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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
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The connection between cross-stitching, Lego, and DevOps

I guess one person's mundane problem is somebody else's exciting challenge. Aside from that, cross-stitching.

Viktor Farcic: Cross-stitching? What exactly do you mean by that?

Kohsuke Kawaguchi: Cross-stitching is needlework. I started doing this because my wife picked it up and I thought it would be good to have a common hobby with her. It's generally an old woman's hobby. Let me explain cross-stitching in a way that geeks understand. Imagine a screen, and there are the pixels. Each pixel can be a different color. That's how we build graphics. Cross-stitching is the exact same thing; it's just on the piece of cloth, instead of a screen, and instead of pixels, you're using colored threads. It's just the analog version of a video screen. So, I stitch some video game characters and so on for fun.

Now, obviously, the actual stitching is incredibly manual and repetitive...

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