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2024

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #689 - 17th March 2024

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Gamedays as a technique for testing and improving performance and stability, pitfalls with measuring developer productivity, serverless databases, new code e...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #679 - 7th January 2024

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The first newsletter of the year, with posts on the evolution of DAST, the struggles with adopting automated testing and team topologies, as well as technica...

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2023

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #667 - 8th October 2023

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Lots and lots of tools this week, with API and observability platforms and new infrastructure as code tooling. Plus posts on tools facilitating collaboration...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #666 - 1st October 2023

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A bit of an observability and security theme this week, with posts on combining observability with security, threat modelling, incident reviews and open sour...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #660 - 20th August 2023

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Several posts this week on the Terraform licence change, covering the spectrum of opinions. Plus posts on attestation framework, actions from incident manage...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #659 - 13th August 2023

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Distributed systems, incident management and reliability culture, OpenTelemetry, databases and more. A good mix this week of super technical posts and more p...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #657 - 30th July 2023

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SBOM discussion and tooling, platform teams, integration tests for infrastructure as code, service level objectives and more this week. Plus another stalwart...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #656 - 23rd July 2023

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Infrastructure as Code, several posts on platform engineering, the state of APIs, SBOM adoption hurdles, tools and the upcoming Devops Days London event.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #655 - 16th July 2023

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A mix of topics this week, with DevopsDays coverage, a few posts each on both monitoring and Kubernetes, and tools for managing your CLI tools and implementi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #653 - 2nd July 2023

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A super busy week this week, meaning fewer posts. But look out for the All Day Devops CFP opening up, as well as posts on monitoring, webassembly, architectu...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #651 - 18th June 2023

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Event driven architectures, launching new services at scale, designing alerting systems, software supply chain security, release engineering and SQL. A nice ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #649 - 4th June 2023

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Trunk based development, observability cost and cognitive load, advances in web assembly and some interesting policy and security tools posts this week. Enjo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #648 - 28th May 2023

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Fitting into the overall zeitgeist, several AI posts this week. From observations about the challenges with building LLM-backed features, to security conside...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #647 - 21st May 2023

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A good mix of posts, events and tools this week, with datacenter posts and CLI tools for AI, shrinking SaaS budgets for devops tools and some excellent upcom...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #646 - 14th May 2023

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With a few weeks since KubeCon, folks have had time to write up takeaways, so we have a quote a few KubeCon and Kubernetes posts this week. Plus posts on AI-...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #645 - 7th May 2023

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A sad note to start with this week. Carolyn Van Slyck passed away last week. She was a huge part of the Kubernetes community, building interesting software a...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #644 - 30th April 2023

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KubeCon EU a couple of weeks ago means there are several Kubermnetes relates posts this week, along with posts on developer platforms, devops attack surface,...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #643 - 23rd April 2023

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A mix of content this week, from some good posts on managing monitoring infrastructure to tools for maintaining health test suites, provisioning Kubernetes c...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #642 - 16th April 2023

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Several new build tools this week, along with posts on prompt injection attacks on LLMs, load balancing and a CFP for the upcoming devopsdays New York event.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #640 - 2nd April 2023

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Incident reports, cloud spending, buy vs build, reducing error rates, as well as new tools, events and more this week. Just the usual week for busy operation...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #639 - 26th March 2023

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Several incident management posts and tools this week, long with discussion of platform engineering teams, a good sociotechnical systems reading list and tec...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #637 - 12th March 2023

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From the business of engineering to the more technical posts. Cloud spend, platform engineering, service-mesh adoption, the problem with secrets, SBOM wor...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #636 - 5th March 2023

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A mix of posts (on incident management, platform engineering, token exposure and more) and tools (including for working with APIs, building complex service-b...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #627 - 1st January 2023

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Happy new year to all the subscribers, new and old. A bit of a different issue this week. I thought I’d take a look back at some of the most interesting post...

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2022

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #615 - 9th October 2022

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A post on the emergence of platform engineering, which is also handily the topic of the latest State of Devops survey which opens this week. Plus a few monit...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #614 - 2nd October 2022

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Logging formats, operations culture, private cloud and the latest Accelerate State of Devops report, plus tools for supply chain management, managing Git hoo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #609 - 28th August 2022

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Several interesting posts on Installation and packaging of software this week. Building tools for installation and packaging is a common activity for operati...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #608 - 21st August 2022

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Dashboards, performance analysis, circuit breakers, Kubernetes, Terraform and more this week, plus several tools from dependency management to security testi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #607 - 14th August 2022

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Several long reads this week, and several posts with a bit of historical context; on Java, devops and CI services. Some excellent posts too on practical oper...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #606 - 7th August 2022

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Incident management, Kubernetes developer tools, organising development teams, multi-cloud adoption and more this week. A good mix of technical and wider top...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #604 - 24th July 2022

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Lots of topics this week, from technology learning materials to DNS, and formal methods to alert design, plus several azure infrastructure management tools.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #602 - 17th July 2022

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A classic week where I wonder if there were enough interesting posts, before diving into a wealth of interesting content. Operations, explaining SRE to manag...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #602 - 10th July 2022

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A bit of a theme this week of developer experience, with posts, talks and tools focused on developers as users, including for internal tools common in operat...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #600 - 26th June 2022

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Welcome to the 600th issue of this newsletter! That’s certainly a strange thing to write, nearly 12 years of sharing posts and tools on the evolving world of...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #599 - 19th June 2022

