Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, Jessica Kerr, and Bridget Kromhout
A Technology , Education and How To podcast
Arrested DevOps is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness.
30 min
Gilles Chehade, co-founder and CTO of PlakarKorp, joins Matty to talk about why backups need rethinking now that ransomware is routine, AI agents run inside the network, and terabytes are the low end. They get into treating resilience like infrastructure as code, with an inventory, policies, and a reconciliation loop, and why restores are the part nobody tests.
33 min
Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every small incident to a robot erodes the practice responders need for the big ones, and what to measure so the humans on call don't burn out.
41 min
Jacquie Capur, a senior developer advocate at Nebius, joins Matty to talk about keeping meaningful control over the tools you depend on: knowing what they're tied to, verifying they do the job, and having a realistic way out. The conversation runs from configuration management's first magic moment to data residency rules in healthcare, tools that change every two weeks, and the case for open models.
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30 min
Gilles Chehade, co-founder and CTO of PlakarKorp, joins Matty to talk about why backups need rethinking now that ransomware is routine, AI agents run inside the network, and terabytes are the low end. They get into treating resilience like infrastructure as code, with an inventory, policies, and a reconciliation loop, and why restores are the part nobody tests.
33 min
Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every small incident to a robot erodes the practice responders need for the big ones, and what to measure so the humans on call don't burn out.
41 min
Jacquie Capur, a senior developer advocate at Nebius, joins Matty to talk about keeping meaningful control over the tools you depend on: knowing what they're tied to, verifying they do the job, and having a realistic way out. The conversation runs from configuration management's first magic moment to data residency rules in healthcare, tools that change every two weeks, and the case for open models.
36 min
Marino Wijay joins Matty to ask the question everyone in tech is quietly panicking about: what the hell is actually going on right now. They dig into the pace of change since the zero interest rate era, the collapse of infrastructure roles into a human-plus-AI layer, and why most of what looks like a bubble is really just an accounting hack that goes back decades.
31 min
Naga Sujitha Vummaneni and Sundeep Bobba join Matty to talk about their book, which reframes CI/CD pipelines as control systems: actuators, feedback signals, and constraints. They dig into what that model demands once AI agents start shipping code at machine speed, and why a bypassed control is a design signal, not a compliance failure.
41 min
Doug Pagnutti spent fifteen years as an automation engineer caught between the IT and OT worlds inside manufacturing plants. The friction sounds a lot like what's been happening in DevOps for over a decade. Matty and Doug dig into why industrial operations never got the memo, and what OT and IT could still learn from each other now that the wall between them is collapsing.
39 min
The software industry is experiencing another seismic shift. After decades of agile transformations, cloud migrations, and DevOps revolutions, we're now navigating the integration of AI into the software development lifecycle. But this time feels different—the pace is faster, the technology less mature, and the stakes feel higher. Matty Stratton sat down with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner to explore what this transformation means for developers, operations teams, and the organizations they serve.
29 min
Kat Cosgrove returns to talk with Matty about why security stays in the news, why most CVEs never get fixed, and which tools belong in every production environment. The conversation ends on burnout and the case for touching grass.
40 min
In this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty and guest Kat Morgan discuss the ethical, practical, and technical implications of AI. They explore how AI can assist with coding, improve efficiency, and handle tasks, while emphasizing the importance of good practices and staying informed about the impact of AI.
34 min
Andrew Zigler of Mattermost and Matty talk about what makes an open-first developer community hard to run: the echo chamber, the pull of the paid staff, what can stay closed, and how to get more people advocating than just the ones with the title.
48 min
Jessitron is joined by Chelsea Troy, Staff Data Engineer at Mozilla, and one of the all-around most interesting people in software today, to discuss staff engineering, machine learning operations, and maybe also surfing.
1 hr 48 min
It's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast.
47 min
What happens when you suddenly are In Management? Matty is joined by Ben Greenberg to talk through the challenges of first-time management.
30 min
DevOps is not a department. It's a set of concepts and ideas that are human-centric and driven through Agile practices. It's applying Big A Agile to operations: fast feedback loops, deeper collaboration with stakeholders (which is the engineering team), and invoking people over process and tools. A current problem hamstringing organizations is that they treat DevOps like a commoditized department: one that writes shell scripts and deploys Jenkins servers, and not the value engine that those teams could be. They took the tools team, applied a light version of DevOps ideology, and said, "Hey, that's it. That's DevOps. Hashtag winning."
38 min
Most developers are familiar with two sources of data about their applications: 1) static code analysis, and 2) observability tools monitoring their system in production. However, a new data source is gaining popularity: Runtime analysis. Runtime analysis is a technique where an application's dynamic behavior is recorded and analyzed during development time, allowing flaws and other insights to be revealed before that code is deployed to production.
