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Notes on ‘team responsibilities in cloud-native operations’ (Pete Mounce)

Posted on July 10, 2015July 31, 2015 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

Summary: Pete Mounce (@petemounce) from Just Eat gave a compelling talk at the London Continuous Delivery meetup group on ‘team responsibilities in cloud-native operations’. I found the talk hugely engaging, with loads of detail applicable to many organisations. Here are my notes from the meetup.

I captured my notes as slides:

Update: the video of Pete’s talk is here on Vimeo:

There were several specific points made by Pete that were interesting for me:

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The Business Case for DevOps

Posted on May 24, 2013June 14, 2013 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

[At the Unicom DevOps Summit on 23^rd May 2013 in London I gave a talk on The Business Case for DevOps; here is a summary of the talk, along with the slides. Update: now with video too.]

With an increasing number of organisations turning to DevOps to try to improve their software systems, it is becoming necessary to provide the business case for introducing DevOps, especially in organisations which perceive their main focus to be something other than software systems.

For me, building the business case for DevOps has three strands:

Using appropriate terminology
Recognising the huge technology shift which has occurred over the last few years
Emphasising the importance of operability in our software systems

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Cloud Deployments – Alex Papadimoulis at QConLondon 2013

Posted on March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

Alex Papadimoulis (@apapadimoulis) of Inedo (and TheDailyWTF) gave a really useful talk on deployments for cloud-based software systems at QConLondon 2013 recently [slides, PDF, 1.6MB].

He stressed the importance of finding the appropriate deployment (distribution + delivery) model for each application, and to keep deployments as simple as possible. In fact, we can follow the best practices from Continuous Integration and apply them to deployment.

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Comic Relief, @garethr, @LordCope, and CloudFoundry at QConLondon 2013

Posted on March 14, 2013March 14, 2013 by Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton)

I attended QConLondon 2013 last week; what I took from the first four sessions in the Building for Clouds track was: cloud API and infrastructure automation tools have now solved most of the ‘easy’ cloud problems, but harder challenges (such as automating clusters) remain. The sessions were from Tim Savage (@timjsavage) and Zenon Hannick (@zenonhannick) on Comic Relief’s unique challenges with performance testing, Gareth Rushgrove (@garethr) on how to avoid PaaS lock-in, Stephen Nelson-Smith (@LordCope) on how to use Chef to give you ‘optionality’ with different cloud vendors, and Andrew Crump (@acrmp) and Chris Hedley (@ChristHedley) on the CloudFoundry cloud platform.

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