Matt Watson talks with Dave Rael about Stackify, business and development, DevOps, NoOps, and content creation
Stackify was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson. Before Stackify he was the CTO of a rapidly growing enterprise software service (SaaS) provider. He noticed that agile development had caused his developers to be much more involved in day-to-day IT operations, but his team lacked the tools and server access to do it efficiently. He founded Stackify to create a suite of tools to solve this problem, which virtually every dev and dev team deals with.
Chapters:
- - Stackify's growth and impact
- - Challenges in front and Matt and Stackify and the relative difficulties of business and development
- - The virtue of contstraints
- - DevOps, NoOps, and how we view servers in today's world
- - The function of IT Operations in a DevOps/NoOps world
- - The meaning of the terms DevOps and NoOps
- - The swinging pendulum of styles of applications and deployment scenarios
- - Consolidation toward big cloud hosting providers and barriers to greater competition
- - The joy and pain of supporting multiple languages and platforms
- - A history of bad blood with JavaScript
- - Matt on the good and bad of not writing code for Stackify on a regular basis
- - The function of DBAs in a DevOps/NoOps world
- - Matt, the podcaster
Resources:
- Stackify
- The Stackify Blog
- Prefix
- Retrace
- New Relic
- AppDynamics
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Bryan Cantrill on Developer On Fire
- Amazon Web Services Snowball
- Amazon Web Services Snowmobile
- The Great AWS Outage of 2017
- Troy Hunt's Blog
- Troy Hunt on Developer On Fire
- J.B. Rainsberger on Developer On Fire
- "An elegant weapon for a more civilized age"
- Startup Hustle, A Podcast by Matt DeCoursey and Matt Watson