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Every technology-focused business needs the right technical and architectural experience to make technical decisions effectively, balancing the trade-offs. Decision-making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action among several possible alternative options. Technical decision-making is less about the tool to pick and more about the problem to solve. Once the problem space is…
The larger the organization or project, the more complex and involved the work. A small team of three might be able frequently enough to coordinate, but a group of 12, a stream of 100, or an organization of 1000 can scarcely achieve that. Instead, technical leaders define what to accomplish and how to achieve those…
Technologists of all career paths should be able to ace giving a technical demo — not just folks in public facing roles. As an architect, product manager, or engineer you may need to give an internal product demo for a prototype or proof of concept. It takes a mix of science (methodology) and art (storytelling)…
Our team at Rubrik uses Terraform extensively to manage our infrastructure as code. This means that our infrastructure configurations are version controlled and resources are provisioned in an automated fashion through CI/CD workflows. Because it’s a customer-zero environment, we’re constantly evaluating new tools to find better ways to manage and scale the environment. This led…
At work, my team owns and maintains a large lab environment for the development and testing of Rubrik Build projects. It was built in a hurry, causing some of our original design principles to be compromised. My team and I have decided to use this no-travel period as an opportunity to redesign and redeploy our…
I have previously written about putting together the conceptual model with logical and physical design; however, I want to dig a little deeper into the conceptual model. The conceptual model categorizes the assessment findings into requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks: Business requirements are provided by key stakeholders and the goal of every solution is to achieve…
Effective leaders know that problem solving is not “one-size-fits-all”. The action taken depends on the situation and, because the circumstances are changing, better decisions can be by using an adaptive approach. I have previously written about the 75% method that I learned in the military, but there’s another framework that I have consistently used with…
Change management has never been easy for the dev or the ops side of the house. Let’s face it; it’s usually a checklist item and a tool to CYA. However, we are moving to a world where change is a part of the culture and a frequent process. There is no excuse to not improve.…
The entire goal of release engineering is to accelerate rollout of new software or new releases as much as possible. Release engineering focuses on building a pipeline that transforms source code into an integrated, compiled, packaged, tested, and signed product that is ready for release. Release management coordinates release workflows between various dev and ops…
Part of making processes more efficient is relying on the crucial component, automation. In DevOps, automation is a near-must for successful performance, because it reduces the number of repetitive tasks thus decreasing the time required for quality results. It is the biggest quality maintainer and speed promoter. As it’s impossible to automate everything, it’s important to have…
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