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Great DevOps articles

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2016-08-18 23:04

Nobody reads books any more. They come thick and fast, and few of us have the time or the attention span.

So forget my post on great DevOps books to read and enjoy this one on seminal DevOps articles and posts. Never mind the meat and vegetables, have some snacks.

Describe DevOps with CALMS, or I prefer CAFFS

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2016-08-17 06:01

A common acronym used to describe DevOps is CALMS: Culture, Automation, Lean thinking, Measurement, Sharing. Or I prefer CAFFS...

Two kinds of DevOps: horses don't grow horns

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2016-08-13 01:45

© Copyright canstockphoto.comThe DevOps principles apply to horses and unicorns, but we act on them in different ways, even for different goals.

Tech is the easy bit. People are hard.

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2016-08-01 20:42

You think getting technology to work is hard? You know what's REALLY hard? Getting people to change.

Tech is a closed problem. You know the solution exists, you just have to find it.
Technology has a defined working state: you can look it up, it is unanambiguous. There are clearly defined and readily learnt ways to fix it and you can prove when you have achieved it.

The cult of DevOps

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2016-07-30 01:57

Several times recently I got the message (overtly or subliminally) that if you don't work with software and tools you can't understand DevOps, that if you haven't immersed yourself in the sacred waters of cutting code then you are somehow unenlightened.

Victims of the system

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2016-07-23 05:21

Most people who seem to be blocking progress are in fact well intentioned and trying to do the right thing but they are victims of the system in which they work.

Great DevOps books to read

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2016-07-14 21:59

As if anyone reads books any more. I'm drowning in great books to read while the Internet gives me endless distractions. My attention span is shot to hell, and my memory has been replaced by Google.

But sometimes I find a few minutes and here are some of my favourites for understanding this beast called DevOps. [Updated 14/11/2019]

Reflections on the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK 2016

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2016-07-12 10:32

I just got back to the last rock on the planet, all the way from London and the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK. It was worth all the travel. IT Revolution run a great event.

Who owns DevOps?

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2016-07-07 19:12

There is currently a tension in the DevOps world, between influential purists saying you cannot define, codify, or certify DevOps, and most of the world saying it is bloody well going to anyway if DevOps is to be useful in the mainstream.

Don't reorg for DevOps

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2016-07-02 18:32

The point of DevOps is to span silos not create new ones.

I'm seeing too much of enterprises assuming one of the first steps of DevOps is a reorganisation.

If DevOps is about collaboration across silos, how does rearranging the silos help? DevOps isn't about org structures.

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