James Abley jabley

To an aspiring coach:

Sources of Power, by Gary Klein
Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore
XP Explained, by Kent Beck
XP Installed, by Ron Jeffries
Manage Your Project Portfolio, by Johanna Rothman
Lean Software Development, by Mary Poppendieck
Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco
The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt

We're looking for systems administrators and software developers of all levels interested in a predominantly web operations role. You will...

Work with developers to optimise existing application and to design new ones
Support production web applications and infrastructure
Participate in stand-ups, planning sessions and retrospectives
Design, build and run systems for application deployment, systems orchestration and configuration management
Encourage everyone (developers, delivery managers, product owners) to think about how new applications will be run and maintained
Be an integral part of growing a multi-disciplinary operations team
Contribute to designing internal processes needed in the running of a high performance development and operations organisation

Adrian -

I appreciate that you spent time in writing this post. I know I've been up until 2am writing similarly long ones as well. I will take responsibility for having what is likely an irrational response (I blame Twitter for that) to the term "NoOps", but I invite you to investigate why that might be. I'm certainly not the only one who feels this way, apparently, and thus far have decided this issue is easily the largest distraction in my field I've encountered in recent years. I have had the option to simply ignore my opposition to the term, and just let the chips fall where they may with how popular the term "NoOps" may or may not get. I have obviously not taken that option in the past, but I plan to in the future.

You're not an analyst saying "NoOps". Analysts are easy (for me) to ignore, because they're not practitioners. We have expectations of engineering maturity from practitioners in this field of web engineering, especially those we consider leaders. I don't have any expectations from analysts,

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	#
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	# of intended recipients, one per line. The recipient file can contain end-of-
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	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

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	# Peter Cooper (@peterc)
	# MIT license
	#
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