What Good Looks Like – Leading, Failing & Evolving - Chris Wahl

In this episode, Johan and Jeffrey sit down with industry legend and long-time community contributor Chris Wahl to explore a career journey that spans from VI admin to independent content creator and platform engineer. Chris shares his unique take on working symbiotically with developers, learning from failures (including a UCS upgrade gone nuclear), and the importance of showing what good looks like rather than just telling. ⏱️ Highlights : 00:37 – Meet Chris Wahl: Blogger, technologist, gamer, legend 03:00 – The IKEA Wheel and unwinding with brutal dungeon games 05:00 – Rapid fire: Terraform, PowerShell, Kubernetes vs vSphere 08:30 – Career evolution: From vSphere to Kubernetes and AWS 12:30 – Drinking from the firehose: Adapting to cloud-native 18:00 – Developers vs IT: Building a real Dev+Platform culture 22:00 – When Shit Hit the Fan : How a UCS upgrade took down a 5,000-person org 30:00 – Chris’s Life Lesson: “Don’t tell people what good looks like— show them.” 👤 Guest : Chris Wahl 🌐 🔗 LinkedIn 🎮 Bonus : Discover which brutal RPG Chris uses to unwind—and why his kid might be better at Mario Kart than Johan. 📩 Feedback? Email us at: podcast@itq.eu

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What Good Looks Like – Leading, Failing & Evolving - Chris Wahl is an episode from In de aap gelogeerd met Duncan, Frank en Johan by Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman en Johan van Amersfoort.

This episode is 00:37:14 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2025.

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