Firefighting and DevOps - The Platypus Incident with Bobby Tables

This week we were joined by Bobby Tables of Firehydrant.io, world-renowned purveyor of artisanal handcrafted incident response services that are in fact the opposite of that; perfectly replicable and entirely automated.

Bobby talks us through some of the motivation behind the path he and his co-founders walked (sprinted?) when starting their company and the market circumstances that have created a demand for automated incident response.

We also touch on the distinction between DevOps and SRE, the pros and cons of microservices, and one particularly memorable incident involving a platypus and a fire hydrant.

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