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dcawrey
8/29/2016 4:31:10 PM
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Re: Interesting thing about any frontier field ...
I think that's one of the great things about DevOps – being able to break down the silos is incredibly important. Especially when time of deployment has become a really big deal. Good article, and great to see Level 3 leveling up!
clrmoney
8/29/2016 11:30:42 AM
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Dev Ops Journey
Lets see what Dev ops has to offer with the agile meaning fast speeds etc.
JohnBarnes
8/28/2016 3:03:34 PM
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Interesting thing about any frontier field ...
... the new terminology is always about half "positive buzz words" -- i.e. some theorist or biz leader someplace coined a phrase everyone likes that is pretty vague -- and about half "ineffabilities", i.e. names for a place where something is going to grow but we don't quite know what yet.
DevOps, like most new terms, is some of both. On one level it's just what's been going on ever since somebody noticed you could autogenerate fill-in-the-blanks code and write a program to fill those blanks in from a screen -- what were once quaintly called "code generators" -- and thus get the people who actually knew the job to write the program that would do the job. On another level it's a vision of magic in which apps are smart tools that learn the job from the user -- as if a carpenter's tools eventually began to build houses without the carpenter. And in between it's an assortment of tendencies and possibilities that need a trendy name so that management can explain why they're putting money into it.
A few of the labels survive to become the linguistic handles by which we grasp the new realities. At that point they become:
- pure technese (every chemical engineer knows what enthalpy is but most of their nontechnical bosses don't, and everyone realizes that's just fine), or
- just the uncontroversial name of an obvious thing (go back 25 years and you will find people arguing about whether something is "really" a GUI and whether there is a difference between "app" and "program"; nowadays we just know), or
- a permanent buzzword (like consumer-oriented or data-driven, words that copywriters sling into texts that senior management reads out loud to each other)
After reading this interview, I think Level 3 is just fine, but DevOps is headed for that last category. The only thing that the DevOps focus added here is that it got us a chance to read up on what Level 3 is doing. Level 3 is already a major leader in a wide array of cutting-edge areas, so they can't afford to ignore the demand that they use the word "DevOps" and somehow fit it onto interesting things they are already doing. ASAP, please re-interview and don't make the poor guy say "DevOps" over and over; just let him talk about the many cool areas they're working in!
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