DevOps
Continuous Integration for Infrastructure Code
Continuous Integration can and should be applied to infrastructure code written in tools like Terraform and CloudFormation. This post describes how.
What does Continuous Integration look like in 2019?
The primary goal of a continuous integration process is to provide rapid feedback on changes to the development team. Teams use CI to determine whether a change is reasonable to deploy for further testing.
Improving Software Delivery Performance with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Much of the extra effort and delay in software delivery processes is hiding in long-lived feature branches and test environments built from long-lived release branches. Deliver more frequent releases with lower lead times using Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD).
Adopting a Robust Incident Response Process
You don’t need to build an incident response process from scratch, adopt!
A Good Response for an Incident in a Complex System – GitHub
What does a good response look like for an incident in a Complex system? Start by establishing a system for classifying incidents in terms of customer and business impact. Then establish a process to manage the restoration of service that prioritizes the following external goals: safety for the service’s customers and their data restoration of
Are Target Resolution Times for Incidents Harmful?
Incident resolution times are a lagging indicator of team and organizational performance, not constructive guidance during incident response.
Cooking Something Good with DevOps
This is the final piece of a three-part series introducing the Principles and Value of DevOps. I am excited and relieved that after 15 years of trying to discover, learn, apply, and teach these practices, that we have matured so that it’s clear: what principles we should apply how to guide the application of those
The Value of DevOps to Your Organization
DevOps provides value to organizations by enabling them to change quickly and safely.
Principles of DevOps
DevOps will help you optimize the delivery of services that are built on technology _and improve the services_ themselves.