Tuesday 27 November 2018

DevOps: The Tech Cheeseburger?




How do you feel about change? A great way to gauge a person’s feelings about change is by their reaction to Spencer Johnson’s 1998 book Who Moved My Cheese. This thin volume is subtitled an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life and in case you have not come across it you can watch a short cartoon version instead.

The book seems to have been written to help those going through catastrophic and unusual change, probably brought into sharp relief during the massive layoffs and off shoring that were still relatively new in the 1990s. The book was handed out to those who had lost their jobs, jobs they had expected to have for their whole life, and which may even have been jobs that their parents had. I find it hard to believe that being told to behave like mice can have helped much.

Those used to change are more likely to find the book obvious, insulting, funny or all three. I also found the parable insightful into how people who are unused to change, and the few who are just plain change resistant, look at things.

Looking at enterprises we often see that technology groups are split into two organisations, one that is charged with ensuring that everything works, and one which is doing new stuff. The latter is traditionally the software development team but has recently been joined by those migrating to the cloud and introducing IOT. Traditionally the infrastructure side won every battle as they spent more money and hence had more executive clout.

The two sides of this bimodal world are often in conflict, with one side battling to ensure that the cheese stays exactly where it always has been while the other side is trying to find new, more nurishing cheese somewhere else.  How can we make them work together? Well, the answer is obvious: focus not on each group’s cheese, but on the customers’ cheese: yes, move that cheese away from the factions and make them work together.

When creating software this is, of course, DevOps. Bring the people charged with offering reliable, consistent customer outcomes together with those who are driving to make new and exciting things and you should get new and exciting services that are stable. Rather than serving up the patty and the cheese separately, bring the two together. After all, a cheeseburger is unquestionably better than the two items served apart.

11 comments:

  1. Overall the main idea here is detail, detail and you guessed it, more detail! If you can get this idea down you will be on your way to submitting better tech support requests that will get you the answers you need faster. leo

    ReplyDelete
  2. Its yummy. If I could to eat this food right now. Actually some time I eat fast food items. Thanks for sharing it.
    traeger grills reviews

    ReplyDelete
  3. Great Article… I love to read your articles because your writing style is too good, it is very very helpful for all of us and I never get bored while reading your article because they are becomes more and more interesting from the starting lines until the end. Devops Training Institute in Pune

    ReplyDelete
  4. A community, which works together in full cooperation stands a better chance of maintaining unity. This will assist the Economic Development Association with its standing and goodwill in the community making its efforts serious and taken seriously. best online AWS developer courses

    ReplyDelete
  5. Excellent article... I enjoy reading yourPostbecause your writing style is excellent; it is extremely beneficial to all of us, and I never get bored while reading them because they become increasingly fascinating from the first lines to the last.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Amazing Article ... i really like it because your delivery is good now if you want to buy best tennis sunglasses 2022 from our buying guide

    ReplyDelete
  7. Carrom Pool Lovers , you want to get carrom pool mod apk from here

    ReplyDelete
  8. NordVPN Crack is a powerful software to safeguard your data on the network and uncovers the prohibited sites. Be private and hidden on the.! https://crackdj.com/nordvpn-crack-2022/

    ReplyDelete
  9. Movavi video editor Plus 22.5 Crack is one the majority strange and high-performance video editor with the skill to change any video to the expert movie. Movavi Crack Download

    ReplyDelete
  10. Discover and share First Day Of College Quotes. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. First Day School Wishes

    ReplyDelete