Tag: transparency
GitLab Act 2: Still an Open Book
An analysis of GitLab’s "Act 2" transition under CEO Bill Staples, examining whether the company can successfully pivot to an AI-native, agentic software delivery model while dismantling the radically transparent, remote-first culture ...
The Hidden Cost of “Free” Open Source Infrastructure
When the OpenSSF, PyPI, Rust Foundation, and OpenJS recently declared that "Open Infrastructure Is Not Free," they highlighted a crisis that affects every organization building modern software. Behind every container image pulled, every vulnerability scan and every automated ...
AsyncAPI: Transparency as a Value
History has been marked by opaque and totalitarian power systems. Aided by prisons and walls that keep out the light. The concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals has ...
In Product Development, Transparency is the New Agility
The rise of DevOps has shown that agility and speed are key drivers for turning a business into a high-growth company. But as product managers, that’s not all we can take away ...
Dashboards from Hell
Even organizations with a mature DevOps services model inevitably will hear from executive sponsors about the “need” for a dashboard for DevOps information. Organizations just starting to embrace DevOps won’t have the ...
Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or ...

