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As a 2X exited CRO, Toni Hohlbein has what it takes to talk about RevOps in today’s episode. He is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Growblocks. Toni and Evan discuss the growing RevOps job title and the increasing popularity of RevOps. Toni believes that RevOps has been gaining popularity due to the focus on efficiency in business operations, and the truth of whether it truly brings efficiency to the table or not. Toni will also be delving into the evolutions of sales, planning & forecasting of revenue, what efficiencies are created in RevOps, and a whole lot more in this latest episode of The Distributed Truth.

TRUTHS OF THE DAY

TONI: WIN BY UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD THROUGH DATA

“The kind of people that try and understand the world through data and through scientific kind of approaches and through the lens that we are advocating for, I think they will win by the way and I think that's kind of the new wave that we are basically enabling right now for revenue operators to go to market and just Just crush it.”

TONI: IT ALL STARTS WITH BENCHMARKING

"Try external benchmarking, try internal benchmarking against your baseline against your plan, and then try to add to your revenue engine customer acquisition costs to see inefficiencies and try and realize those, and if you make all of that stuff available to your commercial decision makers, I am very sure that someone there is going to come up with ideas to improve your engine that is efficiency based and not let's hire another headcount base."

Connect with Toni and learn more about his work:

• Toni Hohlbein | Growblocks | Growblocks.com

Connect with Evan to learn more about Syncari and The Distributed Truth Podcast:

• Evan Dunn | Syncari | Syncari.com

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Welcome to another episode and today, we welcome Andy Mowat, CEO and Co-Founder of Gated, a new approach to solving email overload. Before this, Andy ran business operations and GTM operations at Upwork, Box, and CultureAmp. In this episode, we dig deep into the rising tide of RevOps, and how RevOps leaders can take ownership of the customer data layer beneath their Go-To-Market stack. Learn more about Andy in this latest episode of The Distributed Truth.

TRUTHS OF THE DAY

ANDY: WHAT GATED IS BUILT FOR

“We are not building a tool for sales and marketing. We're building a tool for the people that sales and marketing hits. And we think in the process, we can make the world better for everyone.”

ANDY: ON HOW TO GET ACCESS TO CUSTOMER DATA

"The world should not have to learn SQL to be good at data."

Connect with Andy and learn more about his work:

• Andy Mowat | Gated

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• Evan Dunn | Syncari | Syncari.com

In this episode we covered Observability! From log collection through metric time-series, through the systems they're stored and to analyzing the data, coming up with insights, and understanding system and application behavior!

Experience / Tool of the week:

• Meir mentioned working with Make - the evergreen scripting tool that supports application builds (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
• Omer suggested Just (https://github.com/casey/just) as the modern Rust alternative 
• Omer's findings:
  • Since Jan 2023 AWS offer CloudTail Lake for querying logs rather than having to export them with a data model to Athena: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-lake.html
  • Bashly - a Bash CLI framework! - https://github.com/DannyBen/bashly

Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il
Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com
Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

Opeklubin seitsemännessä jaksossa vieraana on Leena Pöntynen. Keskustelemme Suomen kipeästä osaajapulasta ja sen korjaamisesta työperäisen maahanmuuton ja koulutuspolitiikan avulla. Lisäksi puhumme mm. Suomen Pisa-tuloksista, perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelmasta ja kolmiportaisen tuen ongelmista.

Leena Pöntynen on osaamispolitiikasta vastaava johtaja Teknologiateollisuus ry:ssä, missä hän on myös toiminut koulutusjohtajana ja koulutuspolitiikan johtavana asiantuntijana. Hänellä on pitkä ja monipuolinen tausta koulutusalalta, missä on toiminut mm. opettajana, rehtorina ja opetuspäällikkönä. Kuntaliitossa hän teki eduvalvontatyötä perusopetuksen erityisasiantuntijana.

Kiitoksia mielenkiinnosta!
Videoversiot täältä, Opeklubin Youtube-kanavalta!

In this episode we talked about FinOps. What is it, but beyond the buzz, what does it mean to be financially aware. What are good systems to put in place, metrics to track, tools to use and concepts to adopt.

Trivy: https://www.aquasec.com/products/trivy/

Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il
Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com
Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode of DevOps Topeaks, we discussed what DevOps actually is (spoiler alert: not a job title) and which qualities we're looking for in DevOps candidates. We also talked about our approach to picking up new technologies and consume information in a world of constant stream of data.
We hope you enjoy!

Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il
Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com
Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

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This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Ginna Raahauge, CIO at Zayo to find out more about the current state and future of the expanding definition of DevOps and what application modernization really means within the new environments the applications are being consumed. She explains how Covid has accelerated the diversification of application use in the office and at home. Ginna delves into the need for enhanced internet speed and bandwidth capabilities, as well as new considerations for implementing security measures earlier in the development process. She also talks about pushing further into the edge, scaling in the cloud, and the trials and tribulations of understanding legacy applications while investing in infrastructure and talent to upskill and modernize for the future. 

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Key Quotes

“When you think about the infrastructure by which the foundation you are deploying your applications, the developers are really having to think about that differently, have more immersive conversations around what that architecture looks like, what the risks in that architecture are, or the assumptions that have really changed in their development aspects of that.”

