E42: From Colos to Clouds - The Evolution of DevOps with Myles Merrell

Join Joel and Rodrigo as they welcome special guest Myles Merrell, a senior SRE with over 20 years of experience in the ever-changing infrastructure management world. In this nostalgic yet forward-looking episode:

• 🖥️ Travel back in time to the era of physical data centers, when "trunk migrations" meant literally loading servers into your car
• 🔌 Discover what hardware skills today's cloud engineers would find unbelievable (goodbye forever, cable management!)
• 💸 Explore the surprising economics of cloud vs. on-premises infrastructure in today's landscape
• 🚨 Hear battle stories about epic outages that kept our hosts up for days (28 hours without sleep!)
• 🔄 Learn why high availability and fault tolerance remain persistent challenges despite technological advances
• 🚀 Get insights on why Kubernetes has transformed how developers and operations teams collaborate
• 🔮 Peek into the future of DevOps - is it all just "abstractions on top of abstractions"?

While Joel breaks with tradition by choosing Michelob Ultra ("worse than beer" in his own words), Rodrigo enjoys a simple Stella, and Myles keeps it classic with a Miller Lite. The casual atmosphere creates the perfect backdrop for honest reflections on how far infrastructure management has come and where it's headed next.

Whether you're an industry veteran who remembers plugging in physical servers or a cloud-native developer who's never seen a data center, this episode offers valuable perspectives on the evolution of reliability engineering and the lessons that remain relevant across generations of technology.

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