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Why You Shouldn't Have to Deploy Overnight

Are you still doing deployments at 3:00am?  If you are, you should have taken a look at Brian Crescimanno's post: "Why are you still deploying...

2 replies - 7587 views - 10/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Devops Twitter Aggregator

I’ve been hacking on appengine again and have thrown up a simple twitter aggregator for devops. It’s again based on TwitterEngine with an increasing number...

2 replies - 3697 views - 10/17/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Executable Specifications using FitNesse and Selenium

At STAREast 2010, I presented a session called "Executable Specifications using FitNesse and Selenium". To set up the system I was using, you...

1 replies - 4101 views - 10/13/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

Devops tools fools and other smart things

In this phrase I try to tackle the phrase "Devops is not about the tools, it's about culture". In this presentation I gave at gotocon I try to...

1 replies - 2579 views - 10/12/11 by Patrick Debois in News

How's mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship?

First, a little bit of background and metaphor  In the medieval times, apprentices would work in workshops an would be mentored by senior...

0 replies - 4470 views - 10/09/11 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles

Installing Go (cruise) Build Agents on Linux

This is just an easy at-a-glance reference for installing the Go cruise agent on Linux because I’ve done it a few times and just want to have the...

0 replies - 4567 views - 10/07/11 by James Betteley in News

Continuous Integration: Why You Don't Really "Get It"

A vast majority of daily practitioners of Continuous Integration don't really understand it. This is a bold statement, I know. But it is not made to...

0 replies - 9805 views - 09/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

"Strict" Unit Testing -- Everything In Isolation Is Too Much Work

Folks like to claim that unit testing absolutely requires each class be tested in isolation using mocks for all dependencies.  This is a noble aspiration,...

4 replies - 8997 views - 09/24/11 by Steven Lott in News

Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation and Cultural Change featuring Yahoo!

Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation....

0 replies - 3421 views - 09/21/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

Continuous Integration for the World

In 2008 at Agile Toronto, I did a session on Agile Infrastructure. This is where I met Andrew Shafer (working at Reductive Labs). There wasn't that much...

1 replies - 8439 views - 09/20/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Should You Ship This Code Before Reducing Technical Debt?!

Technical debt is usually perceived as a measure of expediency. Source: JulesH, Wikipedia, A control flow graph of a simple function You borrow a little...

1 replies - 7120 views - 09/19/11 by Israel Gat in News

Project Manager and The Three Questions

He was newly appointed as the Project Manager for a moderately complex project. Prior to this assignment, he was trained in the best of methods and had...

1 replies - 1455 views - 09/18/11 by Tathagat Varma in News

Devopsdays Downunder 2011 - Keynote

At the first devopsdays in Ghent 2009 we were extremely lucky to have Lindsay Holmwood present. I had to skip the first devopsdays downunder. So I was...

0 replies - 5857 views - 09/16/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Books For People Interested In Devops

Before starting with FreeAgent I decided I should spend a bit more time with Ruby and set about building something I’d been thinking about...

0 replies - 6579 views - 09/12/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Continuous Deployment = Continuous Business Improvement

One of the benefits of working on a startup project of which I am the owner is that I can do things the way I want to. One of the things I was keen to try out...

1 replies - 5863 views - 09/11/11 by Wille Faler in News