What the Military Taught Me About DevOps

 Posted on 2018-02-23  |  3 minutes  |  552 words  |  Chris Short

Abstract Before DevOps was coined an entire branch of the US military was living by its core fundamentals. Visualizing work, flow, diversity, failing fast are all things that I practiced in the Air Force from 1999 to 2010. I’d like to share my lessons learned serving during this time. This talk will broaden people’s view of how DevOps can be implemented, why diversity matters in DevOps, and how fortunate we all are to have the problems we have today. [Read More]
devops  culture  career  job  cfp 

Open Source 101 Raleigh 2018

 Posted on 2018-02-19  |  3 minutes  |  616 words  |  Chris Short

I had the opportunity to attend and speak at Open Source 101 at NC State’s McKimmon Center for Extension & Continuing Education this past weekend. It’s always nice to visit Raleigh, NC and Red Hat Tower. I met several awesome attendees and speakers while I was in town too. The All Things Open team did an absolutely fantastic job at every facet of this conference. If you have the opportunity to attend one of these events you most definitely should! [Read More]
open source  diversity  devops  talks  culture 

Miscarriage: A Culture of Silence Helps No One

 Posted on 2017-12-23  |  4 minutes  |  701 words  |  Chris Short

Julie and I have experienced a miscarriage. We found out we were pregnant in early November. On Thanksgiving, an episode occurred that demonstrated Julie’s life might be in jeopardy as well as the life of the baby. There was a glimmer of hope that all could go well though; we had to give it time. A week before Christmas 2017, we learned that our second child wasn’t going to make it. [Read More]
life  miscarriage  pregnancy  culture 

All Things Open 2017: DevOps README.md

 Posted on 2017-10-27  |  1 minutes  |  86 words  |  Chris Short

I had the opportunity to participate in All Things Open this week. It was quite an experience. 3300+ people who are all part of the open source software community all in one place is truly moving. Even better they let me take a mic on one of the main stages to give a modified version of my DevOps README.md talk. I can’t thank the opensource.com crew enough for the opportunity. [Read More]
DevOps  books  culture  talks 

DevOps README.md

 Posted on 2017-09-27  |  7 minutes  |  1418 words  |  Chris Short

After DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 I was going to dinner with friends. Along the way the topic of what’s up next came up. I mentioned I had a talk coming up at All Things Open but had no idea what I was going to discuss. We began batting ideas around and came up with a few good ones. One that we latched on to was creating a curated list of things to read to level up your DevOps skills and knowledge. [Read More]
DevOps  book  culture  cloud native  pros  cons  culture 

DevOps README.md

 Posted on 2017-09-27  |  7 minutes  |  1418 words  |  Chris Short

After DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 I was going to dinner with friends. Along the way the topic of what’s up next came up. I mentioned I had a talk coming up at All Things Open but had no idea what I was going to discuss. We began batting ideas around and came up with a few good ones. One that we latched on to was creating a curated list of things to read to level up your DevOps skills and knowledge. [Read More]
DevOps  book  culture  cloud native  pros  cons  culture 

Chilling Effect of Google Manifesto

 Posted on 2017-08-06  |  4 minutes  |  798 words  |  Chris Short

UPDATE: According to Kara Swisher at Recode, Google has fired James Damore, the author of the memo that is the topic of this article. Sign up for DevOps'ish! DevOps'ish is a weekly newsletter covering DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, and the 'ish between. On Friday, August 4, 2017, several Google employees took to Twitter to discuss a ten-page document that was circulating internally at an alarming rate. [Read More]
Google  diversity  culture 

The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change

 Posted on 2017-06-06  |  1 minutes  |  204 words  |  Chris Short

The open organization community at Opensource.com (of which I’m a member) is pleased to announce the immediate release of its newest book, The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change. Sign up for DevOps'ish! DevOps'ish is a weekly newsletter covering DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, and the 'ish between. As IT teams around the world rise to these new challenges, they’re realizing that radical change isn’t a matter of tools alone. [Read More]
open source  culture  DevOps