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  • DOES 15 – Jason Josephy and Courtney Kissler, Nordstrom

    DOES 15 – Jason Josephy and Courtney Kissler, Nordstrom

    Few verticals have seemed to embrace DevOps as quickly as the retail sector. Macys, Target, Nordstrom, WalMart and more have all demonstrated success adopting DevOps patterns and culture.  We spoke to many of the folks from these retailers at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 15).  Here is my interview with Jason Josephy and Courtney Kissler of Nordstrom.

    I spoke to them right after they came off the stage where they showed a 20% improvement in cycle times year over year. This translated into significant savings to the company.  Courtney has presented at DOES 14 so like many other presenters at this years event, this was an update on what happened since they last presented.  It is a great interview, have a listen:

    Here is a link to their actual presentation:
    DOES15 – Courtney Kissler & Jason Josephy – Mindsets and Metrics and Mainframes… Oh My!

    Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we will post more of our staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud exclusive interviews with many of the speakers and attendees of DOES ’15

  • DOES 15 – Jeffrey Snover on Windows Nano Server

    DOES 15 – Jeffrey Snover on Windows Nano Server

    One of my favorite presentations at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 was Jeffrey Snover of distinguished engineer at Microsoft talking about his 16 year quest to bring what is today called Windows Nano Server to market.  Interestingly when I spoke with Gene Kim about what he thought were some of the best presentations  of DOES he also brought up Snover’s presentation as well.

    Windows Server without Windows was something once considered heretical from anyone at Microsoft. As Jeffrey relayed to me in the interview below and on stage, he paid a price for evangelizing for this. But today we have a version of Windows Server that has only 1/20th of the footprint of regular Windows Server. It runs on mainframes, command lines and has virtually (no pun intended) all of the functionality that you need for a server in the cloud without the GUI overhead that Windows usually brings.

    As importantly for me, Jeffrey also gave us a glimpse of what it is like to work in Satya Nadella’s Microsoft. It sounds like a very different place than when Steve Ballmer was CEO.  Is also sounds very refreshing as well.

    Here is my interview with Snover:

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    Here is Jeffrey’s actual presentation at DOES ’15