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Continuous Improvement: The Key DevOps Distinguisher
DevOps has become a well-accepted and growing component for delivery success, shown in the State of DevOps Report among other respected publications. But even as it becomes more ubiquitous, it’s naive to think every organization will cease having delivery concerns. Implementations will differ widely, and adherence is essentially self-reported. So what is it, then, that […]
Mar 22, 2016 · 3 minAll articles by Alec Lazarescu
Showing 1–3Are we really back to “just reboot it”?
The server infrastructure management style of pets vs cattle was originally coined by Bill Baker of Microsoft though Randy Bias of CloudScaling further popularized it in 2012 and revised and clarified in this presentation. Essentially the original “pets” style of server management has mainly hand-built, named, and configured servers that are heavily cared for as […]
You can’t automate relationships
As an organization sold on the idea of DevOps what’s your first step in the journey? Despite a constant deluge of well-reasoned guides for implementing DevOps the most prevalent step most companies have made is simply contributing to a proliferation of DevOps job titles. Most likely it’s in no small part because asking the HR department to […]