Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around the concept that when you’re holding the pager, you’re the one on the front lines, so that everyone else can sleep. Social operations, […]
DevOps developers; don’t be a DevGoof
There was a lot of brush back last week over Jeff Knupp’s post about how DevOps is killing the developer. Frankly I wasn’t shocked by Knupp’s opinion that developers “are the dentists in the dental office”. In my 30+ years of involvement in the IT industry my experience is that developers often think of themselves […]
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. […]
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 to your mom and saying something like, “Hey Mom, Dad said he would drive me, can I go out tonight?” and then proceed to your […]
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, problems would have been avoided! Fortunately, in a DevOps world, the walls between production and non-production get broken down making the reality of developing and […]
VMware IT Private Cloud — DevOps Provisioning
VMware IT has deployed a private cloud based on the vCloud Suite. Dev and Ops teams are one tenant using the cloud to automate dev test provisioning and streamline application development. Automated provisioning has improved how these teams work together. And here is how.