Doin’ DevOps
Daddy DevOps
I found out this week I'm going to become a Dad. It's a strange mix of emotions from excited, to terrified, to panicked and happiness. Not too dissimilar to undertaking a big ...
Me and My Kanban
There has been a growing interest in the Kanban board, a tool that helps teams visualize their workflows, limit work in progress and get more “done”. Kanban Boards are mostly associated with ...
It’s web performance, let’s not call it WebDevPerfOps
Velocity was great this year. It was only my 2nd time out to Santa Clara, but from what I understand every Velocity conference is great. Few conferences can provide such rapid payback ...
Network Engineers as Programmers? Not so fast.
It is interesting, as the triplet new waves of hype evolve - cloud, SDN, and DevOps - that we are repeatedly hearing The Voice of Reason say things like "All network engineers ...
DevOps the movement, or the function?
All the ISVs and Enterprises are having the same question, who/what is DevOps. We get in a virtual room and talk about it, but we are often all scratching our heads at ...
Now that you can consolidate, do not implode
The development world is changing in a big way. We all know it. And it usually happens first with the early stage startups, who have the luxury of adopting new approaches from ...
Change your thinking about Change Management
Change Management, let’s face it, it's usually a checklist item and a CYA tool. But in the world of DevOps where change is part of the culture and processes. Change Management needs ...
Moving to DevOps in a traditional enterprise
Introduction One of the challenges of introducing DevOps in the setting of a traditional (i.e. siloed, waterfall etc) Enterprise is where to begin. It's certainly something I wrestled with alongside the CTO ...
Think the Developer Tool Market Is Annoying? Just Wait…
I recently attended the Velocity Conference and DevOps Days in the Bay Area. While I usually pride myself in being “in the know” of what is available and possible. It never fails ...
Will you have your IDE in a box? On a Train? With a Firefox?
As predicted the Cloud IDE race is picking up. Now I’m sure. Cloud IDE or no Cloud IDE it is not a choice. But it is an huge opportunity ...
Mixed Martial DevOps vs.The Scrum Master
Royce Grace won the most tournaments in UFC history before he retired. With a record of 14 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws, it's understandable why he's considered by some to be ...
You can’t automate relationships
As an organization sold on the idea of DevOps what’s your first step in the journey? Despite a constant deluge of well-reasoned guides for implementing DevOps the most prevalent step most companies have ...
