Helping web developers and operations bridge the deployment gap
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Writing software that doesn’t suck is hard – even for the pros. The problem doesn’t lie in solving a hard problem, but in creating a solution which is easy to understand, robust, and easy to change.
A lot of problems in teams and organizations stem from bad code. Bad code ruins the motivation of your team, [...]
DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between agile software development and operations. The DevOps tribe is a growing group of people practicing a new way of combining development and system administration for more speed, quality, revenues, and fun.
One finding from our survey was that a lot of you want to read more about agile basics. As most of you haven’t followed Agile Web Operations since Day One, here’s a list of the top three posts about agile and kanban:
For nearly two years Dan and I have shared our experiences and ideas about agile development and system administration. With every post we hoped to be helpful, and maybe some of them even were…
Now, as we approach 500 subscribers, we would like to ask you, our dear readers, how we could help you to become [...]
Jeff Patton’s talk at agile 2009 about Pragmatic Personas is quite interesting. I’ve seen talks about personas way back at agile 2007 already, but, at that time, I found them quite “bulky” to use. In pragmatic personas I see more value.
When we start optimizing our processes, it happens quite often that we only optimize our area of influence instead of addressing the whole process of creating customer value. When we’re responsible for a software development or an operations team, we tend to optimize the process of our team. We adapt agile practices and our teams [...]
Too often people complain that to become agile they need to start using iterations, fancy story points and time boxes even though it simply does not fit the way they work.
But, that’s not true. Agile is much simpler than that. And much harder. In essence, agile is about fast feedback. But the feedback needs to [...]
Currently, I’m preparing for teaching my next course on Agile Methodology. Again and again, I wonder what is the single most important thing my students should be able to take with them after four full days. One of my core messages is definitely that agile is more about principles than about practices. If you absorb [...]
Today I spent the whole day debugging an elusive concurrency problem in ruby on rails running on JRuby. We start some threads during the web request and, usually sooner than later, all our database connections are blocked.
Getting deep into the details of multithreading, connection pooling and the like is nothing I enjoy doing. Especially not [...]
We’re using PivotalTracker as our agile planning tool. It’s great for maintaining a backlog of prioritized user stories and managing the flow of stories within an iteration. We’re really happy with it. But recently a new requirement came up: How can we manage our bigger features? How can we make sure all the stories we [...]
