We’ve been evangelising DevOps quite a bit lately amongst customers and partners and one of…
Continuous Integration & Delivery – Christmas Reading Essentials
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The Economics of DevOps Part II – Ronald Coase and Transaction costs
In an earlier blog post we talked about the classical economic theories of Adam Smith …
DevOps and the Knowledge Horizon
One of the things I love about SF novels is that they are always full…
DevOps, Adam Smith and the legend of the Generalist
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DevOps, Death Marches and the Hero Hacker Myth
I’ve been thinking a lot about DevOps culture over the last few weeks which is…
DevOps, Antifragility and the Borg Collective
Whilst researching how to reconcile ITIL with DevOps I came across this interesting blog post…
How to find the constraints in your IT services? Part I
One of the key quotes in “The Phoenix Project” was, for me, “Any improvement not…
Are you really doing DevOps? 8 prerequisites you must consider
A recent “2013 State of DevOps” report from PuppetLabs indicated that “52% of [over 4,000]…
This week in DevOps #4
State of the Union This week saw the publication of the “2013 State of DevOps” …
This week in DevOps #3
Hey, it’s that time again and this week I start with an apology as we…
Continuous Delivery Adoption Barriers
For about a month, DevOpsGroup has been running a survey to understand what barriers exist…
This week in DevOps #2
#1: The Rise of a New Kind of Administrator Luke can see the growing trend…
This week in DevOps #1
TWIDO We hate acronyms, but this one’s kinda catchy. This Week in DevOps (TWIDO) [[[ yeah,…
Twelve DevOps Anti-Patterns
So you wanna do DevOps? Okay, but before you start, let’s have a look at…
DevOps – Back to the Future?
In my first ever development role I was luckily enough to work in a completely…
DevOps does not equal “Developers managing Production”
I’ve had a few conversations lately, mainly with smaller start-ups or development houses, who tell…
What’s the biggest barrier to Continuous Delivery Adoption?
Continuous Delivery is a set of practices and principles aimed at building, testing and releasing software faster…
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