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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer: How this one principle changed my career

CircleCI

Most software development and operations (SRE or System Administration) teams developed, tested, and released applications and managed infrastructures manually and, more importantly, in isolation. We had achieved a true DevOps culture amongst our teams before the term “DevOps” was even coined. What is DevOps? a concept.

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The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 2

Strategy Driven

Teams are powerful constructs, and high-performance ones do not spring up by magic. In February of 2012 Bruce published his first book Front Line Heroes: How to Battle the Business Tsunami by Developing Performance Oriented Cultures. You just finished reading The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 2 !

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It’s the culture. A plurality of adopters cite cultural or mindset barriers to adoption. Technical roles represented in the “Other” category include IT managers, data engineers, DevOps practitioners, data scientists, systems engineers, and systems administrators. Figure 1: Respondent roles. Footnotes.

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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership

CircleCI

Often times, we existed before those human construct splits existed. They might approach it using Newton’s Third Law of System Administration, which says “a system untouched will remain online.” It also breeds a hero culture and doesn’t scale. “So why do we not have teams dedicated to working with us?”.

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Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Kelsey Hightower said that Kubernetes is the “sum of all the bash scripts and best practices that most system administrators would cobble together over time”; it’s just that many years of experience have taught us the limitations of endless scripting. But configuring a tool is almost always simpler than writing the tool yourself.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There’s been a lot of discussion about operations culture (the movement frequently known as DevOps), continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), and site reliability engineering (SRE). They’re the ones that will change the face of our industry. Operations or DevOps or SRE.