It’s one of our rare long weekends here in the US. I’m trying really hard to have a good time and not ruin any great moments. There’s a lot I could be doing but, I’m holding off to help recharge. I hope you are taking a similar break is you’re able. A lot of good stuff in the works here for you. First, DevOps’ish has teamed up with O’Reilly to provide discounts on all manner of O’Reilly content, books, ebooks, events, and more. More good things will come as a result of this partnership (stay tuned). Webinar: “Want to successfully adopt DevOps? Change Everything.” Moving your organization to a DevOps culture isn’t as simple as buying a tool. It requires changes to many parts of your process. In this webinar, Ken Mugrage will walk you through four changes you can make in your organization to help you “Do the DevOps”. SPONSORED Correlate request traces, metrics, and logs Seamlessly navigate between logs, metrics, and request traces for a clear view of all your systems. Visualize and alert on metrics in real-time with anomaly and outlier detection. Try Datadog’s full-stack monitoring for free SPONSORED ...

The past few weeks have resulted in iterative improvements to my office workspace. After visiting a few Red Hat offices, it dawned on me that my office wasn’t what it should be. The improvements have helped me mentally in numerous ways. They’ve also allowed me to think more broadly about a number of things. Some odd little nuggets related to DevOps’ish popped out too (sausage making follows): Automation: This newsletter relies more on automation for content curation than you might realize. Recently, I’ve realized I’d like to run that automation more reliably with more granular controls. A switch from IFTTT to Zapier took place after I couldn’t determine why Corey Quinn’s Last Week in AWS was breaking my automation. Corey’s site was making a malformed URL. IFTTT gives little in the way of logging or event details compared to Zapier. So one evening this week I migrated everything. The Return of the RSS Feed: A lot of my reading had moved away from RSS feeds after the death of Google Reader. But, the dust finally settled in that world I have embraced RSS again in a big way. Cleaning out IFTTT showed me how much my reliance on it to parse RSS and send me e-mails had become. All of those RSS feeds moved into my inoreader. Then it dawned on me, “This is hypocritical.” I originally turned off the DevOps’ish RSS feed to get more people to subscribe to the e-mail newsletter. That ‘gamble’ paid off. There are now over 2,000 subscribers to DevOps’ish weekly e-mails. Not having an RSS might have helped reach that number a little faster. But, it’s not open and focuses more on the business side of things and less on the user experience. Time for that to change. ...

This week’s newsletter is a day early. I’ll be moving my daughter into college Sunday and Monday. It’s a two-day process because southeastern Michigan isn’t as close to southern Ohio as you’d think. I’ll be in Dayton on Sunday and Cincinnati on Monday. Lemme know if you’re around. Blog Series: Continuous Delivery of Microservices - Parts 1 - 5 This blog series from Sheroy Marker cover the principles of CD of microservices. Get a practical guide on designing CD workflows for microservices, testing strategies, trunk based development, feature toggles and environment plans. SPONSORED Correlate request traces, metrics, and logs Smoothly navigate between logs, metrics, and request traces for a clear view of all your systems. Visualize and alert on metrics in real-time with anomaly and outlier detection. Try Datadog’s full-stack monitoring for free SPONSORED eBook: Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines Learn the steps required to plan and implement a CD pipeline in your organization, including the benefits and best practices. Download eBook SPONSORED ...

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. ...