Tag Archives: DevOps

Lessons from the Phoenix Project–Leave Slack

Posted on December 12, 2018 by way0utwest

Not @Slack, but slack time, time when you aren’t buried on a particular project. In the book, The Phoenix Project, the Brent character is the jack of all trades, the one that everyone goes to to fix and solve problems. … Continue reading →

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Take the State of DevOps Survey

Posted on November 29, 2018 by way0utwest

Kendra wrote a nice piece on this the other day, and I agree. Take the Survey The data that comes out of this helps to influence executives and managers. You can show them results, which might get them to help … Continue reading →

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Wasted Work

Posted on November 7, 2018 by way0utwest

I’ve been re-reading some of the manufacturing and DevOps books that I’ve collected over the years. In these texts, there are a number of concepts that stand out, but one that resonates with me is the concept of waste. There’s … Continue reading →

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Rolling Back Migrations

Posted on October 24, 2018 by way0utwest

I happen to be a fan of database migrations as a way of making and deploying database changes. This is an approach that tracks each of the scripts run by developers in their working environments and the replays these scripts … Continue reading →

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