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Alex Yates

DORA metrics - The predictive link between DevOps practice and business outcomes

Alex YatesSeptember 15, 2022 • 15 min read
The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Alex YatesApril 19, 2022 • 45 min read
Safe schema updates - Strangling the monolith

Alex YatesDecember 8, 2021 • 12 min read
Safe schema updates - Near-zero downtime database deployments

Alex YatesNovember 15, 2021 • 10 min read
Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

Alex YatesOctober 18, 2021 • 19 min read
Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates human problems

Alex YatesOctober 6, 2021 • 12 min read
Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates tech problems

Alex YatesSeptember 27, 2021 • 9 min read
Safe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood

Alex YatesSeptember 20, 2021 • 10 min read
Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Alex YatesSeptember 13, 2021 • 15 min read
Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

Alex YatesSeptember 7, 2021 • 12 min read
On the naming of "DevOps Engineers"

Alex YatesJanuary 11, 2021 • 10 min read
100x faster db deploys

Alex YatesOctober 27, 2020 • 14 min read

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