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Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture
The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign to raise awareness around neuro-diversity in tech. With respect toward the silence experiments I kept my original post very short. It was great […]
Feb 26, 2018 · 3 minAll articles by Chris Corriere
Showing 1–15In Building Communities, Our Preferred Pronoun is ‘We’
It has been about 18 months since my last post. Toward the end of 2015 I started digging deeper into cybernetics and systems analysis, which led me to construct a model and write a paper. I haven’t posted it before now because it isn’t perfect. The funny thing is, I know it will never be […]
Chronos, Kairos, & Janus: It’s Time to Seek Balance
We conflate idealism with naïveté and pessimism with ‘just being realistic’. But to deny the existence of perfection is to deny the evidence of our own lives. Was 2015 a win or a loss? It can be tough calling the winners and losers. The mathematics department I studied in had a habit of calling out […]
I signed up for an ass kicking
I imagine most people are like me and have a lot of things they’d like to do if they could find the time and energy for them. Lately writing has been one of those things for me. I suppose we all have our priorities. Traveling for tech events and coaching the kids’ soccer team can […]
DevOpsDays MSP 2015: Minneapolis is a Tech Hub?
I stopped in the Minneapolis Airport to make a connection earlier this year. I never spent much time thinking about Minneapolis given its reputation for snow and ice. I hadn’t ever planned to go there nor had I explicitly made plans to avoid it. That was until the lineup for devopsdays MSP came out. I […]
The devOpsSec Dilemma: Effective Strategies for Social Networking
I was sad to hear of the passing of John Nash and his wife Alicia this weekend. May they rest in peace. As a game theorist I am familiar with his work and it just so happens that Nash Equilibriums have been in the center of what I’ve been working with lately. It’s an honor […]
DevOps Spring Tour 2015: Keeping Cool with ICE
One thing I love about conferences is finding out what other people are doing in industry and getting exposure to new ideas. I like to get external feedback on my work because I find it to be helpful. Here’s some highlights from where I’ve been and what I’ve heard so far in 2015, including Alterconf, […]
Balancing Between Impostor, Blowhard, and Burnout
I’m glad John Willis wrote his post on karojisatsu, or suicide from overwork, and that it has been getting the attention it deserves in the community. If it weren’t for the push behind the article that has kept it surfacing in my feeds the past few days I definitely wouldn’t have realized I needed to […]
Expert, like Master, can be a Dangerous Word
William Sealy Gosset was a mathematician that published while working at Guinness. The company was concerned about trade secrets being leaked so all brewers had to write under a pseudonym. Given he was publishing strictly for academic purposes, he decided to write under the name “Student”. If you have ever taken a statistics course you’ve […]
Trolling PuppetConf: Surveying Configuration Management
Troll (Internet) In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in a… community …with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4] -Wikipedia When I stopped by […]
The DevOps Juice is Worth the Squeeze
“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. […]
It’s web performance, let’s not call it WebDevPerfOps
Velocity was great this year. It was only my 2nd time out to Santa Clara, but from what I understand every Velocity conference is great. Few conferences can provide such rapid payback. Velocity does a good job setting the right vibe. The talks are often as entertaining as they are informative. This video of Scott […]
Mixed Martial DevOps vs.The Scrum Master
Royce Grace won the most tournaments in UFC history before he retired. With a record of 14 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws, it’s understandable why he’s considered by some to be the most influential figure in the history of modern MMA. With 100% of his finishes from submissions, he’s undeniably Brazilian Jujitsu royalty. You’d […]
The Double-Edged DevOps Job Title
Last month at GWO in Atlanta I met Nathen Harvey with Chef. I liked his DevOps presentation, “DevOp With Me!”, especially how he used “Walk This Way” by Run DMC and Aerosmith as an example for how collaboration in a DevOps environment often ends up playing out. They literally break down walls in the music […]
Are the Milliseconds Worth It?
The pressure to prove one’s coding prowess can make a developer do some very clever and creative things with their source code. Sometimes it’s just a unique approach, but every once in a while this cleverness may shave a few milliseconds off of some performance metrics as well. In the end it’s not worth it. […]