Plan the work, Execute the work
In our jobs, it’s not enough to be busy, we need to be productive. By being deliberate about choosing what to work on, we can make real strides for our product, our businesses and ourselves.
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Deploy on Fridays, or Don’t
Whether and when to deploy on Fridays should be a choice. A conscious one.
Make the right way, the easy way
If we want teams that are empowered to move quickly and safely, instead of giving them strict instructions on how to perform their jobs, we can make the right way the easy way, and allow the busine...
Moving Operations to Simple with Cynefin
Part of the responsibility of high-performing Operations teams is to keep the developers moving as fast as possible. Using the Cynefin framework, we have a way of characterizing our initiatives and...
Reflections on Health 2.0 2019
Summary of the overlaps I’ve observed between the DevOps movement and the next generation of Healthtech.
Stability vs. Speed, Pick Two
When delivering software to our customers, in any capacity, we’re often faced with a false choice between focusing on stability or speed. With a high performing Operations organization, we can have...
An Agile SRE Meeting Plan
Scrum is not a good fit for SRE teams. Here’s how to be an Agile SRE team.
Showing a Gigabit OpenBSD firewall some Monitoring Love
Gigabit Internet on an OpenBSD firewall with Grafana graphs? Here’s how.