Episode 21 - Mechanical Rock | Great Things with Great Tech
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Into (0:00)
Possibly the best Company Name EVER! (1:15)
What Mechanical Rock does (3:14)
History and founding (4:30)
Test Automation for legacy software and apps (7:15)
Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Environments and TDD (8:50)
2017 Rebranding (11:00)
Building upon the growth of AWS (13:00)
Modern Consultancy around Public Cloud and Cloud Native (15:50)
DevOps mantra from Hamish and everything code (16:50)
Finding or creating DevOp talent born in the cloud (20:05)
The state of Public Clouds (25:20)
Leveraging Open Source and seeding a new Community (28:10)
Latency Conf and HashiCorp (31:02)
Creating Community (33:50)
DevOps Dream the game (35:45)
What makes a great Technology Partner (38:20)
Snowflake (39:45)
Initial Disruption and continued Innovation (42:10)
Wrap Up and call outs (45:35)
☑️ In this episode I talk with Hamish Tedeschi, CEO and Founder at Mechanical Rock. Mechanical Rock's mission is to deliver better software, faster while helping clients transform the way they deliver. Their methodology is based on #DevOps, modern code-driven infrastructure and test first development. DevOps is what they do. Hamish and I talk about what DevOps really is all about and how he saw a space in the market around modern application development focused on public cloud platforms and a do everything as #code mantra to help lead the way in modern IT consultancy.
Their DevOps philosophy delivers better software, faster through:
Everything-as-Code under configuration management, including immutable infrastructure validated via Behaviour Driven Infrastructure (BDI)
Test First Development, exemplified by Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
Continuous Build via deployment pipelines, including automated testing at the unit and scenario level.
Continuous Operations including monitoring and alerting, auto remediation and optimisation
Transparency of information, and active collaboration across teams, throughout the process
☑️ Mechanical Rock was founded in 2014 with the company headquartered in the Perth, Western Australia
☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
AWS, GCP, Azure, Microsoft, CNCF, Snowflake
☑️ Shout Outs and Notes
Web: https://www.mechanicalrock.io
GitHub: https://github.com/mechanicalrock
DevOps Dream Game: http://devops.games
Latency Conference: https://www.latencyconf.io
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyuSH1MDXDWwSR-7s6UL3Q
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