Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Parad

Devops

Cloud Computing

AWS

Observability

Kubernetes

Software Development

Artificial Intelligence

Platform Engineering

Career Development

Apis

Database Management

Cybersecurity

Incident Management

Disaster Recovery

Open Source

Salesforce

Engineering Excellence

Soft Skills

Nosql

Software Engineering

Join us in listening to the experienced experts discuss cutting edge challenges in the world of DevOps. From applying the mindset at your company, to career growth and leadership challenges within engineering teams, and avoiding the common antipatterns. Every episode you'll meet a new industry veteran guest with their own unique story.

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Publishes	Weekly	Episodes	284	Founded	7 years ago
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Building Observability for the Innovators

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Co-Founder of Grafana Labs, Anthony Woods, joins to share his perspective on how open source solutions are thriving despite the deluge of pull requests being thrown at them through their open source repositories. ... more

Yesterday • 41 min

When knowledge is free but the infrastructure isn't

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As it turns out, the entire artificial intelligence boom is essentially running on Wikipedia's free labor, but while knowledge is free, physical server infrastructure definitely is not. We sit down with Moriel Schottl... more

24 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 9 min

Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer

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We are joined this week by Mark Hay, CTO and co-founder of TextQL and former lead of Text Classification Infrastructure at Meta, to uncover the hidden complexities behind massive-scale machine learning. Mark explains ... more

10 Jul 2026 • 1 hr • Most popular

Who Needs Testers Anyway?

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We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word "quality." This time we are asking the age-old quest... more

26 Jun 2026 • 54 min

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Recent Guests

Mark Hay

CTO and co-founder, TextQL

TextQL

Episode: Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer

Pia Wiedermayer

CEO and founder at Itacama (executive consultant with a background in quality and testing)

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Episode: Who Needs Testers Anyway?

Jeff Kuo

CEO of Ragic

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Episode: You Wouldn't Implement A Database

Tudor Girba

CEO of Feenk

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Episode: What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build

Seth Eliot

Multi-hyperscaler veteran, principal engineer, and current principal reliability architect at Arpio

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Episode: DR: Staying resilient in the cloud

Chris Farris

AWS security hero, cloud security evangelist

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Episode: Eat your security vegetables

Donald Nguyen

CTO and Co-founder, Corvic

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Episode: Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead

Cassidy Williams

Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub

GitHub

Episode: The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code

Lena Fuhrimann

Founder and cloud solutions architect at Bespinian

Bespinian

Episode: Who needs a server?

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Warren

Host of Adventures in DevOps

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 74 ratings

Enjoy listening and learning
Always something new to learn from this podcast.
Apple Podcasts
5
Celebros
United States3 years ago
Great podcast!
I recently discovered Adventure in DevOps and have been blown away by the quality of the content and the expert guests featured on the show. I truly learn something every time I listen. Highly recommend!
Apple Podcasts
5
mvelasco07
United States3 years ago
Great info!
Lots to learn about DevOps :)
Apple Podcasts
5
malloryck
United States4 years ago
Great show
Love the content and conversations being had on this show. We dig what you’re doing ❤️🦊
Apple Podcasts
5
SavPoi
United States4 years ago
So. Many. Takeaways.
Thanks for the great podcast! Hello from Kitcaster! 🦊👋
Apple Podcasts
5
radioestes
United States4 years ago

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Key themes from listener reviews, highlighting what works and what could be improved about the show.

The show consistently delivers actionable DevOps insights from seasoned practitioners.

Guests bring deep expertise and practical lessons for enterprise-scale systems.

Some episodes credit great audio quality and strong guest coordination, though one review notes audio could be improved.

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Apple Podcasts	#68	Colombia/Technology
Apple Podcasts	#194	Russia/Technology
Apple Podcasts	#200	Philippines/Technology
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What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build

Q: We want an IDE. We need that integrated experience. But the current ones failed quite dramatically. What would be a fundamental change to start that conversation and improve readability of code?

The host and Tudor agree that the starting point is making code reading a daily, explicit practice and framing it as a conversation; by dedicating time during small, regular opportunities (like a coffee break) to discuss how we read code, we can shift toward tooling that directly supports understanding code, not just performing tasks.

The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code

Q: If you see the role changing and that it is in huge need, are there things you're already doing to prepare for the future and how you see the role evolving?

Cassidy argues that flexibility and willingness to learn are the biggest current skills, and that roles involving communication, mentorship, and translating technical ideas for diverse audiences will become more valuable as AI-enabled development grows. She emphasizes building stronger human-to-human and human-to-agent communication, and remaining open to evolving tools and workflows.

Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here!

Q: What are the key benefits of FedCM in the authentication process?

FedCM simplifies the authentication process by allowing the browser to manage identity, reducing the need for users to remember multiple credentials, and enhancing security by eliminating phishing opportunities.

The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases

Q: What are some common pitfalls during post-mortem processes that prevent teams from reaching valuable insights?

The main reasons are the tendency to avoid blame and the pressures of time, leading teams to settle on surface-level issues instead of deeper analysis.

The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases

Q: What do you think brought you to the point where you felt like you had to get this down in writing, that you wanted to write the book in the first place?

It started as a joke to translate IT terms to make them more accessible, and it grew into a structured book as I realized there were underlying meanings and lessons to be shared.

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This show consistently centers on practical, engineering-led DevOps topics with a focus on real-world adoption, governance, and organizational change. Episodes frequently feature seasoned practitioners sharing lessons on scalable data pipelines, IaC and cloud infrastructure, serverless or monolith decisions, and the human side of engineering leadership, including developer experience, security, and productivity. Noteworthy are in-depth conversations around governance, tooling migrations, and balancing speed with reliability in large teams. Listeners are likely practitioners and decision-makers seeking actionable guidance for implementing DevOps best practices at scale, with a bias toward enterprise contexts and platform robustness.

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Recent guests on Adventures in DevOps include:

1. Mark Hay
2. Pia Wiedermayer
3. Jeff Kuo
4. Tudor Girba
5. Seth Eliot
6. Chris Farris
7. Donald Nguyen
8. Cassidy Williams

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