Good talks/podcasts (October-November 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Webminar 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Interview with Nicole Forsgren
• Instrumentation, Observability & Monitoring of Machine Learning Models  Josh Wills
• Evolutionary Architecture  Rebecca Parsons. This talk is a great introduction to the topic.
• What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans Laura Nolan. A lot of insights about how complex systems fail. Based on public postmortems can help us avoid some common problems.
• JavaZone 2019, Room 5 - Survival Tips For Women in Tech  Patricia Aas. Essential talk especially to open our eyes to privileged people like me (white male in tech).
• Lean and agile at Toyota Connected  Nigel Thurlow. It is interesting to see how they are introducing agile in Toyota to compete with the tech companies and complement the excellence in production they have (with TPS).
• The Technical Debt Trap  Doc Norton. A classical one about technical debt.
• Mob Programming and the Power of Flow Woody Zuill. Interesting point of view from the individual flow to the team flow.

Code on the Rocks / Devops podcast

El pasado 10 de octubre tuve la suerte de poder participar como invitado en el podcast CodeOnTheRocks (https://www.spreaker.com/show/1917879) y hablar de uno de los temas que más me apasionan, la cultura devops.

Compartí podcast, además de con los hosts @flipper83, @jorgeleria y @LauraLacarra, con @oscarsj, que casualidades de la vida es un gran colega con el que trabajé hace unos cuantos años y que hacía tiempo que no veía en persona. Así que además de disfrutar de la charla, puede disfrutar de reencontrarme con Oscar.

El podcast se realiza en directo, lo que desde luego no puedo negar que me generaba algo de nerviosismo... pero una vez entrados en el tema la verdad que ni nos dimos cuenta de la velocidad a la que pasaba el tiempo y nos podríamos haber quedado hablando varias horas más :)

Gracias a Laura y a los dos Jorges (flipper, jorgeleria) por la invitación...

Aquí os dejo un enlace a la grabación para los que tengáis interés:

https://twitter.com/codeontherocks/status/1182339843747192832

🔴 LIVE PODCAST: Devops con Eferro y con OSanjose mi sanjose on @Spreaker https://t.co/rnlf6Obn37

— Code on the Rocks (@codeontherocks) October 10, 2019

Continuous Delivery. Practices and Real experiences. Presentation at Webbeds

This past Friday, I had the great luck of being able to share a few hours with the webbeds team in Palma de Mallorca and make a presentation about agile and continuous delivery.

Thanks to Marcos Pacheco for contacting me and for the invitation. Thanks to the webbed team for the exciting Q&A round.

I hope that the presentation has generated interesting conversations internally and that you can experiment with some of the ideas presented.

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Good talks/podcasts (September 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks/ebooks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Podcasts
• Screaming in the cloud: How to Grade DevOps Teams with Nicole Forsgren, PhD 
• Software Engineering Daily Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck
• Software Engineering Daily Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 1) with Charity Majors
• https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/high-performance-cultures/ Randy Shoup on Creating High-Performance Cultures InfoQ Culture podcast
• Devops / Agile culture
• Better value sooner safer happier  Jon_Smart. Very funny and interesting talk about culture.
• Other
• Helping Product Managers to let go Michael Sippey
• Cloud-Native Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka Gwen Shapira 
• Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery Dave Farley

Audiobooks:

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Tim Ferriss

Good talks/podcasts (August 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks/ebooks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Engineering Leadership
• Inno-Versity Presents: Greatness by David Marquet  (https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404/)
• http://simpleleadership.io/why-becoming-an-effective-leader-involves-changing-the-language-you-use-with-krister-ungerbock/
• Ep. #9, High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble (o11ycast podcast)
• System design:
• AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small ARC337

Audiobooks (I recommend them all):

• The Five Elements of Effective Thinking Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't Simon Sinek
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Jim Collins

Good talks/podcasts (July 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Building and Scaling a High-Performance Culture Randy Shoup. A great talk about culture for high-performance tech organizations. Good complement for Accelerate and based in his experience at ebay and google.
• We Talked To Product Management Legend Marty Cagan. Here’s What We Learned | BUILD Podcast A great podcast episode about product management, product teams, with the great Marty Cagan. As always, many insights for any company selling tech-based products.
• Architecture
• JOTB19 - Istio Service Mesh & pragmatic microservices architecture Alex Soto
• Forging a Functional Enterprise: How thinking Functionally Transforms Line-of-Business Applications Scott Havens. A lot of good ideas at the architecture level.
• Adidas Digital Platform Where Cloud Native Meets the Sporting Goods Industry Benjamin Grimm, Fernando Cornago. Interesting description of his journey towards agility (of course introducing a DevOps culture).
• Others:
• https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcast/dont-sugar-coat-your-culture/ Friction Podcast Patty McCord. Interesting conversation about Netflix culture of freedom and responsibility.
• Why you should have your own black box Matthew Syed | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool