Breaking the Monolith by Stefan Tilkov at QConLondon 2012

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Stefan Tilkov (@stilkov) from innoQ gave an excellent talk on the importance of a “system-of-systems approach” to software architecture (Breaking the Monolith, slides [PDF, 1MB]). [Update: the video is now online here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Breaking-the-Monolith]

In essence, he argued for a distinction between micro-architecture (the design of the individual [sub]system) and macro architecture (the design of interacting systems).

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Five Interview Questions for Hiring DevOps Staff

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Over the past seven or eight years I have developed a list of five key interview questions for recruiting staff to software development teams. These five questions have come to stand out as being highly indicative of the candidate’s aptitude for approaching software in [what is now called] a “DevOps” manner, namely, seeing software as the running, evolving system in the Production environment.

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Site Reliabililty at Scale – Discussion Roundup

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There have been several useful discussion threads on the LinkedIn Site Reliability at Scale group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4200099) recently:

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ThoughtWorks AWS Training in London

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Just back from the ThoughtWorks AWS training in London at Wallace Space. Great day: good pace, with some excellent discussions and lots of learning.

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Agile Tools and the Importance of Physical Interaction

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There is in interesting discussion on Daniel Markham’s blog about the Tyranny of the Tools in relation to Agile software development. In a nutshell, “throwing so-called ‘Agile’ tools at development team does not make it Agile”; it’s the ways for thinking and learning which are truly important.

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