Category Archives: Software

I still see a lot of fear out there in the development and operations communities with regards to being able to rollback failed software deploys. People talk about the difficulty of rolling back, the need to always be rolling forward … Continue reading →

I am about to go live with my first production Hadoop job for a client as a proof of concept. I found that a lot of the documentation out there is quite text dense, unnecessarily detailed, or out of date, … Continue reading →

There’s so much innovation going on in the fast moving DevOps world, that I’ve decided to start a curated email newsletter that will summarise the best content from the weeks blogs, articles and Tweets. The newsletter will be brief, non-commercial, … Continue reading →

I love the part in the Facebook movie where the product hits exponential growth a few hours after it was released: “Harvard at that time did not have a student directory with photos and basic information, and with the initial … Continue reading →

Someone asked me today for recommendations for books to read on ‘agile’. I came up with the following reading list, which interestingly, doesn’t include any books with the words agile or SCRUM in the title! Continuous Delivery Though this is a relatively new … Continue reading →

The benefits of continuous builds are so obvious, widely documented and experienced nowadays that anyone with even a passing interest in agile process improvement, a continuous integration server will be one of the first things they set up in their … Continue reading →