Functional Programming: democratizing development for DevOps
There is a bit of a revolution happening on the quiet in the development world. Partly led by the paradigm of DevOps, with infrastructure-as-code and configuration scripting. This revolution is changing...
Refactoring helps DevOps initiatives in your organization
Every developer can give you examples of applications of which the code base is like spaghetti code. Plenty of reasons why an application might end up in such a situation. Often,...
Why SRE is important for your applications
In the article “learn to fail or fail to learn” I briefly touched on the importance of learning from failures. In short: a development team should learn it is inevitable that...
Too much team autonomy can hurt your organization
DevOps initiatives are everywhere. You can’t go to a meetup or conference without being exposed to at least 1 track about DevOps. Companies share...
Analyzing the 2019 Accelerate State of Devops Report: 3 key findings
Nicole Forsgren and her DORA team at Google have published the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report.
DevOps has crossed the Chasm
That's a pretty bold statement. It's the major conclusion by the...
Learn to fail or fail to learn
There are a lot of websites dedicated to DevOps nowadays. The topic is trending, it is being highlighted in a lot of talks at webinars and conferences all around the world....
Recap of HashiConf EU 2019 – going multi*
Did you enjoy HashiConf EU 2019 just as much as I did? The 3-day conference was great from the start on Monday 8th of July until the end at Wednesday 10th....
Defining the Shape Using CALMS with Jason Lee
At DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2019, Jason Lee shared a story about the shifting shape of the IJ over time to explain how, using the CALMS model, DevOps in your organization will change...
The importance of Agile Leadership for successful digital transformations
With the rapidly changing technology landscape towards easier, less inert, more flexible and less siloed IT environments, IT practitioners are learning new ways to cooperate, develop and release applications and operate...