John Engates

CTO John Engates joined Rackspace in August 2000, just a year after the company was founded, as VP of Operations, managing the datacenter operations and customer-service teams. Most recently, John has played an active role in the evolution and evangelism of Rackspace's cloud-computing strategy and cloud products.

Detours Ahead: Overcoming DevOps Challenges

November 19, 2014 | agile, agile culture, collaboration, continuous delivery, culture, devops, devops culture, devops myths, rackspace

Saying that you’re interested in DevOps is another way of saying you’re interested in change. That’s what DevOps promises any organization. No matter the problems a company is trying to solve or ...

Collaboration in Progress: Making DevOps a Reality

September 16, 2014 | agile, agile culture, collaboration, culture, devops, devops culture, rackspace

Everything on your company’s DevOps checklist is accounted for. It’s got the vision and the talent. It’s identified the problems and mapped out a solution. It’s got a culture that allows the ...

The DevOps Litmus Test: Is Your Company’s Culture Ready to Get Agile?

August 27, 2014 | agile, culture, devops, devops culture, rackspace

New ideas don’t come to those who are afraid of breaking the rules. Improving something usually means you’ll have to push the status quo aside and try something that hasn’t been done ...