DevOps Enterprise Review #1
What Gene Kim is tweeting, DevOps resources, industry news, & more
Hello, DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Community!
Today, we introduce the first-ever edition of the DevOps Enterprise Review! Thanks for joining us as we embark upon a journey together into the world of DevOps and IT in the Enterprise.
Now that 2019 is in full swing, our goal is to introduce a new medium to give back and connect with the practitioners, technology leaders and business stakeholders involved in this movement we call DevOps. To that end, we are rolling out a bi-monthly periodical to help you keep up-to-date on the happenings around the industry.
This periodical contains learning resources from subject matter experts and hones in on the domains we all care about most — spanning the business and tech divide, next-gen ops and infrastructure, overcoming the old ways of working, building a learning organization, leadership lessons and takeaways from actual experience reports.
What do we ask from you? First, your feedback and suggestions. If you have any ideas as to what can make this periodical “high performing” we want to know! Also, we encourage you to submit your suggested pieces of content in the comments section with a link to the original resource, for reference. (Please note, this digest is for learning and not commercialism). Finally, we ask that you share with your colleagues and friends for broader dissemination of the philosophies and practices that work (and conversely, which to avoid.)
Happy reading! We look forward to hearing from you!
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What’s Gene Tweeting?
(Note: all stories sourced from Gene’s Twitter feed, @RealGeneKim)
Fascinating article in NYTimes about “why iPhones will never be assembled in the USA” Describes vast Chinese supply chain that supports iPhone, & how its absence affects even low volume Mac Pros assembled in Austin.
What is something that almost nobody knows about C++? Ha! “The C++ STL (Standard Templating Library) is my fault.”
Standing on Shoulders: A Leaders Guide to Digital Transformation Transforming our organizations to compete and thrive in today’s digital age requires a combination of “old world thinking” of quality and differentiation and “new world thinking” of meeting your market where it wants to be.
Stewardship Made Practical W/ Stuart Halloway — A wonderful talk from @stuarthalloway, full of valuable advice to OSS stewards, describing challenges they are likely to face as what they’ve created becomes widely adopted. (Stu mentioning me in context of Clojure was surreal, but incredibly delightful :)
PreAccident Investigation Podcast — PAPod 207 — Paul Cullen — An Opportunity for YOUR Help… What a wonderful interview. Thanks @ivp008! @botchagalupe @chawklady @jgallimore @ScottPrugh Guest describes a large survey being undertaken to better understand physical, mental & social network health of pilots, to understand what is going right/wrong. @allspaw
DevOps Resources — Learn and Grow, Together
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Napoleon, DevOps, And Delivering Business Value
This is an excerpt from a presentation by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS, titled “Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value.” You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.
Tactics for Implementing Test Automation for Legacy Code
Many organizations adopting DevOps patterns and practices are enjoying the benefits that come from that adoption. More speed. Higher quality. Better value. However, these organizations often get stymied when applying test automation to their large legacy codebases. This whitepaper will look at common objections to adopting test automation and tactics for overcoming those objections.
In the Age of Software, will your business dominate and maintain relevance — or will it become a digital relic?
In Project to Product, value stream network pioneer and technology leader Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework™. This new way of building an infrastructure for innovation will change the way enterprises think about software delivery.
Industry News — Read All About It!
Survey Surfaces DevOps Disconnects — A survey of 336 developers, web product managers and DevOps practitioners published by SolarWinds, a provider of IT management tools, finds they spend most of their time troubleshooting applications — so much so that there is little time for strategic projects such as transitioning to DevOps practices. (Source: Mike Vizard, DevOps.com)
7 pieces of contrarian DevOps advice — The road to DevOps failure is often paved with good intentions in the form of well-meaning advice that just doesn’t work. It’s the advice that sounds good in theory; in fact, it may even be advice that is hard to argue, like “silos are bad” and “automation is good.” But when put into practice, it simply falls short on delivering the outcomes DevOps teams want.
Unintentionally bad advice could shoulder part of the blame in organizations that are struggling to scale their DevOps practices. This article turns some common DevOps wisdom on its head — per the advice of DevOps practitioners and experts. (Source: Carla Rudder, The Enterpriser’s Project)
The InfoQ eMag: Chaos Engineering — As our systems scale, we need more complexity, which inherently increases exponentially over time. The need for understanding and navigating this complexity also increases. Chaos engineering is a discipline that allows us to refine, recalibrate, and navigate the understanding of our systems through intentional and careful experimentation in the form of failure injection. This greater understanding ultimately leads to a better experience for our customers and better outcomes for our businesses. (Source: InfoQ)
Reminders — What Not to Forget
Plans for the DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 are moving right along! Pretty soon, we will be announcing our first round of speakers, but there is still time to get a presentation submission into the programming committee’s review cycle!
2019 Call for Presentations
The deadline is now extended to 11 February, and we want to hear from you! If you have a DevOps transformation story to share or are a subject matter expert, please submit a proposal for consideration. We will be structuring this event much like previous years with keynote presentations and breakouts featuring stories from around the world. To prepare, watch the video with Gene Kim, past speaker Margo Cronin, and programming committee member Damon Edwards for tips for a successful proposal.
2019 Blind Bird Registration
For another week only, we are offering a special Blind Bird ticket rate for those who know they’re ready to attend DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 even before we’ve announced any programming. This is the best price, don’t delay!
Thank you for reading the first-ever DevOps Enterprise Review (DOER)! We look forward to reading your suggestions and comments. Don’t be shy, let’s Get Together and Go Faster!
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