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If you want to transform IT, start with finance
When talking about IT transformation, we often we often talk about ‘culture’ being the problem in making change, but why stop there?
Ian Miell
For a few years I was ‘Head of DevOps’. Before I got that job title I’d done much the same work under other names, and since then I’ve watched the same work get called SRE, and then it seemed to morph towards platform engineering. If you’ve been in this industry for any length of time you’ll have seen titles come and…
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It’s great to be a consultant
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, working on technology from within.
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“Who Should Write the Terraform?”
Working in Cloud Native consulting , I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work ‘.
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
‘The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.’ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought:
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Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability (2017)
For several years I managed the 3rd line site reliability operation for many of the world’s busiest gambling sites, working for a little-known company that built and ran the core backend online software for several businesses that each at peak could take tens of millions of pounds in revenue per hour. I left a couple…