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ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryShipping Practical AI: How to Build Real-World ML for 2D Drawings (with Marina Petzel)In this episode of Ship Talk, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) sits down with Marina Petzel, Senior ML Engineer and AI Productivity Lead at Autodesk, to unpack what it actually looks like to ship AI into long-lived, production software.Marina shares her journey from classic predictive analytics to computer vision and LLMs, and how her team brings intelligent features like Smart Blocks in AutoCAD from ideation to prototype to production on a tight yearly release cadence. She breaks down the often ignored parts of ML work: data pipelines, infrastructure...
2025-12-0144 min
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryBeyond Dashboards: How AI Is Redefining Developer Productivity with Adeeb ValiullaIn this episode of ShipTalk, host Dewan Ahmed sits down with Adeeb Valiulla, a leader in developer productivity and engineering excellence at Harness, to explore how AI is transforming the very definition of software productivity.Adeeb shares his journey from building early engineering metrics systems at Sensormatic to leading developer efficiency initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. Together, they unpack how AI is changing what it means to be “productive” — from measuring outcomes instead of outputs, to ensuring governance, trust, and quality at AI scale.If you’ve ever wondered how framewor...
2025-10-1736 min
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryDebugging Developer Productivity in an AI-native World with Aravind Putrevu (CodeRabbit)In this episode of ShipTalk, Chinmay Gaikwad sits down with Aravind Putrevu, Head of Developer Relations at CodeRabbit, and dives into the evolving landscape of AI in software development. Aravind shares insights on the influence of AI tools across the software development lifecycle, from coding and code reviews to automation and security. Aravind highlights the pivotal role of context engineering, the continued importance of human oversight in AI-driven workflows, and how teams can harness diverse AI tools for productivity. The discussion also explores Kubernetes' impact on AI workloads, best practices for developer enablement, and the latest trends in developer...
2025-07-2852 min
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryVirtualizing Kubernetes: Efficiency and Developer Experience with Lukas Gentele from Loft LabsIn this episode of the ShipTalk podcast, co-host Eric Minick talks with Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO of LoftLabs, about revolutionizing Kubernetes infrastructure through virtualization. Lukas shares his entrepreneurial journey starting from age 16 and explains how his company pivoted to create vcluster, a technology that virtualizes Kubernetes control planes similar to how VMs virtualize physical machines. They discuss the inefficiencies of running many small Kubernetes clusters versus optimizing resources with virtual clusters, the impact on developer workflows, and innovative approaches to CI/CD testing environments. Whether you're looking to optimize cloud costs or improve your development experience with Kubernetes...
2025-04-1637 min
DevOps UnboundDevOps Building Blocks, Part One: How CI/CD Drives DevOps Automation - DevOps Unbound EP 38Automation is the key to DevOps success, and CI/CD is the driving force behind it. The CI/CD pipeline is a series of automated workflows that help DevOps teams reduce manual tasks, achieve faster feedback, identify and fix issues early in the SDLC and improve the quality of software. However, keeping up with the latest CI/CD best practices and tools can be challenging.
In this episode, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Bryan Cole (Tricentis), Adam Arakelian (Dell), Jacqueline Porter (GitLab) and Ravi Lachhman (Harness). This panel of DevOps leaders breaks down...
2023-09-0648 min
The CD Pipeline Show - Continuously Delivering Software from A to ZEmpowering Continuous Delivery: Unleashing Generative AI for Software Innovation - The CD Pipeline EP 9In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and deployment, the integration of generative AI has emerged as a transformative force for continuous delivery. Generative AI has opened up new avenues of innovation for automated testing, optimizing deployment strategies and anomaly detection, among others. In this episode of The CD Pipeline, hosts Alan Shimel and Lori Lorusso are joined by expert panelists, Aravind Kannan, director, software engineering at eBay, Christie Warwick, software engineer at Google, and Ravi Lachhman, product manager at Harness, to discuss the impact of generative AI and explore various use cases and implications of the technology...
2023-08-2942 min
PodRocketBuilding a consistent developer experience with Ravi LachhmanWe talk to Ravi Lachhman, Principal Product Manager at Harness, about his work at Harness and his recent conference talk, “KISS - Building a Consistent Developer Experience,” where he gives actionable insights into creating and maintaining good developer experiences.
