Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues, and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 2
In Part One of this two-part series, we introduced former SlideShare and LinkedIn software engineer Sylvain Kalache, who shared his career growth within the two companies. In this second part, we’ll look at San Francisco-based The Holberton School of Software Engineering, which Kalache co-founded to better prepare students to work in a DevOps world. School […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 1
In 2011, Sylvain Kalache was a software engineer at SlideShare, which LinkedIn acquired in 2012. Kalache was a senior systems reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, doing project management and planning, documenting and sharing knowledge tools, and adapting himself and his work to the LinkedIn organization and its technology. Today, Kalache is helping build DevOps careers […]
An Engineering Think Tank to Change the World
In his famous book “Mythical Man Month,” Fred Brooks says, “Techniques proven and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in software engineering.” While being very fond of engineering on the big scale, such as building millions of high-end and yet individually configured cars or double-deck aircraft or space ships, for example, I […]
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