Make it Work is a library of movies for infrastructure nerds. They all start as conversations with tech professionals that are dedicating part of their life to a cause that is bigger than themselves. Some are on an adventure to modernise CI/CD, others went deep into the IRM space and are now tackling AIOps, while others see the Art of Sushi in DevOps. The list goes on, and each month, a new movie gets published.
These movies are snapshots of efforts that span decades and involve many other people. We talk, but also show how it all comes together. It's impossible to capture the essence of what we do without sharing our screens and going through the details together, sometimes in a pair-programming approach.
The parts where we screen share are posted as one (or more) YouTube videos. The conversational parts become a podcast episode. All of these are free and, so far, have not been sponsored. A year later, I still believe this to be the right approach for a simple reason: I don't like ads or sponsored segments.
The whole conversation, from start to finish, is captured as a movie, usually just over 1h long. It's the director's cut, with lots of attention to detail. The process takes many weeks of work and this is what one such final result looks like:
Milestones
Gerhard Lazu
Gerhard Lazu