Picture this: a critical bug fix is ready, but it languishes in code review for days. Release schedules slip, customers get frustrated, and developer morale takes a hit. At Cymbal Coffee, we’ve been there and after a recent workshop discussing our DORA performance metrics, we saw a major …

Hey there, fellow code warriors! We all know the thrill of customising our [working | coding] environments, right? It’s like trying to find that perfect coffee grind for your latest beans to get an epic morning v60 brewed. I used to lose myself for hours, fine-tuning my terminal colours, …

If you’ve been following the tech scene lately, you’ve probably noticed the buzz around platforms and platform engineering. We have platform vs DevOps vs SRE posts recently like in the past we have seen DevOps vs SRE or DevOps vs DevSecOps or vs vs vs or DevOps is dead …… I know that …

Each month the Google UK&I technical sales team have a Campfire session 🏕️ 🔥 to share events, technical things of interest or just something fun. I had the honor of hosting the February get together and I also ended up taking on the “fun” aspect and picked to ramble about coffee ☕ …

Somethings different, did you change your hair? To be fair with lockdown v3.0 my hair has grown way beyond what I am used to but no that’s not it. Many years ago, back in the days of riding the CLI of network devices at HSBC and a little after I expanded my scope from network management …

You have worked hard on creating your application, its coding is perfection and you have tested it locally but now you want to containerise it and get it into the hands of users! Like an 80’s and 90’s text based adventure game (yes, I know they existed before they became popular on …

We are all different …. we work differently, respond in different ways, have different goals, you could say the way we operate is unique. This is a good thing, however, it can make it difficult to know how to interact with each other! I can’t remember where I first saw the idea of a …

It was a fresh, dry, busy Wednesday morning on the 22nd January. I sat on the 205 bus from the hotel to the London office (I have discovered it is a great way for me to think). My attention was focused on what I would be saying to the UK platform architecture team (including a good number of the …

We know that when it comes to self-service a key thing is to be able to select services you need from a catalog/marketplace. In the Cloud Foundry world, and increasingly in the K8s world, we had the Open Service Broker API (OSBAPI). This ability is one of the most critical aspects to providing both …

A deployment strategy is more and more important as you want to get new features and functionality to your users as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Gone is the day that you can get away with throwing up an “Essential maintenance” message, users will start to get annoyed and move …