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DevOps Paradox

You're reading from   DevOps Paradox The truth about DevOps by the people on the front line

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789133639
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Jeff Sussna 3. Damien Duportal 4. Kevin Behr 5. Mike Kail 6. James Turnbull 7. Liz Keogh 8. Julian Simpson 9. Andy Clemenko 10. Chris Riley 11. Ádám Sándor 12. Júlia Biró 13. Damon Edwards 14. Kohsuke Kawaguchi 15. Sean Hull 16. Bret Fisher 17. Nirmal Mehta 18. Gregory Bledsoe 19. Wian Vos 20. Index
21. Packt

Passing the baton between generations

Gregory Bledsoe: Do you want to know a secret? The truth is that many of the big companies out there don't actually have an idea what their actual environment is today. There are elements of those environments that have become a black box, and the people who originally built those elements of that big company's environment have left. The issue is that, now, no one at the company actually knows how that element works. The scripts and the deployments are all scriptures that were handed down from past generations that in the current generation, nobody really wants to dig into and try to change.

The holy writs are beyond question. You don't even really know how it works after a certain amount of time. So, I think you're exactly right. Even the bigger companies don't know what's happening in their own environment today.

Viktor Farcic: That being said, I don't personally think that's a bad thing. The...

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