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5 Minute DevOps: Continuous Delivery FAQ

There are many misconceptions about CD. There are also many things about CD that are not obvious on the surface. Are you “CD curious”?

Jan 23, 2021

5 Minute DevOps: Continuous Delivery FAQ

Jan 23, 2021

5-Minute DevOps: How The US Army Does it Better Than You

The Army has a dedicated program to grow developers who understand modern software engineering. They are probably doing it better than you.

Jan 17

5-Minute DevOps: How The US Army Does it Better Than You

Jan 17

5-Minute DevOps: The Knight’s Capital “CD Failure”

Some people like to to play “gotcha” with examples of when they think CD failed. They should try informing themselves first.

Jan 13

5-Minute DevOps: The Knight’s Capital “CD Failure”

Jan 13

5-Minute DevOps: How to Avoid the CrowdStrike Mistake Pt. 2

CrowdStrike has released its final report, and some of the apparent misses stunned me. How can we avoid being the industry's next example?

Aug 19, 2024

5-Minute DevOps: How to Avoid the CrowdStrike Mistake Pt. 2

Aug 19, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: How to Avoid the CrowdStrike Mistake

There are no simple answers for the CrowdStrike outage. If you think there are, we may all be learning from you next time.

Aug 1, 2024

5-Minute DevOps: How to Avoid the CrowdStrike Mistake

Aug 1, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: Review Board Dramatic Theater

Occasionally, I see well-written, well-meaning, but misguided advice that inspires me to respond with, “Oh God! No! Don’t do that!”

Mar 28, 2024

An image of a software change advisory board performing a dramatic play in a modern conference room, creatively blending technology and drama.

Mar 28, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: I’m Too Smart to Make Mistakes

Do you make mistakes? Maybe you just need to learn from others who are smarter than you.

Feb 12, 2024

5-Minute DevOps: I’m Too Smart to Make Mistakes

Feb 12, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: AI is Taking Our Jobs!!

I’ve been running small experiments over the past year or so to see if AI has made me obsolete yet or if it’s more breathless marketing…

Feb 5, 2024

5-Minute DevOps: AI is Taking Our Jobs!!

Feb 5, 2024

5-Minute DevOps: Optimize for Sleep!

“So every time you walk in the door, quality is top of mind, and it’s completely part of the definition of done?” Yes! This is why.

Dec 31, 2023

5-Minute DevOps: Optimize for Sleep!

Dec 31, 2023

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5-Minute DevOps: The Three Wrongs

Are you REALLY agile or just delivering your product ideas in sprints? What if you’re wrong?

Nov 18, 2023

5-Minute DevOps: The Three Wrongs

Nov 18, 2023

Bryan Finster

Bryan Finster

Developer, Value Stream Architect, and DevOps insurgent working for Defense Unicorns who optimizes for sleep. All opinions are my own. https://bryanfinster.com

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