Thought-Leadership

Realistic representation of how you will actually look when you finish reading this article and show off your story pointing knowledge to your friends, family, and co-workers. If you want to skim, just read What are Story Points, Purposes of Story Points and Example of a team using relative pointing. Preamble Amongst people in the software industry there is a lot of confusion around story points. This blog is my summary of the opinions of great minds on the topic of story points with some of my own opinions thrown in as well....

One artifact, one pipeline, one path to production. Remember this phrase and you now know the secret to building good CI/CD pipelines. You are now mere minutes away from being a significantly better developer, DevOps engineer, SRE, or really anyone who works in software, just read on. One artifact, one pipeline, one path to production is a simple guideline to building good software delivery mechanisms. It’s about not over complicating the process, reducing the cognitive load, keeping the team moving fast, and making sure the deployment process actually works consistently....

WIP: This is a work in progress. I intend to start keeping notes of the basic theory, as I experience and learn it, of how to create a good CI/CD for delivering software. Version control: Ensure all code and configuration files are stored in a version control system like Git. This allows tracking changes, collaboration, and easy rollback of changes if needed. Automated builds: Automate the process of building the software to ensure that the code is always in a deployable state, minimizing integration issues and detecting problems early....

Learn why and how focusing on developer experience and mirco feedback loops will speed up your development process and help you to create a better product. Cross Post from: www.drewkhoury.com Optimizing for a Cloud-Native Developer Experience - Presentation Chris and Drew share their combined knowledge around developer experience, why (micro) feedback loops matter a whole lot, and present a live demo of a Cloud Native application working locally - complete with unit tests, end-to-end tests and smoke tests....