Data Platforms, SRE, DevOps, Developer Experience, Continuous Delivery, PaaS, Cloud meet tenuous musical references
I was lucky enough to attend Day 2 of the AI for the Rest of Us Conference, organised by Hannah Foxwell. The event was designed to make understanding AI accessible to everyone. As Hannah pointed out in her opening, we are still at the start of the journey; it is not too late to get [ ]
In this blog I am excited to share a simple decision tree tool that I ve developed with teams who are getting started with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). I think it s worth first understanding a bit of context, but if you prefer, feel free to dive right in here. SRE is a set of principles and [ ]
In part 1 I introduced the topic of building a PaaS strategy that is effective for major enterprises. In part 2 I made a strong argument to buy as a service rather than self-manage. Here I will share my thoughts on balancing re-use and sharing of PaaS instances versus the potentially hidden onward impact on [ ]
In part 1 I introduced the topic of building a PaaS strategy that is effective for major enterprises. Here I will justify my recommendation for buying as a service over building and self running PaaS’. Why As-a-service? A long time mantra of the clouderati (and something we no doubt borrowed from another field) has been [ ]
Large enterprises need platform teams and platform applications (aka platform services or PaaS). In this blog series I will explore how to formulate a PaaS strategy and the key decisions around: high level strategy, where to get your PaaS from, how many you need, and how to manage them. Why PaaS? It is widely believed [ ]
Platforms make or break software applications (literally) and they can make or break whole organisations. Platform teams can also be a highly successful team topology as I ve covered here. At this time of rapid advancement in public cloud platform services, anyone with a credit card has ready access to powerful capabilities. This erodes the advantage that [ ]
In part 1 of this 3 part blog series about the Team Topologies book, I summarised a large set of general things that can help make teams successful. In part 2 I covered the books ideas on team design and team interaction modes. What an epic so far, and this has just been my summary [ ]
In part 1 of this 3 part blog series about the Team Topologies book, I summarised a large set of general things that can help make teams successful. In this part I will get to actual team design i.e. types of team and how they should interact.. The Four Team Types Based on their extensive [ ]
Team Topologies is one of the latest books published by IT Revolution (the excellent company created by Gene Kim the co-author of The Phoenix Project and author of The Unicorn Project). Team Topologies was written by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (the people behind the DevOps Topologies website) but it is far more than an [ ]
In early 2017 Martin Fowler wrote a great article called Continuous Integration Certification. The title referred to a joke he was making by parodying some professional certifications available that give you the title ‘Certified Master of Buzzword’ by paying for a Buzzword certification course and passing a multiple choice test. (Which reminds me there is [ ]