DevOps: Social, cooperative… It’s gotta be really diverse, right?
By Anne Currie I’ve been working in tech for nearly 25 years and I’m currently involved in DevOps […]
The Agile and the Continuous: Database Drift … Neat film title but something to avoid
In DevOps the talk is of development and operations, of continuous pipelines and agile updates, of rolling out […]
Productivity knocks: I’ve got 99 Slacks, but my work’s not done
If I had a dollar for every time someone said Slack was the answer to a business’s problems, […]
A developer always pays their technical debts – oh, every penny… but never a groat more
Picture the scene: you’re a developer looking at someone else’s code for the first time, and you […]
How do you make those darn code monkeys do what you want? Just give ’em a little nudge
Nudge theory – brainchild of Richard Thaler, a professor of behavioural science and economics at the University of […]
Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take
The container is doomed, killed by serverless. Containers are killing Virtual Machines (VM). Nobody uses bare metal servers. […]
Great, we’re going to get DevOps-ed. So, 15 years of planning processes – for the bin?
In large organisations, the question is rarely “what are these newfangled practices and technologies,” but more “how could […]
Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?
This March I’ll be co-running the first ethics track for the tech conference QCon London. We’ve had so […]
Software shortcuts: Pay down your tech debt. It’s time to fix a price
Technical debt: we probably create it every day. It happens when you do things that might get you […]
The many-faced god of operational excellence, DevOps and now ‘site reliability engineering’
Someone’s been kicking up the “NoOps” ant pile again. There it was, sitting there finally rebuilt after the […]