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Establishing a devops platform in an enterprise environment is challenging because there are a bunch of groups who own different pieces of the puzzle, and they will generally have different ideas on how to move forward…
Read entry“…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” —Melvin Conway Conway’s law is a well known fact of life in technology…
Read entrySometimes it’s easy to fall into myopic ways of seeing the world. Let’s talk about my favorite recent example, which is the so called “cowboy developer”. The cowboy developer, the thinking goes, is an organizational…
Read entryUntil fairly recently, I thought of devops mostly in terms of various sorts of automation: build, test, deployment, operations and SDLC. And while it’s true that automation is key to devops, I think it’s secondary to…
Read entryI wrote a small library called Kite a couple of years back, based on Michael Nygard’s outstanding book. Currently it has a circuit breaker and concurrency throttle. There are several others I’d like to add. [Update…
Read entryThis could be brogramming. It's not devops. Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people describe it and its benefits. Here we’ll move past the fluffy characterization involving developers and…
Read entryThis one’s another quick screenshot post. Using, it’s easy to access public user and repo information via the GitHubTemplate. But if we want to access private information, or write capabilities, we need to use the…
Read entryIt’s been a little while since I’ve posted screenshots, so here’s the work in progress. I explain how to implement this stuff in chapter 11 of my book (Manning). App overview page Applications are a central concept in…
Read entryA major goal for Zkybase is to tie together the activities of developers, testers, release engineers and operations. A few major benefits are: Tool integration: We can single source app lists and more across…
Read entryHi all, Willie here. Happy New Year! In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data, I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and others have attempted in the past. Most of…
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