Platform engineering

Dec 30, 2025

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris

Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman, author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery," discusses his journey from app developer to DevOps advocate, triggered by LinkedIn's deployment crisis. The discussion with Kief Morris explores the practical definition of DevOps, the relationship between infrastructure as code and application orchestration, the necessity of frameworks over custom wrapper scripts, and emerging paradigms including infrastructure from code, infrastructure as graph models, and interactive runbooks.

Dec 30, 2025

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris

Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman, author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery," and Kief Morris, author of "Infrastructure as Code," discuss the practicalities of modern software delivery. Jim recounts his career-defining experience at LinkedIn, where a deployment crisis led to a company-wide focus on fixing delivery pipelines. The conversation explores the pragmatic definition of DevOps, the interplay between Infrastructure as Code and application orchestration tools like Kubernetes, the necessity of frameworks like Terragrunt over custom wrapper scripts, and a look at emerging paradigms like Infrastructure from Code, Infrastructure as a Graph, and Interactive Runbooks.

Dec 15, 2025

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025

Olaf Molenveld (CircleCI) and Julian Wood (AWS) discuss the evolution of CI/CD practices. They draw parallels between managing production code and the 'factory' that produces it, covering optimization strategies, local vs. remote development, the rise of platform engineering, and how AI is reshaping DevOps by acting as both an expert system and a guarded collaborator.

Nov 11, 2025

The GPU Uptime Battle

Andy Pernsteiner, Field CTO of VAST Data, discusses the immense challenges of transitioning AI projects from prototype to production. He highlights the critical role of data infrastructure, the high cost of GPU downtime, and the necessity of building resilient, scalable platforms that can withstand real-world failures like power outages in massive data centers. The conversation emphasizes a shift in mindset towards empathy, better requirement gathering, and closer collaboration between data scientists and platform engineers to bridge the gap between development and operations.

Oct 23, 2025

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris • GOTO 2025

Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, author and co-founder of Gruntwork, discusses the pragmatic definition of DevOps as a methodology for efficient software delivery, born from his experience with a deployment crisis at LinkedIn. The conversation with Kief Morris explores the modern infrastructure stack, the critical role of frameworks over custom scripts, and emerging paradigms like Infrastructure from Code and interactive runbooks.

Oct 21, 2025

Platform Engineering: From Theory to Practice • Liz Fong-Jones & Lesley Cordero

Liz Fong-Jones and Lesley Cordero explore the evolution of platform engineering from its DevOps and SRE roots, discussing the challenges of building effective developer platforms, the importance of psychological safety, the complexities of open source sustainability, and the delicate balance between centralized platform teams and developer autonomy.