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Lots of tools this week, from Linux distributions specifically for Kubernetes to tools for deploying in air-gapped environments. Plus posts on reliability en...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #598 - 12th June 2022

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Supply chain security, infrastructure automation, local vs remote development environments and several new Kubernetes networking tools in this weeks issue.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #597 - 5th June 2022

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A short issue this week, with posts on Incident response, learning operations, managing configuration, evolving altering systems and a few interesting tools.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #596 - 29th May 2022

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Incident management, several posts on kubernetes technology choices, writing Rego and KubeCon this week, plus the launch of the latest Accelerate State of De...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #595 - 22nd May 2022

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Something for everyone this week, with risk management, security maturity models and incident management posts on the business side, plus GitOps, GitBOM and ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #594 - 15th May 2022

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Observability and user-friendly git signing tools, plus useful principles for data migrations, configuration management and more this week. Enjoy KubeCon EU ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #593 - 8th May 2022

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The rise of very public, in-depth, high-profile incident reports in the last few years is definitely of benefit to the art of systems administration. Atlassi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #592 - 1st May 2022

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A few posts this week on aspects of building modern operations teams, one focused on observability teams, and the other on building an SRE team in a hypergro...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #591 - 24th April 2022

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Observability, DORA metrics, automating SLO management, setting policies for Git repos and more. We’re also starting to see the return of events, with WTF is...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #590 - 17th April 2022

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Several security themed posts this week, from OpenID Connect enabled CD pipelines to security architecture and vulnerability disclosure to WAF. Plus good sys...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #589 - 10th April 2022

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Three posts on building reliable (people and technical) systems at scale, incident response processes and platform engineering this week that all feel like m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #588 - 3rd April 2022

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Doubling up on posts on both technology choice and backups this week, as well as lots of new and interesting tools covering everything from CI/CD and SSH ser...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #587 - 27th March 2022

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Several in-depth posts this week on crunch operations topics, including metrics for incident response, SLOs and SLIs and the idea that you build it, you run ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #586 - 20th March 2022

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Recent improvements to the venerable sudo as well as posts on retry logic, monitoring monitoring systems GitOps and a few other interesting topics this week.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #576 - 9th January 2022

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Posts on everything from secure supply chain, performance testing and reliable systems design to conversational architecture and team organisation. A good ra...

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2021

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #557 - 29th August 2021

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Internet fundamentals, survey of cloud usages, production outstage stories, instumenting build processes and more solid devops and operations content this we...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #555 - 15th August 2021

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Software packaging has been one of the constant topics in devops circles over the last 10 years, it’s one of the topics that drew me to the community back in...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #554 - 8th August 2021

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Posts this week on monitoring (with posts on scaling Prometheus and the relationship between testing and observability), Docker usage tips, modern Unix tools...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #553 - 1st August 2021

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Reports on devops and cloud trends and papers on developer productivity this week, along with posts on SRE for microservices and everyone’s favourite topic, ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #552 - 25th July 2021

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A set of posts on Devops transformation, SRE and Kubernetes tools and practices this week. Congrats to everyone involved in the 10th year of the State of Dev...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #551 - 18th July 2021

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Lots of observability posts this week, from introductions to instrumentation to consideration for data engineering. Plus software bill of material standards,...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #550 - 11th July 2021

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WebAssembly, Kubernetes and Serverless posts today. I think increasingly we’ll see the three combined in interesting ways as well as some folks position them...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #548 - 27th June 2021

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A couple of posts looking at the Twelve Factor App and back at the ensuring influence of Heroku. Also several Kubernetes policy-related posts featuring Open ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #547 - 20th June 2021

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Several posts this week regarding incident management, from the risks of counting incidents to incident management frameworks, as well as great hardening exe...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #546 - 13th June 2021

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Asset management and tips for moving into information security, as well reducing cloud network transfer costs and tips for Prometheus, JVM and PostgreSQL use...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #545 - 6th June 2021

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Health on-call culture, usable monitoring dashboards, AWS security boundaries, technical posts on ProtoBuf performance, container build toolchains and more.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #544 - 30th May 2021

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The growing cost of cloud services, on-demand staging environments, defining SLOs in code, data sharing and several other topics this week across the devops ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #543 - 23rd May 2021

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Several posts this week on Kubernetes operations, from debugging running pods to scheduling and from migrating to Kubernetes at scale to service mesh complex...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #540 - 2nd May 2021

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Cost efficiency, runbooks, using games to build teams, logging services, secrets management and more. Lots of core operations topics this week. Plus the retu...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #539 - 25th April 2021

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It feels like we’re at the time of year where interesting events are starting to crop up. DevX Conf and Failover Conf mentioned below coming up this week def...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #538 - 18th April 2021

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Several good technology and tools posts this week, including on SQLite, Vault, Spring Boot, Cloud Run, Cosign, Telepresence, open policy agent, containerd an...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #537 - 11th April 2021

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A few specific, practical posts this week on container image tags and getting started with CINC Auditor. Plus discussion of the relevance of operating system...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #535 - 28th March 2021

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Operations and compliance, a few posts on helping to justify investment, and see the results of, improvements to your CI and CD pipelines, collected Kubernet...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #534 - 21st March 2021

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I was lucky enough to be around the nascent devops community early on, hence the long running nature of this newsletter. Another ever-present has been the St...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #532 - 7th March 2021

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Some great longer reads this week on cloud migration, architecture and security engineering teams working more closely with development organisations. Plus s...

