A lifetime of studying testing, quality, security, and feedback for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE

Going back, way back to the 1960s, I was a young boy growing up in a working-class family in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. We didn’t have much money, but we had each other. My father and mother both worked hard to put food on the table and a roof over our heads for my two sisters and me. I was the baby of the family, with seven years between myself and my two older sisters. Essentially, I had three mothers because my sisters from the start saw me as “baby Marc,” a moniker that stuck with me through adulthood.

This situation afforded me lots of time to play, and break things. This fact afforded me opportunities for experimentation because I was pampered and spoiled, which is good because I was born with a lazy disposition – an attribute that persists to this day and is a reason for my lifelong interest in automation.

I loved to take mechanical things and appliances...