I've written a guest post over at "agilescout" discussing the evolution of agile and how we need to stop the turf wars between different process variants. Instead, we should place more focus on avoiding sub-optimization by using all agile tools available. Read the full story here: The State Of Agile
Visualizing Small Batch Sizes with Git
I've recently finished reading Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time. Written by John Allspaw and Jesse Robins, by far my favorite chapter was Eric Ries' submission for Chapter 4: Continuous Deployment. One of the graphs in this chapter compellingly portrays Flickr's "release early, release often" mantra. This inspired me to start monitoring my own … Continue reading Visualizing Small Batch Sizes with Git
Three Proven Ways To Enable a DevOps Culture
To deliver customer value rapidly, it's important that developers and operations work together closely. There are certain traits of organizations which make it either harder or simpler for both to collaborate. In this post, I want to show you three examples which make DevOps simpler. Shared Infrastructure Awareness is one of the key factors to … Continue reading Three Proven Ways To Enable a DevOps Culture
Selenium Testing in the Cloud with Sauce Labs
One small comment for Matthias, one giant leap for our testing infrastructure. In my last post about anti-fixes, I expressed my reservations about selenium test automation. Matthias mentioned the companies Sauce Labs and Cloud Testing maintained virtual test server farms so that I wouldn't have to. Here's why Sauce Labs made my choice super easy: … Continue reading Selenium Testing in the Cloud with Sauce Labs
Bugfixes without Tests are Anti-fixes
We all make mistakes. But how we go about redressing those mistakes tells a lot about our personality, both our strengths as well as our shortcomings. Bugs are a natural part of software development. Testing not so much. I attribute this to, among other things, general developer laziness and the constant pressure of 'Getting Things … Continue reading Bugfixes without Tests are Anti-fixes
Resque: Email Notifications On Failed Jobs
I'm currently using Github's resque, a Redis backed Ruby library for creating and running asynchronous and scheduled jobs. As we're running business critical jobs with the resque scheduler plugin, I really want to know via email if a job fails. In this post I want to share my solution for making resque send emails on … Continue reading Resque: Email Notifications On Failed Jobs
Update: LogicMonitor Internals
After using LogicMonitor for almost two months now I've become quite comfortable with it's interface and very secure with it's monitoring. I've been asked by a few folks for some of the more technical details on it's operation which I'll share with you here. Installation and Operation A tarball called agent-linux.tar.gz is available for download … Continue reading Update: LogicMonitor Internals
PivotalTracker: The Simple Steps To Start a New Project
PivotalTracker is a great tool for organizing your work. No matter whether you work mainly in software development, operations, or in a shared DevOps environment, PivotalTracker keeps you up to the task. Over the last couple of years using it, we've seen some patterns for setting up projects and organizing stories with tags. Start And … Continue reading PivotalTracker: The Simple Steps To Start a New Project
Chef: RVM + Ruby Enterprise Edition as Default Ruby
The opscode chef bootstrap installs Matz Ruby on the node automatically. There are cookbooks for installing ruby enterprise edition on a node, but they create a separate Ruby "universe" on your box: You will have to be very careful how you install gems to make sure they are used by either the default Ruby or … Continue reading Chef: RVM + Ruby Enterprise Edition as Default Ruby
The 5 Goals Of Agile And DevOps
If you're stuck with someone in an elevator and have only a few seconds to explain why introducing agile Methodolgies and DevOps is a good idea, these five goals might help you: Agile Elevator Pitch 1. less code 2. less dependencies 3. less bugs and problems 4. less wait times 5. more value If you … Continue reading The 5 Goals Of Agile And DevOps