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2020

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #510 - 4th October 2020

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Lots of higher level content this week, from service registries to open source compliance policies and dealing with least privilege to attribute based access...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #505 - 30th August 2020

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Some good content on how we think about operations this week, with posts on legacy IT systems, problems with platform teams, SRE in different types of organi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #504 - 23th August 2020

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Some solid ops content this week, on the changing role of operations, NAT networking, tagging cloud resources, logging, testing infrastructure as code, and m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #503 - 16th August 2020

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I always like seeing what themes emerge from the week’s content. This week several posts on networking, query languages and the similarities and differences ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #502 - 9th August 2020

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Lots of interesting tools this week, include a new container runtime and a new Envoy-based service mesh. Also posts covering anti-patterns for digital transf...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #501 - 2nd August 2020

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Lots of high-level content this week. Digital transformation, building platforms for adoption, domain driven design, cloud centres of excellence. Plus seccom...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #500 - 26th July 2020

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I sent the first issue of Devops Weekly on the 30th of November 2010. I definitely didn’t think for a minute that nearly 10 years later I’d be sending the 50...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #498 - 12th July 2020

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A collection of networking posts this week, from load balancers to understanding Kubernetes networking to kernel networking. Plus posts on monitoring and con...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #497 - 5th July 2020

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A wide mix of posts this week, from academic papers, reference architectures for Serverless, embracing policy controls in the development process, chaos engi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #496 - 28th June 2020

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This issue I’d like to welcome the new sponsor for Devops Weekly, env0. env0 are doing some interesting things with providing self-service environments for d...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #495 - 21st June 2020

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A wide range of content this week, from adopting continuous delivery at scale to different roles, several posts on automation around pull requests and discus...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #494 - 14th June 2020

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Lots of posts this week on common challenges for growing teams and organisations. Test speed, monorepo performance, strategy patterns, data platform migratio...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #493 - 7th June 2020

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Some very topical posts this week. Plus the more usual content; Intel/ARM performance comparisons, chaos engineering meets security and several interesting K...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #491 - 24th May 2020

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Build pipeline optimisation, serverless application design, using PostgreSQL for analysis, infrastructure as code and tried and trusted linux command line t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #489 - 10th May 2020

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Posts this week covering the emergence of platform teams, journald, AWS and a writeup from a devops conference held on a virtual island populated by animals.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #487 - 26th April 2020

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A broad range of ops topics this week, from the new (chaos engineering, cloud cost management) to the old (security, database operations, branch strategies).

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #485 - 12th April 2020

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A few good case studies this week, along with articles on project governance, understanding how third parties are using your Puppet modules, AWS container b...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #484 - 5th April 2020

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Cloud management tagging tips, deployment and serverless case studies, databases, an interesting attack matrix and several new Kubernetes management tools th...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #482 - 22nd March 2020

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Odd sending a technical newsletter at times like these, but on balance it’s nice to have something to read and new tools to experiment with. Several architec...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #480 - 8th March 2020

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CI pipeline optimisations, platforms and platform teams and posts and tools around using general purpose programming languages for authoring configuration. L...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #479 - 1st March 2020

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Several security posts this week following on from RSA, as well as posts on extending Kubernetes, using production analytics to ensure safe rollouts of compl...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #471 - 5th January 2020

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A new year and lots of posts on continuous delivery and operational resilience this week. If anyone has any 2020 prediction posts, or posts looking back on 2...

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2019

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #452 - 25th August 2019

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Product teams in operations, delving into the technical details of API gateways and linux capabilities, databases, DNS and new shells, Kubernetes build and d...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #451 - 18th August 2019

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Posts on policy, serverless architecture, the challenges of monitoring Python applications and several posts on tools for developing with Kubernetes this wee...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #450 - 11th August 2019

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Quite a few technical posts this week, with several on new developer or integration tools around Kubernetes. Alongside those we have content on learning, sha...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #449 - 4th August 2019

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A wide range of posts this week, on logging, robust systems, observations about recent security compromises, devops and machine learning, Kubernetes develope...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #446 - 14th July 2019

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A busy week so a relatively short issue today. Some detailed posts on scaling graphite and setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Helm charts and several posts on p...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #445 - 7th July 2019

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For some reason this issue is nearly all about monitoring. Lots of slides, videos and notes from the recent Monitorama event but also several blog posts look...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #444 - 30th June 2019

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Several posts this week on observability and monitoring, along with posts on configuration management, local development environments, threat modelling and m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #443 - 23rd June 2019

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Interesting posts this week on what causes service outages, visualising cloud infrastructure, operational concerns with service mesh, how to think about serv...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #442 - 16th June 2019

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This week we have posts covering serverless operations, Kubernetes failure stories to learn from, discussions of how to make the argument for investing in te...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #441 - 9th June 2019

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Infrastructure as code, service level objectives, the importance of local development environments as well as new tools for exploring cloud-based infrastruct...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #440 - 2nd June 2019

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Starting off with several solid practical posts this week, with advice on adopting CI/CD, secure system design, and embracing sustainable operations practice...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #439 - 26th May 2019

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Some content this week from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. But lots of content from outside the Kubernetes space as well with posts on the need for a new securi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #438 - 19th May 2019

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It’s the week of KubeCon EU in Barcelona, if you happen to be heading along do say Hi. If not, I’ll try and collect as many links from the event as possible ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #437 - 12th May 2019

