DevOps State of Mind LogDNA x StudioPod Media

Update those resumes and take a listen to Anna-Marie Gutierrez-Lee, the Director of Talent Acquisition at LogDNA. She’s passionate about mentoring recruiting teams and connecting talent to their dream careers while fostering a genuine and positive candidate experience. On this episode, we’re talking about how to recruit in a DevOps culture and why it’s so important to bring more underrepresented talent into tech.
2:45 Get to know AMG
3:56 What is DEIB?
7:13 What does DevOps mean to you?
9:15 How recruiting for a DevOps culture is different
11:30 What AMG looks for when recruiting for LogDNA
14:50 Burn out is real, especially as a woman in a male-dominated industry
18:00 The Great Resignation
22:11 Why isn't tech more diverse and how can we fix that?
28:16 Identifying your gaps
31:33 Combat group think with a diverse workforce
LogDNA Website
Find AMG on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/annamariegutierrez
Find Liesse on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/liessejones

Is DevSecOps the answer to effective cloud migration? In this episode Liesse will talk to Josh Minthorne, Co-founder and Global Technology Director of Axcelinno.

Episode Summary:  In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Durkin, Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness. Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes including CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and more. Nick and I will discuss how to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best and why AI and ML are the future of DevOps. 
About:  Nick Durkin: Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness
Nick Durkin has spent the last three years building Pre-Sales teams for Startups, Value Added Resellers (VARs), and Enterprise Sales Teams. He possesses over a decade of data center architecture knowledge combined with a wealth of certified training. Nick also owns over five years of Hadoop and Big Data experience, architecting systems and building big data applications for not only the Federal government, but also the world’s largest financial institutions. Nick has held the position of lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s FIVICS initiative, as well as developed many of the anti-fraud applications currently in use among the aforementioned financial institutions. Utilizing his successful history of innovative design involving data protection, fiscal responsibility and directive appreciation, Nick continues to develop purposeful solutions tailored to each of his client’s needs. 
Chapters:
1:10 Nick’s introduction and background
3:00 What’s a Field CTO?
5:00 Start with why as a foundation
6:08 The problems that Harness solves. 
6:15 Using AI & ML to solve CI/CD
10:20 Why compliance is important for your customers
13:25 How the cost factor changes throughout the growth journey
16:25 Intersection of cost and observability data management
20:00 AI & ML: defining the often misused terms
24:54 Why Nick wouldn’t work at a company not using AI & ML
27:08 Is AI as far advanced as the public thinks it is?

Episode Summary: 
Start the new year off in a DevOps State of Mind. On this episode, Liesse chats with Chris Steffen, a research director for information security at EMA. EMA, formally known as Enterprise Management Associates, is a leading analyst and consulting firm that prides itself on going beyond the surface to provide deep insights about the IT industry. Listen in as Liesse and Chris make some DevSecOps predictions for 2022 and chat about what it takes to compete as a vendor today. 
About: Chris Steffen is
An experienced and high-performing information security industry expert with extensive experience in IT and security management, zero-trust security solutions, enterprise cloud security and architecture, public / private / hybrid cloud systems and enterprise cloud migration / optimization.
Enterprise Management Associates
Chapters:
1:31 On this episode Chris Steffen
2:54 Number one risk industries aren’t paying attention to
5:00 Developer-focused attack on SolarWinds (The hunt for shared secrets!)
6:08 The importance of API security
9:17 Testing APIs before bringing on a vendor
10:23 Important tools and practices for protecting shared secrets
13:12 Are we more security-minded?
15:19 An insider's perspective
17:06 What are companies focusing on (so should be focusing on)?
19:43 Security considerations for sellers (What should companies looking to be acquired focus on?
22:30 What it takes to be competitive as a security vendor
26:30 Keeping security running smoothly during a transition
27:48 Automation’s role (Does it help or hurt?)
31:55 Recap
On the next episode, I chat with Nick Durkin, Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness. Nick and I will discuss how to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best and why AI and ML are the future of DevOps.

Ep5 - Steve Pereira 
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Episode Summary: 
In this episode of DevOps State of Mind I’m talking to Steve Pereira, a DevOps enthusiast and an expert in software team performance. Steve leads the largest Toronto DevOps community and is the founder of Visible where he coaches teams to boost flow and value using his 4 Key Maps of DevOps.
About: Steve Pereira
Founder of Visible
Steve Pereira: Helping Teams Define and Optimize their Value Streams
Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on using mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards their true north. He's a former startup CTO, agency consultant, systems and release engineer, finance IT manager, tech support phone jockey, and pizza maker. All focused on the flow of value, all the time.
Learn more about his work here
More information here
Chapters:
 1:07 Meet Steve Pereira
2:01 Looking back and finding the positive
4:22 Misery loves company but things don’t always need to be hard to grow
6:18 What DevOps means to Steve
11:10 As a ‘movement”, has DevOps been successful?
15:04 How are massive enterprising doing right now?
19:23 The four kep maps of DevOps
31:46 To map or not to map - when does it make the most sense?
33:29 Asking “Why?” in a safe space
39:33 Learn more about mapping
41:18 What’s coming in the new year on DevOps State of Mind

Ep6 - LaunchDarkly founder,  John Kodumal, on how to build with confidence
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Episode Summary: 
Why are tools that help teams build with confidence essential to a successful DevOps culture? On this episode of DevOps State of Mind I talk to CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, John Kodumal! We discuss how he’s seen the market warm to the concept of feature management as DevOps crosses the chasm and his top tips for enterprises who are early in their DevOps adoption.
About: 
LaunchDarkly gives product delivery teams the safeguards to move fast without breaking things. We do this through feature flags. Square, AMC, Intuit, Adidas, NBC, and other top organizations rely on LaunchDarkly to deliver and control their software. They ship code continuously, release features to individual customers at times that work best for them, learn about system performance and user behavior through experimentation, forge partnerships between developers and business stakeholders, and provide value in increasing measure. In a software-centered world, control is one of your greatest assets. Feature management gives you that control, and LaunchDarkly gives you feature management in its highest form.
Chapters:
2:05 - LaunchDarkly Introduction
3:40 - What is feature management?
5:14 - Feature flagging > Feature management
7:22 - Evolution of feature management
11:25 - While moving quickly and delivering value, don't forget about the operator!
14:30 - Thinking about DevSecOps externally
16:25 - Advice for early adopters of DevOps
18:20 - Multi-year migrations forced to accelerate
22:30 - The importance of building with confidence
Resources:
LaunchDarkly Website
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