I write about software development, tools, and people.
And how marketing makes it all better.
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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…
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Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn, slasher of AWS bills and frequent conference speaker, had me as the first guest on his brand-new podcast, Screaming in the Cloud. We had a great time talking about feature flags, the all-iPad conference setup, testing in production,…
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The Spirit in the System (IndexConf 2018)