ShipTalk: AI, DevOps & Software Delivery

In this kickoff episode of ShipTalk Season 4, Dewan sits down with Nathen Harvey, DORA Lead and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, to explore how DevOps metrics and AI are transforming software delivery. From his early days in DevOps to leading the DORA initiative, Nathen shares lessons from open-source communities, the role of culture, and how AI is reshaping documentation, incident response, and even coding itself. They also dig into the 2025 DORA Survey, discuss when organizations should...

Show Notes

In this kickoff episode of ShipTalk Season 4, Dewan sits down with Nathen Harvey, DORA Lead and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, to explore how DevOps metrics and AI are transforming software delivery.

From his early days in DevOps to leading the DORA initiative, Nathen shares lessons from open-source communities, the role of culture, and how AI is reshaping documentation, incident response, and even coding itself. They also dig into the 2025 DORA Survey, discuss when organizations should start tracking metrics, and what the future holds for engineering leaders.

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What is ShipTalk: AI, DevOps & Software Delivery?

AI is reshaping software delivery every week. ShipTalk turns the noise into what actually matters to you. Brought to you by Harness, it's the podcast that breaks down the biggest shifts in AI, DevOps, and software delivery into practical takeaways you can actually use. This is an Ai infrastructure podcast. We also cover cyber security today.
Every episode, our hosts sit down with a sharp guest — the engineers, security leaders, and executives living these changes — to unpack a timely headline and what it really means for how you build, ship, and secure software. No hype, no vendor gloss: just the context and candid opinions that help engineering, platform, and security leaders make smarter calls. Hit subscribe and stay current on AI, DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevSecOps — so the future of software delivery never catches you off guard. Stop talking, start shipping.