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When I started following along the devops movement often times the phrase “delivering value” would appear in conversation. That made me ponder even harder on a question that had haunted me for quite a while already: who, as an ops person, am I delivering value to? There seem to be two obvious recipients: the rest of engineering, primarily application developers, and end users, where in theory the value delivered to the devs is just a proxy [...]
Have you recently changed your job title to include the word devops in it? What were you reasons? Has it given the results you hoped for? It’s been a while since I posted about why devops makes sense in a job title and a few weeks and a few discussions later I have a some thoughts that you might find useful if you decide to go down the same path. If you look at the [...]
It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the other part due to this statement: [The devops list is] mostly folks who are users, developers, and fans of chef, puppet, similar tools. A few folks have a broader sense of operations. (Call me sensitive, but when I queried about management of shell scripts, I got jumped on by [...]
It must have been at least five years ago, when puppet was getting popular, that I first ran into someone terrified of losing his job because of automation. I even wonder if the same happened before when cfengine came out, and history would suggest it probably did. However, what also history suggests is that resourceful and competent engineers will always have a job. The devops movement, as heavily entrenched in automation as it is, seems to have [...]
We’ve been trying to grow our team for a few months now and the title we’re hiring for is Devops Engineer. One of the candidates our recruiters reached out to, let’s call him John, came back to us with a bunch of questions including: How do you feel about hiring someone with a devops title? It’s a very legittimate question, Devops is a cultural and professional movement, so how could it be a job title? [...]
When the term NoOps was coined by Forrester last April it stirred up a lot of controversy online, especially in the DevOps camp, and the $500 price tag didn’t certainly help to drive a good conversation. The discussion has been ongoing since then with no resolution and the on and off fight over twitter and various blogs. What I’m gonna argue is that except for the random troll, everybody is working toward the same goal [...]
GigaOM just published an article titled Why 2013 is the year of ‘NoOps’ for programmers [Infographic] and since my comment doesn’t seem to show up (pending moderation apparently) I decided I might as well just reply on my blog. If you’re in a hurry here’s why that’s just not gonna happen: a PaaS is a wonderful thing that is giving an opportunity to ideas to see the light of the internet when otherwise they might have [...]
Very much last minute, but I’ve just managed to finish and submit my proposal for Devopsdays Goteborg. In the last few years, especially as I grew into devops, I developed a renewed appreciation for communication and company culture. With this proposal I intend to share my experience and the positive results I’ve seen with engineering groups and across organisations when focusing on those aspects besides tooling. Fingers crossed! Title ‘As seen by’ – moving from assumptions to [...]
Two weekends ago I spoke at FOSDEM on the systems and devops track presenting my experience as a sysadmin going all the way to development and back. I’ve put the slides online and embedded them in this post. There should be a video of the talk at some point soonThe video of the talk is now available. Between Q&A and some post-talk conversations I’ve put together a few notes that I wanted to share. I am going M.A.D – [...]
A few weeks ago @damonedwards wrote a blog post titled “DevOps is not a technology problem. DevOps is a business problem” to which I’d like to follow up and ponder upon how there might be a marketing issue that also needs addressing. During Citcon, I took part in a very interesting session called “Overcoming Organisational Defensiveness” that mostly revolved around difficulties that people were having trying to bring Agile techniques to their organization. Someone commented that part of [...]
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Hi, my name is Spike Morelli and this is my thinking lab. Over the past 13 years of career in the tech industry I've been a developer, a system engineer, a devops person, a manager and a startup owner. I've taken the best from each experience and brought it into the next, innovating and focusing on delivering value. I have a passion for sociology and communication, but above all I care about making people happy, it's incredibly rewarding and happy folks do the best work.
Most of us wouldn't have done what we have done if we didn't have people around us to learn from, their experiences is what helped us grow, their passion our fuel. If that's also your experience let's make that circle bigger, reach out to me at fsm@spikelab.org or on twitter