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How to Avoid Crappy Culture and Keep Engineers Happy
Software engineers know how much they are worth—everyone wants them and there aren’t enough of them to fill that demand. While the need for tech talent is greater than ever, the pa…
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With all of our technological advances, DevOps teams are still facing unexpected issues that need to be communicated clearly and quickly.
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Software engineers know how much they are worth—everyone wants them and there aren’t enough of them to fill that demand. While the need for tech talent is greater than ever, the pa…
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Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individu…
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Strictly adhering to Conway’s Law could lead to less innovation and the inability to keep up in a fast-changing market When it comes to determining how an organization should be st…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the mu…
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Let’s imagine Jim works on the development team for a food company and his colleague, Julie, works on the operations team. On a daily basis, Jim focuses on analyzing users’ needs,…
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Today’s organizations can finally use advanced technologies to unlock the true value of all of their data. This enables them to make better decisions, serve up better customer expe…
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Effective communication is integral to success in DevOps transformations Ever since the dawning of mankind, or should I say “humankind,” we, as a species have invented ways to comm…
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It’s a fact: DevOps practitioners need to have competent writing skills to help them in their career. It may seem a little antithetic—after all, software engineers and programmers…
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There is an analogy for IT being like a car and it often goes something like this: IT should run like a well-oiled machine. I don’t get in my car and think about how it works, I ju…
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DevOps has become a widely popular method of collaboration in the IT world. The combination of development, operations and quality assurance, DevOps requires every project have cle…
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It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your ma…
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Too often, when enterprise folks talk with DevOps aficionados, we get a loud chorus of “Culture Change” and “Take down the silos,” and frankly that scares any sane enterprise IT pe…
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If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and O…
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The way we communicate with the world has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Gone are the days of pen and paper, lengthy phone calls and, to a certain extent, even emails. G…
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“The Six Million Dollar Man” was a 1970s TV series. In the show, NASA astronaut Colonel Steve Austin is severely injured in a crash and is “rebuilt” with bionic features that enhan…
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I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love of talking a…
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We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decisio…
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Effective collaboration is imperative to DevOps success. DevOps has many moving pieces working simultaneously and things happen fast, making it crucial that teams and individuals h…
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Why DevOps Communications Need to Be a Two-Way Street Today, mobile apps have become one of the most important components of brand awareness and opinion. Often considered a company…
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To better the communication between people in tech teams is one important issue in daily work. Although we all grew up with communication from our early childhood on, we know, that…
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DevOps is about a few things but above all, it’s about communication and understanding each other. In that spirit, I decided to create a new day to celebrate: “Like your colleagues…
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Deciding on two separate teams, or an integrated end-to-end team While a lot has been said about “the right way” to do DevOps, what we’re seeing in practice are two different appro…
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Communication is everywhere and it is far more than only the spoken word and its origin meaning. Communication is one of the most complex and also complicated topics in human relat…