Navigating the Unknown
Don’t decide everything at the point you know the least — When I teach Agile Development and Planning in my DevOps course, I like to start off with this quot...
Creating Reproducible Development Environments
Development teams are up against an age old problem: how do you ensure that your development environment is the same across all of the developers on the team? A less frequent but equally important problem is how long does it take to on-board a new developer to a project? Hours? Days? What if I told you that you could do it in minutes!
2021
A Case for Test-Driven Development
You can’t afford not to do it — Test Driven Development (TDD) is the practice of writing test cases for the code you wish you had, and then writing the code ...
DevOps Engineer is the new SysAdmin
DevOps Engineer seems to be a job title that causes a fair amount of confusion. Perhaps this is because it’s an anti-pattern.
DevOps and Segregation of Duties
It depends on your definition of “duties” — This question almost always comes up when I present the culture of DevOps to customers.
Developing on Apple M1 Silicon with Virtual Environments
Docker containers all the way down — In my article Creating Repeatable Development Environments, I showed how I use Vagrant as an orchestrator and VirtualBox...
Creating Reproducible Development Environments
Docker containers all the way down — Development teams are up against an age old problem: how do you ensure that your development environment is the same acr...