Liesse Jones: Today we're joined by Anna-Marie Gutierrez-Lee, affectionately known as AMG, who's the Director of Talent Acquisition at LogDNA. She's passionate about mentoring recruiting teams and connecting talent to their dream careers, while fostering a genuine and positive candidate experience. Today, we're going to talk about how to recruit for a DevOps culture and why it's so important to bring more underrepresented talent into tech.

Log archiving is the process of storing all kinds of logs (application, system, or monitoring) from across a multitude of systems in a long-term storage solution like S3. Securely collecting and keeping logs is crucial for many businesses, and they have to do it effectively and with minimal supervision.

Josh Minthorne is the co-founder and global technology director of Axcelinno, an IT technology consultancy and professional services company that helps organizations define and implement their DevSecOps adoption and cloud migration. Today, we're talking about why the security landscape has made companies hesitant to move to the cloud and what they can do to migrate with confidence.

I’m Tim, a Product Design Manager at LogDNA. My team is responsible for creating a beautiful and easy-to-navigate user interface so that you can easily access, and gain value from, your logs. We’ve been working on making our product’s navigation more accessible and are rolling out a mixture of subtle and more noticeable changes.

Nick Durkin is the Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness, where he focuses on solving the technical challenges that are standing in the way of true innovation. Today, we're talking about how Harness uses AI and ML to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best.

Chris Steffen is a research director for information security at Enterprise Management Associates. EMA is a leading analyst and consulting firm that prides itself on going beyond the surface to provide deep insights about the IT industry. I'm Liesse from LogDNA. Before we dive in, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for tuning in to season one of DevOps State of Mind.

LogDNA is always looking forward and constantly developing new and innovative solutions to the problems developers and enterprises face as they manage their logs and data. Here’s a recap of our latest product releases and info on how you can get your hands on them.

Interest in observability is at an all-time high. When we attended KubeCon in Los Angeles in October, observability and security were everywhere—in conversations with attendees and other vendors, during sessions, and in messaging at booths—indicating that there’s still an unmet need. In fact, Gartner declared that observability is at the ‘peak of inflated expectations' in a recent Hype Cycle report.

Liesse Jones: Steve Pereira is a DevOps enthusiast and an expert in software team performance. He leads the largest DevOps community in Canada and is the founder of Visible, where he coaches teams to boost flow and value using his four key maps of DevOps. Welcome to DevOps State of Mind, a podcast where we dive deep into the DevOps culture and chat with friends from small startups and large enterprises about what DevOps looks like in their organizations. I'm Liesse from LogDNA.

Over the last few days, there have been a tremendous amount of posts about the Log4j 2 vulnerability, with Wired going so far as claiming that, “the internet is on fire.” Tl;dr: LogDNA is not exposed to risk from the Log4Shell vulnerability in Log4j 2 at this time. If that’s all you came for, you can stop reading here. If you want to learn more about the vulnerability and how LogDNA protects you from risks like these, grab a cup of coffee and read on.