In 2017, I wrote this post (Getting Your Presentation Submission Accepted For DevOps Enterprise Summit In 2017) with some tips on getting your DevOps Enterprise Summit presentation proposal accepted. In that video, there is a link to a fantastic one-hour video that I did with fellow programming committee member Damon Edwards (co-founder of Rundeck), and Margo Cronin, whose submission we had accepted in 2016 when she was Head of Technology Architecture at Zurich Insurance (and now at AWS!). In … [Read more...]
Resource Guide To The Unicorn Project (Part 1)
First off, I want to thank everyone so much for all your support, encouragement, teachings, stories, and enthusiasm for The Unicorn Project. I am so delighted that we hit #2 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list for hardcover business books on the week ending November 30, 2019! I hope that having The Unicorn Project show up alongside other business books shows that the technology challenges we face today are genuine business challenges that cannot be delegated away to “those … [Read more...]
Love Letter To Clojure (Part 1)
In this blog post, I will explain how learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life. It led to a series of revelations about all the invisible structures that are required to enable developers to be productive. These concepts show up all over The Unicorn Project, but most prominently in the First Ideal of Locality and Simplicity, and how it can lead to the Second Ideal of Focus, Flow, and Joy. Without doubt, Clojure was one of the most difficult things I’ve … [Read more...]
Gene Kim Q&A with the Authors of Team Topologies
Gene: Every company loves an org chart, but why are they really so misleading Matthew and Manuel: Org charts are management-focused constructs, meant to funnel lines of reporting from the bottom to the top—the typical hierarchical pyramid. The fundamental problem is extrapolating this construct and assuming it actually represents the lines of communication in the organization, alignment of business goals and decision making power. This misinterpretation still happens in most … [Read more...]
The Unicorn Project Excerpt is now available!
IT Revolution is excited to announce that, at long last, we’ve just made the first of several excerpts of The Unicorn Project available for download below! We hope you enjoy it! (And we’ll be releasing the next couple of chapters in a week or so.) … [Read more...]
How DevOps and ITSM Can Compliment Each Other (Expert Panel Discussion)
What were once thought to be irreconcilable movements are now finding common ground, or are they? Alan Shimel of DevOps.com sits down with this great panel of ITSM, ITIL and DevOps experts— Cherry Vu, Rob England, and Jayne Groll to discuss how DevOps and ITSM can compliment each other and what the future holds for both. This interview was conducted during the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London 2018. Some of the responses have been edited for brevity and clarity. Watch the full interview … [Read more...]
Write a DevOps Haiku and Win Books!
DevOps practitioners, IT Revolution Press challenges you to DevOps a haiku. Share your creative writing chops and break the construct that says DevOps ideas are only shippable in prose. The prize for your creative endeavors? The fun of doing something nerdtastic! Plus, one lucky winner will receive their choice of three IT Revolution Press books. The Rules: All haikus must conform to a 3-line, 5/7/5 syllable format. All haikus must include some element, principle, or approach used in … [Read more...]
Q&A With Mirco Hering and Gene Kim
Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mirco Hering about Mirco's new book, DevOps for the Modern Enterprise. Gene Kim: What inspired you to write DevOps for the Modern Enterprise? Mirco Hering: To be honest, there are a number of DevOps books in the market and I was wondering whether I had something unique to say. But then I realized that not a lot has been written of the complex organizational environments that people find themselves in with legacy applications and multiple … [Read more...]
Call for presentations: Next Generation Ops and Infrastructure Practices
This is a time of enormous disruption in technology — just look at the words that define this era: DevOps, automation, cloud native, digital transformation. However, one of the groups being disrupted the most and under the most pressure is IT Operations in large, complex enterprises. There are simultaneous demands to move faster, be more secure, move to cloud, give more access to developers, automate at a scale never seen before, upskill the workforce, etc. Because of all the exciting new … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 7 & 8 – The Panel & Case Studies
Earlier this week, I wrote about the first six modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from each — this is from the nine hours of recorded audio that John Willis and I created, summarizing hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws most heavily upon. (By the way, we’ve gotten an update — Beyond The Phoenix Project will be available on Audible and iTunes sometime next week.) Today, I want to tell you about the remaining modules: The Panel … [Read more...]
