Hannah Foxwell's guest appearances

Hannah Foxwell

Pivotal Podcasts

Tanzu Talk

The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast

Abby Kearns

Kyle Campos

Jared Ruckle

Regis Allegre

Julian Hjortshoj

Marcin Grzejszczak

Michael Barinek

Rick Clark

Salomé Mortazavi

Tony Hansmann

Joe Militello

James Urquhart

Josh McKenty

Rita Manachi

Ben Wilcock

OwlTail

Hannah works on the platform operations team at VMware. Her teams helps organizations put platform teams in place that run their cloud native platform, like Pivotal Cloud Foundry. As she says, the platform team that delivers an internal platform as a service to the developers. Hannah has spent a lot of time finding and working with those operations people who end up being SRE-like, coding folks. They're running those centralized cloud platforms in large organizations. We discuss some approaches to changing ops people's work, working through resistance to change, helping ops people become systems programmers, a bit of SRE, and putting in place a friendly culture.

Platform operations, organization change, SRE, and HumanOps, with Hannah Foxwell

To develop and maintain software we can have systems that allow us to deploy to production and respond to incidents. Hannah Foxwell, Associate Director at Pivotal, explained the impact these systems can have on the developers and their health. We talked about extreme cases where deployments are done overnight requiring the engineers to be at the office. Hannah explained how processes can be improved to avoid this and metrics that we can use for guidance.

HumanOps (Hannah Foxwell)