Devnology Podcast 030 - Michael Nygard

Michael Nygard, also known as 'the most paranoid man in
software', has been a developer and architect for over 20 years.
He worked in different domains, like the military, government and
finance, and got in to operations in 2001. Michael is well-known
for his book 'Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready
Software'. You can follow him on Twitter: @mtnygard.


In this episode we talk with Michael about high-reliability teams
and stressful situations, architectural patterns and what it
means for systems to be production-ready.


This interview was recorded at the beautiful rehearsal theater of
Hettoneelspeelt.


Interview by @freekl en @pjvds
Audio post-production by @mendelt
Links for this podcast:

His book: 'Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready
Software'

'Sources of power', by Gary Klein - a book about how people
make decisions in high-reliability teams under stressful
environments, not particular in Information Technology but
fire-fighters and trauma teams.

QuickCheck, a random testing library for Haskell. Introduced
by John Hughes in 2001 in the paper 'QuickCheck: A Lightweight
Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs'.

In a former episode of the Devnology podcast we discussed
Generative testing with Pex.

'Resilience engineering in practice', a favorite book in the
Devops community.

In 2009 Michael contributed to the book 'Beautiful
architecture'

New monitoring tools have advanced, like MCollective.



This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het
Engels