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dev2ops Interview

Want to hear me spout off more about DevOps?  Well, here’s your chance; I did an interview with Damon Edwards of DTO and they’ve posted it on the dev2ops blog! Killer quote: “I say this as somebody who about 15 years ago chose system administration over development.  But system administration and system administrators have allowed […]

Before DevOps, Don’t You Need OpsOps?

From the “sad but true” files comes an extremely insightful point apparently discussed over beer by the UK devops crew recently – that we are talking about dev and ops collaboration but the current state of collaboration among ops teams is pretty crappy. Internal Borders by Graham Bleach DevOps is a good cause, but what […]

Defining Agile Operations and DevOps

I recently read a great blog post by Scott Wilson that was talking about the definitions of Agile Operations, DevOps, and related terms.  (Read the comments too, there’s some good discussion.)  From what I’ve heard so far, there are a bunch of semi-related terms people are using around this whole “new thing of ours.” The […]

Agile Operations

It’s funny.  When we recently started working on an upgrade of our Intranet social media platform, and we were trying to figure out how to meld the infrastructure-change-heavy operation with the need for devs, designers, and testers to be able to start working on the system before “three months from now,” we broached the idea […]

Security in Agile Development – OWASP AppSec NYC 2008

This presentation, entitled “Security in Agile Development: Breaking the Waterfall Mindset of the Security Industry” was by Dave Wichers, member of the OWASP board and cofounder and COO of Aspect Security. Manifesto for Agile Software Development Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.  Working software over comprehensive documentation.  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.  Responding to […]