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.