Response Times: The 3 Important Limits
An interesting article on Response Time Limits by Jakob Nielsen can be found here.
Jez Humble: DevOps Culture And Practices To Create Flow
Jez Humble presents some observations on plant floor engineering and operations, deriving the behaviors, rituals and processes that are essential to fast flow in software development. Via: InfoQ
Containers, that’s what it’s all about. Docker: Present and Future
An interesting article about Docker by Chris Swan at InfoQ
Azure: Automate Linux VM Customization Tasks Using CustomScript Extension
What a nice addition to the already available automation features in Azure, check: The Azure Blog.
System Failure, Human Error: Who’s to Blame?
Interesting keynote by Sidney Dekker addressing having focus on the history of our understanding of system failures and the assumed role of human error: System Failure, Human Error: Who’s to Blame?
Monitoring is not an ‘OPS-thing’
Monitoring is not an ‘OPS-thing’, it should be an integral part of Engineering. An interesting article related to this Metrics Driven Development can be read on Librato: here.
The Secret to Amazons Success Internal APIs
In 2011 there was an accidental post from a Google employee about Google+. The internal rant was accidentally shared publicly and provides some insight into how Google approached APIs for their new Google + platform, as well as insight how Amazon adopted an internal service oriented architecture (SOA). The insight about how Google approached the …
Experiment, try and take risks, otherwise you will never learn and achieve anything new!
I always encourage my people to experiment, try and take take risks, because I believe this is the only way in which people learn and achieve! Peter Drucker once said: People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a …
Good Operations (OPS) do matter!
In a world in which customers are very important, their opinion on your company is also valued highly. This is done by calculating the Net Promotor Score (NPS). For the IT department it is very hard to influence the NPS directly. The only thing that matters is to design, build and maintain highly resilient IT …
5 Common Barriers When Introducing DevOps
Ho Ming Li has written an excellent blog on the 5 common barriers when introducing DevOps. It comes down to: Barrier #1: People Who Do Not See the Light, Barrier #2: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It, Barrier #3: Dude, that’s my job!, Barrier #4: The Great Divide, Barrier #5: One vs. the Rest. …