Director of TechOps @VML; public school advocate following #ksleg, husband to @dinah_sykes, into #devops, #soccer, #sharks and #theology. Opinions are mine
One of the ongoing problems for those who work on production systems is what some Google calls “Toil.” Toil isn’t the…
Nothing has the ability to stop your adoption of DevOps like culture. Organizations seem to have personalities that develop as a part of their ongoing practices and history. The stories organizations tell about those practices and…
Many years ago, I was working on a project where a new version of a site was going to be launched. The site in question was rather large and as the time for the cut-over to the new site approached, the team working on the project realized that we didn’t have the correct configuration…
Of the pitfalls that can derail DevOps efforts, perhaps nothing is as sticky as the related issues of control, responsibility and delegation. When I’ve spoken about these issues in the past, I’ve focused solely on control. However, control is…
DevOps is a team sport. DevOps isn’t any person’s job any more than quality is one person’s job. Any effort to change culture or add the kind of capabilities possible through DevOps will require cross-functional…