
Don't deploy on payday!
Blocking deployments on certain days is an admission that standards are lower every other day.

You are advised to arrive at the airport two hours before your flight
Why do we have to arrive so early for a flight? How would you reduce the wait times?
Tiny DevOps episode #40 Stacy Cashmore — The painful crawl through the morass of past shortcuts
Stacy Cashmore has the interesting title of Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, which means she has free reign to do what she thinks she needs to do! In this episode, we talk about a big rewrite decision she made, and the results of this decision, good and bad, and in particular the effect of shortcuts taken.

How to travel light
Software delivery is a lot like traveling. Less luggage makes for a better experience.

Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery
A group of people with a lot broader experience than I have, come up with a pretty good definition of "Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery".
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One not-so-simple trick to reduce your time fixing bugs
Continuous Delivery reliably predicts less time spent fixing bugs. How close are you?

The store will be closed for software upgrade
In 2022, I can't think of any legitimate reason that a place of business should need to close for a software upgrade.
Tiny DevOps episode #39 Bryan Finster — The One Agile Scaling Framework to Rule Them All
Bryan Finster returns to Tiny DevOps, this time to explain the amazing benefits of his new Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework (SAD MF), the silver bullet that you, and literally everyone else, should be using.

Two ways to configure preview environments
Can you test your changes in a production-like environment before merging? Here are two ways.