46 min
It's a complex world! Matty and Michael Stahnke wax philosophical about whether our systems need to be as complicated as we have made them
42 min
Grant Fritchey returns after almost ten years to talk about databases and DevOps, and why treating the database like code is still the most useful message.
46 min
Matt Kuritz of The Farmer's Dog explains how a platform team that owns nothing works alongside product teams, with a monorepo and a code generator standing in for a portal.
38 min
Matty is joined by Ohad Maislish and Cory O'Daniel for some updates on the Open Terraform project.
58 min
Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.
52 min
When you're in the tech industry, your personal brand matters both internally and externally. This brand can help you stand out in your current organization or when you're looking for new opportunities.
51 min
Guest Sarah Morgan helps dig into how we can apply the principles of product management into our DevOps approaches!
55 min
Special guest Michael Isbitski joins us to talk about cloud native security and reviews the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report. Michael and Matty discuss some common security challenges and findings from the report, and how to address them.
57 min
Let's take another look at the topic of Platform Engineering, but perhaps with a different perspective. Pete Cheslock turns his attention to Platform Engineering, and if it's really anything new, or just what DevOps has always meant?
51 min
Looking for a job? Did you get laid off? It's rough out there. Let's talk about it with Sidney Miller.
46 min
Let's dig into the world of data, with Aiven's Francesco Tisiot.
49 min
Is DevOps dead? Did Platform Engineering kill it off? Matty chats with Daniel Bryant (Ambassador Labs) about Platform Engineering.
59 min
Courtney Nash and Casey Rosenthal from Verica join Matty for a deep dive into the results of the VOID (Verica Open Incident Database) report.
51 min
Roni Dover, founder of [Digma.ai](https://digma.ai), joins Jess to chat about continuous feedback and what's missing in every DevOps loop.
48 min
Matty and career coach Dagna Bieda talk about why engineers need communication skills, what empathy means at work, assertiveness, marketing your work, and choosing employers that share your values.
54 min
A year after Breaking Down Gates, Matty and Tim Banks revisit the Great Resignation, who is pushing people back to the office, and how conferences can be more inclusive and affordable.
53 min
Sue Choi and Dominic of Mondoo join Matty to talk about why DevOps and security still struggle to work together, from paper security and false positives to supply chain and building trust.
57 min
One of the most innovative and popular virtual conferences of 2020 was Deserted Island Devops. The event was back again in 2021, and Matty chatted with organizers and speakers about what made this event so special.
1 hr 27 min
It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and stuff about pets.
35 min
Author and technical agile coach Emily Bache chats with Matty on testing, software engineering practices, and ensemble programming.
45 min
What is DevSecOps? Is it different from DevOps? What's up with shift left? Steve Giguere joins Matt to dig into some more fun security conversations.
42 min
Emily Freeman, Principal, DevOps Solutions at AWS and Matt have a frank conversation about how DevOps has changed, where it's going, and the merits of the Oxford comma.
Bridget chats with Phillip Gibson and Annie Wang about multicluster service mesh.
1 hr 0 min
"If you invest enough into foundational practices you can ignore them" - this is a heady statement, and special guest Johan Abildskov takes us through a journey to explore what our foundational practices are, and how we can improve our learning and implementation of them.
52 min
Matt is joined by Ashton Rodenhiser, who has become a fixture at many conferences where she provides graphic recordings of various talks and presentations!
37 min
In this episode, Jess talks with guest Cat Swetel about her career, writings, and thoughts on DevOps.
44 min
Does tech ask more from its community than other industries? What does it mean to be part of a community and what is expected of us?
57 min
Learning, as well as teaching, are both skills. Skills that we can develop with intentionality and practice. Shelby Spees, a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, shares her insight into this topic.
1 hr 0 min
Sources differ on where this started, but Kurt Vonnegut posited that there are basically six story types. Matt wondered if there was similarly only six stories that are told on tech Twitter. Guests Sasha Rosenbaum, Kat Cosgrove, Quintessence Anx, Aaron Aldrich, and Jeremy Meiss dig into this as well as discuss the ups and downs of tech Twitter culture.
48 min
Releasing software is more that just having a clever pipeline. Scott Hain (Hashicorp) digs into some of the practical considerations of improving your release engineering process.
1 hr 25 min
It's that time of year again! Matty, Trevor, Bridget, Jessica, Jeff, and Joe wrap up the year with a discussion of favorite episodes, the Year That Was, and a deep dive into 90s-era sci-fi.
50 min
Tim Banks joins Matt for a blunt discussion about how to break down gates and barriers in tech. Also, chili is discussed, in depth.
1 hr 7 min
DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 was the first time the long-running conference went virtual. A panel of speakers and organizers discuss the event, how it was produced, and what the experience was like!
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