DevOps: To Autonomy and Beyond
summary
A 2013 launch nicknamed the "Valentine's Day Massacre" breaks the Times tablet product, prompting a reorganization into four cross‑functional teams; an engineering department of ~100 people (accountable for ~200) adopts AWS, breaks a monolith into microservice architectures, and stabilizes production within weeks so the Times group returns to profit by year end. Emphasis lands on an engineering excellence model, clear values (nurture, inspire, engineer, deliver), empowered autonomous teams, a retained 24/7 Ops handoff, and the tradeoffs of tooling diversification and new silos.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 7:35The Valentine's Day Massacre
- 9:26Provide Business Agility
- 13:16Initiating Change
- 19:42The Engineering Excellence Model
- 21:14Capabilities and Behaviors
- 22:01Technical Agility
- 23:29What Is Devops
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