It seems that many people are afraid of the word refactor. I think in many cases, if someone admits they need to refactor, it means they either didn’t do their job right. They either missed requirements, wrote inefficient or buggy code, etc. Alternatively, there is something fundamentally wrong with the product or system. The fact […]
MongoDB Needs and Loves DevOps
DevOps is about more than just running infrastructure smarter, with more automation. It’s a means to engineering agile, robust, and modern software by blending the traditionally siloed areas of administration and development. This means infrastructure as code, and developer concern for operations. It means more than calling sysadmins “DevOps Engineers”; it means operators and developers […]
It’s the Outbound Stupid!
As nice as the word “Egress” may sound, I like “Outbound” better. Outbound is hardcore firewalling for the traffic that was initiated on the “trusted” side of the firewall, and is destined OUT to the unknown. However, over the last 20 years network administrators have put much more emphasis on what can come IN to their networks, rather […]
Always-on: The New Normal
One of the many challenges of DevOps is finding great team members that can handle the always-on nature of the job. Nearly everyone at VictorOps has been “that person” and has done the weeklong stint of carrying the virtual pager. What we noticed in our years of doing that job is that team member behavior […]
Hello World
The DevOps Cup o’ Joe blog appears a few times a week with a look around the DevOps blog world, highlighting the authors choices for top blog posts of the period. Hello World! It’s been many years since I thought it was pretty cool to have a computer print that during my own days of […]
Having DevOps In Your Job Title Is Doing You Harm
This post was originally published on my personal blog in May 2013. But I think this topic is important and wanted it to be my first contribution to staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud I used to be Director of DevOps…twice. Both times, I changed my title later. I even ran a DevOps team…although the team was already called that when I took over. I […]
Security Policies For DevOps 101
A while back I was talking with some friends about how to ensure security inside a devops environment. The simple first thought was that no where does DevOps say to do away with security. Instead, consider how your existing information security practices and policies need to adjust given the changes that DevOps brings to the […]
In the DevOps Journey, Culture Comes First
Etsy, the global marketplace where people sell handmade goods, vintage items, craft supplies and more, has grown by more than 10 times since Chad Dickerson joined as CTO in 2008. While the organization’s success is obviously the result of numerous factors, it’s no coincidence that upon arrival, Dickerson initiated a significant culture shift in how […]
Step One Of DevOps Ignores Technology
I’ve spent a bunch of time talking with Adrian Cockcroft, former cloud tzar at Neflix, and listening to his various talks and presentations. I’ve also spent a bunch of time looking around the various rooms within which he presents and seen the dazed look of attendees who have rightly assumed that just seen a picture […]
Why you can’t buy DevOps in a box
Companies will often believe they can buy their way out of technical debt without making any substantial changes. They often think they can buy DevOps in a box. Well, unfortunately, devops isn’t for sale. For an organization to embrace DevOps it will need to adopt cultural change, adopt tools which enable automation, and change processes […]