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A later than usual issue this week due to some travel shenanigans. But lots of content this week on everything from modern architecture patterns, securing da...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #436 - 5th May 2019

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Config management, continuous delivery, managing monorepos, integration testing, deployment strategies and incident management tools. Lots of interesting con...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #434 - 21st April 2019

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A bunch of experience reports this week, including around Fargate, Kubernetes, embracing production failure and envoy. Also a great series of posts on inform...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #433 - 14th April 2019

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A discussion of a method for managing on-call, common challenges adopting chaos engineering, advice for adopting new technology and practices and several goo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #431 - 31st March 2019

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I think this is the first Devops Weekly issue to feature a choose your own adventure game. If you’ve ever been on call, or have teams going on call for the f...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #430 - 24th March 2019

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Configuration formats, data pipeline design, local development environments, getting started with serverless and several posts on managing multi-user Kuberne...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #428 - 10th March 2019

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Lots of tools this week, and only a few posts, plus a few slide decks from last weeks QCon event in London. I’ve spotted lots of conversations recently about...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #427 - 3rd March 2019

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Some good long reads this week, on everything from counter arguments to SRE practices, a few posts on successfully adopting devops and cloud practices in lar...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #419 - 6th January 2019

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Kicking off the new year with a matching set of posts for and against using monorepos for storing your source code. I always like seeing pros and cons discus...

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2018

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #406 - 7th October 2018

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Some good posts on the act of operations this week, from discussion of SRE to more details posts on service-level objectives, physical security and observabi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #400 - 26th August 2018

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Serverless and data centre posts this week, along with discussions of the importance of software release processes, modern cloud forensic tools, configuratio...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #399 - 17th August 2018

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Everything from the challenges of running stateful workloads on Kubernetes to tools for managing Kafka, via the problem with healthchecks and discussion of I...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #396 - 29th July 2018

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A few posts this week this an academic flavour; a survey looking into continuous integration practices and a collection of papers and research around resilie...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #394 - 15th July 2018

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A fairly packed issue this week, with everything from moving back to monolithic applications, why tickets are the wrong way to manage IT operations, examples...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #393 - 8th July 2018

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Some great posts this week on important topics, including the economics of serverless, management in organisations adopting devops, and the importance and ri...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #392 - 1st July 2018

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Several security posts this week, along with a few Windows posts too. Plus how Devops and Cloud Native relate to each other, a look at Helm 3 and more.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #391 - 24th June 2018

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A few good case studies of adopting modern infrastructure and devops practices this week, along with a couple of posts on the evolution of local development ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #390 - 17th June 2018

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A fair bit of Docker content this week, mainly with it being DockerCon rather than because I happen to work there hopefully. But some other good posts on the...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #389 - 10th June 2018

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A bit of a theme of practical container posts this week, with posts on Kubernetes as a cloud-migration strategy, tips for building Docker images and database...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #388 - 3rd June 2018

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Several service management posts this week, as well as some useful advice on securing all those automation management tools we’re adopting. Several good tech...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #387 - 27th May 2018

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A range of content this week on cost-reduction for Kubernetes clusters, devops influenced software development lifecycle, some devops history, testing server...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #386 - 20th May 2018

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Lots of practical posts this week on security, observability, tips for building Docker images, an interesting serverless experience report and the importance...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #385 - 13th May 2018

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The State of Devops survey is back for another year and I hope everyone can make some time to take it. The data, and resulting analysis, is of huge value to ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #384 - 6th May 2018

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Lots of tools links this week, including entire new programming languages and a new polyglot VM. It’s clear the evolution of the practice of operations is ha...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #383 - 29th April 2018

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I’ll be heading to KubeCon EU in Copenhagen next week and hopefully see a few readers there. I’ll try collect details on announcements and interesting talks ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #381 - 15th April 2018

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Some good posts on the basics this week, including continuous integration, technical debt and monitoring. Plus several posts on how Kubernetes integrates wit...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #380 - 8th April 2018

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Posts on several core practices of continuous delivery this week, from not branching to feature flags to how to manage database migrations. Also several post...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #379 - 1st April 2018

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Running the gamut of topics this week with some great posts on technical support, centralising traditional operations tasks, deployment tooling, the importan...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #378 - 25th March 2018

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Some posts this week on classic ops problems; like database migrations and runbooks - as well as some discussions of modern development workflows using conta...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #377 - 18th March 2018

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A range of posts this week, with everything from tips for choosing tools which which support teamwork to stories of successful network migrations and several...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #376 - 11th March 2018

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Lots of tools this week (for deployment, managing functions as a service and conducting an open source license audit), as well as a mix of posts on canary de...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #375 - 4th March 2018

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Application deployment, and building abstractions for developers managing applications, appears to be a theme at the moment - with several related posts this...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #371 - 4th February 2018

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A little late sending the newsletter this weekend as it’s the yearly visit to FOSDEM and Configuration Management in Brussels and Gent. Hopefully I’ll gather...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #367 - 7th January 2018

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One week into 2018 and we have the first big security issues with Spectre and Meltdown. A big shout out to the kernel engineers and others working to mitigat...

