When I was a child, I watched an episode of Star Trek (TNG), fell in love and my life’s trajectory was forever changed. As many Engineers are, I was thrilled…
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” — Albert Einstein It’s within all of us to epically fail at least once in our lives. For…
Buzzwords: A game of bingo for HR and Managers Our modern technology driven world just might have been taken over by aliens, and forced to operate through buzzwords and marketing…
Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2 This ebook is included in a Mapt subscription Jonathan McAllister July 2017 Leverage the power of Ansible 2 and related tools and scale DevOps processes…
In previous posts I took a look at what makes good leaders. Let’s in turn on this post do the reverse. I’d consider the following graphic fairly accurate.
Moving into a leadership position can be the pinnacle of an individuals career. It’s an honor to be recognized for ones hard work and diligence on the job. But what…
DevOps transformations require embracing failure Innovative achievements on our planet seem to manifest themselves after copious amounts of failure. Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with history’s comically hilarious…
Introducing the Sprint Planning Meeting In Agile development organizations most often apply a minimum of three core meeting ceremonies (The Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand-ups, and Retrospectives). These ceremonies respectively identify the beginning,…
Over the last 15 years, Agile’s widespread adoption has spurred an increase in collaborative engineering and delivery at organizations both large and small. Some of the reasons for the increase in…
Docker has taken the DevOps and development world by storm. It represents a lightweight virtualization option coupled with GIT style source control options. When leveraged with micro-services it’s value to…