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Building Scalable Disaster Recovery Platforms for Microservices (Thu, 04 Dec 2025)
Introduction Disaster recovery is the process of restoring a business's IT infrastructure — including critical data, applications, and systems — after a catastrophic event to minimize downtime and resume normal operations. There is a common misconception that disaster recovery is just about database snapshot. In reality, it includes restoring application state, database, cache, traffic management, and infrastructure orchestration. Today’s cloud-native environment, which consists of thousands of microservices, makes disaster recovery complex because it requires coordination across services, infrastructure, and dependencies. In large organizations, there are thousands of services to manage with varied technologies. Using a non-standard disaster recovery static script leads to inconsistent and error-prone disaster recovery execution.
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How to Use AI for Anomaly Detection (Thu, 04 Dec 2025)
You usually need AI when your data is just too much, too fast, or too complex for static rules to handle. Think about it: rules work fine when patterns are stable and predictable. But in today’s environment, data isn’t static. Anomalies evolve, labels are often scarce, and what’s considered “normal” shifts depending on the service, the cloud, or even the time of day. If you’re already drowning in alerts or missing critical events, you’ve felt the pain of relying on rigid thresholds. Analysts get overwhelmed, false positives eat up hours, and the real threats slip through. That’s exactly where AI shines: it adapts to change, learns new behaviors, and balances precision with recall in a way that static rules simply can’t.
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Encapsulation Without "private": A Case for Interface-Based Design (Thu, 04 Dec 2025)
Introduction: Rethinking access control Encapsulation is one of the core pillars of object-oriented programming. It is commonly introduced using access modifiers — private, protected, public, and so on — which restrict visibility of internal implementation details. Most popular object-oriented languages provide access modifiers as the default tool for enforcing encapsulation. While this approach is effective, it tends to obscure a deeper and arguably more powerful mechanism: the use of explicit interfaces or protocols. Instead of relying on visibility constraints embedded in the language syntax, we can define behavioral contracts directly and intentionally — and often with greater precision and flexibility.
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Building Self-Healing Data Pipelines: From Reactive Alerts to Proactive Recovery (Thu, 04 Dec 2025)
It's 3 a.m. Your Outlook pops: “Production pipeline down. ETL job failed.” Before you even unlock your phone, another ping follows: “Issue auto-resolved by AI agent. Root cause: Memory pressure from 3× data spike. Fix applied: Scaled cluster, adjusted Spark config. Recovery time: 47 seconds. Cost: $2.30.”
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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