It was a very busy DevOps Summer 2016. Now that it is almost over, we wanted to bring you some of the highlights. One highlight certainly was the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in London, where Gene Kim assembled a great lineup of speakers. Two of my favorites were Damon Edwards and John Willis, and I had a chance to sit down with both right after they finished presenting on the main stage of the event.
This interview runs a little long (18 minutes or so) but features a really great discussion with John and Damon. They had just presented on better, faster & cheaper—the “iron triangle,” as Damon calls it. The presentation has grown out of John and Damon’s conversations over the years, many of them on the DevOps Café Podcast.
To me, this iron triangle is the “cold fusion” of DevOps. It is really counterintuitive that by utilizing DevOps principles, you can achieve all three of these business goals. At the end of the day I agree with John and Damon that it is possible with DevOps.
A special thanks to John, who literally had just stepped off an overnight flight to London and appeared that morning on little to no sleep.
I am including first their actual presentation at DOES, courtesy of IT Revolution, and then my interview with them, where we dug a little deeper. I hope you enjoy listening and watching as much as I did speaking with these fellows.
Here is the interview:
Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.