Teams organised around technology stacks and technical disciplines have about as much chance of achieving a business goal as a sack full of ferrets has of changing a lightbulb.
Smart companies organise around business outcomes.
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Generating tests based on your implementation is like setting exam questions based on your answers.
Small code changes are safe code changes.
If AI means you can code 5x faster, you should commit 5x more.
Too many folks are committing at the same frequency and having bigger PRs. DORA is finding a partial decrease in stability and throughput as a result of this.
The 'continuous' in CI is serious
Stop trying to fix the handoff process!
For ages now, we have been trying to fix the handoff process between designers and developers. The truth is it should never have existed in the first place.
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Not sure id call it Vibe testing but intent based testing sounds good thenewstack.io/after-vibe-c...
Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
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#security
Great story from Fidelity on migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu. Sounds pretty reasonable.
youtu.be/2FQQOIEgZmU
There are a number of very tame applications that are normalizing like feeding logs from failed builds through the LLM.
Saves digging through the log, googling error messages etc.
Simple, low risk, eliminates engineer drudgery.
“Agentic DevOps” may well trigger the buzzword singularity.
Looking forward to this one. At the end of the day, CI tools just aren't CD tools.
Several toolmakers have started in prod and worked reasonably successfully back toward CI. Nobody starts in build and ends up with a good, secure CD.
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In physics, velocity is a vector. It is speed in a direction.
For a software team, it should be the same. It matters that you get a lot done AND that you get the RIGHT things done.
Most teams try to measure their output. It’s harder to measure if they’re going in the right direction.
A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
Feeling like a bad wine snob as I move into a “my favorite white is Sake” phase
Say what you will, but Marco Rubio is smart.
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Man... GitHub Actions is the new Jenkins. Lots of folks trying it for a few years, then realizing that they are in scripting in hell, plugin hell and everything is slow and then moving on.
Hey... Jenkins was been amazingly successfully successful... so congratulations?
It’s just a toggle - how hard could it be?
This misconception about DIY Feature Flags has led many engineering teams down a path that ultimately results in technical debt, resource drain, and operational challenges.
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Absolutely, treat every story as an experiment, and monitor the results. It’s the only way to steer our products toward success!
Unpopular opinion:
Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in.
When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool.
Often out of spite!
Good job IBM! Pleased for my former coworkers as earnings and all that are up and to the right. Seems like Arvind is the real deal.
Shiptalk has reached 7500 podcast downloads on Buzzsprout.
ShipTalk podcast is looking for engineering leaders as guests for upcoming episodes.
We rotate hosts, I'm looking forward to hosting for the first time.
#shiptalk #harness #softwareDelivery
30 years old now… but a treasured “historic artifact.”
One day your the leading trade rag for BBSes the next you are reporting on the replacement for your market niche.
It’s important to see it and face it.
A quote from Judge John Coughenour, a federal district court judge appointed by Ronald Reagan, on President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, reads: “Frankly, I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.”
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship to babies born on American soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend U.S. immigration laws. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Yeah… software to help your marketing teams is subject to the same build vs buy decision making as everything else.
And generally if it isn’t core to your differentiation, buying is better.
But you get techies in the marketing org to wire all this together.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. DevOps is a team.
I know SoftBank has done some good stuff but when I hear about their involvement in a poorly defined $500 billion project my mind goes to “the guys who funded WeWork?”
This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.
