D2DO269: Intergalactic Dataspeak and Making Data Actionable

D2DO269: Intergalactic Dataspeak and Making Data Actionable

Author: Packet Pushers April 16, 2025 Duration: 39:39
Data and what you do with it is the topic of today’s show with guest Dominic Chapman, the Head of Product at Axiom. Dominic’s career focus is on data, how to store and how to operationalize all the data that different technology stacks create. We talk with Dominic about how the data does not lie,... Read more »

Day Two DevOps features hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks, who steer conversations about the ongoing, real-world work of running cloud platforms. This isn't a theoretical discussion; it's a practical look at the complexities that emerge after the initial deployment, drawing directly from their own extensive backgrounds. Each week, they bring in other seasoned professionals-technical leaders, trainers, and consultants-to unpack the specific nuances and unexpected challenges within environments like AWS and Azure. The dialogue spans critical areas including networking, security, and automation, all through a lens of operational DevOps. Listening to this podcast provides actionable insights and grounded perspectives that help practitioners navigate the continual evolution and management of their systems, moving beyond setup to sustained, confident operation. The focus is on the knowledge required for the long haul, offering a resource for those deep in the details of cloud infrastructure.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

Day Two DevOps
Podcast Episodes
D2DO312: Networking at Scale: AWS Transit Gateway War Stories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:46
How can network architects successfully manage 95,000 hosts while navigating the complexities of large-scale cloud migrations? Devender Singh, a Principal Cloud Architect, joins Ned and Kyler to discuss the practical rea…
D2DO311: Code Review Is Dead – Long Live Peer Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:41
Traditional peer review processes are breaking down in the new AI era. Dylan Ratcliffe, founder and CEO of Overmind Technology, joins Ned and Kyler to discuss the importance of treating AI as a machine to be audited rath…
D2DO310: Developing Efficient AI Workflows [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:18
Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsidian for persistent agent memory to comba…
D2DO309: Packet Pushers Assemble! Bridging the Telemetry Divide [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:53
Today, several members of our Packet Pushers podcast team assemble to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operatio…
D2DO308: Exploring the AI Governance Paradox (Sponsored) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:39
In this sponsored episode, Jonah Kowall from Spacelift joins the show to unpack the findings of the 2026 Infrastructure Automation Report. The discussion covers the “governance paradox”, where organizations have confiden…
D2DO307: Why AI Can’t Replace DevOps Fundamentals [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:26
Ned and Kyler welcome Andrew Brown, co-founder of ExamPro, to discuss how AI is reshaping the IT education and training landscape. They discuss why foundational technical knowledge remains vital, how AI-generated answers…
D2DO306: Platform Engineering in the Agentic Era (Sponsored) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:51
Platform engineering forms the foundation for developers to build on, and you shouldn’t be surprised that folks from VMware have been thinking about platforms for a long time. In today’s episode, sponsored by Broadcom, N…
D2DO305: Scaling Human Connection in Tech Communities [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:14
Kyler and Ned are joined by former AWS Community Program Manager Jason Dunn to discuss what it takes to build and maintain a thriving tech community. Jason shares his “benevolent dictatorship” philosophy on community man…
D2DO304: Observability in the Age of AI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:30
As AI matures, it becomes increasingly important to know how it’s performing and what it actually costs. Ned and Kyler are joined by Anuj Tyagi, Senior Site Reliability Engineer for RingCentral, to discuss the critical s…
D2DO303: Commiserating About AI with Ned and Kyler [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:16
Hosts Ned and Kyler compare notes on everything they’ve been doing with AI, including the successes they’ve enjoyed and headaches they’ve suffered building and implementing AI agents. They talk about how AI has sped up t…