https://youtu.be/haejb5rzKsMThe “monoliths vs microservices” debate often focuses on technological aspects, ignoring strategy and team dynamics. Instead of technology, smart-thinking organizations are beginning with team cognitive load as the guiding principle for modern software. In this presentation, Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais explain how and why, illustrated by real case studies.Matthew Skelton My name's Matthew Skelton, and this is Manuel Pais, and together, we are the … [Read more...]
Go Beyond Team Structures for Software Delivery Success
Guest Post from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team TopologiesKey Takeaways: 1. New team-based organizational designs are proving valuable across the IT industry. 2. Adopting new team structures is only part of the picture: it’s the interactions between teams that really counts. 3. Since 2013 many organizations have used the DevOps topologies patterns to explore different team models. 4. The new book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais addresses important organization dynamics … [Read more...]
What to Expect at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019
It’s that time of year where we’re only a few weeks away from DevOps Enterprise Summit London and I’m incredibly excited for our fourth event there.As a programming committee, our goal is always to create the best programming ever — this creates a challenge, as we all thought the Las Vegas 2018 conference was the best conference yet!The first big change for our London conference this year is that it is now a three-day conference— one day longer than in previous years. I’m particularly … [Read more...]
Q&A with Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim
Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mark Schwartz about Mark's new book, War and Peace and IT, Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age:Gene Kim: What inspired you to write a book about IT management for business leaders?Mark Schwartz: I meet with executives from over a hundred large enterprises each year. It’s amazing how patterns emerge: so many of them are trying to transform digitally, trying to find new sources of growth and to survive disruption—and … [Read more...]
Scaling Continuous Delivery at Walmart
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dana Finster, Sr. Software Engineer, and Bryan Finster, Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, titled "Scaling Continuous Delivery at Walmart."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.Dana Finster I'm Dana Finster. I'm a CD Evangelist and Senior Software Engineer in Information Security.Bryan Finster I'm Bryan Finster. I'm a Staff Software … [Read more...]
Build a Bigger Team – Nike
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Anne Bradley, Chief Privacy Officer and Global Counsel for Nike Direct, and Courtney Kissler, Vice President, Nike Digital Platform Engineering, titled "Build a Bigger Team."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.Courtney KisslerAt Nike, we win as a team, so, today we’re going to share about a collaboration between our two teams that … [Read more...]
Securing Your Software Supply Chain
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mary Lee, Director, Security Product and Program Management at Salesforce, titled "Securing Your Software Supply Chain."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.I'm Mary. I'm a director of security, product and program management at Salesforce, and I primarily focus on security tools for developers. This includes static code analysis, open-source … [Read more...]
Breaking Bad Leadership: The Anti Heroes of DevOps
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by John Rzeszotarski, SVP, Director of Continuous Delivery and Feedback at KeyBank, titled "Breaking Bad Leadership: The Anti Heroes of DevOps."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.My name's John Rzeszotarski, and I work in the infrastructure group for KeyBank.A little bit about KeyBank:We're located in the Midwest, the Northwest, and the … [Read more...]
DevOps Transformation at the US Patent and Trademark Office
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Simmons Lough, IT Specialist, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled "If We Can Do It, You Can Do It!: DevOps Transformation at the US Patent and Trademark Office."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.USPTO at a glance I'm a tech lead on a system at USPTO called FPNG. USPTO stands for the ‘United States Patent and Trademark … [Read more...]
Mastering Outages with Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department
The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Brent Chapman, Principal at Great Circle Associates, titled "Mastering Outages with Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department."You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.A little bit about my background I'm a system's sysadmin, networking, programmer, architect, etc. I’ve been in Silicon Valley for about 30 years, and worked at … [Read more...]
