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Today I finally get to debut a white paper that Michael Cote, now of the 451 Research, and I started quite a while back:

Learning from Web companies to drive Innovation – Embracing DevOps, Scale and Open Source Software

The basic theme of the paper is that Web companies set the agenda for the IT industry and enterprises can benefit by understanding and following their practices

The paper’s key themes:

• Web companies are characterized by Open Source software and a three-tiered architecture:
  • A scale out infrastructure
  • A data tier that utilizes big data
  • An application tier supported by a proliferation of development languages
• Developers are kingmakers and must be supported and allowed to innovate
• DevOps is a key trend that brings developers and operations together to reduce friction and increase velocity

If this looks at all interesting, please check it out.  It should be a quick read and hopefully we’ve written it in away that is accessible to a wide audience.

Extra-credit viewing

• Barton George and Michael Cote Talk DevOps and Sputnik

Pau for now…

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