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2022-09-1325 min
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingApplications-as-Code with Shipa🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾Bret is joined by Ravi Lachhman, Field CTO at Shipa, to discuss the basics of Shipa application and policy management, and show off the developer experience that Shipa brings to apps running on IaC and GitOps tools like ArgoCD...
2022-06-1759 min
The Humans of DevOps Podcast SeriesWhen It Turns Blue, It's DevOps with Ravi LachhmanOn this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Ravi Lachhman (@ravilach), Evangelist at Harness and frequent SKILup Day speaker.🎙 Prior to Harness, Ravi was an evangelist at AppDynamics. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi enjoys traveling the world with his stomach and is obsessed with Korean BBQ. They discuss Ravi's love for food, how he got into DevOps, the origins of technical evangelism, making the news for an incident, gnomes, and more!
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2021-06-1434 min
Engineering Culture by InfoQRavi Lachhman on the State of Developer Happiness, Engineer Burden and Avoiding BurnoutIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ravi Lachhman about the state of developer happiness through the COVID-19 pandemic, engineer burden and avoiding burnout.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3c3oAvZ
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2021-05-2122 min
The Pipeline: All Things CD & DevOps Podcast by The CD FoundationCDF Special Interest Group: EventsRavi Lachhman, HarnessAndrea Frittoli, IBMEmil Backmark, EricssonMauricio Salatino, CamundaToday’s CI/CD systems do not talk to each other in a standardized way. This leads to problems related to interoperability, notification of failure issues, and poor automation.This group is looking at how events can help to create CI/CD systems with a decoupled architecture that is easy to scale and makes it resilient to failures. Using events could also increase automation when connecting workflows from different systems to each other, and as a result empowering tracing/visualizing/au...
2021-03-1222 min
The Business of Open SourceNavigating the Cloud Native Ecosystem with Harness Evangelist Ravi LachhmanThe conversation covers: An overview of Ravi’s role as an evangelist — an often misunderstood, but important technology enabler. Balancing organizational versus individual needs when making decisions.Some of the core motivations that are driving cloud native migrations today. Why Ravi believes it in empowering engineers to make business decisions. Some of the top misconceptions about cloud native. Ravi also provides his own definition of cloud native.How cloud native architectures are forcing developers to “shift left.”Linkshttps://harness.io/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravilachHarness community: https://community.harness.io/Harness Slack: https...
2020-09-0232 min
Deliver BetterZero to 100 Million Downloads - Fixing Continuous Integration with Open SourceIn this episode, Brad Rydzewski the creator of Drone.io, talks to us about the challenges in Continous Integration.
As ownership of applications became more commonplace for development teams, approaches with Continuous Integration
were not keeping up with the pace of development. Brad created Drone.io to democratize CI and lower the bar of entry.
Brad's Open Source project has over 100 million downloads. Learn from Brad the ebbs and flows of an Open Source project
and ways to combat complexity in Continous Integration.
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman
2020-08-2835 min
DevOps Speakeasy PodcastDevOpsSpeakeasy Podcast S01E12: Ravi Lachhman On Getting To Yes To Our Changes Though AutomationIn this episode Baruch (@jbaruch) and Kat (@Dixie3Flatline) hosted Ravi Lachhman (@ravilach) to speak about Harness, CD automation and how it improves our software delivery – velocity, quality, security, and morale.HarnessT-shaped skillsEnterprise tool recommendation matrixRavi's swampUP talk on "Getting to Yes"Getting to Yes – the bookGopher, the Go language mascotContinuous Delivery Foundation
2020-06-2300 min
Deliver BetterSite Reliability Engineering - SREs of Past, Present, and FutureOn this episode of Deliver Better, we talk to Bob Strecansky who is a Staff SRE at MailChimp. A packed podcast about all things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Learn about how to become an SRE, how SREs can help you make new technology choices, partnering with development, and a clear definition of black-box vs white-box approaches. We end on the rise and importance of blameless culture. Be sure to tune in!
