(Re)building an Engineering Culture: DevOps at Target
summary
Hybrid bottoms-up and tops-down change drives a working platform: a 90+ API catalog serving 17 billion monthly API calls with more than 80 deployments per week, built using GitHub, Jenkins, Chef and scaled with Cassandra and Kafka. An internal dojo with 30-day challenges runs eight concurrent cohorts (14 total so far) and converts work that used to take 3–6 months into minutes, showing measurable adoption and business lift rather than vague theory.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Target's DevOps journey
- 1:31Target engineering challenges
- 6:08Four stages of DevOps
- 9:25Building APIs and practices
- 14:05Grassroots DevOps movement
- 16:55Leadership support
- 20:43Product-focused restructuring
- 23:33Engineering culture dojo
- 31:25DevOps transformation lessons
- 33:11Current status and goals
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