After reading The Unicorn Project
[http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/book-review-the-unicorn-project/] a few months ago, (and
Accelerate [http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/book-review-accelerate/] and the Phoenix Project a few
years prior) I came
DevOps is primarily focussed on moving code from a developers laptop into
production, in a fast manner, while maintaining stability. Fundamentally, this
is the delivery pipeline. For those of us using DevOps to
I studied my first Azure certification - Exam AZ-103: Microsoft Azure
Administrator during the latter part of 2019. I completed the course, but did'nt
write the exam. I did'nt enjoy Azure training as
I began studying for Sysops in early March, straight after writing Developer
Associate. Similar to what I did with the Developer Associate exam
[http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/aws-developer-associate-tips/], I took a practise
It's one thing reading about the extreme DevOps practices of the unicorns
(Google, Facebook, etc), and it's completely another thing trying to adopt
DevOps in a legacy organisation. Thats why it's reassuring to
In a previous post, we spoke in depth about product/feature teams
[http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/conways-law-and-devops-moving-the-org-structure-to-feature-teams/]
. In this post, I want to talk about a Platform team, that will support the