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One of the tenets of devops is sharing. But how do you best facilitate sharing in your own organisation? This essay and talk go into detail about the importance of communication, tips for asking questions and other good advice.

The Shutl engineering team has been operating with a DevOps mentality for over two years. We started by rebuilding our infrastructure under Chef and embedding our operations engineers into our agile product development process. We made great progress and saw a big improvement in delivery and quality as all team members were responsible for getting things live and ensuring their long-term maintainability. But… we still had a silo. Only a few of our team were doing the lion's share of the work when it came to maintaining our infrastructure, and on-call duties were shared by just a small number of people. Over the past six months, we've changed that. So, rather than extol the virtues of this approach - there are plenty of articles doing that! - we thought we'd share some of the steps we took to make every engineer a DevOps engineer.

How can there be a DevOps engineer? I often see vacancies with the job title DevOps engineer and always think, this makes no sense. DevOps is all about collaboration between two different expertises. In this blog post, I want to share the history of DevOps and my thought about the role of DevOps engineer.

DevOps cannot be a single role. What do you think?

Devops is still a new topic for lots of people, and this introduction is a nice place to start. It provides a bit of the history, along with explaining Devops with a focus on culture, automation, measurement and sharing.