The DevOps Journey
// Planet DevOps
Maintaining a constant thirst for learning is essential for anyone dedicating their career to the IT, computer and networking industries. It's more than just learning about the latest technologies, rather, it's imperative we embrace new methodologies and paradigms for doing work, thinking about problems and creating solutions. Enter DevOps, which is a healthy mix of all the above. You might find things a bit confusing if you're new to DevOps. There are many perspectives on what it means. For myself, there were two significant milestones on my journey to understand and embrace DevOps; 1) rethinking how we design large, dynamic applications and manage the underlying infrastructure in cloud environments such as Amazon AWS, and 2) reading the book The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. At first blush, I thought DevOps suffered the "definition bloat" of so many other industry buzzwords (for example, "cloud" comes to mind.) Depending on who you talked to or what you read, DevOps definitions frequently encompassed one or more of the...
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