I’m often asked about my super-hero origin story. Everyone has one they’re not all as interesting as Superman’s baby crash landing on a farm prologue. My journey to DevOps started way back in my CompuServe days with my boss’ insistence that everything be scripted and automated. But another start point is the PDF I’ve included below.
I’ve written before about how AOL embraced Agile and had Thoughtworks help our development teams. I’ve also mentioned that the Ops team (my team) and the test team were left to fend for ourselves and figure out what Agile meant to us. One of the way I did that is with the excellent post below. I have failed to find a link to it on the internet hence presenting it in this format here. If anyone knows Ken Macleod from below please thank him from me. My thanks have already been given to the guy in my team who found this document. 14 years on it still makes excellent reading. Enjoy:
If you’d like the PDF complete with my scribbles from 2003 you can download it here: Extreme_Sys_admin
Found what looks like the original post in (of all places) Yahoo! Groups:
https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/extremeprogramming/conversations/messages/19103
Wow good find man, thank you so much!
Wow! Thank you for the kind words! These practices were added to the original C2 XP wiki (and an archive link just in case):
http://wiki.c2.com/?SystemsAdministrationPractices
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/http://wiki.c2.com/?SystemsAdministrationPractices
That is awesome. It’s humbling and a little depressing that I didn’t know about the C2CP Wiki. I have some reading to do. Thanks for the help all those years ago and for the links now!