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Cloud Native Testing PodcastWhy Ephemeral Environments Are a Game-Changer for Testing with Ramiro BerrellezaIn this episode, Ole sits down with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO and co-founder of Okteto, to explore the evolution and impact of ephemeral environments in cloud-native development. They discuss the challenges of testing in traditional setups, how Kubernetes enables ephemeral environments, and their growing role beyond testing—spanning customer research, support, and more. The conversation also dives into data management strategies and the seamless integration of ephemeral environments into the development lifecycle, emphasizing faster feedback loops and enhanced collaboration between developers and QA teams.--This podcast is proudly sponsored by Testkube, the cloud-native, ve...
2025-04-0230 min
The Business of Open SourceMaintaining Control of your Brand with Ramiro BerrellezaThis week on The Business of Open Source, I have a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA this fall, with Ramiro Berrelleza, the CEO of Okteto. We kicked off the conversation with a discussion about branding. Okteto is the name of the company, the name of the project and the name of the product. We started this conversation because it had been a big part of conversations I had with other founders at KubeCon. Most interesting to me was that while Ramiro explained how that decision was made, he said he was 50% happy w...
2024-12-1824 min
AmazicOkteto 3.0 brings remote deployments, faster build times, and deeper insights to platform engineeringRamiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, joins us to talk about what's new at their startup. Their focus is still on enabling deployment velocity. They do this in a variety of ways such as enabling completely remote deployments, reducing container build times with smart builds, giving developers real-time feedback on test results, and deep insights into developer productivity. Berrelleza also touches on their work related to creating sandbox environments for AI workloads, and how it can save valuable GPU resources. Tune in to catch it all in this fast-paced episode.
2024-11-2657 min
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#11 - Ramiro Berrelleza - The Science of Building Cloud Native DevToolsCatch Ramiro Berrelleza — Founder and CEO at Okteto talk about how impactful DevTool startups are built, the importance of investing in Developer Experience, and the emerging issues in the Cloud Native ecosystem.
2024-06-2134 min
Kubernetes for Humans#021 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Ramiro Berrelleza (Okteto)Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he currently lives in San Francisco.
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2024-03-1329 min
Podcast Ruined by a Software EngineerSolving "It Works On My Machine" with Ramiro Berrelleza | Ep. 37Reach out to podcast@okteto.com for a free session on how to improve your developer's experience.Ramiro Berrelleza is the Founder and CEO of Okteto, an online platform where a team of developers can automatically spin up development environments on the cloud so they can all be coding in the same app configurations.Dive into topics such as what it took to deliver software on a hard yearly deadline, how you can build a team before building a product, what kind of feature requests come in from developers using your tools and much more...
2024-02-021h 47
Developer StoriesJust Like the MoviesToday we talk to Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO of Okteto about his story of falling in love with computers as a kid, and pursuring a non-traditional path that has led him from industry to consulting to leading companies. We have a lot of fun talking about web technologies, and our shared experiences. This episode is full of great stories that range from discovering the weather in different parts of the United States to finding belonging in a new place.
2024-02-0141 min
The Tech TrekBuilding Software Cheaper and FasterIn this episode, host Amir interviews Ramiro Berrelleza, the founder and CEO of Okteto. They discuss the concept of building software cheaper and faster, exploring the changing landscape of development costs and productivity. They also delve into the impact of tools like GitHub Copilot on team efficiency and delivery. Ramiro highlights how Okteto's platform automates development workflows in Kubernetes, allowing developers to focus on coding and creating value rather than setting up environments manually. The conversation explores the challenge of balancing cost, speed, and quality in software development. Tune in to gain insights into optimizing development processes and achieving...
2024-01-2528 min
Legacy Code RocksDeveloper Experience with Ramiro BerrellezaHow to set up developers for success? For the longest time, companies left developers to their own devices to figure out the workflows and tools they will be using. As the teams grew, so did their problems due to the lack of established procedures and good practices. Today, we talk with Ramiro Berrelleza, the CEO and co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for developer experience automation. Ramiro is a true visionary, continuously searching for new ways to improve the software development process and build a more inclusive tech industry. When you finish listening to the e...
