Arrested DevOps

Episodes

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  AI and Incidents with Sylvain Kalache 28.10.2026 33m

  Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every small incident to a robot erodes the practice responders need for the big ones, and what to measure so the humans on call don't burn out.
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  Meaningful Control with Jacquie Capur 14.10.2026 41m

  Jacquie Capur, a senior developer advocate at Nebius, joins Matty to talk about keeping meaningful control over the tools you depend on: knowing what they're tied to, verifying they do the job, and having a realistic way out. The conversation runs from configuration management's first magic moment to data residency rules in healthcare, tools that change every two weeks, and the case for open models.
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  WTF Is Going On with Marino Wijay 05.10.2026 36m

  Marino Wijay joins Matty to ask the question everyone in tech is quietly panicking about: what the hell is actually going on right now. They dig into the pace of change since the zero interest rate era, the collapse of infrastructure roles into a human-plus-AI layer, and why most of what looks like a bubble is really just an accounting hack that goes back decades.
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  CI/CD as Control System with Naga Sujitha Vummaneni and Sundeep Bobba 08.09.2026 31m

  Naga Sujitha Vummaneni and Sundeep Bobba join Matty to talk about their book, which reframes CI/CD pipelines as control systems: actuators, feedback signals, and constraints. They dig into what that model demands once AI agents start shipping code at machine speed, and why a bypassed control is a design signal, not a compliance failure.
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  Industrial DevOps with Doug Pagnutti 17.08.2026 41m

  Doug Pagnutti spent fifteen years as an automation engineer caught between the IT and OT worlds inside manufacturing plants. The friction sounds a lot like what's been happening in DevOps for over a decade. Matty and Doug dig into why industrial operations never got the memo, and what OT and IT could still learn from each other now that the wall between them is collapsing.
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  How AI is changing the SDLC with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner 01.10.2025 39m

  The software industry is experiencing another seismic shift. After decades of agile transformations, cloud migrations, and DevOps revolutions, we're now navigating the integration of AI into the software development lifecycle. But this time feels different—the pace is faster, the technology less mature, and the stakes feel higher. Matty Stratton sat down with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner to explore what this transformation means for developers, operations teams, and the organizations they serve.
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  Digging Into Security with Kat Cosgrove 25.08.2025 29m

  Kat Cosgrove returns to talk with Matty about why security stays in the news, why most CVEs never get fixed, and which tools belong in every production environment. The conversation ends on burnout and the case for touching grass.
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  AI, Ethics, and Empathy with Kat Morgan 03.06.2025 40m

  In this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty and guest Kat Morgan discuss the ethical, practical, and technical implications of AI. They explore how AI can assist with coding, improve efficiency, and handle tasks, while emphasizing the importance of good practices and staying informed about the impact of AI.
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  Open Communities with Andrew Zigler 01.02.2024 34m

  Andrew Zigler of Mattermost and Matty talk about what makes an open-first developer community hard to run: the echo chamber, the pull of the paid staff, what can stay closed, and how to get more people advocating than just the ones with the title.
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  Machine Learning Ops with Chelsea Troy 18.01.2024 48m

  Jessitron is joined by Chelsea Troy, Staff Data Engineer at Mozilla, and one of the all-around most interesting people in software today, to discuss staff engineering, machine learning operations, and maybe also surfing.
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  It's Been Ten Years of ADO, Charlie Brown 04.01.2024 1h 48m

  It's been ten years of Arrested DevOps! Joe, Matty, Bridget, Jess, and Trevor spend some time (quite a lot of time!) reminiscing over stories and history of the podcast.
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  So You’re In Charge Now… with Ben Greenberg 22.12.2023 47m

  What happens when you suddenly are In Management? Matty is joined by Ben Greenberg to talk through the challenges of first-time management.
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  DevOps Isn’t a Department with Jeremy Duvall 07.12.2023 30m

  DevOps is not a department. It's a set of concepts and ideas that are human-centric and driven through Agile practices. It's applying Big A Agile to operations: fast feedback loops, deeper collaboration with stakeholders (which is the engineering team), and invoking people over process and tools. A current problem hamstringing organizations is that they treat DevOps like a commoditized department: one that writes shell scripts and deploys Jenkins servers, and not the value engine that those teams could be. They took the tools team, applied a light version of DevOps ideology, and said, "Hey, that's it. That's DevOps. Hashtag winning."
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  Runtime Analysis with Brian Kelly 23.11.2023 38m

  Most developers are familiar with two sources of data about their applications: 1) static code analysis, and 2) observability tools monitoring their system in production. However, a new data source is gaining popularity: Runtime analysis. Runtime analysis is a technique where an application's dynamic behavior is recorded and analyzed during development time, allowing flaws and other insights to be revealed before that code is deployed to production.
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  Complexity with Michael Stahnke 09.11.2023 46m

  It's a complex world! Matty and Michael Stahnke wax philosophical about whether our systems need to be as complicated as we have made them
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  The Database Calls are Coming from Inside the House with Grant Fritchey 26.10.2023 42m

  Grant Fritchey returns after almost ten years to talk about databases and DevOps, and why treating the database like code is still the most useful message.
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  Platform Engineering goes to Flavortown with Matt Kurtiz 05.10.2023 46m

  Matt Kuritz of The Farmer's Dog explains how a platform team that owns nothing works alongside product teams, with a monorepo and a code generator standing in for a portal.
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  What's Up With Open Terraform? 21.09.2023 38m

  Matty is joined by Ohad Maislish and Cory O'Daniel for some updates on the Open Terraform project.
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  The New DevOps with Adam Jacob 07.09.2023 58m

  Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.
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  Purposeful Personal Brand with Cassandra Faris 24.08.2023 52m

  When you're in the tech industry, your personal brand matters both internally and externally. This brand can help you stand out in your current organization or when you're looking for new opportunities.