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DevOps Paradox

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

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

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

The heart of DevOps is democratizing the work

Kevin Behr: While those DevOps patterns are vital to DevOps, what I really believe to be the heart of DevOps, and what I think we've lost touch with today, is what, in the 1940s and 1950s, was a movement and a discipline called STS, or socio-technical systems.

Social-technical systems started with some sociologists, and it was one of the big-funded projects immediately post World War II. I do actually give a talk about STS, called DevOps and Its Roots in Coal Mining. It's kind of a joke, but one of the big things that they had to do after World War II was figure out how to make more coal to help power the war recovery. There was a conflict because all the coal companies wanted to keep the price of coal high, while the British government wanted lower coal prices so that coal and oil could power post-war reconstruction. It was in the national interest to get as much out of the mines as possible.

To help achieve this, the British government...

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Authors (1)

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations

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