Blog Archive 2015 C9D9: Supporting Development Velocity Downstream Sep 16 2015 Finding Joy in the Journey Mar 27 2015 2014 docker-spoon 1.0 released Dec 21 2014 Pairing with docker-spoon Oct 15 2014 Empathy in OSS - it’s important Mar 16 2014 Question: How did you build an automated service delivery pipeline? Mar 15 2014 2013 Cargo Cult: Devops Nov 23 2013 Why I infracode Sep 22 2013 DevopsDays 2013 - we are avoiding culture, why? May 02 2013 Good & Bad patterns in Development and Operations Jan 14 2013 Continuous Deployment: Are you afraid it might work? Jan 14 2013 2012 DevOps is Culture - so is a lot of other stuff… Jun 29 2012 Rate my skills: no Jun 20 2012 I’m letting my CISSP lapse Jun 18 2012 Embedding Ops members in Dev teams - my recent experience May 27 2012 Monitoring is pretty cool - AssimMon May 26 2012 Why do we insist on consensus on the role of Ops? Mar 19 2012 Sometimes it takes 2 days to do 2 hours of work Feb 21 2012 Getting out of the way - Monitoring Feb 20 2012 Overcoming Obstacles Feb 17 2012 Keep decisions low cost so they are easier to make Feb 16 2012 Work-life balance is personal Feb 15 2012 Are you making blameless, data driven decisions? Feb 14 2012 If you aren’t using feature toggles, start… now Feb 13 2012 Establishing ownership in Ops Teams Feb 05 2012 Thanks Seth Feb 03 2012 2011 Despite your best efforts, some people are just… Dec 18 2011 Asking for permission Dec 14 2011 Don’t forget, make more awesome Dec 13 2011 My favorite shell shortcuts Dec 08 2011 Meet a Sysadmin for lunch instead of Google Dec 07 2011 Perform pre & post release testing, automatically - always Dec 06 2011 Using visual indicators to avoid stupid mistakes Dec 05 2011 Observations on Dev / Ops culture Dec 02 2011 If you expose ssh publicly… Dec 01 2011 Communicate close to the change Nov 30 2011 … or equivalent work experience. Nov 29 2011 Are you a mechanic or an engineer? Nov 28 2011 Do what you want Nov 26 2011 The never shrinking result of consistent review Nov 25 2011 Availability is a feature… like anything else Nov 01 2011 Posts in other places for the last few weeks Oct 29 2011 Make your process your Rock Star, not individuals Oct 03 2011 Blogging for your company - you should start. Sep 29 2011 Continuous Engineering Meetup - you should start one Sep 23 2011 Building new Systems Engineers Sep 11 2011 SaaS & Web Operations: Why I love this job… Sep 09 2011 Give your developers prod access - it’s trust Aug 08 2011 Why do I have to have you in the room to get your opinion? Aug 04 2011 Enlist passionate individuals rather than assigning roles Jul 29 2011 What is in a word: DevOps, Agile, Continous - don’t limit your ability because of your vocabulary… Jul 23 2011 Collaboration and opening folks to new ideas Jul 08 2011 IPv6 :: neat-o Jun 07 2011 Becoming a Pirate, Act III: It’s not what you know… Jun 01 2011 Becoming a Pirate, Act II: You got the job, now swab the decks! May 23 2011 Becoming a Pirate, Act I: The Swindle May 16 2011 Being wrong is tentative, often so is being right. Apr 19 2011 Terminal multiplexing with ssh-agent - My tmux setup Apr 17 2011 Be a part of the solution, don’t just fix problems - communicate them Apr 14 2011 Continuous Integration & Deployment - we aren’t installing software anymore Apr 10 2011 On the importance of starting… Mar 04 2011 It’s 2011! Lets not kill good ideas before they start Jan 02 2011 2010 Visual Presentation of Information - Google maps labels readability Dec 10 2010 Migration rules for the Paranoid - a pessimists view Dec 03 2010 How long does it take till you’re ‘done’? Nov 24 2010 Book: Web Operations from O’Reilly Nov 10 2010 Shifting roles of the Sysadmin, don’t become a Dinosaur Nov 05 2010 Communication: How to spread the word without ever sending email. Oct 09 2010 Operation Bootstrap - Get ‘er started mostly right. Aug 30 2010 5 Rules for the “free” Security Assessment Jul 25 2010 Miscellaneous Debris #101 Mar 10 2010 Security education for the Administrator, not just the security expert. Feb 21 2010 2009 For better or worse, back into the frying pan Nov 05 2009 Change Management and the art of going fast Nov 04 2009 Internal Blog: Phishing Attacks on the rise - how to protect yourself Oct 29 2009 Shameless plug - SANS MGT414 CISSP Course in Boulder, CO Oct 21 2009 How to Respond to Criticism - Learning from Dr. King Sep 20 2009 My Take: Creating & Maintaining Secure Passphrases Sep 05 2009 Simplicity makes security easier Aug 15 2009 Reducing Risk vs. Increasing Security, not exactly the same Jul 17 2009 USB Keys & Metasploit for fun and profit Jul 09 2009 Re-tooling your infosec Jul 05 2009 Communicating securely in Repressive Environments Jun 24 2009 How becoming more civilized makes us less secure May 20 2009 BT Study: Penetration testing strong focus for enterprises this year May 06 2009 Exotic Liability Podcasts - go listen May 04 2009 Swine flu creating zombies? May 02 2009 “Security made easy…” - This trend troubles me Apr 28 2009 Photo-op freaks people out - imagine that! Apr 27 2009 The not so technical security problem - people. Apr 10 2009 Trying to extend audit logging to every access point, it’s doomed Feb 27 2009 Happy New Year! Thanks for the opportunity Jan 01 2009 2008 Free web apps - how do we establish some baseline good practices? Dec 25 2008 SaaS & Cloud Computing - the obvious future. Dec 22 2008 Security in Services - maturity is still in process Dec 19 2008 Browser password “security” Dec 16 2008 Building a pirate ship - policy creation Aug 16 2008 VMware ESX license expiration - subtle information disclosure? Aug 12 2008 RFID Toll passes at risk (big surprise) Aug 11 2008 Introducing Change control to a startup (Part 1) Aug 10 2008 Data portability… or not. Aug 07 2008
What is in a word: DevOps, Agile, Continous - don’t limit your ability because of your vocabulary… Jul 23 2011