DevOps
topic on 8 shows · 19 statements across 15 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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19 statements about DevOps, every show
Agarwal: Production software infrastructure makes more money than developer tools
“Production companies make money and are And see just much higher adoption than developer-focused companies.”
Agarwal: AI operational spend will surpass traditional cloud DevOps spend
“So will AI spend surpass cloud spend? I a hundred percent believe that, which means that the AI ops spend surpasses DevOps spend. It's bound to happen.”
Aggarwal: Autonomous cloud infrastructure will entirely eliminate enterprise DevOps roles
“I think, ah, my view is that future should be that everything is autonomous, and we don't need that role in, in an organization.”
Generating code is easy; DevOps and deployment are the true bottleneck
“The code of the Vibe coding part, the code was actually the easy part of Vibe coding Menugen, and most of it actually was when I tried to make it real so that you can actually have authentication and payments and the domain name and the virtual deployment. Thi…”
Fournier: Platform engineering teams must include dedicated software engineers, not just SREs
“First of all, I really am a very strong believer that like platform engineering has to involve software engineering. If you don't have any software engineers on your platform team, and you only have like, you know, more like operation systems engineers, DevOps…”
Forsgren: DevOps is a set of organizational capabilities, not a toolchain
“DevOps is a set of capabilities. They're technical capabilities. They're architectural capabilities. They're cultural capabilities. They are lean management practices. That predict speed and stability and then speed and stability gives you money, right?”
Pomel: Datadog was founded for Dev-Ops collaboration, not monitoring
“So the starting point for Datadog was not monitoring it was not even the cloud initially. It was, let's get dev and ops on the same page. Let's give them a platform, someplace you can work together, see the world the same way.”
Egner: Elevating a profession is far more effective than category creation
“If you can elevate a profession instead of a category, that can make way more sense. So the great example of this is like Gainsight creating customer success. Or like many companies altogether carving out DevOps or like rebranding DevOps to be a thing that was…”
Pure self-serve works in developer tools because developers avoid sales calls
“There are some categories where you can get really far with a self-serve only model. I'm thinking about Atlassian and how far they went in the sort of in that DevOps world. It makes total sense, right? No developer really wants to get on a phone or get cold ca…”
Schneider: Business operations tooling lags decades behind modern software engineering
“If you think about the methodology being used by the developer, they are like, fifth generation of, ah, you know, technology. When you look at the technology used to develop the other tools, the business operation tools, they are like two G.”
Assaraf: Most DevSecOps Engineers Are Just DevOps Engineers Given Security Duties
“So everyone talk about DevSecOps, but there aren't really many DevSecOps engineers. Many of them are just DevOps engineers that got a new responsibility to secure the cloud.”
Bengal: Redis Labs manages 8,500 enterprise clients with five DevOps engineers
“Well, we have today approximately 8500 enterprise clients and approximately a 100,000 free customers on our free tiers. And all that is managed by five DevOps.”
Jez Humble: DevOps emerged to solve scale challenges pioneered by Amazon and Google
“And I think from a historical point of view, the best way to think about DevOps, it's a bunch of people who had to solve this problem of how do we build large distributed systems that were secure and scalable and be able to change them really rapidly and evolv…”
Forsgren: The DevOps movement was originally named Agile System Administration
“So DevOps was sort of born out of this movement, and it was originally called Agile System Administration.”
Humble: High-performing tech teams do not trade speed for stability
“High-performing companies don't make those trade-offs. They're not going fast and breaking things. They're going fast and making more stable, more high-quality And this is one of the key results in the book, in our research, is this fact that high performers d…”
Humble: DevOps Is the Technological Basis for Lean Startup Methodology
“So to sum up, the way you can frame this is DevOps is that technological capability that underpins your ability to practice lean startup and all these very rapid iterative processes.”
Casado: Platform engineering is emerging as a new enterprise buying center
“We're actually seeing the creation of a new buying center in the industry. I've heard it called platform engineering. I've heard it called the DevOps team or whatever. This is like budget allocated. It's actually viewed as a profit center as product aligned, b…”