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DevOps: The production line itself.

CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitOps, trunk-based development, release engineering, and the delivery metrics that tell whether the line is healthy.

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  1. DevOps Is a Production Line

    DevOps is not a tooling movement. It is the cultural import of a hundred years of production engineering into software, and reading it that way makes the discipline coherent again.

Notes

  1. The Andon Cord Is a Reward Structure

    The interesting thing about an andon cord is not the cord. Pulling a cord is trivial. The interesting thing is the answer to the question: what happens to the worker who pulls it?

  2. Trunk-Based Development Is Not About the Trunk

    The criticism of long-lived branches is usually framed as a criticism of the branch. The actual problem is batch size. The trunk is just where batch size becomes visible.