Adam Hawkins
Software Delivery Coach
Appears in 122 Episodes
Saltside Chronicles with Sebastian Dahlgren
Sebastian Dahlgren & Adam Hawkins continue the Saltside Chronicles by discussing the rewrite's long tail impacts on Saltside.
Saltside Chronicles #5: Retrospective
The third episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode is a retrospective through the lens of the flow framewor...
Saltside Chronicles #4: A New Architecture
The fourth episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses how we split the monolith and created a new a...
Saltside Chronicles #3: The Snow Ball
The third episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses how we started off creating an API & Android a...
Saltside Chronicles #2: Technical Debt Calls
The second episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses the technical debt and architecture issues th...
Saltside Chronicles #1: Overview
The first in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode briefly tells the entire story as a backdrop for subsequent epis...
Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo
Alex Hidalgo & Adam Hawkins discuss the theory, practices, and the hard problems with service level objectives (SLOs).
Software Delivery at Buildkite with Keith Pitt
Keith Pitt & Adam Hawkins discuss the fearless continuous deployment culture at Buildkite.
GitOps & ArgoCD with Viktor Farcic
Viktor Farcic & Adam Hawkins discuss logic behind GitOps, how to use ArgoCD, and changing the way we think of production environments.
Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall
Torin Sandall & Adam Hawkins discuss shifting left on security with Open Policy Agent (OPA), conftest, and rego. Plus Small Batches housekeeping.
Service Boundaries with Derek Comartin
Derek Comartin & Adam Hawkins discuss designing individual services in a distributed system for fast flow and team autonomy.
The Flow Framework with Dr. Mik Kersten
Mik Kersten & Adam Hawkins discuss the Flow Framework's origin and why optimizing for fast flow is all that matters.
The 12 Factor App with Joe Kutner
Adam & Joe discuss the proposed additions in the 12.1 factor app, the challenge with dev-prod parity, and the missing security factor.
Automated Testing with Jason Swett
Jason and I discuss automated testing from a beginner's perspective and its impact on engineering success. Strong opinions included!
Team Topologies
Recap of the 2019 book "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow".
Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley
Dave Farley is the co-author of "Continuous Delivery". We discuss the book, real engineering, and more.
The Story of Parts Unlimited
The story of Parts Unlimited as told by Bill in the Phoenix Project and Maxine in the Unicorn Project.
Dev Environments
Something different for this episode! A live recording of my thoughts on integrated vs isolated dev environments.
SLIs, SLOs, & SLAs
SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs create a hierarchy. They measure reliability and create an objective framework for prioritization and decision making.
Pre-Commit Hook
The pre-commit prevents known bad commits from entering the deployment pipeline. Use it as tool to improve percent-complete-percent-accurate in your deployment pipeline.
DevOps for Beginners
A follow up interview I did on the Rails with Jason Podcast. Similar to the first episode of this podcast but with more details. Great if you prefer conversations inst...
Preflight Checks
Preflight checks prevent deploys into known bad conditions
Testing Your Deployment Pipeline on Rails with Jason
My guest appearance on Rails with Jason. We discussed designing deployment pipelines with preflight checks and smoke tests. Also the philosophy for DevOps and the impo...
The Four Types of Work
The four types of work--features, defects, debts, and risks--under pin the Flow Framework
12.1 Factor Apps: Dev/Prod Parity
The 12.1 factor app strives for dev/prod parity where practical and eschews it when not. This requires differenating between bounded and unbounded contexts.
12.1 Factor Apps: Logs
Three additions to the original 12 factor app logs factor
12.1 Factor Apps: Config
Patch level improvements to the original 12 factor apps. 4 points to improve the configuration factor in your application.
12 Factor Apps
The 12 factor app sets guidelines for designing software for deployment pipelines. They're a great starting point that can be improved upon. See why in this episode.
The Principle of Improvement
A look into into how fostering a culture of experimentation and learning drive continuous improvement. This is known as the Third Way of DevOps.
The Principle of Feedback
The Principle of Feedback, or the second way of DevOps, describes using right to left feedback in the value stream.