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If you participated in the DevOps’ish Summer 2018 Survey, thank you. It was vital to make sure I was putting bits in the right places. The aggregate results are available. A few changes you might have noticed last week; Events and Jobs now live as pages on the website. While they add value, they also added unnecessary weight to every newsletter. The benefit of them being pages now either of them can be updated as new listings come in. The offer still stands for readers getting their listings on the site for free. The next cut was the photo header. I thought it was a beautiful thing to add back in 2016. It humanized the newsletter in a way words couldn’t. But, the metrics have spoken. With 62 respondents (out of 90) rating it a 5 or less, it was probably past time to pull it. The introduction is staying. Sorry (not sorry) for those of you who think it’s too political at times. But, DevOps is about breaking down silos in organizations and I’m about breaking them down in life. Aside from that, not much else is changing. ...

Psychological safety is something I have often talked about but have found difficult to find in my own work. There’s a lot of reasons for this. In a previous life, I couldn’t talk about my day to day work and life. As I have gotten further away from that time, It has gotten easier to adjust to being more transparent. With a permanent nerve injury, constant pain, and dealing with the VA it’s often a lot for an employer to consume in one fell swoop. This has led me to slowly open the floodgates in the past. As I approached the date of a VA appointment for injections on July 25th, I realized that being 100% remote I needed to sit down with my boss. I needed to explain all the details of my VA disability, the rating, treatments, etc. for her. I cobbled together some notes to keep myself on track and some visual aids. To assist in understanding the scope of my injuries. This is the first time I’ve been able to gather all this data in one place. ...

This is the last week to take the DevOps’ish Summer 2018 Survey. I can tell you definitively changes are coming to the newsletter. But, if you would like to have some influence on what those changes are please take the survey. The survey closes on Friday, August 3, 2018 at 1400 ET. Continuous delivery on modern infrastructure - Run GoCD on Kubernetes Model Docker-based build workflows more effectively with our GoCD Kubernetes integration. Run GoCD natively on Kubernetes, define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. SPONSORED Events #causeascene Conference - San Francisco Date: 2018-08-04 #causeascene Conf is an event without borders, which is designed to be safe space for members of underrepresented and marginalized communities in tech to tell their stories. To share what they’re working on, what they’ve experienced, their tech enabled hopes and dreams. This is an opportunity for these, often sidelined and silenced, individuals to use the platform to amplify their voices, uncensored, in a very authentic manner. ...

You are here and I really appreciate it! If you enjoy this newsletter, it would be great if you participated in the survey. There are already some changes I’ll be making as a result of responses so far. Also, if you run events in Europe, Asia, South America, or Australia please send some details for them to me. One reply to the weekly e-mail newsletter suggested including more international events. I think that’s a worthwhile venture so send them my way. The newsletter is coming to you a day early due to a new addition to our family whose delivery is in progress as I’m writing this. Uncle Chris 4.0! Webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics Want to deliver faster? Join our free webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics. Gain insights into software delivery pipeline and learn to use metrics to improve your path to production. SPONSORED Ballerina: Cloud-Native Programming Language Ballerina makes it easy to write microservices that integrate APIs. TechWorld placed it as #1 in their “Top programming languages you should try”. Ballerina supports modern protocols and data formats, has built-in constructs for event and stream processing, resiliency, parallel execution, and can deploy directly onto Docker and Kubernetes. SPONSORED ...

I spent most of the week in Durham, NC. I was pretty busy all week trying to learn while maintaining a full calendar. Meeting new people and figuring out where I can help them scale out their needs is something I’m familiar with. What I’m not familiar with is the massive company that is Red Hat. It’s not the products or the people I don’t get; it’s the enormity. Having a moment or two to think about it, the bigger a company gets, the longer it seems it’ll take to get up to speed. This isn’t a big issue for my team but, I’d like to be a fruitful contributor much sooner than later. I will certainly try to achieve that this week when I’m back in Durham. I’ll also be attending the Triangle DevOps Meetup on Wednesday night. Come out and say Hi! Webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics Want to deliver faster? Join our free webinar: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics. Gain insights into software delivery pipeline and learn to use metrics to improve your path to production. SPONSORED ...