I’m a huge fan of The Phoenix Project and I’m honored to count Gene Kim both as one of my professional inspirations and also as a personal friend. There is, however, a dangerous precipice inside of the Phoenix Project that, if misunderstood, could cause many DevOps practitioners and enterprise IT shops a daunting problem in […]
Microsoft’s DevOps Gambit and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s Business Directory
Last week was a big one for Microsoft in DevOps. At the Build conference they unveiled several new features and functionality in both Azure and Visual Studio Online to make give them more DevOps chops and DevOps friendly. At just about the same time they announced partnerships and integrations with both Chef and Puppet Labs […]
The Failings of Multitasking
I often find myself coaching colleagues (and reminding myself) about managing down the number of simultaneous tasks or work assignments. Everyone in IT knows that demand always outstrips the capacity of IT to take on work. IT is in demand by all parts of the organization, often at no direct or hard cost to departments […]
How to un-domesticate your network: DevOps!
When I look at how compliance and regulations have affected network security over the years, I’m reminded of what dog breeder standards and regulations have done to dogs over the years. I’ll use this analogy to make the case that networks have become too domesticated to the point that they are not able to adapt […]
Are the Milliseconds Worth It?
The pressure to prove one’s coding prowess can make a developer do some very clever and creative things with their source code. Sometimes it’s just a unique approach, but every once in a while this cleverness may shave a few milliseconds off of some performance metrics as well. In the end it’s not worth it. […]
The Importance of the Bus Driver
The topic of DevOps has been a topic for many a debate over recent months years. Without adding fuel to the fire I’d like to present a slightly different take on the DevOps culture. The phrase ‘what if I was hit by a bus?’ can often be heard within the vicinity of software development teams. It […]
Parallel Evolution of DevOps Enterprise Patterns
The DevOps evolution (Revolution!) has a great story; a story of winning the hearts and minds of people of all experiences who all anxiously strive to achieve their goals in amazing new and opportunistic ways. This story isn’t that of throwing everything away and starting over, nor is it a story of always having to […]
How to Evolve to DevOps
What is DevOps, and how do we do it? It’s a question I’m often asked, with confusion around job titles, team structures, tooling, personnel responsibilities, office layout and more as potential ingredients for a successful devops recipe. The first step in evolving an existing organization to a devops mentality is to take a step back, […]
Collaboration – A DevOps Tenet
You can’t turn around in the tech space without hearing about collaboration. Whether it has to do with the new economy being built around collaboration or the platforms designed to improve it or the various strategies one might implement to spur more of it on your team, collaboration is the hot new term, especially when […]
Systems of Things
What do Chevy V8s and DevOps have in common? They’re both complex systems with many interactions between their moving parts. The first time I did minor surgery on a Chevy engine I learned a lot about systems. The engine was a tired 283 cubic inch V8 in a 1966 Chevy Malibu which my grandfather purchased new […]
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