As part of doing my research for this blog I have been looking around for a good list of DevOps people to follow. I have found a small list here […]
Don’t let automation be the tail wagging the dog
There is quite a bit of talk right now about DevOps and how important automation is. This could be compared to GM in the 1980s when the company tried to […]
Is DevOps a Title?
So, I’ve wanted to write on this topic for a while as I think it deserves a little attention! I’ve heard numerous times that you shouldn’t have DevOps in your […]
DevOps Board of Advisors and other DevOps blog musings
Well it looks like putting big names on Board of Advisors is having a good week in the DevOps world. Our friend Steve Hall over at ScriptRock announced on their […]
Can you appreciate DevOps, if you can’t exactly say what it is?
I recently had a conversation with some SOX IT auditors and was asked what I meant when I said we were a DevOps shop. I stumbled a little, torn somewhere […]
Organizational Dysfunction: The original vulnerability
During your teenage years, you may have figured out a way to get a ‘yes’ from your parents by playing off of the responsibility and knowledge gap between them…walking up […]
Closing the Deltas Between Development and Production
Who hasn’t heard the classic statements “It works on my machine!” or, “Man that would have been easier with real data!”? In either case, had the development happened in production, […]
PEBKAC Avoidance
We’ve all said it. We’ve all done it. We’ve all shook our heads at it. PEBKAC. Problem exists between keyboard and chair. User error. While generally applied to the end-user […]
The Dawning of Continuous Support
Development teams have a tendency to think that once they push the deploy button, the release is done. But with Devops, it’s quite the opposite now. More software changes, and […]
Zen and The Art Of Infrastructure Maintenance
There’s a famous passage I’ve quoted from time to time when I see someone “stuck” with a problem, flailing potential fixes and solutions wildly in hope that one of them […]
