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Day Two DevOps
Join hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton as they dive deep into the challenges of DevOps from the perspective of seasoned practitioners. You'll hear from expert guests—technical leaders, trainers, and consultants with years of hands-on experience—discussing the nuances of DevOps. From AWS to Azure, networking to security, automation to modern cloud environments, each weekly episode equips you with the insights to confidently address tech and business challenges such as resilience, cost…
Episodes
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D2DO258: How System Initiative Rethinks Infrastructure as Code
System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creator Adam…
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D2DO257: Love is in the Firmware
With the current cultural emphasis on AI and how that is changing our world, we often forget the human element of individuals and teams when building an…
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D2DO256: Alkira’s Universal Transit: Simplifying Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Networks (Sponsored)
We are firmly entrenched in a hybrid cloud world, from on-prem data centers to multiple cloud platforms to branch and remote offices, not to mention wandering…
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D2DO255: Is AI the Magic Solution for Refactoring Legacy Code?
AI is being integrated and adopted across much of the IT world, but can it work magic in transforming old legacy code into shiny modern code? When it comes to…
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D2DO254: Intelligent Data Infrastructure: How NetApp Builds for Performance, Security, and Visibility across Clouds (Sponsored)
Enterprise data is everywhere: on prem, at the edge, and across the public cloud. Storing and managing that data involves more than just SSDs and spinning…
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D2DO253: Breaking Into Tech: Job Hunting Realities for Recent Graduates
Job hunting is never easy and on today’s Day Two Cloud, Katrina Janeczko shares her journey from college to her current role at Comcast. Katrina discusses the…
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D2DO252: (Re)Building Cloudflare’s Millions-of-Logs-Per-Second Logging Pipeline
Cloudflare’s transition from SysLog-NG to OpenTelemetry is the topic of discussion on this episode of Day Two DevOps. Guests Colin Douch and Jayson Cena…
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D2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!
AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a…
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D2DO250: The Realities of Responsible Disclosure in the Cloud
Cloud security and responsible disclosure are the focus of today’s conversation with guest Kat Traxler. Kat shares her insights on identifying vulnerabilities…
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D2DO249: The Anatomy of TLS 1.3 and Why You Should Risk It
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is today’s topic with guest Ed Harmoush. TLS plays a critical role in Internet security, and we dive into the differences…
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D2DO248: Using Creativity and Empathy to Ease the Pain of Compliance Audits
On today’s Day Two DevOps we talk with Jen Stone, a technical security assessor and aerial arts competition organizer. Jen shares her journey from IT…
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D2DO247: Chocolate or Carrots? How Humor Can Foster Good DevOps Relationships
Guests Ashish and Shilpi from the Cloud Security Podcast converse with Ned and Kyler on how humor and relatability can foster an engaging and collaborative…
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D2C246: Can Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Help Keep Users Happy?
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are a set of reliability measurements for customer or user expectations of services; in other words, are people having a good…
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D2C245: Don’t Fear Database DevOps
Most platform engineers are scared of databases, and most database administrators prefer it that way. But our guest today says it’s time to move forward…
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D2C244: When the Cloud was Born
Eric Chou was there for the birth of the public cloud. Before DevOps or SREs were a thing, before Azure was Azure, Eric was a network engineer for Amazon…
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Heavy Strategy: Failure and Resilience
Welcome to a crossover episode with the Heavy Strategy podcast! Firing the wrong person, mistakenly rebooting core switches in a massive network, not passing…
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D2C243: Your Kubernetes Clusters are Showing
There are about 1.4 million Kubernetes clusters just sitting out there on the public internet as we speak. That is 1.4 million lateral-movement rich, highly…
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D2C242: Data Engineering and its Streams, Rivers, and Lakes
Keith Gregory teaches us about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand. He explains that the role of a data engineer is to…
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D2C241: Choose Your Own Adventure: Manager, Director, or IC
What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has had a…
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D2C240: The Duality of Enterprise AI
AI has been around forever; AI is emergent. AI is just data analytics; AI hallucinates. AI doesn’t have many business use cases; AI is already being used by…
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D2C239: “(Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret”
You can’t just drop a knife on fish and expect there to be sushi. Jack Lindamood joins us today to share his metaphors and thoughts on picking the right IT…
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D2C238: Tech Hiring is Borked
Life isn’t easy for someone looking for a job in tech. There are lots of content mills pushing the idea that if you just pass this one six-month course, you’ll…
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D2C237: Managing Medical IoT Devices on AWS
In this podcast episode, Randy Horton from Orthogonal and Ian Sutcliffe from AWS discuss the complexities of supporting regulated medical devices in the cloud…
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D2C236: Introducing New Co-Host Kyler Middleton
Today we welcome a new co-host, Kyler Middleton, to the Day Two Cloud podcast. Kyler grew up in rural Western Nebraska, fixing neighboring farmers’ computers…
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D2C235: Building Modern Apps In GovCloud
Chances are, you’ve probably only heard of GovCloud because at the bottom of new feature releases from the Big 3 there’s usually an asterisk that says “not yet…
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D2C234: What to Do About VMware
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has generated a lot of anxiety among VMware customers. In this episode, we closely analyze the situation. First, we look at…
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D2C233: Pinning Down Private Clouds
What are we talking about when we are all talking about private clouds? On-prem? Hybrid? Virtualization? Where does hardware fit into it all– and would younger…
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D2C232: Chaos Engineering: Breaking Things on Purpose
Chaos engineering is all about resilience and reliability… it just takes the harder path to get there. By injecting random and unpredictable behavior to the…
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D2C231: Cloud Repatriation: Can Workloads Ever Come Home Again?
