Author Archives: Skelton Thatcher

How DevOps enables IT performance and organizational performance

What we learned from PuppetLabs State of DevOps Report 2015 This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. The 2015 State of DevOps report from PuppetLabs highlights some important points for organisations setting out to create a high-performing DevOps-driven approach to building and operating software systems: deploy faster andContinue reading “How DevOps enables IT performance and organizational performance”

Database connection auditing for Continuous Delivery

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Continuous Delivery of software systems can be a struggle if a central database is accessed by multiple applications directly, due to the (perceived) increased risk and the need for coordination across different teams. In this post, we demonstrate some techniques for discovering theContinue reading “Database connection auditing for Continuous Delivery”

Implications for data strategy with microservices

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We recently contributed to the ‘DevOps Perspectives 3’ report from CA: Microservices and data consistency. Here is an extract (you can download the full report from CA).

Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Some organisations are attempting to adopt DevOps without really understanding or adopting agile practices for software product development, and so are missing out on significant opportunities for improved innovation, delivery, and operation of their software systems. This gap between DevOps and ‘product’ orContinue reading “Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices”

Skelton Thatcher Consulting partners with Redgate to offer Database Lifecycle Management expertise

This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.   Data and databases are often the most tricky part of automated software delivery. At Skelton Thatcher Consulting, we have helped many organisations with data-driven software systems to move towards Continuous Delivery, so we are very pleased to be part of the new partner programContinue reading “Skelton Thatcher Consulting partners with Redgate to offer Database Lifecycle Management expertise”

Microservices, data strategy, and data fragmentation – interview on InfoQ

At QCon London 2015, InfoQ interviewed Matthew Skelton, Co-founder of Skelton Thatcher Consulting, about Continuous Delivery, DevOps, microservices, tools, and teams. Here is an excerpt from the part of the interview on InfoQ covering microservices and data strategy:

Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law – slides from QCon London

We were asked to speak in the DevOps & Continuous Delivery track at QCon London this year, and on 5th March our co-founder Matthew Skelton gave a talk on ‘Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law‘. Here are the slides and some photos from the talk: