Podcast · Tech & Science
by Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, Jessica Kerr, and Bridget Kromhout · English · Tech & Science
Arrested DevOps is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness.
5 Oct 2026 · 36 minNew
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.
E207 · 8 Sep 2026 · 32 min
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.
E206 · 17 Aug 2026 · 42 min
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.
E205 · 1 Oct 2025 · 40 min
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.
E204 · 25 Aug 2025 · 29 min
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.
E203 · 3 Jun 2025 · 40 min
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.
E202 · 1 Feb 2024 · 35 min
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.
E201 · 18 Jan 2024 · 48 min
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.
E200 · 4 Jan 2024 · 1 hr 49 min
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.
E199 · 22 Dec 2023 · 48 min
What happens when you suddenly are In Management? Matty is joined by Ben Greenberg to talk through the challenges of first-time management.
E198 · 7 Dec 2023 · 30 min
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,…
E197 · 23 Nov 2023 · 39 min
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.
E196 · 9 Nov 2023 · 47 min
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
E195 · 26 Oct 2023 · 42 min
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.
E194 · 5 Oct 2023 · 47 min
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.
E193 · 21 Sep 2023 · 39 min
Matty is joined by Ohad Maislish and Cory O'Daniel for some updates on the Open Terraform project.
E192 · 7 Sep 2023 · 58 min
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.
E191 · 24 Aug 2023 · 52 min
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.
E190 · 10 Aug 2023 · 51 min
Guest Sarah Morgan helps dig into how we can apply the principles of product management into our DevOps approaches!
E189 · 27 Jul 2023 · 56 min
Special guest Michael Isbitski joins us to talk about cloud native security and reviews the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report. Michael and Matty discuss some common security challenges and findings from the report, and how to address them.
E188 · 29 Jun 2023 · 57 min
Let's take another look at the topic of Platform Engineering, but perhaps with a different perspective. Pete Cheslock turns his attention to Platform Engineering, and if it's really anything new, or just what DevOps has always meant?
E187 · 15 Jun 2023 · 52 min
Looking for a job? Did you get laid off? It's rough out there. Let's talk about it with Sidney Miller.
E186 · 1 Jun 2023 · 47 min
Let's dig into the world of data, with Aiven's Francesco Tisiot.
E185 · 18 May 2023 · 49 min
Is DevOps dead? Did Platform Engineering kill it off? Matty chats with Daniel Bryant (Ambassador Labs) about Platform Engineering.
E184 · 13 Apr 2023 · 1 hr
Courtney Nash and Casey Rosenthal from Verica join Matty for a deep dive into the results of the VOID (Verica Open Incident Database) report.
E183 · 20 Sep 2022 · 51 min
Roni Dover, founder of [Digma.ai](https://digma.ai), joins Jess to chat about continuous feedback and what's missing in every DevOps loop.
E182 · 21 Mar 2022 · 49 min
Matty and career coach Dagna Bieda talk about why engineers need communication skills, what empathy means at work, assertiveness, marketing your work, and choosing employers that share your values.
E181 · 2 Mar 2022 · 54 min
A year after Breaking Down Gates, Matty and Tim Banks revisit the Great Resignation, who is pushing people back to the office, and how conferences can be more inclusive and affordable.
E180 · 16 Feb 2022 · 53 min
Sue Choi and Dominic of Mondoo join Matty to talk about why DevOps and security still struggle to work together, from paper security and false positives to supply chain and building trust.
E179 · 7 Jan 2022 · 57 min
One of the most innovative and popular virtual conferences of 2020 was Deserted Island Devops. The event was back again in 2021, and Matty chatted with organizers and speakers about what made this event so special.
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