Episode 21 - Mechanical Rock
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Hamish Tedeschi, CEO and Founder at Mechanical Rock. Mechanical Rock's mission is to deliver better software, faster while helping clients transform the way they deliver. Their methodology is based on DevOps, modern code-driven infrastructure and test first development. DevOps is what they do. Hamish and I talk about what DevOps really is all about and how he saw a space in the market around modern application development focused on public cloud platforms and a do everything as code mantra!
Their DevOps philosophy delivers better software, faster through Everything-as-Code under configuration management, including immutable infrastructure validated via Behaviour Driven Infrastructure (BDI), Test First Development, exemplified by Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Build via deployment pipelines, including automated testing at the unit and scenario level, Continuous Operations including monitoring and alerting, auto remediation and optimisation and Transparency of information, and active collaboration across teams, throughout the process
Mechanical Rock was founded in 2014 with the company headquartered in the Perth, Western Australia
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
AWS, GCP, Azure, Microsoft, CNCF, Snowflake, HashiCorp, Terraform
Shout Outs and Notes
Web: https://www.mechanicalrock.io
GitHub: https://github.com/mechanicalrock
DevOps Dream Game: http://devops.games
Latency Conference: https://www.latencyconf.io
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyuSH1MDXDWwSR-7s6UL3Q
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's not waste all the material. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 21 of Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:12.9 | A podcast highlighting company is doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Anthony Spiteri and in this episode we're talking to Hamish Tedeschi, CEO and founder at Mechanical Rock. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the show, Hamish. |
| 0:27.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:28.7 | Excellent. |
| 0:29.3 | So just before we get into some of this cool, cool DevOps world, the automation, data modernization, all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:39.1 | Just want to give a quick shout out. |
| 0:43.5 | So if you love great things with great tech and you would like to feature on future episodes, |
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| 1:06.5 | past and present. So with that, let's kick in and talk to Hamish and talk about mechanical rock. |
| 1:14.6 | And Hamas, just before we even start to talk about what you guys doing, all that kind of stuff, |
| 1:18.6 | I could do a thousand episodes of these in the future, and I don't think I would ever get a company with a cooler name than Mechanical Rock. |
| 1:30.6 | So just tell us a little bit about the name. |
| 1:31.5 | I always focus. |
| 1:33.6 | Before I start history and facts, I talk about the name. |
| 1:37.5 | But honestly, this is going to be the winner for all winners, Mechanical Rock, moving forward. |
| 1:39.9 | So tell us about how that came about. |
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