At devops.center we often talk about standardizing – standardized tooling, standardized ways to do anything to an app, standardized db backups, standardized forms of communication, and more. After all, much of the complexity in modern devops has to do with similar tasks being done in different ways, with different tooling, […]
READ MORE »The Choices We Make
At any given point in time our apps are the sum of a whole series of choices that we’ve made – design choices, implementation choices, even choices about implementing good build tests to ensure quality, about implementing sound operational practices to ensure that the app can be relied upon … […]
READ MORE »Your App Matters … the Better Way
In the last post we described the two most common approaches to devops – the fully integrated team (with dev and devops handled by the same team) and the traditional, separate devops / ops team. The first is lighter, newer and often more responsive, but can struggle with devops left […]
READ MORE »Your App Matters … Now What?
When an app becomes integral to the well being of the biz, when how you serve your customer is, in fact, dependent on one or more apps behaving, then you have a need for devops, welcome or not. In other words, you need to take some actions to ensure that […]
READ MORE »A New Way
For the past couple of years there have been a few of us bootstrapping a new approach to devops – one that thinks of the “devops problems” the same way that the owner of “apps that matter” often thinks. Not so much as devops problems, but as obstacles standing in […]
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