“Developers are so much more closer to the impact of the experience, whether it's consumer, partner, customer, or even end user inside like an employee experience. And, it just is becoming so much more blended and immersive.”

“We are still going through that transformation of really what is DevOps? We've been trained on the traditional or the more longstanding DevOps methods and agile taxonomy. But, I do think that it's still early given the new environmentals of hybrid and just the pure consumption demand over more wavelength and 5G types of experiences, versus hard line experiences or fiber to the house. Not everybody has that.”

“I think that the definition of DevOps is expanding and getting bigger and we're seeing where those edges are blending, and we have to think about some of those experiences in that and they have to develop differently.”

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Time stamps:

01:15 Shift in Technological Acceleration and Application Performance

04:45 Breaking down Bandwidth

07:30 Developer Redevelopment of Approach

10:15 Evolution and Reskilling of DevOps

14:15 DevSecOps Considerations with User Experience

10:15 Future Developers Understanding Legacy

25:45 Producing New Ideas Without Old Constraints

29:15 DevOps and Cloud

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Links:

Ginna Raahaug on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginna-raahauge-9b4275/

CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange
Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon 

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Keywords: 

cio, cio exchange, VMware, innovation, leadership, DevOps, Developer, Developers, ops, operations, IT, information technology, business, technology, cto, devsecops, security, cloud, multi-cloud, hyperscaling, hyperscalers

What’s stopping your business from deploying applications 50% faster to increase market share and boost revenue? For Jeff Shaw, CIO of EMPLOYERS Insurance, it was finding the right place to run the right application with the agility and scalability of the cloud. This meant leveraging not one cloud, but multiple clouds to take advantage of the best tools that each one had to offer while at the same time, managing them as if they were one cloud. In this episode, Jeff is joined by his VP of Cloud Infrastructure Dale Ramsey and together they describe the journey they took to move all their applications off of aging infrastructure, and run them in multiple clouds while ensuring that everything worked together seamlessly. Throughout the conversation, we discuss the real challenges that the business faced when it came to evaluation, training teams, and executing what seemed, at first, to be impossible. During the discussion, Jeff reveals what he considers to be the key elements for successfully taking advantage of all the best tools of each cloud while ensuring that security and customer experience are not compromised. 

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Links:

Jeffrey Shaw's Profile: https://www.employers.com/management-team/jeffrey-shaw

CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange
Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon 

[Subscribe to the Podcast] 
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For more podcasts, video and in-depth research go to https://www.vmware.com/cio

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Keywords: 

cio, cio exchange, VMware, innovation, leadership, DevOps, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, VMC, Developers, ops, operations, IT, information technology, business 

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This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Tihomir Bajic, CEO of LTSE Software to find out more about the evolution of DevOps, and his vision for overcoming siloed developer, ops and security teams for fast, consistent and scalable operations across environments. He explains the importance of developer lifestyle and flexibility, to ensure they can remain effective while working in a supportive culture while the barriers between teams are removed. During the discussion Tiho expresses what he considers to be newer and better ways of measuring developer productivity. He tells us what he thinks about the developer and operations relationship, shedding light on how best they can integrate and interact to be influential on productivity, progress, and profitability. Tiho also delves into how LTSE is innovating investment, experimentation, and scaling for companies, in an effort to help them find continuous success.

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Key Quotes:

“If you are a technology company, you're focusing your innovation on technology. One of the most important things that you can think about is speed of development, and how fast you can get new products or changes out in the market, into the hands of the customers. And, what matters there is the people who are creating that code, who are creating that content; their ability to do so quickly, their ability to do so reliably and to be able to troubleshoot, test, engage, and monitor how the customers are working with what's out there.”

“Software, writing code, it's a craft. You develop your own jargon, and you need to engage with people who are creating, who are craft people, who are creating this valuable thing. You need to really study and understand and appreciate what they do and what's needed for them to be successful in that craft.”

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Time stamps:

01:30 Importance of the Developer Experience

04:00 Evolution of the Developer Lifestyle

11:30 Building Companies that Support Developer Lifestyle and Culture 

17:30 The DevOps Relationship, Culture, and Working Environment

24:00 Budget Authority and Responsibility

25:15 Innovation at LTSE

30:15 Developer Flexibility and Success

34:00 Developer Value

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Links:

Tihomir Bajic on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tihomirbajic/

CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange
Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon 

[Subscribe to the Podcast] 
On Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cio-exchange-podcast/id1498290907 
For more podcasts, video and in-depth research go to https://www.vmware.com/cio

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Keywords: 

cio, cio exchange, VMware, innovation, leadership, DevOps, Developer, Developers, ops, operations, IT, information technology, business, technology, cto, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, investment

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Mike and Ken take it back to the roots with a special anniversary episode on what is DevSecOps. Since we started this podcast we've had a lot of topics that fit the overall DevSecOps buzzsord, but in this episode we talk about some of the evolution DevSecOps has gone through, how it's perceived in the industry and market today and some hot takes on what's changed. The good, the bad, and the ugly. We leave it to you to decide, has DevSecOps lost it's marketing shine and buzzword status?

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