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2017

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #354 - 8th October 2017

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Several posts this week with content from workshops, classes and training sessions. I know just how much effort it takes to put together high-quality learnin...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #353 - 1st October 2017

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Documentation, application firewalls, container automation, platform as a service, securing email and more this week. Something of a smorgasbord. Just a note...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #348 - 27th August 2017

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Interesting post this week about why devops practices appear to be catching on in the real world, along with academic research into post-incident reviews and...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #347 - 20th August 2017

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Several good posts with real-world tips on operating microservices and containers this week, along with discussions of provisioning and deployment tools and ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #346 - 13th August 2017

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Some solid advanced topics this week, with in-depth articles on packaging, code repository organisation and observability, and a discussion of immutable infr...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #345 - 6th August 2017

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Several people at the moment are writing great posts codifying the process and techniques that have emerged over the past several years. This week we have gr...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #344 - 30th July 2017

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Posts about the future of operation, the changing role of team leads in organisations adopting devops and lots of technical posts about debugging performance...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #343 - 23rd July 2017

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Filesystems, change management, serverless and operations and lots of new container tooling to experiment with. Hopefully something for everyone this week.

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #342 - 16th July 2017

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A couple of posts from either end of the devops spectrum I feel this week. On one hand a detailed look at writing a business-focused business case for adopti...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #341 - 9th July 2017

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Everything from architectural patterns to Serverless, via linux tracing tools, thoughts about the future of linux distributions, a great reading list for man...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #340 - 2nd July 2017

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A fairly technology heavy issue this week, with discussion of tools to support on-call scheduling, load testing, Kubernetes management and interesting contai...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #339 - 25th June 2017

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Lots of container tools this week, along with a solid set of posts on everything from the advantages of on-call to a few stories of tuning a search index and...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #338 - 18th June 2017

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A bumper issue this week. After more than 6 years of sending Devops Weekly it’s still impressive to me just how much interesting content is published every w...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #337 - 11th June 2017

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Lots of differently presented posts this week, with a mix of rich diagrams, infographics, code examples and even illustrations to explain complex topics. Som...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #336 - 4th June 2017

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Two interesting posts this week on the art of cost control in cloud environments. This is particularly interesting coming from large organisations with lots ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #335 - 28th May 2017

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From big-picture views of containers and networking, to interesting new tools, views on the evils of feature branching and experience reports of using var...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #334 - 21st May 2017

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Lots of high-level posts this week, on trust in lean and devops, internal memos about digital transformation and the importance of asking why when it comes t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #333 - 14th May 2017

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A packed issue this week with everything from security to software asset management and thoughts on testing to problems with how we monitor our systems. Hope...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #332 - 7th May 2017

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Lots of talk of multi-cloud and lock-in this week it seemed, although mainly coming from proponents of certain technologies. Some interesting architecture po...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #331 - 30th April 2017

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Lots of content around Serverless this week, mainly coming from the excellent ServerlessConf held last week in Austin. Along with that some good posts on dig...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #328 - 9th April 2017

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More operations content this week, with great posts on the importance of documentation, practical points about the four pillars of devops, what developers ca...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #327 - 2nd April 2017

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Whether you consider yourself to work in IT, Digital, software development, security or some other job flavour, the variety of organisations interested in an...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #326 - 26th March 2017

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Thanks to the organisers of Pipeline and Scale Summit this week, both small events I was lucky enough to attend in London. Both excellent events with a focus...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #325 - 19th March 2017

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A bunch of container and cloud related posts and tools this week, along with some tips for anyone involved with Devops transformation efforts or organising m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #324 - 12th March 2017

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A bit of a theme around the use of cloud infrastructure this week, with several opinions on design considerations in light of outages, the use of serverless ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #318 - 29th January 2017

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It’s just about the end of January, which means it’s time for FOSDEM and Configuration Management Camp in Belgium. If anyone else is going to be along do say...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #315 - 8th January 2017

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A bit of a bumper issue this week if I do say so myself. Lots of individual blog posts, videos from the excellent LISA16 conference, some interesting new too...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #314 - 1st January 2017

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Happy new year everyone. A big thank you to all the people who read Devops Weekly, everyone who built or wrote something I included in the newsletter last ye...

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2016

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #302 - 9th October 2016

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Shameless plug. I’m giving a talk at the upcoming PuppetConf event in San Diego at the end of the month, all about Puppet testing practices. If you’re a Pupp...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #301 - 2nd October 2016

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A quick shout-out to all the people who send me links for the newsletter. Devops as a topic is very wide ranging and there is always more interesting content...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #296 - 28th August 2016

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I’ll be in Amsterdam next week for Software Circus - a conference on all things cloud native. The conference is now free too, so if you happen to be in the a...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #295 - 21st August 2016

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A slightly quiet issue this week as I’ve been on holiday. But still lots of great content on everything from packaging to highly-available database clusters ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #294 - 14th August 2016

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Everything from command line user interface design to platform-driven reorganisations and discussion of approaches to cloud adoption to talk of the benefits ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #293 - 7th August 2016

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As with most issues of the newsletter I’ve included a few links to new tools. I always appreciate it when along with the tool itself I find a blog post expla...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #291 - 24th July 2016

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A number of articles this week about devops in more traditional IT organisations. As time goes by It feels like devops is no-longer as strongly aligned with ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #290 - 17th July 2016

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Hopefully something for everyone this week, or lots for people interested in everything. From serverless and function-as-a-service tools and discussions to t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #289 - 10th July 2016

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A mixture of content on container and microservices, TLS, practical soft skills for developers and operators and 3 whole days of video from Monitorama. Hopef...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #288 - 3rd July 2016

