About
Who am I? I work for ThoughtWorks as a technical consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. I make things better, mostly by incremental improvements to code quality, architectural fitness, stability, and safe rapid deployments.
Tag Archives: DevOps
DevOps Mind Map
In the last couple of years I’ve become very interested in the interactions and collaboration between development and operations teams, the ‘last mile’ of delivering working software into production, and keeping that software healthy and sustainable in production. I’ve had some satisfying experiences working in teams that have bridged part of the divide between development and ops… Continue reading
Build Manifesto
I met a team in the recent past who were adopting automated testing. Developers would write some automated unit tests for their application code, and run them in the IDE before marking their work as complete. Testers would then write down the testing scripts for the completed software, and then manually execute those tests, recording results. An automation tester followed behind, writing automated functional tests from a growing backlog of completed manual tests… Continue reading