Culture
DevOps interview questions: Organizational Maturity
What questions should engineers ask in a DevOps interview to understand the organization’s DevOps maturity? These questions should not be about specific tools and platforms. They should be about people, processes, how we get work done, and how we collaborate. This post is written primarily for candidates. Hiring teams can also use these questions to
Empathy in Action
What the world needs now is empathetic action by those with power.
Converting energy into something that matters
DevOps practitioners can help deliver value to customers quickly and collaborate across teams, even or especially, in times of crisis
Research: Problems Engineers have Securing Cloud Deployments and ‘Shift Left’
I hit an obstacle on my way to extending the common resource tagging models with context to describe security and risk attributes. I couldn’t get past that while I feel this should be a settled engineering practice, it isn’t. Suspecting bad assumptions lurking around, I spoke to some engineers practicing DevOps with titles like DevOps
Help for your Agile or DevOps Resolutions
Happy New Year! Many of you have freshly resolved to be more agile, adopt DevOps, or ramp-up your software delivery improvement efforts. The NoDrama Agile and DevOps theme page will help you accomplish these resolutions by: building a solid understanding of what DevOps is, why it works, and the value it provides (spoiler: DevOps is
Site Operations Blessing
Here’s a little blessing you can say for your teams and website responsible for operations this peak-filled holiday season: Thank you to all who have improved our system’s capabilities and robustness for our customers. May our dashboards be green and charts stable May fixes flow swiftly through the pipelines to production May instances start quickly
Review: The Unicorn Project
You can learn a lot from The Unicorn Project about the day-to-day leadership, management, and ‘manage-up’ skills to transform yourself, a team, or an organization using The Five Ideals.