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It was great to make it to Devops Enterprise Summit this last week in London. This newsletter focuses on blog posts, conference talks and tools - which propo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #287 - 26th June 2016

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This issue might be a bit heavy on content from Velocity and DockerCon, but luckily both events were excellent and contained lots of great talks. Normal serv...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #286 - 19th June 2016

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Devops weekly is on US time for the next few issues as I’m out in Seattle for DockerCon and then onto Santa Clara for Velocity and Devops Days. If you’re aro...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #285 - 12th June 2016

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Monitoring is one of those recurring topics for Devops Weekly, so I’m hugely happy to see the new book The Art of Monitoring is now available. https://www.ar...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #284 - 5th June 2016

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The usual wide range of devops related content this week - distributed systems to remembering devops isn’t about change for it’s own sake, the meaning of ope...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #283 - 29th May 2016

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Serverlessconf kicked off a bunch of interesting conversations on the internet this week about the serverless architectural style. I just wanted to say thank...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #282 - 22nd May 2016

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Lots of interesting and varied tools this week, including novel or new approaches to well trod problems in the way of a new reverse proxy and load balancer i...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #281 - 15th May 2016

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Lots for those of us interested in the culture and organisational change side of devops this week. An excellent essay on sharing, an article on what CAP theo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #280 - 8th May 2016

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A pretty wide range of content this week; from in depth posts about how syscalls work to tips on how to embrace a security-minded culture, and from container...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #278 - 24th April 2016

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Devopsdays London this week was a great event, in many ways it felt like Devopsdays Enterprise. The audience of people from banks, financial services as well...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #277 - 17th April 2016

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Several stories of running data storage technologies this week from the venerable MySQL to the cutting edge Kafka. Lots of hard earned wisdom in tales of how...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #276 - 10th April 2016

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A few posts this week reminded me about the power of screenshots, especially when talking about the internal tooling many organisations build when integratin...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #275 - 3rd April 2016

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A bit of a change this week, Devops Weekly has a new sponsor! After talking with several interesting companies over the past month I’m happy to announce Vict...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #274 - 27th March 2016

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This is the first issue of this newsletter to go to more than 20,000 subscribers. Which is pretty amazing if you ask me. Thanks to everyone who sends me inte...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #273 - 20th March 2016

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One of the interesting things for me over the last 5+ years of observing the devops community is their are always more related groups getting involved. The f...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #271 - 6th March 2016

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A pretty packed issue this week with some great longform pieces on deployment, metrics visualisation and the evolution of container management as well as int...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #261 - 3rd January 2015

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The first issue of 2016 sees a range of posts from new tools to new arguments for working more closely together. It being January also means we’re only weeks...

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2015

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #248 - 4th October 2015

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I’m flying out to Portland for PuppetConf next week. Anyone who’s going to be there do come and say Hi. AWS re:Invent is also next week so if anyone is atten...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #243 - 30th August 2015

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One of the interesting things with being around the devops community for a bunch of years is watching and listening as common practices and themes emerge. Se...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #242 - 23rd August 2015

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A whole mix of content this week with lots of tools and technical posts mixed with some interesting observations from reading postmortems, the start of a boo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #241 - 16th August 2015

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A packed issue this week, with lots of news, events, jobs and tools - something for everyone hopefully. I’m also noticing that I’m starting to include more c...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #240 - 9th August 2015

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Results from one survey (The Monitoring Survey 2015) and a request to complete another one (Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations) this week. It’s great...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #239 - 2nd August 2015

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A fairly operations heavy issue with this, with discussions of software in production, monitoring, configuration management, system packaging and a few tools...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #238 - 26th July 2015

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With the Open Container Project, and now the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it’s interesting to see a move towards shared ownership, and the potential fo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #237 - 19th July 2015

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Back on UK time this week so lots more content this week, across the usual wide range of topics. I’ve definitely been including less tools recently I’ve noti...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #236 - 12th July 2015

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The Monitoring Survey 2015 closes at the end of this week. If you’ve not already taken it you should definitely head over to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #235 - 5th July 2015

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I’m really looking forward to the Operability conference (mentioned below) later in the year as it promises to mix new and emerging tech with talks about act...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #234 - 28th June 2015

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Apologies for the late arrival this week and the slightly abbreviated content. Travel and a bunch of other things caught up with me this week but hopefully t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #233 - 21st June 2015

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With monitorama on this last week I have lots of monitoring content this week, including some interesting presentations, a few tools and a reminder to fill o...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #232 - 14th June 2015

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The issue next week will likely be a little later that usual as I’m out in SF for Dockercon. If anyone is going to be around let me know, would be good to me...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #231 - 7th June 2015

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Lots of good content this week on ITSM, security, containers, SSDs and more. Interesting thinking back to the early issues of this newsletter more than 4 yea...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #230 - 31st May 2015

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A bit of a monitoring/performance/security feel this week - mainly due to Velocity conference this last week and partly as I’m heading to Infosecurity Europe...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #229 - 24th May 2015

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One topic that comes up regularly in this newsletter, including in this issue, is testing infrastructure. I’m doing a bit of research so if you’re written an...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #228 - 17th May 2015

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The first three posts this week are all about the broad impacts of the devops movement and adopting related practices. The community definitely keeps growing...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #227 - 10th May 2015

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The first post this week is all about leadership, mentoring and team building - all hugely important aspects of embracing devops practices and culture. I’d l...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #226 - 3rd May 2015

