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Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.
Platform engineering is all about giving devs the tools they need to work independently. Work-from-home policies give people flexibility in where and how they work. It should be a match made in heaven, right? Well... it’s more complicated than that.
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The Politics of Your Job: Building Trust + Subverting DevOps Hierarchies (Respectfully) with Joshua Zimmerman
Politics is everywhere in your organization. It’s just about wherever decisions get made. Joshua Zimmerman says that kind of politics is rooted in people, and with the right mindset, you can use politics to make things better in your organization – for you and your entire team.
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Who the Vox Pupuli Are and How They Work with Puppet
Great things – tools, spaces, companies, brands – are supported by great communities. The Vox Pupuli are perhaps the most prominent, active group in the Puppet community. Here’s what they're up to lately, what it’s like being one of them, and what Puppet (the community) means to Puppet (the company).
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What CentOS, RHEL, and HashiCorp’s BSL Mean for the Future of Open Source
Open source has always moved fast. Today, it moves faster than ever, driven by both community demand and corporate interest. On this episode, Perforce’s Javier Perez and OSI’s Stefano Maffulli discuss the impact of recent license changes and the historical push-and-pull between consumers and providers in the world of open source.
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The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)
With David Sandilands, Gradle Field CTO Justin Reock shares his perspective on developer productivity engineering – the point where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ intersect to create what's broadly called the ‘developer experience – and where platform engineering is headed with and without it.
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“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.
The opportunity to write a Puppet 8 book landed in David Sandilands’s lap when he had just started at Puppet and with a child on the way. About a year and a half later in mid-2023, “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers” launched via Packt. This is the story of everything that happened in the middle.
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It's Always Audit Time: Compliance is Coming for Your Department (Yes, Yours)
The days of slapping together compliant configurations are over. Continuous compliance needs a cooperative approach. On this episode of Pulling the Strings, hear what compliance pros recommend and why ‘cowboy compliance’ just won’t cut it anymore.