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You can’t automate relationships

Originally appearing on devops.com.   As an organization sold on the idea of DevOps what’s your first step in the journey? Despite a constant deluge of well-reasoned guides for implementing DevOps the most prevalent step most companies have made is simply contributing to a proliferation of DevOps job titles. Most

Branching out

Starting today I’m very excited to announce that I will also be blogging on http://devops.com/author/alecl/ in addition to here at http://www.pragmaticdevops.com/. While I’m certain I will keep both running I haven’t quite settled on which exact topics I’ll post on each so I’ll play it by ear for a

Perception

This is a fun parable from famous web performance guru Steve Souders (formerly working at Yahoo and currently at Google).  It’s part of his lengthy but excellent video on web front-end latency (~31 minutes in). An office building owner receives escalating complaints from his tenants about how long they have