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.

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 17, 2025

Infrastructure as Code • Kief Morris & Abby Bangser

Kief Morris, author of 'Infrastructure as Code', and Abby Bangser discuss the evolution of IaC over the past decade. They explore the move from server configuration to complex cloud architectures, the limitations of current tooling, and the need for higher-level abstractions, while also looking ahead to the potential impact of AI and the critical role of platform engineering in connecting infrastructure to specific business needs.