RT @swardley: Container platforms are the future, ho hum, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl - http://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/02/context-situation-components-paas-dead.html - containers are a useful subsyte…
“[E]mergent systems share many properties with those coveted in man-made distributed systems” http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2678280
RT @jaykreps: “Raft Refloated: Do We Have Consensus?” http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2015-osr-raft.pdf
Making Pinterest — How we made JavaScript testing 15x faster http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/109995039029/how-we-made-javascript-testing-15x-faster
Packet Pushers Podcast: Show 224 – HTTP2. Its The Biggest (Network) Thing Happening on the Internet Today http://overca.st/P0azG8ow
Skating to where the puck will be only applies when everyone is playing hockey.
Conway’s law (http://www.melconway.com/research/committees.html) suggests that “DevOps” is as much an institutional challenge as a technical one.
RT @katemats: 5 bits of management wisdom from Pixar http://tomtunguz.com/creativity-pixar/
More on DevOps as organizational challenge: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/01/26/why-do-managers-hate-agile/
RT @tyler_treat: If you like distributed systems, you should be following The Morning Paper by @adriancolyer http://blog.acolyer.org
RT @adrianco: .@ewolff Agile, DevOps, Conways Law and Microservices all reinforce each other to speed up product development.
“Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time” http://prsm.tc/25bHfd
People checked their egos at the door...“How Etsy makes Devops work” http://prsm.tc/a5Bkt2
“21 Ways to Be a Better Boss” http://prsm.tc/mIdDYN
RT @architectclippy: I see you have a poorly structured monolith. Would you like me to convert it into a poorly structured set of microserv…
Again, DevOps is about changing organizational behavior: “Red Hat CEO: IT is in fight for its life” http://uk.businessinsider.com/red-hat-ceo-it-is-in-fight-for-its-life-2015-2
Netflix Has an Exchange So Complex That it Has Triggered a Scientific Renaissance http://prsm.tc/bGrp35 via @Prismatic
Acknowledging Conway’s Law via “You Build It, You Run It”: http://www.se-radio.net/2015/02/episode-221-jez-humble-on-continuous-delivery/
RT @aaron_b_johnson: Via @jezhumble Reality: No one has perfect info in a complex world -> failure should lead to inquiry, not blame #DOTGT…
Users Know: Your Job Is Not to Write Code http://usersknow.blogspot.com/2015/02/your-job-is-not-to-write-code.html?utm_source=Software+Lead+Weekly&utm_campaign=d7a5c64604-SWLW_118&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efe3d3cd5b-d7a5c64604-198271125
Great Teams Will Outperform Great People...From “6 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Managing People” http://prsm.tc/74LqNV
RT @jaykreps: Software is mostly human capital (in people’s heads): losing the team is usually worse than losing the code.
“Containers are the new static binaries”: https://platform.sh/blog/containers-are-the-new-static-binaries/ (HT https://twitter.com/highscal)
RT @kstewart: Flaky and poorly executed apps, combined with a lack of clarity around the job to be done, are contributing to the iPad’s lev…
RT @billwscott: Managing people is hard.
However, that is not your job. Lead people, Manage things.
Magically those people will work most…
“The problem, as with most military bureaucracies, was that the system wanted to standardize everything,” http://amzn.com/k/GehJgdrlSJmnaqla0LN1MQ