Stop making conferences shitty for other people
We just wrapped up DevOpsDays Seattle. It was awesome. We had a bunch of truly engaging and informative talks. We also had one talk that really pissed me off. I want to be clear here… I’m not upset...
View ArticleMy Definition of DevOps
Yeah, I know. The world needs another definition of DevOps like I need another (whatever). I heard the term DevOps Engineer one too many times in the past few days and felt like I needed a better way...
View ArticleDevOpsDays Raleigh Follow Ups
I gave a talk today at DevOpsDays Raleigh entitled It’s Not Continuous Delivery If You Can’t Deploy Right Now (slides here). I had some great questions later in the day so wanted to add a bit more...
View Article5 out of 5 shouldn’t be the minimum
Everything has an online mostly anonymous rating system these days. Restaurants, Doctors, Auto Repair, rideshare drivers. Everything. I like the idea of knowing other people’s impressions about stuff,...
View ArticleDevOpsDays Hartford Reading Recommendations
During discussions and open spaces at DevOpsDays Hartford the past few days I’ve recommended some homework. Here’s a list of (hopefully all of) the things I referenced. If I mentioned something to you...
View ArticleDev and Ops are verbs
The term DevOps is commonly thought of as a portmanteau of two nouns, developers and operators. It should be thought of as two verbs, developing and operating.
View ArticleIs it time to give up on what DevOps isn’t?
We recently completed DevOpsDays Seattle. The feedback for the event was overwhelmingly positive in most areas. The exception was some feedback that there weren’t enough technical sessions. This is...
View ArticleUsing your pipeline to enforce corporate rules
I just took part in a discussion about Continuous Delivery fundamentals at a conference. During the conversation different questions came up about security and compliance, with reactions varied from...
View ArticleReferences for my That Conference talk
I went through a lot of information in a short amount of time today in my talk at That Conference. In fact working on this list I’m not sure it wasn’t too much! Interested to hear from anyone who was...
View ArticleHow I became a Technology Advocate
What I’m best at (professionally) Presenting technically complex topics in a “bottom line” fashion. It only took a few decades to embrace this and make it my full-time job. Background I started my...
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DevOps Engineer isn’t a job title, except it is..
A consultant’s most important responsibility (other than stealing your watch, telling you what time it is, and sending you a bill) is to give opinionated advice where it is held. Most of the time this...
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