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Performance and monitoring, agile working practices, containers, configuration management, networks, security and compliance. Hopefully something for everyon...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #225 - 26th April 2015

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A slightly shorter newsletter this week more to do with me being busy that anything else. If anyone was at Craft in Budapest or at the Open Source Data Centr...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #224 - 19th April 2015

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One thing that has made putting together this newsletter relatively easy is just how open the community is, from Google publishing the Borg paper this week t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #223 - 12th April 2015

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A packed issue this week with a scattering of presentations, examples of people adopting systems like Mesos and CoreOS, discussion of the changing role of th...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #222 - 5th April 2015

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A pretty packed issue this week, if there is a theme it would be balancing adopting new technologies against tried and trusted approaches: with a few practic...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #221 - 29th March 2015

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I was lucky enough to attend the latest Scale Summit event in London last week and had lots of good conversations about all things infrastructure. Thanks to ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #220 - 22nd March 2015

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Doing the newsletter every week means that themes definitely emerge for some issues depending on what I’ve been reading that week. This week that means lots ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #219 - 15th March 2015

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I’m constantly amazed at how the Devops Days events keep on growing. A quick look shows 9 events in the next 4 months, that’s more events that in 2011 or 201...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #218 - 8th March 2015

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Conference season is obviously in full swing as I’ve found lots of presentations this week on topics from the future of operating systems to several looking ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #217 - 1st March 2015

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I don’t tend to include links into the intro very often, but this one everyone should read. http://itrevolution.com/karojisatsu/. Burnout is a serious issue...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #209 - 4th January 2015

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The first issue of 2015 means we’re only a month away from FOSDEM and Configuration Management Camp in Belgium. If you’re going to be at either let me know.

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2014

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #199 - 26th October 2014

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I’m writing this on from the train, on the way to Belgium for the 5th Anniversary of Devopsdays. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there. For anyone who can’t m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #196 - 5th October 2014

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I talked at PupppetConf about how I think we’re still edging slowly towards infrastructure as code. A few of the links before point in that direction, with a...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #191 - 31st August 2014

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Just a reminder that I’ll be in Portland for next weeks issue, so the newsletter will be arriving about 8 hours later that usual. Don’t panic. Also if you’re...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #190 - 24th August 2014

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I’ve been on holiday this week so it’s a relatively short issue, but lots of interesting bits and pieces to read. Next Sunday is another attempt to write the...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #189 - 17th August 2014

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Seeing the speakers being announced for the The DevOps Enterprise Summit makes me realise just how much interest there is in the approaches, philosophy and t...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #188 - 10th August 2014

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I think the reason I still look forward to putting together this newsletter each week is the variety, I do hope everyone else feels the same. This week we ha...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #187 - 3rd August 2014

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Today’s issue is a little later than usual as I’ve been on holiday for a few days. Lots to catch up on, with lots of detailed posts about peoples individual ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #186 - 27th July 2014

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Lots of tools this week, from infrastructure testing and development environments to log file parsing and monitoring dashboards. I’ve also included an academ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #185 - 20th July 2014

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Some big personal news from me this week. After 3 years working for the UK government I’m leaving to work for Puppet Labs out of London from September. With ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #184 - 13th July 2014

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One blog post and a few tools this week confirming something I’ve been seeing too; traditional networking is definitely becoming more interesting to the devo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #183 - 6th July 2014

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Two of the featured tools this week (Puppet Explorer and Tesera) reminded me just how far we’ve come in only a few years with really nice looking user interf...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #182 - 29th June 2014

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I’m writing this quickly from San Jose airport before flying back to the UK, which is why most people will be receiving this issue 8 hours or so later that u...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #181 - 22nd June 2014

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A relatively short issue this week as I’m writing this in the airport before flying out to Santa Clara for Velocity and Devopsdays. Which should mean lots of...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #180 - 15th June 2014

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Lots of docker shaped content this week after the fantastic looking DockerCon finished a few days ago. Next weeks issue may be a day or so late as I’m travel...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #179 - 8th June 2014

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A couple of Devopsdays related posts this week made me head over to the Devopsdays site to see just how many events are happening. The map currently has 11, ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #178 - 1st June 2014

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I occasionally get emails asking how to get something featured in Devops Weekly. It comes down to two things, either I find useful content or tools while I’m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #177 - 25th May 2014

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Some weeks I spot a definite topic that links many of the posts and tools together. This week’s content is all over the place; human computer interaction, en...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #176 - 18th May 2014

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Scaling continuous integration infrastructure, the release engineering disciple and challenges and solutions for devops adoption in the Enterprise. Lots of g...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #175 - 11th May 2014

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A pretty packed issue this week, mainly due to all the excellent content from the recent Monitorama conference in Portland. As well as lots of monitoring we’...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #174 - 4th May 2014

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The sheer variety of interesting content under the devops banner is still what keeps me putting together this email every week. Case in point, this week I fo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #173 - 27th April 2014

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I’ve spent the last week on holiday in the lovely city of Budapest and at the Craft conference on software craftsmanship. Once the videos start coming out I’...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #172 - 20th April 2014

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Lots of content from this ChefConf this week, along with a nice run of posts about why having developers focus on customers is probably a good idea, even if ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #171 - 13th April 2014

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This issue of Devops Weekly is dedicated to everyone who spent a good portion of their week resolving issues arising from the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. I’m gue...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #170 - 6th April 2014