2024-01-2438 min
Tech for Founder Podcast with Panida Wayrojpitak#27 - Y Combinator Backed Founder Reveals Developer Tool Success Story!In this insightful discussion, "How a Y Combinator Founder Raised $15,000,000 and Transformed Developer Experience" on Tech for Founder Podcast, Ramiro Berrelleza, a Y Combinator backed founder who is revolutionizing the developer experience shares his journey from impactful roles at Microsoft, and Atlassian to founding Okteto. He discusses how past experiences have shaped his leadership style, ethos on transparency, and enhancing developer efficiency. Ramiro elaborates on the Okteto's collaboration with monday.com, leading to a 47% increase in developer efficiency, and extending the conversation to the challenges of aligning tools with dynamic development environments. This interview dives into fostering inclusivity within...
2024-01-2348 minAmazicOkteto enables a modern developer experience with one-click development environmentsPoor developer experience slows down developers, delays product launches, and costs organizations money. Platform engineering has emerged as the solution to enabling a modern developer experience that is hassle-free, consistent, predictable, and just works. Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, joins us to talk about all things developer experience, platform engineering, and how Okteto is changing the way teams build and ship software. His advice is to focus on the 20% that makes your organization unique and adopt standardized practices and tooling that solves for the remaining 80%. Lots of wisdom and insight are packed into this conversation. We hope...
2023-12-141h 04
Realities RemixedCR041: Unleashing developer creativity with Ramiro Berrelleza, OktetoAutomation in software development is a way to minimise errors during the software development process, make it faster and more cost-efficient, and improve team collaboration and productivity. Highly effective development teams dedicate their best staff to this task, believing it will unlock new levels of developer productivity and creativity.This week, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, a company that modernises the development experience, about the core idea and founding of Okteto, why developer automation has high value attached to it, whether business leadership are engaging with it as route t...
2023-11-0239 min
Status GoWhy Invest in your Dev Team | Ramiro BerrellezaIn this episode of "Status Go," Jeff Ton speaks with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto, about the significance of investing in your development team, offering insights on industry trends and actionable advice for technology leaders to enhance productivity and innovation.
The post Status Go: Ep. 229 – Why Invest in your Dev Team | Ramiro Berrelleza appeared first on InterVision Systems.
2023-10-0933 min
Engineering FoundersOpen-source to commercial product, repeatable sales models + making your 1st marketing hire w/ Ramiro BerrellezaRamiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO @ Okteto, shares how his company transitioned from an open-source project to a category-creating commercial product and repeatable sales model. He reveals the benefits & opportunities of open source and the potential for community buy-in. Plus strategies for creating a repeatable sales model, how open source projects can guide early-stage decisions, when to begin identifying / building customer personas, prioritization strategies for engineering resources, and recommendations for early-stage hiring, especially for your first marketing hire.ABOUT RAMIRO BERRELLEZARamiro Berrelleza is the CEO and Co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience...
2023-10-0545 min
Agile Digital TransformationRamiro Berrelleza - Redefining the developer experienceRamiro Berrelleza is the CEO and co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience Automation.In this episode, we talk about redefining the developer experience. We cover both culture and technology, discuss the impact of AI tools such as Chat-GPT and GitHub's Copilot, and break down the concept of ephemeral development environments. In conclusion, Ramiro also shares an example of Okteto's client work.Links & mentions:mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/unleashing-developer-productivity-with-generative-aipodcast@okteto.comtwitter.com/rberrelleza
2023-10-0530 min
Exponential Growth - How to Break Into TechWorking at Microsoft, Startups and Raising Millions at Okteto with Ramiro BerrellezaRamiro Berrelleza is the founder of Okteto, a company that prides itself on allowing teams deploy cloud environments with a single click.
Before founding Okteto, Ramiro worked at Microsoft, alongside Satya Nadella before he became CEO. He would go on to work at ElasticBox and Atlassian.
In our conversation Ramiro shares what makes non-traditional candidates unique, what he looks for when hiring them and why a startup might not be the right choice for a recent bootcamp graduate.
Chapters:
(01:46) Growing up in Mexico
(07:02) Mindset on Moving to America
2023-09-2655 min
Develeap’s Tech Tuesday UnboxedDeveloper Productivity: Unleashing the Power of Cloud-Native Technologies to Streamline Your Development Workflow with Ramiro BerrellezaJoin us for an energetic chat about how remote development environments increase productivity by standardizing the development experience, Okteto’s solution, and all things cloud-native!
Using the right automated tools that can enable software developers' teams to deliver their cloud-native applications faster and smoother is what drives Okteto’s mission.
But how can automated solutions change the game for developers, engineering leaders, product managers, platform teams, and even sales?
In this episode, Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, speaks to Gilad Neiger, DevOps Group Leader at develeap, about:
What are the commo...
