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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. When I first started programming, my job was clear: build software and hand it off for release. When I first started programming, my job was clear: build software and hand it off for release. creates software that’s easy to manage and secure in production.

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Before There Was Management

LeanEssays

Management is a rather recent invention in the history of human evolution – it’s been around for maybe 100 or 150 years, about two or three times longer than software. A team that never exceeded 100 people designed and developed both the hardware and software that became the legendary Apple Macintosh.[3] At first we were surprised.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. The Nature of Software “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s May 27, 1997. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task.