Devops

A good set of four values to help drive a devops flavoured transformation. Work lean, embrace failure, automate everything and demand diversity.

DevOps is going mainstream as large, complex organizations credit DevOps with IT transformation. Author and DevOps guru Gene Kim details how leaders have successfully transformed enterprise IT.

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.

A recent study of Dev and Ops professionals in large enterprises found that those with the least mature DevOps implementations were seeing the most success. While that sounds like a paradox, it's the approach the teams took that matters.

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?

A discussion of the important difference between automation and devops, in particular with regards hiring for impact. Don't hire an automation specialist as your devops strategy.

From measuring what matters to why teamwork comes first - a compendium of DevOps advice from your peers.

Have you ever felt like people were conspiring to make DevOps fail? They probably had good intentions but they just made DevOps more difficult than it should be. What if it was actually intentional? The resistance gets organized…

This is an insanely large and detailed guide to using AWS and making the most out of it: lessons learned, best practices, hidden features that are actually lifesavers, ...

This is an insanely large and detailed guide to using AWS and making the most out of it: lessons learned, best practices, hidden features that are actually lifesavers, ...

Much has been written on how to effect culture change in an organization. It's a large undertaking and difficult to know where to begin-or if, indeed, it's even possible. Anju Jain provides a brief and clear list of actions that you can take to get started.

Job titles are important because they describe what we do, which shapes our identity and guides our activity. It's important that job titles are rational and make sense. If they don't, it causes confusion and stress for individuals, teams and organizations. This is why I have a problem with using the term "DevOps" in job titles. This is becoming more and more prevalent in our industry, mainly for self- promotional and recruiting reasons. DevOps is hot… and therefore marketable.