I write about software development, tools, and people.
And how marketing makes it all better.
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I’m borrowing this image from my friends at Chef, because it’s really funny to pretend that it’s possible to just sprinkle on “devops”, something that is about cultural change at every level. At every DevOpsDays I go to (and that’s…
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Choose Your Own Deployment Adventure (DevOpsDays NYC 2018)
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The Death of Data (The Lead Developer Austin 2018)
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Everything Is A Little Bit Broken (DevOps D-Day 2018)
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
If you recognize this mantra, you may know it comes from marksmanship training. The idea is that it is better to move slowly and not have any hitches or unexpected bumps, rather than to hurry and have a less predictable…
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This job is undoing me
… in the best way possible. My protective casing of hard-earned cynicism is being rubbed away by all this genuine kindness, cooperation, good culture, and all that jazz. It’s honestly kind of uncomfortable, like molting. You need to understand –…
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Feature Flag Foul-Ups (Pivotal 2018)
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Choose Your Own Deployment Adventure (PyCaribbean 2018)
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The Devil’s Devops (DevOpsDays NYC 2018)
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Teaching and learning
At LaunchDarkly, we’ve been hiring really aggressively, because we’re doing amazing things. (Come work with me!) That means that we are also doing a bunch of training, and I’ve been working on doing the training for our non-technical employees, folks…