Jon Cwiak's guest appearances

Jon Cwiak

Achieving DevOps

Nathen Harvey

John-Daniel Trask

Abel Wang

Michael Stahnke

Gary Gruver

Stephen Thorne

Robert Vettor

Tyler Hardison

Ryan Comingdeer

Jane Miceli

Betsy Beyer

OwlTail

About a year ago I had the pleasure of meeting with Jon Cwiak, an enterprise architect at the insurance giant Humana. I love the Humana story and I’ve been watching them overcome obstacles and challenges along the way – they always move upwards and their cloud migration effort is really starting to gain traction.  Jon’s one of those hero architects I wish were more common in our industry; he’s a purist with a very strong vision of what cloud development and architecture means, but he’s pragmatic and engaging in how teams chart their course to get there. I think you’ll love this discussion, which explores some of the topics we covered in the book. Here’s some of the topics we cover in the podcast:  Humana’s swing for the fences with their cloud migration Why do good architects start with empathy – and what impact can this have on a project? “DevOps isn’t a role or a title – it’s a set of practices that you do.” How does Humana build a sense of community, and what 4 pillars do they look at in migrating workflows to the cloud? Does Humana insist on a specific set of tools for monitoring, release, etc? What does monitoring look like at Humana? And what about security – how does Humana handle their data stewardship without overloading engineers? Does everything need to be a microservice? Where does Humana start in peeling off services and flows that would be a good fit for microservices? On COTS products and buy vs build – “You buy for commodity and build for differentiation. I’m not going to build my own log analytics platform - that's a solved problem. Then I can go on and solve more interesting problems.” Moving away from big, destructive tsunami releases: “Shipping is a feature – do so early and often.”

About a year ago I had the pleasure of meeting with Jon Cwiak, an enterprise architect at the insurance giant Humana. I love the Humana story and I’ve been watching them overcome obstacles and challenges along the way – they always move upwards and their cloud migration effort is really starting to gain traction.  Jon’s one of those hero architects I wish were more common in our industry; he’s a purist with a very strong vision of what cloud development and architecture means, but he’s pragmatic and engaging in how teams chart their course to get there. I think you’ll love this discussion, which explores some of the topics we covered in the book. Here’s some of the topics we cover in the podcast: <ul> <li>Humana’s swing for the fences with their cloud migration</li> <li>Why do good architects start with empathy – and what impact can this have on a project?</li> <li>“DevOps isn’t a role or a title – it’s a set of practices that you do.”</li> <li>How does Humana build a sense of community, and what 4 pillars do they look at in migrating workflows to the cloud?</li> <li>Does Humana insist on a specific set of tools for monitoring, release, etc?</li> <li>What does monitoring look like at Humana? And what about security – how does Humana handle their data stewardship without overloading engineers?</li> <li>Does everything need to be a microservice? Where does Humana start in peeling off services and flows that would be a good fit for microservices?</li> <li>On COTS products and buy vs build – “You buy for commodity and build for differentiation. I’m not going to build my own log analytics platform - that's a solved problem. Then I can go on and solve more interesting problems.”</li> <li>Moving away from big, destructive tsunami releases: “Shipping is a feature – do so early and often.”</li></ul>

Humana's Cloud Migration Story with Jon Cwiak