I listened to a very impactful podcast on Wednesday while walking my best buddy beast (happy birthday, Sunny). On the podcast, the speaker asked the audience five questions. One of those questions was, “When was the last time you changed your mind?” This question struck me. When was the last time I changed my mind? What motivated me to make that change? Would I be able to help others make a similar change should they ask for assistance? My mind raced through a series of events where I felt my mind had changed on something. Some were significant, others were trivial. But, the one thing I realized is that I change my mind often. It goes back to something I’ve mentioned in this newsletter a few times, resisting change is a DevOps anti-pattern. It also harkens back to the strong opinions, loosely held mantra that I have tried to adapt to. The speaker goes on to mention that being able to change your mind requires you to be humble, confident, and able to listen. Listen as in actually listening not pausing until the other person is done speaking. ...

This was a very interesting week for me. I participated in a chronic pain treatment study at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital early Tuesday morning. The experience, while odd, went incredibly well. Today is the first day I have felt noticeable pain which is likely due to managing Max at my nephew’s birthday date. If you know me, you know this is an incredible feat. On Thursday, I attended a brand new Kubernetes Meetup in Downtown Detroit. It was fabulous! Mack and Uzo have some great ideas and I hope to collaborate with them on a few ideas we came up with after the Meetup. The coming week will be nuts! Monday: Lunch in Royal Oak, MI Tuesday AM: Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI Wednesday: Meeting in Washington, D.C. Thursday: Detroit Go Meetup in Downtown Detroit Friday-Sunday AM: Open Source 101 in Raleigh, NC If you’re around any of these places or events please don’t hesitate to stop me and say hello. Then I’ll be speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte the following week. DevOps the fuck up, y’all! ...

I’ve had an absolutely amazing week! I was named a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador. My friend, Chris Bailey, and I recorded an episode of Techtown’s Discussing DevOps Details (3D) Podcast. I spoke at the Orchestructure January 2018 Meetup about Golang accelerating DevOps. Last, but certainly not least, I was named an opensource.com 2018 People’s Choice Award winner. I also booked travel for Open Source 101 in Raleigh and DevOpsDays Charlotte. I don’t know how I can top this week. But, I tend to compete with myself; I’m sure I’ll come up with something. Scale Continuous Delivery for Your Enterprise? GoCD is a Continuous Delivery tool allowing you to model, orchestrate, and visualize complex workflows. Our enterprise offering provides plugins and professional support to help your scale CD in your organization. Check out GOCD’s enterprise features and performance upgrades now! SPONSORED People WHATIS Going to Happen With WHOIS? Why is this a people issue? Because to display an EU citizen’s name in WHOIS data would be illegal under the GDPR. ICANN is trying to figure out how to meet their transparency goals while still complying with the GDPR. ...

There are terrible people in this world. I’ve known that for a very, very long time. There are those that twist religion to benefit themselves, double-crossers, and people who will have their co-workers swatted just for existing. But, you cannot add yourself to that list in the process of “being American.” You are the epitome of a loser if you target people because of their race, gender identity, political leanings, sexual orientation, or disability. If you work at Google, you clearly have done something right in life. I’m pretty sure Google doesn’t let just anyone in the door. It is high time we leave our beliefs and prejudices outside of the work place. We’re all in this thing called life on this place called earth together; it’s time to start acting like it. In other news, please vote for me in the opensource.com 2018 People’s Choice Awards. It would mean a lot to me to win this. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED ...

I attended and spoke at DevOpsDays NYC 2018 this week. The conference was very well organized. It was a truly unique experience held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square. There were some absolutely amazing talks. The talks were all great. The one thing I enjoyed the most was meeting people and seeing where they were along their journey. There are a lot of folks, some in really big companies, trying to change their cultures and improve their environments in dramatic ways. The Verizon story about their dojo program is an enormous effort to turn an old, stuffy enterprise into a full-blown DevOps organization. 16,000 people will learn the ways of DevOps at Verizon through their program. It’s quite the story and if successful it’ll be one to tell for quite some time. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED ...