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DevOps
@DevOps • Created Aug 2025 • DevOps & Cloud
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A community for DevOps engineers, sysadmins, and cloud enthusiasts to share knowledge, best practices, and collaborate.
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James Dayalverified • Sep 25, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read
Hello World! Welcome to the DevOps Group! We’re excited to have you here! This is a space where you can share, learn, and connect with other developers who love DevOps and web development. Start by saying hi! Introduce yourself in the comments b...
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Steve Fentonverified • Sep 21 • in Articles • 4 min read
One of the most perplexing discussions I've had in recent times was about CI/CD. I've earned my CI/CD scout badge at this stage in my career, so the confusion caught me off guard. This post briefly sets out what Continuous Integration CI and Continuo...
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Steve Fentonverified • Jun 22 • in Articles • 5 min read
When you can't deploy on demand, you've lost control of your software. Risk accumulates in unreleased code, and the more changes you store in one place, the more chance they have of triggering overheads, rework, and failures. When you have blockers s...
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Steve Fentonverified • Jun 11 • in Articles • 4 min read
Continuous Delivery promotes low-risk releases, faster time-to-market, higher quality, lower costs, better products, and happier teams. Software is at the core of everything a business does today, so organizations must be able to respond to customer ...
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Steve Fentonverified • May 18 • in Articles • 7 min read
My first encounter with DevOps was so simple that I didn’t even realize its power. Let me share the story so you can see how it went from accidental discovery to deliberate practice, and why it was such a dramatic pivot. The backdrop to this pivotal...
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Gimi • Apr 29 • in Articles • 1 min read
Here's something nobody tells you when you start in data engineering: data goes bad. Not like "error 500" bad. More like "left the milk out" bad. Silent. Subtle. Dangerous. I learned this the hard way. Built a beautiful pipeline once: clean transfo...
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Steve Fentonverified • Mar 9 • in Articles • 5 min read
DORA has been researching software delivery for over a decade, but most people are familiar with their work through their famous four key metrics. This post will help you understand how the metrics have changed and why. I also want to encourage more ...
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Steve Fentonverified • Feb 5 • in Articles • 2 min read
You can use the Continuous Delivery statements to assess your software delivery performance. This technique is interesting as it doesn’t need specific technical practices. Instead, it focuses on what capabilities the technical practices should bring ...
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rogo032 • Feb 1 • in Tutorials • 5 min read
Introduction Designing infrastructure for a small SaaS application is rarely about building the perfect architecture. It is about making conscious tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and complexity. In this article, we design a cost optimized 3-t...
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rogo032 • Jan 27 • in Tutorials • 3 min read
Cutting your AWS bill by 50% sounds unrealistic. It isn’t. In most growing AWS environments, a 30–50% reduction is achievable without rewriting applications, migrating providers, or slowing down production. These savings don’t come from a secre...
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rogo032 • Jan 22 • in Tutorials • 1 min read
Hey, a quick post. I’ve just pushed a live update related to the roadmaps on costlyfy.com1. The update includes: Updated and completed roadmaps resources Fixed bugs Added a new level of interactivity so you can track your learning progress Impro...
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Steve Fentonverified • Jan 16 • in Articles • 8 min read
As Jim Benson says in The Collaboration Equation, 'individuals in teams create value'. Individual skill combined with collaboration is where great things happen. Under-performing teams happen when you don't build in the need for people to work togeth...
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rogo032 • Jan 16 • in Articles • 3 min read
AWS costs can easily get out of control, especially as an application grows and teams keep adding new services. The good news is that most unnecessary spending comes from poor default decisions rather than real system requirements. In this article, w...
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Steve Fentonverified • Dec 18, 2025 • in Articles • 9 min read
From the start, Continuous Deliveryhttps://octopus.com/devops/continuous-delivery/ called for the automation of the whole deployment pipeline. Automation is an obvious choice for some stages, such as the build process, but do you really have to autom...
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Steve Fentonverified • Dec 10, 2025 • in Videos • 1 min read
Most software teams have heard of the "DORA Metrics" or the "DORA 4 Keys", but there is so much more to the research. This session looks at those well-known metrics, but then takes you beyond them to some even more crucial insights into what great so...
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Steve Fentonverified • Dec 8, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
In software delivery, it’s common to use the terms release and deployment to refer to the same thing: making software available to users. The terms are traditionally synonyms because they happen at the same time. However, modern software delivery pra...
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Mahmoud Essam • Nov 20, 2025 • in Articles • 8 min read
1. What is DevOps? DevOps is an approach to software development reliant upon collaboration between developers Dev and operations teams Ops. It's more than just a set of tools; it's a "culture and methodology" and a "combination of cultural philosop...
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Steve Fentonverified • Nov 18, 2025 • in Articles • 7 min read
Metrics are crucial to DevOps and Continuous Delivery as part of the process of continuous improvement. However, you must balance collecting and displaying data with being flooded with information. You need to decide what data to collect and what sma...
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Steve Fentonverified • Nov 11, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
Given the advantages of declarative desired state and the tools that reconcile it, why aren’t organizations adopting it faster? Declarative desired state is the GitOps principle everyone knows but few actually use. The recent State of GitOps reporth...
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Steve Fentonverified • Nov 3, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
Developer experience DevEx is a key focus of platform engineeringhttps://octopus.com/devops/platform-engineering/. It's also a crucial success factor for any organization developing software. A recent paper by Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole ...
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