Brian Teller is the host of Ship It Weekly and the builder behind Teller’s Tech, a media and training platform focused on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and the real-world work of keeping production systems alive.
He started Ship It Weekly because most tech news does a decent job saying what happened, but not always why it matters to the people who actually have to run the systems afterward. A new cloud feature, a GitHub outage, a security advisory, an AI tooling release, a supply chain incident, a Kubernetes change, or a weird platform failure can all sound interesting in a headline. But for the people on-call, managing infra, supporting developers, watching costs, and trying not to break production on a Friday, the real question is usually simpler:
What does this mean for my team?
That’s the lens Brian brings to every episode.
Brian has spent years working in real production environments across cloud, infrastructure, automation, and reliability. His day-to-day work has covered Terraform and Terragrunt, AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Kafka, CI/CD, GitHub, incident response, infrastructure guardrails, cost management, platform patterns, and the messy operational details that rarely show up in clean conference demos. He has worked as both a hands-on engineer and a technical mentor, helping teams make better decisions around infrastructure design, reliability, security, and delivery.
Ship It Weekly is built for the engineers, SREs, platform teams, DevOps folks, cloud engineers, technical leaders, and curious practitioners who want more than a headline recap. The show filters the noise down to the stories that matter for infrastructure, reliability, security, cost, engineering workflows, and production operations. Some weeks that means talking about a major outage. Some weeks it means digging into GitHub Actions, AI agents, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, supply chain risk, or why a “small” tooling change can become a very big production problem.
Brian’s style is practical, opinionated, and grounded in the reality of doing the work. He is not trying to sound like an analyst reading market notes. He cares about tradeoffs, failure modes, operational risk, team impact, and the “okay, what should we actually do with this?” part that often gets skipped.
That usually means asking questions like:
Does this change how we build pipelines?
Does this affect our blast radius?
Should we be tightening permissions?
Is this a real platform shift, or just vendor noise?
What would I want my team to know before this becomes our incident?
Outside of Ship It Weekly, Brian creates DevOps and cloud engineering content through Teller’s Tech, with a focus on practical education instead of lab-only demos. His goal is to help engineers connect concepts to the kind of decisions they actually face in production: how to structure Terraform, how to think about reliability, how to avoid fragile automation, how to use AI without outsourcing judgment, and how to build systems that teams can safely operate over time.
At its core, Brian’s work is about making infrastructure and operations conversations more useful. Less hype. Less vague “best practices.” More context, more judgment, and more respect for the people carrying the pager.
What I cover on Ship It Weekly
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Engineering
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Incident Response
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code
- Production Engineering
Available for talks & engagements
Brian also speaks at conferences, internal engineering all-hands, leadership offsites, and on podcasts — same operator-focused lens, in person.
Recent episodes
Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy Fail
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and…
Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform Keynote
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme…
GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production Now
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the developer toolchain becoming part of production. Brian covers GitHub’s critical git push RCE, AI-assisted reverse engineering, prompt injection against…
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Latest Reddit comments
Recent replies from /u/tellerstech across the engineering subreddits. Comments only — episode posts and self-promo subreddits are filtered out.
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Re: What newsletters are people subscribing to?
I don’t really have a polished newsletter recommendation, but I did build something adjacent that might be useful.
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I was spending too much time jumping between SRE/devops/cloud newsletters, release notes, CVEs, incident writeups, vendor blogs, etc., so I built an aggregate page that pulls a bunch of that into one weekly brief:
https://oncallbrief.com
It starts building on Sunday and finalizes on Thursday morning (New York time). I’m still working on ranking, deduping, and ma... -
Re: This Trivy Compromise is Insane.
I first talked about the Trivy incident on the Ship It Weekly Podcast here: https://www.tellerstech.com/ship-it-weekly/aws-bahrain-uae-data-center-issues-amid-iran-strikes-argocd-vs-flux-gitops-failures-github-actions-hackerbot-claw-attacks-trivy-roguepilot-codespaces-prompt-injection-block-ai-remake/
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Then a follow up on: https://www.tellerstech.com/ship-it-weekly/hackerbot-claw-grows-xygeni-tag-poisoning-github-search-ha-windows-sid-failures-and-ai-skills-supply-chain/
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Re: What are the hidden costs people don’t talk about in AWS cloud migration?
Are you asking about migration into AWS, out of AWS, or cloud to cloud? And phased migration or full cutover?
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That changes the answer quite a bit.
But in general, one of the most overlooked costs is still data transfer. A lot of teams model compute and storage pretty well, then get surprised by traffic, replication, NAT, and inter-service movement. -
Re: do y'all actually listen to devops podcasts?
I have a podcast for industry updates.
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Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and platform engineering.
Also have interviews with people in the industry for a different perspective.
The Apple Podcast specific link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-and-platform-engineering-news/id1854585676
Lastly, you can find more links and information on our website. Also if you'd like to come on as a guest, plea... -
Re: Trivy - Supply chain attack
Really finding it interesting that the earlier late feb / march 1st discussion is now deleted https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/10265
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