I’ve been involved in software delivery for longer than I care to admit, and since DevOps has come onto the scene I’ve witnessed the deconstruction of silos that were once actively built to contain separate projects and team functions. Central to this deconstruction is collaboration between Dev and Ops, ushering in new innovation paradigms. What’s […]
I Like Your Backend
Back in the early 80’s, dumb terminal networks ruled enterprise IT. Mammoth mainframe IT infrastructures worked as centralized corporate computing platforms feeding a vast nexus of thin clients performing mundane IT operations as intended. Perhaps that was all what end-users longed for.
The Cloud IDE and it’s impact on DevOps
Recently I did an interview with IBMs Ken Walker. Co-lead on the Eclipse Orion Project, a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE). My interest in Cloud IDEs peaked at the beginning of the year and has been steadily growing since the interview and being an active user of Cloud9 ( My current favorite Cloud IDE). During this […]
DevOps killed the developer star
The DevOps blogosphere is aflame over Jeff Knupp’s post on “How DevOps is killing the Developer”. While I agree with Knupp’s premise that DevOps, Agile and other technology trends are allowing (is forcing more accurate?) developers to do more outside of pure development, even turning into “full stack” developers, I disagree that this is a […]
An outage war room primer
One aspect of the DevOps movement I’ve seen adopted at numerous companies is the idea that everyone supports their products by being on-call for any incidents that occur in the production environment. This responsibility often leads to participation in the outage war room. For those of you who may be new to this experience, I’m […]
DevOps & UX: A Star-Crossed Love Story
“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their […]
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