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The Disposable Development Environment
Wait! Just wait a dadgummed minute! It takes days to build a development environment, and now I am supposed to read an article on a disposable development environment? Yes. It seems like it took an entire sprint to upgrade PHP! Now I am supposed to let them build something so they can trash it? Yes […]
Jul 26, 2016 · 3 minAll articles by Boyd Hemphill
Showing 1–3HomeOps – Learning DevOps At Home
When I took a job as Technology Evangelist for StackEngine, my wife’s first question was, “Why would someone pay to fly you around the country and talk about how you work?” My youngest son put a finer point on it, “Yeah Dad, we love you and we don’t listen when you talk about work!” I […]
Technology is All About the Business
In 2011 I joined a company as their fifth employee. They had been in business a little over a year. They had a product. They had customers. Oh, and the other four people? They were rockstars. Customers, however, were unhappy. The system was frequently down. Rebooting a machine was often necessary and lead to poor […]