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Book review: Beyond the ...

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 vs legacy change management

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

Azure AZ-103 Tips

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

AWS SysOps Associate Exam - Tips

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

Scaling out DevOps: Product and Platform Teams

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