DevOps keeps it cool with ICE
DevOps keeps it cool with ICE, a nice article by Dave Zwieback @ oreilly.com
Applying metrics to development and operations
If you’ve been in Information Security for a while you have been asked for, or have seen others get asked for, an authoritative list of security metrics. This normally results in chaotic wheel invention, i.e. coming up with a new and unsatisfactory list each time. The goal of this primer is not to make you …
Move fast & break nothing
A great looking presentation all about how to ship software faster. Lots of good examples and code samples on a/b testing, giving feedback, collecting metrics, code ownership and more by Zach Holman.
DevOps visualized
A nice visual representation of DevOps:
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
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 …