Recently I've been reading Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, who are both lecturers at Standford's famed d.school. The book introduces some of the theories of design thinking and one of the points they revisit a few times is the idea of "start(ing) where you are". I really like how practical and...
Map your way to understanding and agreement
"Surely this is a simple change" or "I've got a nephew that built a mobile app in days".
These are common reactions from stakeholders immediately after they hear the expected cost to get a new feature/product into the hands of their customers. These needn't be difficult conversations - you just need a map to...
Transform your data with dbt and Serverless architecture
This article is co-written with Robert Li
Robert is a Lead in the Data Team at AMP Capital.
He is passionate about building data and analytics applications that empower people to do their best work.
What this article is not
We love dbt and believe it is a great tool to manage your data transformation. This article...
Contract-First API Development using Dell Boomi and Azure API Management
Azure, Azure API Management, CICD, Integration, Azure Resource Manager, DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Boomi, Dell Boomi, DPE
Context
At Deloitte Platform Engineering (DPE), we hold a substantial digital footprint within the Platform Engineering and Systems Integration national practice, offering professional services to meet clients' needs. Our strength comes from an expansive portfolio in providing innovative consulting services to cloud...
Internal and external capability: both is best
Something I’ve consistently observed in my career is the difference in capabilities between in-house and consulting engineering teams. I absolutely believe there is a need for both and the challenge for CIOs is to strike the right balance between the two. Why both? See my example below.
Internal team members...
Speed up your IT delivery with modern engineering
What I love about digital technology is that you can see the impact of your work more or less immediately. I also love that it’s always changing; we’re never done. There’s always work to do that improves the sales funnel or customer experiences. Or a new technology to incorporate. Or a new way of working. You can’t...
Semantic Versioning with Conventional Commits
CICD, DevOps, Technology, developer, semver, git, scm, versioning, branching, GitLab, release
Versioning is important. I do not have to tell you this. Yet, I see it done poorly over and over again.
The deficiencies I usually encounter are a lack of unambiguous developer and release processes and poor tooling support. If your developers sit there wondering how to do certain tasks, then the process is broken....
GitOps: Reconciling Desired State with a Runtime Environment
I recently did an Ignite talk at DevOpsDays Auckland 2019 about GitOps. While preparing the deck for the talk, I had a chance to really reflect on the question “What is GitOps?”.
Definition
GitOps is reconciling a desired state in Git with a runtime environment.
“But this is what we’ve always done!” you say. You’re...
Creating pipelines with Azure DevOps for your Mule releases
CICD, DevOps, Microsoft Azure, mule, Azure Pipelines, Azure DevOps, cloudhub
Azure DevOps provides a suite of services for development and collaborations for your projects. Azure DevOps services include Azure Pipelines, which is a popular tool for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD). It works with any language, any platform and runs jobs in parallel on Linux, macOS or...
Build and deploy Apigee proxies with Azure DevOps
CICD, DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Apigee, API Management
Overview
Azure DevOps provides a powerful toolset to enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) capabilities.
The Apigee Edge API Management platform provides API management capabilities to backend services such as security, rate limiting, quotas and analytics. There are also different deployment...