Hello, I'm Paul Stovell. I'm the Founder & CEO of Octopus Deploy. I write here about my Octopus journey and other topics.
Growing up, my wife Sonia always wanted an MG, but her parents convinced her to save up and buy something "sensible". So this year, because we can, we decided to buy a lovely little 1962 MGA. When MGAs launched, they were quick, sporty, fun, and cheap. The spiritual
Over 10 years, we've crafted a highly transparent, systematic approach to compensation where fairness and equity happen “by design."
Octopus passed 300 employees and A$100M in ARR. A snapshot of where we are in 2024.
2021 is the year we unfurled our tentacles - literally!
Octopus is a bootstrapped software company, and so there are no investors that have put money "into" the business. As a result, every dollar we've ever used to build our business has come from customers. There's something humbling and powerful about this. The fate
There's this pattern that emerges in engineering, marketing, and a lot of other things that we do. I suspect somebody has already named it - some law or maxim - but I've not seen it written somewhere. I describe it as the "highly-measurable upside vs. the
We published a public handbook for our remote-first company.
This post is a summary of Octopus Deploy as of May 2020. Our team, our customers, what we do, and how we see the DevOps automation world.
Hello, is this thing on? It's a while since I wrote on this blog 😀
Aaron Stanard published a blog post about The Next Decade of .NET Open Source . It's a good summary of recent conversations and there's a lot to agree with in the post. In particular, I agree strongly with this point: If Autofac is genuinely the better tool
Reply to Mitch's post on the Tyranny of NuGet
A tool to manage Windows Services
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity. At the start of the year I wrote about how 2014 would be my year to focus on
When providing customer support, it's important to focus on solving the actual problem rather than just responding to the ticket
As our team grows, the need for dedicated space is becoming more obvious. It's time to get an office.