A very nice article on the relation between DevOPS and SRE. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps are two trending disciplines with quite a bit of overlap. In the past, some have called SRE a competing set of practices to DevOps. But we think they’re not so different after all. Through Google Cloud Platform Blog
A great article on Team Health Monitors via First Round Review Discussing the follow topics: How You’re Measuring Performance Isn’t Enough The Eight Elements of Healthy Teams Proof of concept One-pager Velocity Full-time owner Value and metrics Shared understanding Balanced team Managed dependencies The Six Steps to Evaluating Team Health
In 2011, Marc Andreesen famously wrote a Wall Street Journal essay declaring that “software is eating the world.” Five years later, the five largest companies in the world by market capitalization are all software companies. A great article via TechCrunch
Imagine two aspiring entrepreneurs: Meg and Jen. They are equally capable and well-connected, and they are working on equally promising startup ideas. In fact, imagine that Meg and Jen differ in just one respect: Meg is thinking about what a good fallback job would be and how she plans to pursue it if her current …
The open source release of Docker in March 2013 triggered a major shift in the way in which the software development industry is aspiring to package and deploy modern applications. The creation of many competing, complimentary and supporting container technologies has followed in the wake of Docker, and this has lead to much hype, and …
An interesting article from Bill Shinn on implementing audit controls in DevOps in his presentation: The Last Mile for DevOps in Regulated Organizations. His presentation is also available through Youtube.
A nice article on Security and Devops by Sarah Vonnegut: read it here.
Some great movies on Spotify’s engineering culture, a reference for many other companies.
DevOps keeps it cool with ICE, a nice article by Dave Zwieback @ oreilly.com
If you’ve been in Information Security for a while you have been asked for, or have seen others get asked for, an authoritative list of security metrics. This normally results in chaotic wheel invention, i.e. coming up with a new and unsatisfactory list each time. The goal of this primer is not to make you …