"DevOps"

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O'Reilly Radar

Understanding Operations Culture (Part 1)

A 2008 O'Reilly Radar essay defining web operations culture through lessons drawn from the fire service.

“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”

— Fire Chief Mike Burtch
O'Reilly Radar

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

My 2007 O'Reilly Radar argument that operations is a competitive advantage for startups, and occasionally a strategic weapon. Comments thread includes Luke Kanies, John Allspaw, John Willis, and Steve Loughran.