Stacy Cashmore — The painful crawl through the morass of past shortcuts

Tiny DevOps

Stacy Cashmore has the interesting title of Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, which means she has free reign to do what she thinks she needs to do! In this episode, we talk about a big rewrite decision she made, and the results of this decision, good and bad.

In this episode

• Why "DevOps" does not belong in a job title, and why Stacy put it in her job title anyway.
• What is DevOps, if not a job title?
• How to respond to mistakes we've made
• Why a rewrite is always the wrong decision
• Why a rewrite was the right decision in this case
• The pressure of proving yourself once you convince management to do a rewrite
• DevOps and CI/CD goals for the new system
• Where the problem started to go wrong: Awkward tests, shortcuts and technical debt
• Working against deadline pressure
• Taking the pragmatic approach to CD
• The drawbacks to not doing "full CD"
• Plans for ongoing improvement
• Things to do differently next time, and lessons learned

Resources
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble
The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

Guest
Stacy Cashmore
Twitter: @Stacy_Cash
Web site: stacy-clouds.net

Watch this episode on YouTube.