We’re far from the only industry that has managed to screw up a good thing. But there is hope we can recover. We can look to John Boyd, the inventor of the OODA loop, and his journey as a guide.
Author: Robert Benefield
There is a lot of confusion around the term “DevOps” these days. At its core it is really about delivering outcomes more effectively.
Beware: what you incentivize for will more often than not fail to achieve the outcomes you desire
While our brain is big and powerful, just like any system it can only handle so much at any given time.
The Dangers of Blind Trust Do not blindly trust that your instrumentation is giving you the complete picture of your delivery ecosystem. How many times have you found yourself in a situation where everything appeared to be fine when suddenly
Mental models can change what you see and how you perceive the world around you, often in ways that you do not expect.
Delivering scalable on-demand services is difficult to do using traditional IT delivery approaches. To understand why, you first must understand how traditional IT delivery became so broken in the first place.
Inventory and Building Cloud Services It is just vapor without it I regularly encounter delivery teams that are excited about turning everything as a cloud service, and then watch them create an unmanageable mess of everything. Most are at a
“Cloud” != using hypervisors I spend a lot of time speaking with customers, vendors, analysts, and “cloud providers” about IT Cloud services. It never ceases to amaze me how many think Cloud is nothing more than a guest Operating System