Coffee Bytes with DevOps
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Hey everyone, it’s your man Swami K here! 😎 🚀 Welcome to “Coffee Bytes with DevOps,” where we’ll be exploring the epic origins of DevOps, just like how the Avengers united against Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ☕️
DevOps: Powering up with the Agile Manifesto! ⚡ Small, motivated teams + high-trust management = one productivity boost!
🤓 Let’s start with value streams, the backbone of DevOps. It’s like Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, granting accelerated delivery of work from Development to Operations to our customers. The Three Ways of Flow, Feedback, and Continual Learning and Experimentation are like the Infinity Stones, creating safer systems of work, fostering a high-trust culture, and a scientific approach to organizational improvement and risk-taking.
📚 DevOps draws from decades of lessons learned from various movements like the Avengers teaming up with the Guardians of the Galaxy. From Lean, Theory of Constraints, the Toyota Production System, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, and human factors to high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, and organizational change management.
🚗 DevOps and Agile are like Tony Stark and Peter Parker, working together as the logical continuation of the Agile software journey. Emphasizing small batch sizes, incremental releases, and small, self-motivated teams working in a high-trust management model like the duo of Iron Man and Spider-Man.
🦸♂️ Fun fact: DevOps history is like a crossover event, with many key moments occurring within the Agile community or at Agile conferences, just like how the Avengers team up with other heroes like Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Black Panther.
👨💻 Throughout Part I, we’ll dive deeper into DevOps and the Three Ways, just like how the Avengers went on a journey to defeat Thanos and save the universe.
💻 DevOps extends and builds upon the practices of infrastructure as code, which is like the advanced tech that Tony Stark and Shuri use to create their suits and gadgets, enabling fast deployment flow and continuous delivery, just like how the Avengers use their tech to take on any challenge.
🤔 Now it’s your turn, fellow Avengers! What do you think about the convergence of movements that led to DevOps? Have you personally experienced the benefits of applying Lean principles to the technology value stream, just like how the Avengers use their teamwork and skills to achieve their goals? Let us know in the comments! 💬
