XY problems are everywhere. Even hidden in plain sight in many user stories.

How do you know that the work you're doing is building on a valid premise?

Often the "obvious" answer blinds us to the "correct" answer.

Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.

I recently created an 8-minute video where I walk through my daly routine of writing one of these emails.

DevOps is usually viewed in the context of large organizations. But what does DevOps look like in small organizations? Does DevOps make sense in this context? Is it even feasible?

Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.

The distinction some make between "testing" and "checking" is valuable. But the terminology is not. We can do better (with practically no effort).

"Check" is one of the most ambiguous function names I see. Avoid it.

I relate the story of a single bit gone wrong back in 2006, which launched my career on a new trajectory of root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and DevOps.

Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools. The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.