Dev and Ops, DevOps from the Ops Side - Chris - ABC Fitness

02/03/21 • 29 min

ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery

In this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Chris Jowett who is a DevOps Architect at ABC Fitness. Chris has significant system engineering experience and has worked on several operations teams in various organizations. DevOps is the operational focus on development scaling e.g engineering efficiency.
There is no one path for a DevOps engineer, learn from Chris as the evolution in operations teams occur how this translates to DevOps. For example number of services supported vs infrastructure support. Chris talks about modern approaches such as not ever patching a system. This and more on this episode!

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ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery - Dev and Ops, DevOps from the Ops Side - Chris - ABC Fitness

Transcript

Ravi Lachhman 00:07
Hi, everybody! Welcome back to another episode of [the] ShipTalk podcast. Very excited to be talking to one of our buddies Chris Jowett from ABC Fitness, who's a DevOps engineer. Chris, why don't you introduce yourself for listeners who don't know you?

Chris Jowett 00:20
Yeah, so I've been doing this DevOps thing since before it was technically called DevOps. I'd been doing computer automation; but officially, I've had a DevOps