SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban?
A thought provoking article by Ernest Meuller on the implementation of SRE and Kanban and their effectiveness. Via the AgileAdmin: https://theagileadmin.com/2018/10/02/sre-the-biggest-lie-since-kanban/
A lesson in agile: How one team ended dependency delays
A very nice article on Agility and solving impediments through TechBeacon: A lesson in agile: How one team ended dependency delays
SRE vs. DevOps: competing standards or close friends?
A very nice article on the relation between DevOPS and SRE. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps are two trending disciplines with quite a bit of overlap. In the past, some have called SRE a competing set of practices to DevOps. But we think they’re not so different after all. Through Google Cloud Platform Blog
Team Health Monitors and Why Your Startup Needs a Check-up
A great article on Team Health Monitors via First Round Review Discussing the follow topics: How You’re Measuring Performance Isn’t Enough The Eight Elements of Healthy Teams Proof of concept One-pager Velocity Full-time owner Value and metrics Shared understanding Balanced team Managed dependencies The Six Steps to Evaluating Team Health
Every company is a technology company, but most don’t behave like one
In 2011, Marc Andreesen famously wrote a Wall Street Journal essay declaring that “software is eating the world.” Five years later, the five largest companies in the world by market capitalization are all software companies. A great article via TechCrunch
How having a “Plan B” can hurt your chances of success
Imagine two aspiring entrepreneurs: Meg and Jen. They are equally capable and well-connected, and they are working on equally promising startup ideas. In fact, imagine that Meg and Jen differ in just one respect: Meg is thinking about what a good fallback job would be and how she plans to pursue it if her current …
Continuous Deployment with Containers
The open source release of Docker in March 2013 triggered a major shift in the way in which the software development industry is aspiring to package and deploy modern applications. The creation of many competing, complimentary and supporting container technologies has followed in the wake of Docker, and this has lead to much hype, and …
The Last Mile for DevOps in Regulated Organizations
An interesting article from Bill Shinn on implementing audit controls in DevOps in his presentation: The Last Mile for DevOps in Regulated Organizations. His presentation is also available through Youtube.
Security and DevOps: How To Get Started
A nice article on Security and Devops by Sarah Vonnegut: read it here.
Spotify’s engineering culture
Some great movies on Spotify’s engineering culture, a reference for many other companies.