The two most common DevOps anti-patterns
"DevOps" is so often misunderstood, many companies who think they're doing DevOps are actually doing one of these anti-patterns.
Politics are expected
Unless literally work alone, you will experience workplace politics. The question is: is it abusive?
What does it take to affect change?
Change is hard. We're more receptive to change when we're facing crisis. How can you change to face a crisis effectively?
Reader Response to "Can you work from an airplane?"
If your application relies on serverless functions, often there's limited opportunity for "from an airplane" work.
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How do you change your culture to accept DevOps?
Doing DevOpsy things begins to transform your culture for you.
That one time I fired our QA team
I got a few complaints from developers who didn't enjoy splitting focus between dev and testing, but they admited it was better than before.
The only thing we have to fear...
“In short, for highly-evolved firms, culture is no longer a barrier. This is ultimately why they're highly evolved.”
What is your inverse bus factor?
How many of your team members do you need to lose before your team can become productive?
What is your bus factor?
How many of your team members could you suddenly lose without jeopardizing your project?
There's always room for improvement
Even in a static environment, improvement may slow down, but it doesn't have an upper bound.
Tiny DevOps episode #9 Miriam Tocino — Using stories for technical communication
Miriam Tocino is a children's book author and illustrator who focuses on teaching children a passion for technology. In this episode, we create a story together of the characters Zerus and Ona, as they explore how a voice message is sent through the cloud, to a friend.