The other day I was riffing about ‘choosing development over legacy’. Building new things is the easiest path to take and we choose it because… Read More »The Unicorn Project: The Feeling of Complexity Debt
Following on from some conversations over the last couple of weeks I’ve been pondering whether or not CD has an image problem. To explore this… Read More »Does Continuous Delivery have an Image Problem?
A good podcast to get a no-BS opinion on Agile, DevOps and CI/CD is the Non-Nonsense Podcast. Recently, Brian Finster talked to Murray Robinson and… Read More »Bryan Finster -Continuous Delivery: No Nonsense Podcast
Here are some of the valid reasons that development and product teams can give for not wanting to approach a legacy software product with the… Read More »Does Fixing Legacy Mean I’m Not Innovating?
I once had an interaction with a CI/CD fanatic. You know the type – dogmatic and bristling with frameworks, tools and well-formed opinions. I’ve also… Read More »Do You Need CI/CD to be successful at Software Delivery?
DevOps – the word is a conjunction of Development and Operations. The development team or department is responsible for the development of new software features.… Read More »The Fundamentals of DevOps
Everyone can improve their logging. Either we’re drowning in meaningless log data or we don’t have enough. Usually, there is plenty of data but not… Read More »You Need Better Linux Logging
Back in 2010, Netflix announced their Chaos Monkey tool which helped them scale successfully into AWS: Chaos Monkey randomly terminates virtual machine instances and containers… Read More »Designing Your Release Process
It’s one thing to build a software product; it’s another to have that software packaged and ready to deploy whenever you need it. In the… Read More »Can You Release When You Want To?
Last week I spoke with Tom Kennes, sustainable cloud consultant and ambassador for the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA). We discussed how IT and software… Read More »Podcast: Making IT & Software More Sustainable with Tom Kennes