Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.

Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod. He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more. He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

Charles is joined by Caleb Fornari and Jeffrey Groman as we discuss the challenges of public versus private package managers and the security implications of using public repositories.

This is a repeat episode of Adventures in DevOps.

Mikolaj Pawlikowski wrote a book about Chaos Engineering. His book is a practical guide to using the tools to test your infrastructure. He's a tech lead at Bloomberg running Kubernetes. He walks us through the various tools and techniques for making sure that your systems will stand up to things that can destabilize them by scripting different failure scenarios.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

In this week’s episode, Charles Wood interviews Jeffrey Groman. They discuss how SolarWinds was breached, what it means going forward and lessons learned for protecting your business from attacks.

In this week’s episode, Jeffrey Groman and Charles Wood discuss what makes a top 5% engineer, and how to get there. We cover the gamut of technical skills, soft skills, giving back, and producing content.

Charles Wood and Jeffrey Groman are joined by Phil Wilkins, author of Unified Logging with Fluent to talk about logging, infrastructure, monitoring and how to get started.

Jeffrey Groman and Chuck Wood are joined this week by Caleb Fornari of StartOps. We discuss people, process and technology that all need to be addressed as you go down the path towards DevOps.