Bob's Deliver Better Post: https://www.deliver-better.com/post/introduction-to-site-reliability-engineering-slis-slos-what-are-those
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman
2020-06-1735 min
Deliver BetterEvolution from Testing to Quality Engineering, the Non-Tangibles in the Software WorldIn our latest episode, Hari Padmanaban who is the head of Quality Engineering at Harness talks about his journey and the evolution of Quality Engineering. Unlike a sports car, quality can not be tangibly felt in software. From days gone by where testers were viewed as second class citizens to developers to modern times where Quality Engineers are an evangelist for customers. If you are unfamiliar with testing methodologies or Quality Engineer, listen in to a great podcast. An intrinsic question about how much regression testing is acceptable is also discussed.
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman of Deliver B...
2020-06-0834 min
DevOps SquaredS1.E6 - Shift Left with Ravi LachhmanJoin Martyn and Ravi Lachhman from Harness as they discuss the concept of shift left in DevOps and also start the discussion of shift right.
Ravi Lachhman is an evangelist at Harness. Prior to Harness, Ravi was an evangelist at AppDynamics. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi enjoys traveling the world with his stomach and is obsessed with Korean BBQ.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravilach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravilachhman/
2020-05-2957 min
Deliver BetterAll In a Service Mesh - To Network Resiliency and Beyond!Christian Posta, Field CTO for solo.io, talks about his journey when developing clients to interact with Kubernetes came across his first service mesh. If you are unfamiliar with service meshes, tune in and learn about why they are becoming so popular and how they are evolving in the applications of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Envoy, LinkerD, WASM, Istio, and more technology talked about in this packed podcast. You can find Christian on Twitter @christianposta or at his blog, blog.christianposta.com.
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman, Deliver Better.
2020-05-2134 min
Deliver BetterLet Your Personality Shine - A Crash Course in Visual DesignIn this episode, we are joined by Aoife Gibbs, who is the mastermind behind the visual design at Deliver Better and Harness.io. Aoife came from an architecture background and is making a huge splash in the visual design world. A large part of visual design can be subjective, as humans we have different tastes and backgrounds. Learn from Aoife as she navigates the science of visual design, striking confidence in your work, and how to cope with criticism vs critique.
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman
2020-05-1533 min
Deliver BetterA Technical Career Journey - Even a Traditional Approach is DifficultIn this episode, we talk to Tiffany Jachja who is an Evangelist at Harness. Tiff's journey was an academically challenging one from a magnet high school to two research universities for her BS and MS in computer engineering and computer science. Even with a traditional path, navigating your career and advancement can be difficult. Tiffany talks about trials and tribulations that a young engineer goes through; nothing is given to you and you have to navigate a lot of rejection. Inspiring no matter where you are in your journey!
Hosted by Ravi Lachhman
2020-04-3035 min
Deliver BetterBracing for Impact - Your First KubernetesLet's say you were told you need two Kubernetes and you had no idea what Kubernetes is. Come learn from Bryan Feuling and Drew Oetzel from Harness. Learning by teaching can be a great way to start to dig into an ecosystem. Applications were built over years and by teams of people and a fallacy of distributed systems is that there is one administrator; kind of unfair to take on this task alone. Listen in for a fun podcast with a few folks in the trenches. Hosted by Ravi Lachhman.
2020-04-1640 min
Trev Tech TalksRavi Lachhman - Evangelist at Harness.ioTrev Tech Talks hosts Ravi Lachhman an evangelist working at Harness.io. In this episode, we talk about Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps cultural considerations, engineering concerns for entrepreneurs and finally some advice for Africa's aspiring software engineers.
2020-03-2548 min
Cloud UnfilteredEp67: Harnessing the Power of Application Performance Management, with AppDynamicsWhat kind of gremlins lurk within the millions of lines of code that comprise your company's applications? Are they slowing transactions down? Causing your applications to use more capacity than they'd otherwise need? Stressing the system in ways that create a poor customer experience? Application Performance Management tools help you establish baselines for your environment, set thresholds for alerts, and give you the visibility you need to stay ahead of any problems those gremlins may create before they can do any damage. Today we speak with Kyle Tyacke, Ravi Lachhman, and Marco Coulter of the AppDynamics...
2018-12-2236 min