Scaling an Open Source mobile app with an ex-Googler Tim Cheadle We talk with Tim Cheadle about what is important when thinking about CI/CD in the mobile context and his Open Source app that monitors population health. Wojtek Cichoń 18 Jul 2019
Why a Well-Oiled CI/CD Pipeline Makes for a Happy DevOps Team JJ Asghar’s role as a developer advocate for IBM has immersed him in helping organizations make the transition to cloud native ecosystems and to IBM Cloud’s Kubernetes Service. Previously, Asghar was the OpenStack go-to-guy at Chef Software. In this interview, Asghar has drawn from his deep well of hands-on and high-level experience to describe the trials and tribulations […] Wojtek Cichoń 23 Apr 2019
When SREs and Kubernetes Are Worth It And When They Aren’t Seth Vargo is a developer relations engineer at Google. He previously held software-development roles at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. Passionate about reducing inequality in technology, Vargo is also the author of “Learning Chef.” Wojtek Cichoń 18 Apr 2019
Introducing a Next-generation Parallel Config Management tool James Shubin is a DevOps/config-management hacker and physiologist from Canada. He writes “The Technical Blog of James.” He also works on a next-generation config-management project he started called “mgmt.” In this interview, we discuss Shubin’s open source project and how it can contribute to the cloud-native landscape. You’re the lead developer behind mgmt, which is a “next-generation distributed, […] Wojtek Cichoń 11 Apr 2019
Docker’s Gareth Rushgrove on the Importance of CI/CD Pipelines and the Future of Containers Gareth Rushgrove is an experienced software and operations engineer, working as a product manager at Docker. Additionally, he’s the editor of one of the most widely read newsletters in the DevOps community, “DevOps Weekly.” In this interview, we talk with Rushgrove about his current work at Docker, what is the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), the importance […] Wojtek Cichoń 2 Apr 2019
Introducing Quantum Job Processing with Semaphore Qujobs We are happy to announce a new way of job processing in Semaphore 2.0! Combining Quantum computing theorems and best practices of creating CI/CD pipelines we introduce Qujobs – a groundbreaking way of job processing inside our platform. No longer will you have to worry about the tedious binary outcome of the jobs inside the […] Wojtek Cichoń 1 Apr 2019
On the Importance of Observability-Driven Software Development Charity Majors is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, a tool for software engineers to explore their code on production systems. Prior to co-founding Honeycomb, Majors worked as production engineering manager at Facebook, was the first infrastructure engineer on Parse also spent several years at Linden Lab as operations and database engineer working on the infrastructure that powers “Second […] Wojtek Cichoń 25 Mar 2019
Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas on the Ailments of Cloud-Native Red Hat developer advocate Michael Hausenblas is on the road 70 percent of his time — yet he managed to carve out some time to speak to us about what ills cloud-native and what to do about it. Hint: aligning the Dev with the Ops inside organizations can go a long way in solving many deployment […] Wojtek Cichoń 4 Mar 2019
On How DevOps Destroys Walls, Builds Bridges, and Influences Company Culture for the Better John Arundel is a consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes. We spoke with John on how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better. Wojtek Cichoń 14 Feb 2019
Kubernetes Pioneer Tim Hockin on the State of Kubernetes 2018 Tim Hockin, one of the originators of Kubernetes, is an artist turned engineer. We spoke with Hockin about the state of Kubernetes in 2018, the past and the future of the project and the buzz around it. Wojtek Cichoń 20 Dec 2018
On Transitioning from a Developer Role to Strategic Business Role In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month, we had a chat with Jeffrey Chupp, the Director of Engineering at Dribbble. Wojtek Cichoń 15 Nov 2018
On Prioritizing Performance and Usability with Slim.js Creator In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month we had a chat with Avichay Eyal, the man behind Slim.js – the fastest open source […] Wojtek Cichoń 25 Sep 2018