Doin’ DevOps
9½ Simple Steps On How To Start With DevOps Today
Isn’t it funny that a lot of people, me included, don’t really know the difference between DevOps and Continuous Delivery? Wikipedia tells that both are pretty much overlapping. In order to continuously ...
The Hypocrisy of Vendor Neutrality
Disclaimer: I’m going to name the product and company I work for in this article. I assure you this does not mean this post is a product pitch. Really, I promise. In ...
7 Principles for Building Amazing Wearables
We are seeing a wave of wearable products coming to market. According to IDC research 19.2 million shipments this year will build to a global market of 111.9 million units by 2018 ...
What DevOps Needs to Know About Microservices
In this fast-moving, immature space, expect to spend cycles assessing where the greatest value lies for each team and the business as a whole. The term "microservices" is popping up everywhere in ...
Why do DevOps? Winning hearts and minds with a Lean boxscore
Change is difficult. It can be painful, disruptive, and costly. Making a case for change requires us to win over hearts and minds. In my experience, we need to win the hearts ...
Think you’ve established Kanban? Why you might only be halfway there
As a Lean Coach working in IT I often hear development teams refer proudly to their scrumboards as an example of Kanban. To which I say, 'that's a great start... but it's ...
Reducing Incident Resolution Time
From raw incident count to response time, there are several key metrics that top Operations teams track to measure and improve their performance. One of the most popular metrics teams track for ...
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable ...
A Puzzle – Gradle or Maven
Build Tool Gradle vs Maven (or Both) The world of build tools evolved from simple compilation (gcc) to make files, then evolution of ant(+ivy) and Maven, now the latest build tool is ...
Chef best practices
Chef Best practices This article is the II part covering Chef. Please refer to Automation, Provisioning & Configuration Management (CHEF) for an introduction. As a matter of fact, Chef is truly an astounding tool ...
Balancing Between Impostor, Blowhard, and Burnout
I'm glad John Willis wrote his post on karojisatsu, or suicide from overwork, and that it has been getting the attention it deserves in the community. If it weren't for the push ...
“I want to do Continuous Deployment”
“We want to do continuous deployment” - i’ve heard this many times, but have yet to find a scenario where it actually fit. Why? Because you are confused. And rightly so. How ...

