Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and original author of Chef, discusses the evolution of infrastructure automation and his career-long passion for infrastructure. Jacob reflects on the history and context of Chef, its emergence alongside EC2, and its role in configuration management. He shares insights into the competitive landscape of configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, and touches upon the transition of Chef to Progress.

Former Roblox Sr. Engineering Manager Denys Pashutynski clarifies the fundamental difference between SRE and DevOps roles: SREs handle the customer-facing production edge while DevOps focuses on background automation.#sre From The Incidentally Reliable podcast - real stories from the trenches of site reliability engineering. Made by SREs for SREs and hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.

How can engineering teams have a bigger impact on the bottom line? By thinking beyond code. Most engineers love to build and solve problems. But in a business, building for the sake of building isn’t enough. Even the cleanest code is just an expensive distraction if it doesn’t move the needle.