Sarah Wells on FTs Transition to DevOps

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 5:47 p.m.

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sarah Wells, Technical Director for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times about their adoption of DevOps. \n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tAdopting DevOps is both a technology and a very significant culture change\n\u2022\tIt\u2019s a big change for most developers to be operating the software they build and if you haven\u2019t done it before, it\u2019s terrifying \n\u2022\tA safe culture means not looking for blame but focusing on how to fix and how to prevent things that do go wrong \n\u2022\tThe need for a really good relationship between technical teams and product people in order to explain the benefits of investing in technology improvements vs new features\n\u2022\tDo everything you can to reduce the need for coordination with any external teams, because that slows you down\n\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2MbN8r2\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2MbN8r2