Tiny DevOps episode #3 Zachary Randall — The benefits of serverless for staff-strapped teams
In this episode, Zachary Randall of Chameleon Collective talks about his success using serverless technology to help understaffed technology teams save money on hosting fees, and reduce the complexity of maintaining infrastructure. He also plays the guitar for us.
Tiny DevOps episode #2 John Goerzen — IT lessons from the aviation industry
In this episode of Tiny DevOps, guest John Goerzen applies his experience as an amateur pilot to IT risk management.
Tiny DevOps episode #1 Patric Conant — Don't throw the infra baby out with the bathwater
Guest Patric Conant discusses the dangers of ignoring low-level infrastructure during a DevOps transformation, and some simple steps to avoid this common blind spot.
Book recommendation: Team Topologies
I read most of "Team Topologies" on a flight to Madrid, and was able to immediately begin to put it to use.
A simple way to improve your technical onboarding
Somewhere, long ago, I learned of a technique I like to employ when onboarding new team members
Three ways to manage dependencies
I share my thoughts on three types of dependencies and on how they are managed differently.
From the message queue: How to mitigate conflicting changes
How can we discover conflicting changes on separate branches as early as possible?
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Cross-functional teams aren't the only valid option
If you depend on another team but they are not a bottleneck, you gain nothing by embedding them in your team.
What are the odds?
Do you worry about UUID collisions? Your data center is more likely to be destroyed in a nuclear strike. Prioritize what matters.
Manual deployments are a false safety net
“Whether a human is involved in pressing the deploy button or not, you are going to deploy a bad update eventually.”
How remote work can improve documentation
Documenation is one of the most trivial ways to increase team cohesion.