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From here to there: practical first DevOps steps
I’m a bad programmer. There, I got that out of the way. The truth is, I’m a sysadmin that writes code infrequently, on an island, and out of disciplined requirement, release, or QA practices. I need to run an ETL that kicks a file transfer. I’ll write some code. I’ve got a workflow that needs […]
Apr 14, 2014 · 3 minAll articles by Matthew Boeckman
Showing 1–4Operational Overhead – or why hubris is bad.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A guy walks into a meeting and says “We need a system that does something”, and the engineer in the room replies “Oh, we can totally build that”. Most of the punchlines to this joke go “we can totally build it, and now we have to own its […]
Can you appreciate DevOps, if you can’t exactly say what it is?
I recently had a conversation with some SOX IT auditors and was asked what I meant when I said we were a DevOps shop. I stumbled a little, torn somewhere between an overly simplistic answer and a desire to baptize the unholy. I started by talking about collaboration between the developers and the admins. Mentioning […]
So, you wanna DevOps?
How do you start your career in DevOps? How do I shift my team to use those approaches? This is a question I run into more and more frequently. Either while speaking to candidates, or among colleagues looking to move their IT operations into a more devops aligned culture. I want to look at that […]