
Do you trust your linters?
Do you find yourself routinely, or even rotely, disabling linter rules on a case-by-case basis?

My preferred "Agile framework" for a new team
Work closely with the users of the software, and establish tight feedback loops. No framework necessary.
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Trade in your efficiency
Trade some of your existing efficiency in for greater effectiveness instead.

Fear leads to suffering
I've seen many teams paralized by fear when it comes to improving their software delivery practices.
Tiny DevOps episode #45 Dave Mangot — Should you deploy on Fridays?
Dave Mangot is a speaker, author, teacher, and Silicon Valley veteran. His focus is helping private equity portofolio companies use their technology organization to maximize growth, and he joins me today to discuss the contentious topic of Friday deployments and why you definitely should do them and why you definitely should not do them. Confused?
Tiny DevOps episode #43 Jason Adam — A conversation about trunk-based development
Jason Adam is a software developer with a non-traditional background in biology, business development, and data analytics. Now he's active as a developer, and on the lookout for proven practices he can introduce to his team. On this episode we talk about Trunk-Based Development, and the related topics of continuous integration and deployment, infrastruture as code, and much more.

Are code freezes ever a good idea?
I found a tool to make code freezes easier. Ick. But could it ever be useful?
Adventures in DevOps 128: The GitOps Framework with Tanmay Bhat
We discuss the GitOps framework, advantages and disadvantages, and favorite tools.