2023-09-0423 min
Coffee and Open SourceRamiro BerrellezaRamiro Berrelleza is the CEO and Co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience Automation. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, Ramiro is a seasoned professional with a passion for building developer tooling.A visionary, Ramiro is always looking for ways to improve the software development process. He firmly believes that building modern applications is a team sport and understands the importance of removing friction from the development process. He is also a passionate advocate for building a more inclusive tech industry. With Ramiro at the helm, Okteto is well-positioned to continue to grow and shape the...
2023-08-151h 02
Compile Swift PodcastAutomation and platforms with Ramiro BerrellezaRamiro Berrelleza is the CEO and Co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience Automation. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, Ramiro is a seasoned professional passionate about building developer tooling.Mentioned in this episodeOkteto Web SiteTwitter(00:00) - Introduction
(00:27) - Ramiro Berrelleza
(00:55) - Let's talk automation
(01:51) - Key areas of automation
(06:28) - Spinning up should not be hard
(12:26) - Taking the journey together
(17:58) - Coffee is on me
(20:13) - Developer satisfaction and motivation
(27:44) - Let's talk the Okteto experience
(39:20) - Developers needs to talk with platform teams
(42:17...
2023-07-1445 min
TestGuild Devops Toolchain PodcastDevelopment Experience Automation to Increase Productivity with Ramiro BerrellezaIn this riveting episode, we dive deep into the world of Okteto with none other than the company's CEO and Co-founder, Ramiro Berrelleza. Okteto, as Berrelleza explains, is more than just another DevOps tool. It's a complete modern development experience designed to maximize productivity, increase business innovation, and expedite development velocity. And it's all built on the power of Kubernetes. You'll discover how to help developers be more productive, focusing on developer productivity and development experience automation. Learn the benefits of rapid spin-up environments to help find issues before they go into production, automating tasks with a platform like...
2023-05-3131 min
DevInsider - The story of the Israeli tech companiesDeveloper Productivity: Unleashing the Power of Cloud-Native Technologies to Streamline Your Development Workflow with OktetoJoin us for an energetic chat about how remote development environments increase productivity by standardizing the development experience, Okteto’s solution, and all things cloud-native!
Using the right automated tools that can enable software developers' teams to deliver their cloud-native applications faster and smoother is what drives Okteto’s mission.
But how can automated solutions change the game for developers, engineering leaders, product managers, platform teams, and even sales?
In this episode, Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, speaks to Gilad Neiger, DevOps Group Leader at develeap, about:
What are the commo...
2023-05-1823 min
Software Engineering DailyPre-configured Development Environments with John Craft and Ramiro BerrellezaIn this episode we have two guests.Ramiro Berrelleza is the founder and CEO of Okteto, a developer tool that helps you create production like dev environments in the cloud for every developer. Ramiro will tell us how to easily make replica environments for your day to day development but computing related infrastructure is only half the battle. It also helps to have realistic data when you're developing.John Craft is the CTO at Privacy Dynamics, a company that helps you create anonymized data. You can use Privacy Dynamics to create realistic data from your production database...
2023-04-2743 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE79: Spin Up Production-Like Dev Environments With OktetoRamiro Berrelleza is Founder & CEO of Okteto, the Kubernetes development platform that allows developers to spin up production-like dev environments in the cloud. Okteto's open source project, also called Okteto, allows users to spin up a development container, which is configured like the user's production Kubernetes deployment. Today, it has 2.8K start on GitHub.
Okteto has raised $18M from investors including Root VC and Two Sigma.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges of building with kubernetes, figuring out market timing, how to position for your specific users & more!
2023-03-2839 min
BUILDERSRamiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto: $18 Million Raised to Build the Future of Cloud DevelopmentIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto, a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
A lifetime in tech, how computer games led Ramiro to cloud-integrated software solutions
Leaving Mexico to pursue a career in big tech and what ‘becoming Californian’ means for a Mexican migrant
How Okteto identified DevOps inefficiency as a critical challenge for contemporary businesses
Why Ramiro believes the key to strong businesses lies in building great teams, rather than relying on an individual founder
Why storytelling has become a mission...
2023-02-0736 minBUILDERSRamiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto: $18 Million Raised to Build the Future of Cloud DevelopmentIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto, a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
A lifetime in tech, how computer games led Ramiro to cloud-integrated software solutions
Leaving Mexico to pursue a career in big tech and what ‘becoming Californian’ means for a Mexican migrant
How Okteto identified DevOps inefficiency as a critical challenge for contemporary businesses
Why Ramiro believes the key to strong businesses lies in building great teams, rather than relying on an individual founder
Why storytelling has become a mission...
