Automation Is Robotics (And You're Already Building Robots)
If software changes something in the real world, it’s a robot.
DevOps: Manage the Cognitive Load
Speed, cost and quality are considered the vectors that you can control. If you are moving to cloud to get the “ilities” that comprise quality, you need to seriously consider Cognitive Load.
DevOps - All Things To All People - or Not?
Seems like everyone is clammoring for DevOps folks. Do they really know what they want? That term means all things to all people. Some thoughts.
Disposability - the Missing ility
You will get the most bang for the buck from cloud by destroying it.
SRE 123
Everyone is all on fire about SRE. But what is it really? It’s as easy as 1-2-3 if you boil it down to the basics.
Terraform in AWS: use AMI Names not IDs - and is Terraform the right answer still?
In AWS the AMI ID for a particular VM image is unique to that region. But it’s name is consistent across AWS. When building infra-as-code (such as terraform) use the name, not the ID. And some musings on terraform. Is it still the right answer for infra-as-code?
Cloudy DevOps - Part 1
What exactly is Cloudy DevOps? How do you go from classic data center Enterprise deployments to the cloud? Here’s some of what I’ve learned across a half-dozen teams who’ve done it.
How To Do Devops?