Cloud repatriation: Is it a good idea? Guest Marino Wijay, an OSI and networking open source advocate, joins hosts Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance to discuss…
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D2C230: Adding Python To Your Operations Toolkit
Today we’re talking about Python. If you’re new to Python and want to add it to your toolkit, this is the show for you. This episode offers a broad…
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D2C229: Standing Out From The Crowd With Tim Banks
We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding your…
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D2C228: Building Local Tech Communities
While it’s easy to find technical content and make professional connections online, in-person interactions are still valuable for learning, forging…
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D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead
Today’s show explores platform engineering. Guest Chad McElligott has thought a lot about the practice of platform engineering, and a blog post and talk…
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D2C226: Creating An Effective Cloud Migration Strategy
On today’s Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about a cloud project where things didn’t go as planned. There were people problems, technical problems…
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D2C225: Security KubeConversations Part 2 – Cloud-Native Security Challenges
This is part two of a special edition of Day Two Cloud we’re calling Security KubeConversations. I spent two days in the Windy City, attending KubeCon Cloud…
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D2C224: Security KubeConversations Part 1 – Protecting Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
Our KubeConversations series continues with a two-part episode on securing Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. I attended KubeCon 2023 in Chicago and…
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D2C223: Accelerating VM Performance With Azure Boost
Welcome to Day Two Cloud! In this episode with Microsoft, it’s November 2023, and I’m in Seattle for the Microsoft Ignite conference. If you think you heard…
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D2C222: What’s New In Azure Networking (Sponsored)
From using hollow core fiber to building networks designed to support AI workloads and modern applications, there’s a lot happening in Azure networking…
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D2C221: KubeConversations Part 2 – Building Cloud Platforms
Welcome to part 2 of my KubeConversations. I spent two days in the Windy City attending KubeCon Cloud Native Con Chicago. I had the opportunity to speak to a…
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D2C220: KubeConversations Part 1 – Platform Engineering
Welcome to a special edition of Day Two Cloud. Host Ned Bellavance traveled to KubeCon Chicago 2023 and spoke to vendors and open source maintainers about…
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D2C219: Building A Multi-Cloud Network With A Cloud-Native Approach (Sponsored)
What if you could have a multi-cloud network that was cloud-native, but you didn’t have to know the nitty-gritty details for each of the clouds? That is, you…
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D2C218: What’s Inside The AI Magic Box?
AI and machine learning are being more widely used in IT and elsewhere. Today's episode opens the AI magic box to better understand what's inside, including…
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D2C217: Building Successful Security Operations – Blue Teaming And Beyond
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk about how to build a successful security practice within your organization. Our guest is Swathi Joshi, VP, SaaS Cloud Security…
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D2C216: Implementing Private AI Architecture With VMware (Sponsored)
The goal of private AI is to bring AI models and compute to where your data is stored to ensure privacy and control. On today's Day Two Cloud, sponsored by…
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Day Two Cloud 215: Highlights From The Edge
Today's Day Two Cloud covers highlights from a recent Edge Field Day event. Ned Bellavance was a delegate at the event and will share perceptions and insights…
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Day Two Cloud 214: Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation
Welcome to Day Two Cloud. If you want your journey to infrastructure automation to be successful, you have to prepare for that journey. On today's show we talk…
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Day Two Cloud 213: Get Application Visibility And Governance For Your K8s Clusters With Lens AppIQ (Sponsored)
Welcome to Day Two Cloud! Today we talk with sponsor Mirantis about Lens AppIQ. If you've started using Kuberentes and you've got multiple clusters supporting…
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Day Two Cloud 212: Cloud Essentials – Object, File, And Block Storage
Day Two Cloud continues the Cloud Essentials series with cloud storage. We focus specifically on AWS's offering, which include object, file, and block storage…
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Day Two Cloud 211: Cloud Security Acronym Soup With Jo Peterson
Today on Day Two Cloud we go deep on new areas of cloud security that you may not be familiar with. There are forces out there that are driving the rise of new…
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Day Two Cloud 210: Can Network Automation Catch Up To The Cloud?
On today's Day Two Cloud we discuss the state of network automation and whether and how it can catch up to automation in the public cloud. We look at network…
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Day Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
Today's Day Two Cloud kicks off an occasional series on cloud essentials. For the first episode we discuss the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is an…
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Day Two Cloud 208: HashiCorp Licensing Changes And The Day Two Cloud-Chaos Lever Crossover
Today on Day Two Cloud we dive into the implications of licensing changes that HashiCorp has made to its popular Terraform software. In short, the company has…
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Day Two Cloud 207: Making Sense Of SSE, SASE, And SD-WAN
On today's Day Two Cloud we examine the similarities and differences among SSE and SASE, which provide cloud-delivered security; and SD-WAN, which can provide…
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Day Two Cloud 206: Making The Most Of Red Teaming With Gemma Moore
Red teams attack a customer's security systems. The idea of a red team, whether consultants or in-house, is to approach the target like an attacker would. A…
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Day Two Cloud 205: States Of Quantum Computing With Abby Mitchell
Today's Day Two Cloud peers inside the box of quantum computing. We explore how it works, what qbits are and why they matter, the current state of quantum…
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Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on…
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Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills
If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity…
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Day Two Cloud 202: How Azure Embraces Terraform For Infrastructure As Code
On today's Day Two Cloud, we talk with Microsoft about how it's embracing Terraform to make it Azure-friendly, including the Terraform Export Tool, the AzAPI…
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Day Two Cloud 201: Building A Product That Uses LLMs
Today we talk about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing products and applications that use LLMs. Our guest is Phillip Carter, Principal PM at…
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Day Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers
Going from a tech role to manager is more than just a new gig---it's a full-blown career change. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with management coach Steve…