All Things Open 2017: DevOps README.md

 Posted on 2017-10-27  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  1 minutes  |  111 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  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  7 minutes  |  1445 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  Site Reliablity Engineering  SRE 

DevOps README.md

 Posted on 2017-09-27  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  7 minutes  |  1445 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  Site Reliablity Engineering  SRE 

Chilling Effect of Google Manifesto

 Posted on 2017-08-06  (Last modified on 2020-02-02)  |  4 minutes  |  815 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. Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short. 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  (Last modified on 2020-02-02)  |  1 minutes  |  210 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. Subscribe to DevOps'ish! DevOps, Cloud Native, Open Source, industry news, and the ‘ish between assembled by open source contributor, DevOps leader, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador Chris Short. 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 

Understanding, Fear, and Hate

 Posted on 2016-06-21  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  4 minutes  |  684 words  |  Chris Short

“Fear leads to anger… Anger leads to hate… Hate leads to suffering.” Jedi Master Yoda On Saturday, my wife Julie, son Max, and I attended church. This was a very special mass as it was the mass at which Max was being baptized. Julie’s family was present as were friends of ours. As a lot of my friends know, I’m not religious. My stance on religion is that I choose complete freedom over being beholden to humans interpreting what they believe to be the word of God. [Read More]
hate  fear  lgbt  lgbtq  culture  philosophy 

Tiny Tiny RSS: Loathe the Asshole Devs

 Posted on 2013-06-01  (Last modified on 2020-02-02)  |  2 minutes  |  283 words  |  Chris Short

I’ve been messing around with Tiny Tiny RSS today. Upon discovering it I posted in their Google+ Community asking how other users implemented it and what they thought of a specific use case I had. I got some good responses and was quite appreciative of them. I opted, at the advice of those in the community, to setup Tiny Tiny RSS on RedHat’s OpenShift and was pleasantly surprised by how the product RedHat created. [Read More]
development  culture