Episode 295 | Matt Watson - Cloud, DevOps, and NoOps

Guest:

Matt Watson

@mattwatson81

Matt Watson talks with Dave Rael about Stackify, business and development, DevOps, NoOps, and content creation

Stackify was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson. Before Stackify he was the CTO of a rapidly growing enterprise software service (SaaS) provider. He noticed that agile development had caused his developers to be much more involved in day-to-day IT operations, but his team lacked the tools and server access to do it efficiently. He founded Stackify to create a suite of tools to solve this problem, which virtually every dev and dev team deals with.

Chapters: 3:03 - Stackify's growth and impact4:33 - Challenges in front and Matt and Stackify and the relative difficulties of business and development7:52 - The virtue of contstraints9:37 - DevOps, NoOps, and how we view servers in today's world11:13 - The function of IT Operations in a DevOps/NoOps world17:27 - The meaning of the terms DevOps and NoOps20:11 - The swinging pendulum of styles of applications and deployment scenarios21:54 - Consolidation toward big cloud hosting providers and barriers to greater competition27:21 - The joy and pain of supporting multiple languages and platforms29:28 - A history of bad blood with JavaScript33:11 - Matt on the good and bad of not writing code for Stackify on a regular basis35:42 - The function of DBAs in a DevOps/NoOps world38:52 - Matt, the podcaster

Resources: Stackify The Stackify Blog Prefix Retrace New Relic AppDynamics Dynatrace Splunk Bryan Cantrill on Developer On Fire Amazon Web Services Snowball Amazon Web Services Snowmobile The Great AWS Outage of 2017 Troy Hunt's Blog Troy Hunt on Developer On Fire J.B. Rainsberger on Developer On Fire "An elegant weapon for a more civilized age" Startup Hustle, A Podcast by Matt DeCoursey and Matt Watson

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