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Alex Yates

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

Alex Yates September 15, 2022
The DevOps reading list: Choosing your next DevOps book

Alex Yates April 19, 2022
Safe schema updates - Strangling the monolith

Alex Yates December 8, 2021
Safe schema updates - Near-zero downtime database deployments

Alex Yates November 15, 2021
Safe schema updates - Provisioning dev/test databases

Alex Yates October 18, 2021
Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates human problems

Alex Yates October 6, 2021
Safe schema updates - Loose coupling mitigates tech problems

Alex Yates September 27, 2021
Safe schema updates - Continuous Integration is misunderstood

Alex Yates September 20, 2021
Safe schema updates - Resilient vs robust IT systems

Alex Yates September 13, 2021
Safe schema updates - Database delivery hell

Alex Yates September 7, 2021
On the naming of "DevOps Engineers"

Alex Yates January 11, 2021
100x faster db deploys

Alex Yates October 27, 2020

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