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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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Women in DevOps… or the lack thereof

Júlia Biró: Well, you're talking to one! That being said, historically speaking since the mid-1980s, the ratio of women in STEM and tech fields has dropped. There's this great article (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding) by the National Public Radio about why that's the case, and I would really recommend it to any of your readers.

But nowadays, we find that there is a rising tendency, partly owing to the attention of diversity gaps and partly owing to the will of the industry, for the other half of the population to try to become engineers too. They realized that the same ratio of women is going to be good at programming. But here's the thing: currently, the easiest way to get into tech and code learning is via the frontend. From my own experience, when I first tried to program it was just HTML and CSS, which is not even programming.

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