Cloud, Virtualization and Architecture

Building the Case for OpenStack – Value at Every Level

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There was a particularly exciting article on the OpenStack Superuser site this week (http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-introduce-openstack-in-your-organization) which highlights some interesting notes about OpenStack adoption. One of the challenges of OpenStack adoptions is the concept of selling the idea of adopting an open source platform where some enterprises are lacking in confidence on supporting and operating one. There … Read more

AWS CodeDeploy – Adding some CD Goodness to your EC2 Environments

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Configuration Management and Continuous Deployment has become a common tool in the toolkit for many organizations these days. As we see from the content I’ve been doing with my DevOps series co-author Steven Haines at the Turbonomic blog (http://vmturbo.com/about-virtualization/devs-venus-ops-mars-introduction-continuous-integration-pt1/), we have a lot of people putting their focus on the end-to-end development to deployment experience. … Read more

Pivoting and Accepting Being Wrong

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While we are on the track of studying the Theory of Constraints and Technical Debt, one of the interesting things that I’ve discovered is missing from many people’s day-to-day activities is the evaluation of whether we are wrong. Being wrong happens all the time, and that’s fine. The problem comes when we are wrong, but … Read more

Pay Yourself First: The Art of Reducing Technical Debt

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Hopefully you’ve read yesterday’s post about my quick primer on the Theory of Constraints (TOC). This is the foundation for what we are going to talk about today which is the art of reducing technical debt. You may have already heard me talk about this before, and it’s something that I strive towards on a … Read more

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