On the Evilness of Feature Branching - A Tale of Two Teams Jul 14, 2021 • Thierry de Pauw • 6 min
In 2012, I started a technical coaching mission to upscale the software
engineering skills of a rather novice team. Novice from an engineering
perspective, not so much from a working-experience perspective. They had
working experience ranging from 5 to 20 years. Sometimes, people do not have the
luxury to attend the right conferences. Or to work with people that would show
them different ways of working.
Luckily, we were the two of us to coach the team. Pair-coaching is tremendously
reassuring. Especially when you have to introduce plenty of changes with people
TriggerMesh adds DevOps Luminary John M. Willis to Advisory Board
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Systems Management Veteran added to Cloud Native Integration Company Roster
I really feel that the TriggerMesh team has something that is special in bringing a tool that will have an impact on the way DevOps professionals deploy and manage integrations. - John Willis, Senior Director Global Transformation, Red Hat RALEIGH, N.C. and GENEVA, Switzerland (PRWEB) April 15, 2021 TriggerMesh, a cloud native integration platform provider, today announced the addition of DevOps pioneer, John M. Willis (aka @botchagalupe on Twitter) as a formal advisor to the company. Over a long and distinguished career, John has held numerous roles as a programmer, start-up executive, author, and speaker. He’s the co-author of the Best Selling DevOps Handbook (co-authored with Jez Humble, Gene Kim, and Patrick Dubois) and a frequent speaker at DevOps and
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