The Ops Community ⚙️: Dev Interrupted

Solving the Enduring Pain of Authorization

Dev Interrupted — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:59:00 +0000

Whether you're at a startup, enterprise, or something in between, authorization and access control are likely major pain points for your team.

This week on Dev Interrupted we talk to Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Omri joins us to chat about the future of authorization, how to handle access control on your team, and how to avoid the toil and tech debt often associated with access control.

Episode Highlights:

(2:36) Omri's path to becoming a founder
(4:58) Advice for first-time engineers-turned-founders
(8:38) What is authorization?
(12:06) Aserto's founding
(15:38) Implementing authorization the right way
(18:55) Who should own access control for your team?
(21:00) What is cloud native authorization?
(24:32) Getting access control in a good place
(26:26) Open source and authorization
(32:20) Startup vs enterprise: authorization transformation

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March 15th, watch one of Uber’s former top engineers answer your questions about the world-changing company live!

The No. 1 podcast in engineering is going on the road to Lead Dev New York on March 14th and 15th.

Best of all, we’ll be doing a livestream episode of the podcast with special guest, former senior engineer at Uber and current Head of Product & Engineering at Kyte, Nick Cobb. Both of your favorite hosts – Dan Lines and Conor Bronsdon - will be joining Nick as he provides exclusive, insider insights on…

The AI behind self-driving cars,
On-demand vehicle platforms
Why Uber has lost its product innovation DNA.

Register for the livestream now, you’re not gonna want to miss this.

Can Value Stream Management Solve DevOps‘ Struggles?

Dev Interrupted — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:22:30 +0000

A decades-old physical goods manufacturing concept is being applied to modern dev teams with great results. What can software development learn from the past?

Value Stream Management (VSM) has been a focus of business and manufacturing for years but big tech has only recently taken notice.

Steve Pereira, a.k.a. "The VSM Guy", joins us to talk about what engineering leaders can learn from VSM, its impact on individual and team workflow, how it differs from Agile and DevOps, and why its emphasis on the creation and delivery of value represents an opportunity for dev teams everywhere.

Episode Highlights:

(2:28) What is Value Stream Management?
(9:03) How can engineering managers apply VSM to their org?
(17:26) Applying VSM to individual contributors
(23:36) DevOps vs VSM
(30:49) Mapping
(36:23) Intentionally engineering flow

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Want to cut code-review time by up to 40%? Add estimated review time to pull requests automatically!

gitStream is the free dev tool from LinearB that eliminates the No. 1 bottleneck in your team’s workflow: pull requests and code reviews. After reviewing the work of 2,000 dev teams, LinearB’s engineers and data scientists found that pickup times and code review were lasting 4 to 5 days longer than they should be.

The good news is that they found these delays could be eliminated largely by adding estimated review time to pull requests!

Learn more about how gitStream is making coding better HERE.

The Problem with MTTR: Learning from Incident Reports

Dev Interrupted — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:50:06 +0000

Tracking Mean Time To Restore (MTTR) is standard industry practice for incident response and analysis, but should it be?

Courtney Nash, an Internet Incident Librarian, argues that MTTR is not a reliable metric - and we think she's got a point.

We caught up with Courtney at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas, where she was making her case against MTTR in favor of alternative metrics (SLOs and cost of coordination data), practices (Near Miss analysis), and mindsets (humans are the solution, not the problem) to help organization better learn from their incidents.

Episode Highlights:

(1:54) The end of MTTR?
(4:50) Library of incidents
(13:20) What is an incident?
(19:41) Cost of coordination
(22:13) Near misses
(24:21) Mental models
(28:16) Role of language in shaping public discourse
(29:33) Learnings from The Void

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On Feb. 15th, learn how the smartest engineers increased productivity by up to 30% without working longer hours or burning out their teams

Every engineering team could use some easy wins right now, including yours. We’re talking quick ways to improve productivity without wasting more hours at work, spending a lot of money or burning out already-stretched teams.

That’s why LinearB teamed up with dozens of engineering orgs to crowdsource the real ways smart companies have improved their productivity - quickly and most importantly, easily.

On February 15th, LinearB will be presenting this playbook at our free, virtual Scaling Developer Efficiency workshop.

Designed to help you gain up to 30% increased productivity, this free online workshop will empower your team with strategies and solutions that let them focus on what they do best: Code.

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The Journey to Code Mastery w/ Marqeta's CTO, Randy Kern

Dev Interrupted — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 06:43:45 +0000

Randy Kern, CTO at Marqeta, thinks that every engineer should "go deep" - all the way to understanding the transistors if you have to. He implores us never to be satisfied with black boxes, believing that it's not only risky not to understand what your code is really doing, but it's not fun either.

We love this episode because Randy's joy is infectious. He reminds us why we got into software engineering in the first place. If you've been looking for a reminder yourself, this is the episode for you.

Episode Highlights:

(2:37) Randy's start in tech
(8:20) New to a team? Spend a month fixing bugs
(15:38) Learning as you go
(23:59) What every engineer should know
(30:37) It takes bifocals to build software
(34:02) Tips for managers
(40:46) Building enterprise teams

While you’re here, check out this video from our YouTube channel, and be sure to like and subscribe when you do!

Want to cut code-review time by up to 40%? Add estimated review time to pull requests automatically!

The good news is that they found these delays could be eliminated largely by adding estimated review time to pull requests!