The Stack Overflow annual survey of developers came out this month, and it has a lot of interesting data points in it. There is a lot that I wish was different about their questions/methodology, but one thing caught my attention. Docker, Kubernetes and similar tools (Ansible and Terraform are in there at lower percentages, for […]
Why I’m Happy To Have DevOps Engineer In My Job Title
A recurring argument in the DevOps community is whether the word DevOps should exist within a job title. Most people close to DevOps think it’s a potentially harmful anti-pattern which indicates a misunderstanding of what DevOps is all about. A few years ago I agreed with this, but I’ve now changed my mind. Yes, DevOps […]
The Double-Edged DevOps Job Title
Last month at GWO in Atlanta I met Nathen Harvey with Chef. I liked his DevOps presentation, “DevOp With Me!”, especially how he used “Walk This Way” by Run DMC and Aerosmith as an example for how collaboration in a DevOps environment often ends up playing out. They literally break down walls in the music […]
Defeating the irrational DevOps jobs displacement fear
People are generally resistant to change, but when that change comes accompanied with the whiff of potential for job loss down the road you can count on gentle inertia to snowball in to out-and-out opposition. Unfortunately, as early misperceptions swirl around the DevOps philosophy, many in the ops world have gotten their backs up in […]