My first experience managing a DevOps team came in 2010 when I took the VPE role at Sonian. While on the surface my new team looked like traditional system administrators, they shared three traits that were new to me in
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SomeOps
Today I’d like the announce the founding of a new movement: SomeOps. Yes, you’ve heard of DevOps, a movement that emphasizes close collaboration between operations and software development teams (note: no one is exactly sure why these two
Cheslock's Hierarchy of DevOps Needs
Take Survey For Chance to Win $50 Amazon Gift CertificateIn the 1940s Abraham Maslow published a paper proposing a new theory of psychology known as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The theory postulated the stages of human growth, from people’
DevOps Is From Mars, Enterprise IT Is From Venus
Many enterprise CIOs have struggled to make the leap of faith that DevOps is a viable solution to improving their release velocity and quality. At the same time, most DevOps practictioners are skeptical their hacker ethos could survive in the
Virtuous Cycle of DevOps
A little over a year ago, the DevOps team at Sonian was more system administration than development operations. While the team automated with Chef and had implemented basic monitoring, the typical day was spent responding to unplanned issues across our