This awesome video is an excellent recap about an SRE/DevOps culture. Enjoy!
extra: https://sre.google/books/
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Datadog presentation
Today I will do a presentation on how Leaseplan digital was able to introduce Datadog to monitor an application platform based on kubernetes.
This allowed the platform team to configure monitoring in such a way that the users of the platform do not need to do any extra configuration in order to have visibility over the applications that are running.
More info here
Team topologies
This book talks about how to design teams inside an organisation. This is a very important topic because of Conways law:
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
— Melvin E. Conway
This means that when you design an architecture of a system or when you design a platform you better take into account the communication flows of the company and people involved. The team structure will be an imprint for your product architecture.
This book will give you options on how to structure teams. There are several ways defined in the book, ranging from a collaborative team to platform teams serving self service products. A must read before attempting to scale any teams or organisation!
More info on the team topologies website
The DevOps Handbook
If you are on a DevOps transformation journey this is not doubt a good a read. It will give you the strength and some material to share with your coworkers.
The book remains quite high level (not too deep in the technologies) so it will give you an overview of DevOps practices and why they’re so powerful.
I would recommend the read to engineers but also to managers that want to understand or rollout DevOps practices to improve organisations.
This is also about creating a better workplace for you and your coworkers.
How to take your knowledge of Azure resource manager to the next level!
I used ARM templates for some time now but probably also in a very unstructured way. Until .. I saw this excellent Pluralsight course on ARM templates called Azure Resource Manager Deep Dive
ARM deep dive by James Bannen
If you got some spare time and you are into Azure infrastructure automation I would highly recommend it to you :)
Thanks to James Bannen for creating this excellent course!
Book: The Phoenix project
Just finished reading “The phoenix project“. It’s a quite nice book, that talks about how good practices can make a huge difference in a working place. I would recommend it to anyone who works in IT, Dev or business departments.
Devops coaching
I’ll do some coaching this weekend so I’ll post some slides here for the students.
I hope they”ll enjoy them :) Disclaimer: it’s in Italian!!!!
PS: I will complete and edit the slides in two steps, so the final version will be available for next week.
PS2: You can now download the course related questions
Slides of devops italia 2015 event
The talk went fairly well considering it my firt talk in public. Here are the slides in case someone is interested!
Hello world!
Hi there!
My name is Andrea Maruccia and I’m a software developper for many years now. I started with web development but only after a while I finally I found my way: to improve methods and process delivery in various teams.
Recently I’ve lived an awful experience but it has teached me a big lesson. I now decided to be in contact with people that I like, that appreciate me for what I am and for what I give to them, from which I get something nice in return, a bilateral relationship.
I once saw a talk on the internet about devops and one thing the speaker said blew my mind:
If they do not appreciate you, don’t worry someone else will for sure.
I just now realize how true that was, even if deep down I knew it was.
So that’s why I decided to open myself to the world (hello world fits :)), to reach other people whoever wants some guidance on subjects I can help with.
I’ll start with giving a talk on Octopus deploy in the devops italia 2015 event. I will be talking about how you can improve your deployments though automation, on how Octopus helps you in the intent.
If you’re interested to contact me do not hesitate, If you’ve some colaboration in mind do not hesitate, I will be more than happy to find out if we can do something about it.
Cheers!