The POPCAST with Dan POP

Episode 14 - DevOps Checklists, Cloud Native Inf, and Disney

Episode Summary

Two for One in one episode! In this episode, we explore a checklist Sysdig wrote on the first 30/60/90 days of a DevOps Engineer with Pawan Shankar (a beast!) as well as Justin Garrison is a senior developer advocate at Amazon, he is formerly of Disney animation/streaming services and Disney+. he wrote a book with Kris Nova on Cloud Native infrastructure which shows the process, people, chaos factors in bringing together cloud native applications if a very digestible way

Episode Notes

In this episode, we explore a checklist Sysdig wrote on the first 30/60/90 days of a DevOps Engineer with Pawan Shankar (a beast!) . this is content that regardless of my employment with Sysdig i would absolutely devour and i hope you all will enjoy the time we spend on it, as its vital for Engineers, Tech Leadership, etc. Justin Garrison is a senior developer advocate at Amazon, he is formerly of Disney animation/streaming services and Disney+. he wrote a book with Kris Nova on Cloud Native infrastructure which shows the process, people, chaos factors in bringing together cloud native applications if a very digestible way. He gives his opinion on the first 30/60/90 days of a devops engineer, and valuable advice for automation. Justin provides some very amazing stories from his time at Disney and beyond to his brand new role at AWS as a Developer Advocate. Lastly, we talk about video games, debate MK vs Street Fighter, Home theater, and Justin gives perhaps the best GPU/CPU analogy i have ever heard. Justin is a great guy and i was so impressed by him. 

Links:
30/60/90 day checklist for DevOps - https://sysdig.com/resources/whitepapers/30-60-90-day-checklist-for-devops-engineer/ 
Justin and Kris Nova's book - https://amzn.to/3e0dmXn 

Timestamp/Topic: 

00:00 - Pawan Shankar Intro (Pawancast!) 
02:52 - Origins of the 30/60/90 day checklist for Devops teams 
06:20 - 30 Day Goal 
06:52 - 60 Day Goal 
07:51 - 90 Day Goal 
08:42 - Team Olive 
10:16 - Justin Garrison Intro 
11:04 - Justin's beginnings 
14:20 - ...Disney! 
15:47 - Making Movies through the magic of automation 
20:40 - Scaling at the speed of Mickey... 
22:32 - Conway's Law and Movie Credits 
24:13 - Writing the book "Cloud Native Infrastructure" with Kris Nova 
34:12 - Justin's thoughts on the first 30/60/90 days of a DevOps Engineer 
39:19 - Justin's new role at Amazon Web Services as a developer advocate 
43:10 - What work is Justin most proud of.... 
45:55 - Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat.. debate 
51:40 - Justin and POP discuss home theater 
58:35 - Justin gives the best GPU/CPU usage analogy i have ever heard.