Sarah Wells on FT’s Transition to DevOps

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sarah Wells, Technical Director for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times about their adoption of DevOps. Why listen to this podcast: • Adopting DevOps is both a technology and a very significant culture change • It’s a big change for most developers to be operating the software they build and if you haven’t done it before, it’s terrifying • A safe culture means not looking for blame but focusing on how to fix and how to prevent things that do go wrong • The need for a really good relationship between technical teams and product people in order to explain the benefits of investing in technology improvements vs new features • Do everything you can to reduce the need for coordination with any external teams, because that slows you down More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2MbN8r2 You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2MbN8r2