2023-02-0736 minBUILDERSRamiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto: $18 Million Raised to Build the Future of Cloud DevelopmentIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto, a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding, about how inefficiencies in software development cycles can undermine long-term business success, and why Okteto saw this challenge as an opportunity to carve out a new market category. By providing cloud-integrated development support services for engineering teams, helping them coordinate, collaborate and innovate remotely, Okteto helps make sure that their clients don’t fall behind the competition when it comes to the rate at which they can deploy their critical software solutions.
We...
2023-01-0936 minBUILDERSRamiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto: $18 Million Raised to Build the Future of Cloud DevelopmentIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO of Okteto, a software development microservices platform that’s raised over $18 Million in funding, about how inefficiencies in software development cycles can undermine long-term business success, and why Okteto saw this challenge as an opportunity to carve out a new market category. By providing cloud-integrated development support services for engineering teams, helping them coordinate, collaborate and innovate remotely, Okteto helps make sure that their clients don’t fall behind the competition when it comes to the rate at which they can deploy their critical software solutions.
We...
2023-01-0936 min
Data on Kubernetes CommunityLeveraging Running Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes for the Benefit of Developers (DoK Day EU 2022) // Arsh Sharma, Lapo Elisacci & Ramiro Berrellezahttps://go.dok.community/slack
https://dok.community/
From the DoK Day EU 2022 (https://youtu.be/Xi-h4XNd5tE)
Kubernetes comes with a lot of useful features like Volumes and StatefulSets, which make running stateful workloads simple. Interestingly, when combined with the right tools, these features can make Kubernetes very valuable for developers wanting to run massive production databases in development! This is exactly what was seen at "Extendi".
The developers at Extendi deal with a large amount of data in their production Kubernetes clusters. But when developing locally, they didn't h...
2022-05-2714 min
PodRocketOkteto with Ramiro BerrellezaWe talk to Ramiro Berrelleza about Okteto, a platform to help software teams launch dev environments into the cloud, and about his recent talk about developer experience at the DevX conference.
Links
https://www.okteto.com/
https://twitter.com/rberrelleza
https://www.ycombinator.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/OktetoHQ/featured
https://www.okteto.com/blog/
https://docker.events.cube365.net/dockercon/2022
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/
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2022-05-2434 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleKubernetes: The Documentary, with Josiah McGarvieSix years after its creation, Kubernetes is the subject of its very own documentary film. Job platform Honeypot has released. Josiah McGarvie was Honeypot's head of video, and the lead filmmaker for Kubernetes: The Documentary. Join us for the director's commentary. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 21, with Ihor Dvoretski Ihor joins the army Donate to: Come Back Alive Ukrainian National Bank The International Committee of the Red Cross Red Cross Red Crescent News of the...
2022-03-0247 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GooglePixie, with Zain Asgar and Ishan MukherjeePixie Labs built an observabiity platform for Kubernetes, which uses eBPF to get telemetry without user intervention. They were recently acquired by New Relic, who open sourced the Pixie software. Co-founders Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee join Craig Box to tell the story and talk about what's next. Guest host Alex Ellis tends his garden. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 116, with Alex Ellis GrowLab Announcement blog Alex's talk at the GIFEE Day Monty Don OpenFaaS...
2021-05-1339 min
Data on Kubernetes Community#35 DoK Community: Make Kubernetes your development environment // Ramiro Berrellezahttps://go.dok.community/slack
Abstract of the talk…
Developers spend a lot of time making their local machine look like a cluster. But why do we do that? Our local machine is not where our code is supposed to run! We built okteto (github.com/okteto/okteto) so we can make our Kubernetes clusters look like our local machine. In this talk, we'll show you how okteto helps you take advantage of all the goodness of Kubernetes and the cloud without having to sacrifice a really fast development and feedback loop.
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2021-03-181h 02
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleOkteto, with Ramiro BerrellezaRamiro Berrelleza is CEO and co-founder of Okteto, a company making developer tools which simplify development on Kubernetes. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss how the open source project and company came about, going through Y Combinator, and the best filling for a Mission burrito. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Hash browns Corn fritters Survey Click here to take the Audience Survey. Thank you for helping us make a better show for you! News of...
2020-10-1332 min