at scale• building cloud infrastructure tools using Haskell• building a code-driven deployment platform borrowing design practices from Erlang/OTP, Mesos and other successful distributed system frameworks, accommodating engineering team growth• overcoming ado...2015-11-0933 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - State Of The 'DevOps' UnionThis presentation covers the current state of the Devops movement as presented by one of the original "Core Organizers" of the movement. The presentation will look at some of the taxonomies that have been used to describe Devops such as CAMS and ICE. It will also cover the recent 2015 Devops Survey and we will end up with a discussion about how Devops is being adopted in the enterprise.2015-11-0943 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Scaling Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK)At Viki, we run a number of micro services that process thousands of requests per second in various geographical regions. Micro service architecture helps us break down the complexity of building a large distributed system, but also introduces the complexity of debugging an issue.
This talk is about log processing at scale - building an Elasticsearch cluster that can handle tens of thousands of events per second from all levels of a micro-service container based architecture.2015-11-0921 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - The Paradox of ProgressMy first exposure to a DevOps Days was in 2010. I was an early adopter of most of the tools, took part in the heated iClassify debate, was contributing to Chef before it had a name, back when it was still a pet project at HJK Solutions.. As things evolved, we tried the offshoots that we hoped would fill the gaps.. MCollective, opscode-agent, but really we were just trading one problem for another..
DevOps Days was started in this gap, and over the years I have seen more and more vendor and product encroachment, and fewer people (especially...2015-11-0936 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Day 1 Ignites• Sustainable Innovation - the Business Mantra for DevOps in Enterprise (Anoop Kumar Bhat)• The Power of Personal Influence (Kimble Ngo)• Agile: Break it down (Yue Lin Choong)• #noprojects (Evan Leybourn)• Crawl before you Run, Implementing DevOps (Jason Man)• Automated Docker Image Builds with Jenkins, Packer, and Kubernetes (Oyvind Roti)2015-10-3033 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Security and Continuous DeliveryWe will share our success stories and lessons learned on working toward Continuous Delivery on a public facing web application for a popular website. This will cover Infrastructure Engineering, Build and Release Engineering, End to End Auditability and Tracability, 1 Click Application Deployments, and Security from the Infrastructure to the Application Workflow.2015-10-3029 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Agile Service Provider (Telco) Transformation: What does it take to be Agile?As service providers(Telco's) begin to transform their business to embrace Virtualization & Cloud ( ie SDN & NFV) their network operations/service delivery teams needs to evolve. While Virtualization & Cloud make it easy to rapidly expand the size of infrastructure, but the habits and practices they used in the past with hardware-based infrastructure don't keep up. The Network operations teams need to adopt IT’s DevOps practices to maximize the potential benefits of the evolving software-defined infrastructure. This includes adopting new tools that enhance agility, implementing agile operational and organizational models and procedures, and in some cases adopting a new culture. Th...2015-10-3029 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - How a payment processing company turned into a software release factoryThere was a company which had typical long running releases and the business was not happy. Business wanted change but IT was not sure how to deliver. Then they heard about Agile. It looked like the magic potion to all their problems.They started doing Agile but it just meant more work for the team and a chaos during the last days of the sprint. Operations was still not happy. Then they heard about another magic potion called Devops, which forced them to think about continuous delivery. I'll talk about the various tools being used in order to bring...2015-10-3030 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Life at REA Group - Lessons from 7 years of DevOpsREA Group is the parent company of one of the most popular Australian websites - realestate.com.au.
Over the past 7 years REA Group has scaled from a 30 odd IT workforce to 200 across multiple locations.
From Waterfall to Agile. From archaic to an employer of choice.
Over my 7 years at REA we have lessons which I’d love to share on
• Hiring Operations and Developers• Getting Operations and Developers to collaborate• Optimising teams to be more effective• Overcoming cultural differences in a distributed team - particularly Asian and Western cu...2015-10-3032 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Organizational Learning Through Trolling2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Monitoring as a First Step to a New Service2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Chef Workflow2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - How the Fork Do I Contribute to Open Source2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Day of the Donkey2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - The DevOps Pipeline2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Frameworks for Feedback2015-10-3000 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - It's More Than Feature Toggles: Enabling Applications for Continuous Delivery2015-10-3000 min
Arrested DevOpsCreating DevOps Communities and Events With Andy Burgin, Dustin Collins, and Nathen HarveyMatt spends the entire episode claiming that Nathen was famous for being on ADO11, when in fact it was ADO14.
Check Outs
Nathen
If you’re at a big conf, find the locals and do a mini meetup onsite
DevOpsDays Podcast
Public post mortems
Andy
charlesproxy.com
John Leech - Nagios Song
TechnologyUG Leeds Event
Dustin
ContainerDays NYC - Oct 29-30 - Docker Docker Docker
Downtown NYC Tech is meeting Oct 28 - Boyd Hemphill/Docker in production
CMXHub - Good articles/videos on community building
Jenkins Job DSL - Conjur re...2015-10-1400 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - What DevOps is Not2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Does QA have a place in DevOps? Heck yeah!2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Parental Advisory: Explicit Content2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - LaundryOps - Explaining DevOps to Normal People2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Your Goat Antifragiled My Snowflake!2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Brainstorming Failure2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Building World Class Ops Teams2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Enabling Microservices @ Orbitz2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - State of the DevOps2015-10-0800 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Conversation 201: what stuttering can teach you about connectingDevelopers are trained to communicate to things with a goal in mind. When you're talking to something like, say a computer, you type in your code and it responds by giving you back what you want. Nine times out of ten, it works perfectly. Why, then, is it so difficult to do this same thing when talking to a client about a project, updating a superior on your progress, or pitching an investor your million-dollar idea? Because talking to people requires a special set of skills - namely, empathy and a little bit of storytelling. In an industry filled...2015-10-0621 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Ethical and Sustainable On-CallIt's 2:30 AM and you hear your phone buzz. You reach over and see an alert from PagerDuty. That new service your team has been working on for a few weeks has crashed and you don't know the first thing about debugging Clojure apps. After crawling out of bed and logging into your company's VPN you discover your co-workers have left you absolutely no documentation on what to do when "bad things happen". You sit there wondering if you'll be getting back to bed tonight.
Sound familiar? It doesn't have to be this way. On-call doesn't have to...2015-10-0622 minDevOps Days Podcast2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Confessions of a social engineerFull title: Confessions of a social engineer: Why developers are my favorite target
Social engineers use a dangerous combination of technology and old fashioned con artistry to infiltrate organizations every day. In this talk we'll walk through the social engineering process including research, target selection, attack selection, and attack execution. Learn to see the world through the eyes of a social engineer and prevent yourself from being a victim.2015-10-0643 min
The CloudcastThe Cloudcast #208 - Infrastructure as CodeBrian talks with Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey, Community Manager @chef) about how he became a Community Manager, his passion for DevOps, The Food Fight podcast, the future of configuration management and the best first steps to developing the skills to build infrastructure-as-code at your company.
Interested in the Tech Reckoning? Our friend John Troyer (@jtroyer) does an outstanding job building communities. He's hosting an awesome event in Half Moon Bay, CA on Sept.13-14 for IT professionals and leaders that are shaping the future of the industry. You don't want to miss this one!
Sign up here! http://signup.te...2015-08-1337 minRuby Rogues113 RR DevOps with Nathen HarveyIn this episode, the Rogues talk about DevOps with Nathen Harvey of Chef.Special Guest: Nathen Harvey. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.2013-07-101h 11