Dev and Ops are verbs
The term DevOps is commonly thought of as a portmanteau of two nouns, developers and operators. It should be thought of as two verbs, developing and operating.
DevOpsDays Hartford Reading Recommendations
During discussions and open spaces at DevOpsDays Hartford the past few days I’ve recommended some homework. Here’s a list of (hopefully all of) the things I referenced. If I mentioned something to you and you don’t see it here please let me know.
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5 out of 5 shouldn’t be the minimum
Everything has an online mostly anonymous rating system these days. Restaurants, Doctors, Auto Repair, rideshare drivers. Everything. I like the idea of knowing other people’s impressions about stuff, but the way we use the systems is completely broken.
DevOpsDays Raleigh Follow Ups
I gave a talk today at DevOpsDays Raleigh entitled It’s Not Continuous Delivery If You Can’t Deploy Right Now (slides here). I had some great questions later in the day so wanted to add a bit more followup…
Stop making conferences shitty for other people
We just wrapped up DevOpsDays Seattle. It was awesome. We had a bunch of truly engaging and informative talks. We also had one talk that really pissed me off.
I want to be clear here… I’m not upset with the speaker, or the content of the talk. I’m upset with the idiots who made the talk necessary.
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Why I’m Talking More About Beginner Stuff
For those of us that have implemented Continuous Delivery and moved to (or solidified) working in a sharing culture (DevOps), many of the concepts are old hat. We’re all very excited to learn about the latest way to manage thousands of docker containers running in multiple data centers. We talk about monitoring systems that allow us to make fine grained business decisions based on very small, but very important, pieces of data.
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