DevOps Fireside Chat Podcast Pilot - DevStream feat. Daniel Hu
Hello, and DevStream is happy to present to you our new Podcast, “DevOps Fireside Chat!”
Listen here:
- Optionally, you can go to Ximalaya to play:
https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/558277589
- You can also listen this podcast in xiaoyuzhoufm:
https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/62ec8532adbcb96cf7f767af
- If you prefer to watch the video, you can also watch it directly on this page:
Why “Fireside Chat”
TL;DR
The podcast show’s name “DevOps Fireside Chat” is inspired by the “Fireside Chats” series by KI labs GmbH, authored by friend/former colleague Wyatt Carr.
The Story that Inspired the Name “Fireside Chat”
I know. Many talk shows and podcasts name themselves “fireside chat.” But this isn’t a story of “how we can’t think of a better name, so we unimaginatively named it fireside chat;” this is a story on a much more personal level:
I joined this tiny start-up named KI labs in its early stage. It was April 2018, and KI was my first home after I arrived in Munich, Germany. We had a small and agile team, twenty-ish people squeezed in a historical building (easily over 100 years) near Marienplatz.
I was hitting the ground running from day 1, delivering on a personal-best level of efficiency. I had to, because we were working on multiple projects simultaneously. Back then, I was architecting and building cool stuff for fortune 500 companies from the ground up.
As we grew, we moved offices twice, from 20-ish to 80-ish people. During the process, I was appointed the head of the engineering committee, acting as CTO. Later, my personal interest and the need of the company bifurcated; I hired another CTO to replace me to focus more on the cloud infrastructure architect side.
Then there was a beautiful day in the spring of 2019 when we were at No.44 of Oberanger street, close to the city center. To this day, I still remember that bright day vividly: I was sitting in a huge meeting room with Wyatt, where we had a delightful conversation, which formed the 10th episode of KI labs' Fireside Chats.
Since then, I have always remembered a fireside chat’s warmth and magical feeling. Of course, no actual fireside was involved, although it could be possible, considering it was in Germany.
Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity.
A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot. On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or special.
DevStream feat. Daniel Hu
Finally, welcome to the pilot (very first) episode of the DevOps Fireside Chat podcast!
This episode is in Mandarin. Sorry for English-speaking readers and listeners; we will surely host chats in English.
In today’s episode, we invited Daniel Hu, the PMC member of DevStream, a CNCF open-source project. We discussed DevStream, DevOps, work-life balance, and more. Stay tuned!