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It’s all about respect

"Don't waste my time, buddy. You're just a dogsbody sysadmin; I write the software and you merely service it. So just shut up with your petty concerns and do as I say, OK?" Comment from serverfault.com  Today I'm going to write about one of the main reasons, in my opinion, why cooperation between dev and ops is not working most of the time: respect and understanding of the other persons job.

The application is only running on the developer system

Hi, today I'm going to write about a situation every sysadmin has already encountered. The sysadmin gets a new version of some type of software and should install it on a server. After some hours of trying he calls the developer and tells him he's not getting the application to start. The first answer all of us get: "But it is running on my PC." Let the discussion start. ;) In my opinion it

devops cooperation at flickr

Hi, and now the matching presentation to the podcast at redmonk I mentioned earlier. Their are some very good statements in this presentation. The tools section is not so important for the mentioned tools, but for the statements that are combined with the tools: single click build single click deployment monitoring for app and systems understanding for all metrics independent of app or system

What is devops?

Hello everyone, here you'll find an article what devops is about by Stephen Nelson-Smith. It is a nice round up of what devops is and what it tries to achieve. devops

dev and ops cooperation at flickr

Hi, this is a podcast with John Allspow (now at etsy). For me as a sysadmin, the talk at about 22:30min and 27:00min was very interesting. Have fun listening. devops, flickr