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On Building a Platform Team

Honeycomb

There’s a whole class of things you just don’t have to think about if, say, your system is running on lambdas. Vendors vs. internal platform teams. What’s the difference between a good vendor and a good internal team building you those abstractions? The best vendors feel like internal teams.

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The Future of Ops Careers

Honeycomb

Have you seen Lambda: A Serverless Musical ? BUT, unfortunately, the chorus chose to double-down on one of the stupidest and most dangerous tendencies the serverless movement has had from day one: misunderstanding and trash-talking operations. When I started my career, I was a jack-of-all-trades systems person.

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Five Ways Serverless Changes DevOps

Stacks on Stacks

Infrastructure Management = Configuration Management The serverless approach focuses on leveraging the cloud provider do more of the undifferentiated heavy lifting of scaling the IT infrastructure, freeing your team to maintain laser focus on the unique problems which your organization solves. Serverless teams intentionally don’t manage OS’s.