Productise Me!
Have you thought about how to make your work a product?
DevOps, Deindividuation and the Delorean.
Trent Hornibrook theorises that the “us”/”them” culture in some organisations is a symptom of the social psychology concept ‘Deindividuation’.
Greenfields Tech Decisions
Trent Hornibrook gave a recent thought experiment talk at the Infracoders meet-up regarding the tech decisions one would make when running a starting a start-up
Test Driven Infrastructure with Kitchen and Inspec
As the cycle times for providing new servers and services decrease, the demands on infrastructure developers is increasing. To cope with this increased demand, we need new ways to think about building and validating servers.
Evolving Team Leadership
There is much written about the changing roles of Development and Operations staff when organisations undergo agile/devops transformations. But what about the changing role of the Team Leader? In pre-agile environments, as a Team Lead, your role is one of structure and co-ordination, it is through you that work routes. You know the skills and capacity of your team and are regularly making decisions about what can and can’t be done. You might find yourself asking “Do we need Team Lead’s in an agile/devops culture?” and If so “What value can I provide?”
The Four Values of a DevOps Transformation
Just like the agile transformations of the past, there is a difference between ‘Doing Agile’, and ‘Being Agile’. ‘We do standups’ – therefore we are Agile. With the increase in adoption of devops practices, are we ‘Doing devops’ or are we ‘Being devops’? In this post we look into the four values that support a successful devops transformation.
Why?: The Forgotten Word of DevOps
From DevOpsDays 2016 our own Hannah Browne and Steve Mactaggart explore why we do what we do. We all know DevOps is not about the tools or the process, it’s about a deeper cultural movement. But all too often we think about what DevOps is, and miss the focus on Why we do it in the first place.
A Spot of AWS
Have you considered using spot instances to save on AWS costs? It may pay to investigate the details of your operating environment first! Andy and I took journey down a pricing rabbit hole…
You’re Doing it Wrong If…
We are all looking to learn from our failures and make things better, but sometimes it better to communicate what is right by eliminating what is wrong. “When you have eliminated what’s wrong, whatever remains, however improbable, must be right”.
Mapping System Couplings and Dependencies for Discovery and Profit
Have you ever wondered just what would break if that system (you know the one) went down? Do you actually know what systems depend on it? How do the reports get from it to Marketing? In this post, I’ll describe a simple technique I’ve developed to surface and share all this juicy, interesting information.