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2021

Navigating the Unknown

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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...

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A Case for Test-Driven Development

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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 ...

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DevOps Engineer is the new SysAdmin

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DevOps Engineer seems to be a job title that causes a fair amount of confusion. Perhaps this is because it’s an anti-pattern.

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DevOps and Segregation of Duties

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It depends on your definition of “duties” — This question almost always comes up when I present the culture of DevOps to customers.

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Developing on Apple M1 Silicon with Virtual Environments

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Docker containers all the way down — In my article Creating Repeatable Development Environments, I showed how I use Vagrant as an orchestrator and VirtualBox...

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Creating Reproducible Development Environments

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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...

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