Hosted by: Louis-Victor Jadavji and Abhishek Singh from Taloflow Guests: Gopinath Balakrishnan from Google, Todd Kesselman from Taloflow.

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech. He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems.

Catch Solomon Hykes (Co-founder of @Docker and @Dagger) shares stories from the early days of Docker, the rollercoaster journey leading to 20 million active developers worldwide, the heavy crown of a tech leader and his vision to revolutionize CI/CD with Dagger today. Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.

The latest updates in Turbo360 bring several notable features and enhancements. Access policies for Service Principals now enable users to define scopes. Network Diagrams in Azure Documenter provide visual representations of network architecture. Cost Analyzer introduces Idle Disks in Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimization. Furthermore, Rightsizing recommendations now offer the ability to restrict to the same SKU family.

Shift FinOps Left In this FinOps on Azure episode, Mike (A FinOps certified practitioner) joins Michiel (Azure Cost Optimization Specialist) to discuss the concept of Shift left with FinOps - moving cloud financial operations & cost optimization earlier into the app development lifecycle. Michiel explains why most companies struggle with lack of cloud cost awareness and how to get started shifting FinOps left. He covers selecting a proof of concept team, providing FinOps training, tooling for visibility into costs/budgets, anomaly detection, and optimization techniques.

Safety is a key element in navigating AI within the automotive ecosystem. 🚗 Listen on Spotify about the future implications of AI in automotive, as discussed by Bertrand Boisseau, our automotive industry lead at Canonical.

In this clip, Colette explains why focusing on coming up with a list of action items post-incident is a big mistake. About the episode: What if we told you that everything you thought you knew about incident response was wrong. Well, at least some of it. That some of the things you’ve been doing for years might not actually be having the impact you thought they did. Or, even worse, that some of the assumptions you’ve been making have actually been having a negative impact on you, your team and your organization.

In this clip, Colette explains what the underlying issue is with DORA metrics. About the episode: What if we told you that everything you thought you knew about incident response was wrong. Well, at least some of it. That some of the things you’ve been doing for years might not actually be having the impact you thought they did. Or, even worse, that some of the assumptions you’ve been making have actually been having a negative impact on you, your team and your organization.

Ashan Senevirathne is an experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing release engineering processes, championing CI/CD workflows, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Recognized for his expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud-native principles, and network orchestration.

The emergence of DevOps has changed the way enterprises handle software delivery processes, leading to faster and improved quality. After DevOps has been coined, other practices such as DataOps, MLOps, and AIOps have emerged. In the podcast, Michelle and Andreea, Data PM and AI Product Managers, respectively, will be discussing the significance of these Ops processes in streamlining and optimizing enterprise data, machine learning, and AI projects and use cases.