November, 2013


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Nov 13

A Cornucopia of Dev[Ops] Tools: A Chat with Atlassian

As the holiday season approaches, we take a moment to sit down with Sarah Goff-Dupont and James Dumay from Atlassian’s Bamboo team to discuss the full stack of tools used by companies of all sizes, from startups to massive enterprises to NASA to get their software shipped. (Sometimes off of the planet!) Atlassian is known for the bug-tracker Jira, but we discuss the many of the other things they do, the process they use to design the various tools in their stack, how they work to address the special technological and cultural challenges that larger enterprises and governments find themselves facing when working towards scaling a DevOps transformation, and how to get those organizations started. So, grab some turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, and join us for:

A Cornucopia of Dev[Ops] Tools: A Chat with Atlassian

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for a fireside chat with Atlassian and a Thanksgiving Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 31, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Youssuf discusses his experience with JetBrains’ recently open-sourced Python IDE PyCharm 3.0 Community Edition (source code!)


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Would you consider your organization’s continuous integration pipeline to be stable?

Is there anything we can do to be more empathetic to the issues faced by large enterprises?

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Nov 13

Getting into Flow[Con] with Gene Kim and Jez Humble

What happens when you bring together practitioners from all corners of the software development arena, put them in a room, and discuss hardware and software scaling, what your ops teams should (and shouldn’t) do, how not to fool yourself again, how to delight your customers, how to tune your feedback cycles, how to get the executive staff to buy into it, how to make the outcomes better by embracing diversity, and wrap it all up with how not to turn it into an pie-in-the-sky religion? Well, you’d have FlowCon! Join us as we review the conference held last week in San Francisco with two of the program committee members, a couple of gentlemen who’ve both written a couple of little books you might’ve heard of before. Listen in as we attempt:

Getting into Flow[Con] with Gene Kim and Jez Humble

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d as we discuss FlowCand a new Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 30, or any of our previous shows!

Show Links/Notes

Tool Tip

Paul introduces us to Pipe Viewer, a (long-existing) Unix utility for providing information about the speed of your piped shell commands:

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What aspects of “flow” does your organization struggle with?

Which people and departments in your software development process are that sad, soggy piece of lettuce?

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