Jim Schild, founder and head of community at the North American DevOps Group (NADOG), discusses the journey of building a DevOps community from the ground up. Originally an English literature major with aspirations of teaching, Jim found himself in the tech industry, eventually immersing himself in the DevOps space. In 2015, he launched NADOG as […]
Best of 2023: Are We Witnessing the End of Open Source?
There’s some speculation that we’re seeing a decline in the open source space. But that’s not necessarily true.
Creating a Growth Loop for Your Open Source Project
Every open source project hopes to achieve escape velocity, attracting enough users and contributors to become a successful, sustainable project that expands over time. But how do you attract developers and create the cycle of adoption that can lead to a thriving ecosystem? It obviously starts with building a great product that developers love to […]
How to Cultivate a Loyal Developer Community
With the number of developer focused companies and products growing, building communities among engineers has become a key strategy to stay competitive. Augmenting and often surpassing traditional marketing techniques, this approach—although challenging—can be an incredibly effective way to engage users and get engineers excited about a product. Since our inception over six years ago, DigitalOcean […]
Welcome to the New DevOps Institute Neighborhood
The DevOps Institute (DOI) was founded in March 2015 as a global learning community for emerging DevOps practices. DOI’s goal is to establish the standard for DevOps training and certification at the enterprise scale based on the most current guidance from the most respected resources. We are guided by a Board of Regents comprised of […]
I signed up for an ass kicking
I imagine most people are like me and have a lot of things they’d like to do if they could find the time and energy for them. Lately writing has been one of those things for me. I suppose we all have our priorities. Traveling for tech events and coaching the kids’ soccer team can […]
Expanding DevOps requires a supportive IT community
How do we bring newbies into the DevOps community? Until they know the melody, they can’t appreciate the song. While leading a DevOps event, the speaker polled the audience about their knowledge of DevOps. All of the attendees were well acquainted and actively engaged. It was obvious there were no newbies in the room. It […]
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Pitches a Big Tent
If you are reading this you have already discovered one way or another, that the new staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud website has launched. I am proud to say that I have been one of a team of folks who have been working hard on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud for many months and weeks now. I will serve as editor-in-chief and as […]