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Definitely the first issue of devops weekly where the first three news items are Windows related. At the recent Build conference it looks like Microsoft is m...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #169 - 30th March 2014

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Lots of tools this week compared to the past few weeks, and two events that nicely sum up the growth of the devops community. On one hand we have the interna...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #168 - 23rd March 2014

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Lots of talk of testing and of organisation design at the moment in the devops community, at least based on posts I read this week. Also I’m seeing more peop...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #167 - 16th March 2014

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Lots of pretty in-depth discussions about configuration management, or at least configuration management tooling, this week. Lots of differing opinions, soli...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #166 - 9th March 2014

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Lots of real world stories this week, including details of money and people and organisational structure. The devops community suddenly feels like it’s more ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #165 - 2nd March 2014

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Devops weekly now has more than 10,000 subscribers. Given that when I started this newsletter 3 years ago probably only hundreds of people had even heard the...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #161 - 2nd February 2014

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I’m writing today’s newsletter live from FOSDEM which has been the usual mix of interesting talks and interesting people. I’m then heading off to Configurati...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #157 - 5th January 2014

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Lots of content this week as everyone seems to have spent at least some of the time over the holidays hacking on tools or writing blog posts. Anyone thinking...

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2013

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #144 - 6th October 2013

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I only included one tool link last week, but I’ve found five this week from handy utilities to entire applications or core infrastructure. One thing I still ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #138 - 26th August 2013

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Apologies for the delay in sending this weeks Devops Weekly. I spent most of Sunday on a flight back from PuppetConf and decided to leave the newsletter unti...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #137 - 18th August 2013

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I’m in San Francisco this coming week for PuppetConf. If anyone is around and wants to meetup let me know at @garethr on Twitter. If I’ve got the timing righ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #136 - 11th August 2013

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Lots of content relevant to people working in large organisations this week. From risk management theatre to how to work devops into an ITIL minded organisat...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #135 - 4th August 2013

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A bunch of interesting technology posts and tutorials this week along with a scattering of process and business content. In the tools section Minion (from Mo...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #134 - 28th July 2013

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A few good talks about deployment this week, as well as a scattering of security discussion, a deep dive into some hardware and more details about PuppetConf...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #133 - 21st July 2013

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It’s interesting to see ecosystems emerge around certain tools. Both Chef and Puppet have had an active community for a while not just using the core tool bu...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #132 - 14th July 2013

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Back from a busy few days at RAMP in Budapest talking about all things scaling and just in time to catch up with everything from Devops Down Under. Conferenc...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #130 - 30th June 2013

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A bit of a mix of new tools, old tools, tutorials, presentations and introductions this week. Oh, and a new Linux based operating system with some ideas I’d ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #129 - 23rd June 2013

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Another bumper issue; lots of talks, news, discussion and tools to keep people busy this week. I’m on the lookout for content from Devopsdays Santa Clara whi...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #128 - 16th June 2013

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Velocity kicks off in just a few days. For all those heading to Santa Clara first off have a great time. Second, please email or tweet @garethr with any stor...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #127 - 9th June 2013

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Much of the evidence we have at present for the benefits of Devops is personal or anecdotal. So it’s good to see more surveys and numbers from lots of projec...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #126 - 2nd June 2013

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I think this might be one of the most packed issues of Devops Weekly for a while. I’ve been on holiday for most of the week but still found myself falling ov...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #125 - 26th May 2013

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A devops as a concept gets more widespread I’m coming across and increasing number of posts about company structure. These posts might be about looking at ex...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #124 - 19th May 2013

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Another full week of pretty much all types of content. I’m putting the blame on conference season being in full swing, with lots of content from RICON East a...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #123 - 12th May 2013

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A glut of tools this week covering testing utilities, security configurations, monitoring dashboards and cloud management tools. Also a special mention for T...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #122 - 5th April 2013

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Welcome to the nearly 500 new subscribers who have signed up in the last two weeks for Devops Weekly. It still amazes me how this community has grown over th...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #121 - 28th April 2013

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ChefConf was last week so lots of good conference links this week. The keynote videos are already online too at http://www.youtube.com/user/Opscode. So no ex...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #120 - 21st April 2013

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The march of Devopsdays through Europe continues with Paris this last week so several bits of related content. With Austin, Berlin, Mountain View and Amsterd...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #119 - 14th April 2013

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Devops has always been about more than collaboration between developers and web operations and it’s great to see articles like the first one in this issue, i...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #118 - 7th April 2013

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A busy week. Lots of interesting posts, jobs, events and tools to read up on. The recent release of Vagrant 1.1 with the new plugin and provider model appear...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #117 - 31st March 2013

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Monitorama in Boston was amazing. Huge thanks to Jason Dixon and everyone else involved who organised, attended or sponsored the event. If you’re not interes...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #116 - 24th March 2013

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Next weeks devopsweekly might be a little late. It might also be jam-packed with monitoring content. I’m heading over to Boston for the amazing looking Monit...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #115 - 17th March 2013

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I’ve spent the last two days helping to organise the excellent Devopsdays conference in London. From the feedback I’ve seen so far everyone had as good a tim...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #114 - 10th March 2013

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Fewer tools but an awful lot to read this week, including a few short books available for free online. If you skip everything else or just skim the outlines ...

DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #113 - 3rd March 2013

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Conference season appears to have started in earnest again, which makes finding good content that little bit easier. Quite a few presentations this week, and...

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