Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration
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Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.

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SHOW NOTES:

• https://dagger.io/)
• InfoQ Article on Dagger)
• Daggar and GPTScript for AI) (video)
• Tech Crunch Article)
• Solomon’s first time on The Cloudcast - Episode #66)

**Topic 1 - **Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a number of times over the years and we’ve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.

**Topic 2 - **Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?

**Topic 2a - **Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?

**Topic 3 - **Let’s go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an “industry” changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?

**Topic 3a - **What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?

**Topic 4 - **What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?

**Topic 4a - **I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, what’s in it for Ops?

**Topic 5 - **Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.

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