While I agree that DevOps needs to be a mindset/culture to be of any benefit beside ticking buzzwords checkboxes - but I really don't see any harm in giving someone a title containing the word DevOps.
Someone who can do the proselytism, take initiatives to drive the adaption and at the same time be the go to guy for the technical knowledge needed for any new processes/tools.
We all agree that the old waterfall inspired way of working when the developers work on their own, throws a bunch of new code down a hatch for the ops guys to deploy and they both blame the other team when something don't work is less than desirable.
Maybe there are some startups that have the devops mindset already from the beginning and a few old companies that can get there on there own, but I think many need some help to get there. Perhaps they could hire someone to get them started?
In some places 8 hour workday was achieved by union organized strikes, in other places by law decree and in other places by non-unionized workers and employers as an agreement.
The 8 hour workday was made possible by increasing productivity, mostly due to accumulated production capital and technological improvements ...
I'm a native Swedish citizen, Sweden is perhaps not a banana republic - but the number of pretty serious oversteps done by the Swedish government due to a mixture of incompetence and the will to please other powerful nations are to many to neglect.
Going on since the forced sterilization, German troop transports, extradition of baltic citizens to the soviet union and seizure of newspapers before publication in the days of the second world war .... continuing to today with the Da Costa case, the Egyptians kidnapped and sent to torture by the CIA with help of the Swedish government, the pediatrician accused of murder, the whole Thomas Quick embarrassment .... the list can be made rather long.
And there is obviously a great deal of pride and prestige put into this case by the attorney, who has not been exactly working their ass off to get the investigation going forward - even bending their own rules quite a bit with the obvious intention to inflict maximum discomfort to Julian Assange - and that makes me distrust their honesty and the entire basis for this case.
"A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: a randomized controlled trial"
Cohort size 43 persons.
My summary: At 12 wk, mean total lesion counts had decreased more in the low-glycemic-load group ( 23.5 +/- 3.9) than in the control group ( 12.0 +/- 3.5).
Hasselblads cameras was used in the Apollo missions. [1]
Twelve hasselblad cameras were left behind on the moons surface.
It was not that many years ago, around y2k or shortly thereafter if I remember correctly, that hasselblad finally decided that digital photography could match the picture quality their cameras achieved using traditional/analog film and started to manufacture digital options for their cameras.
When I look at the pictures from the moon I start to understand why they held a stiff upper lip for so many years.
According to the statistic available the number of drowning accidents among children and sale of ice-cream is highly correlated, we must take measures to lower sale of ice-cream, please think of the children!
Most of the time a journalist will easily believe a statement like above and rewrite into a newspaper article.
And soon thereafter official recommendations and legislation will follow.
I'm looking forward to http://nusi.org/ publishing some results, they appear to be intellectual honest.
Even if income could explain the whole difference it would still not be a very agreeable explanation.
Even though it's a naive idea, I still think that everyone should be entitled to the same level of legal support in a criminal case regardless of your socio-economic status.
I recall the ted talk http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_abo..., if a black man is found guilty of murdering a white woman in Alabama, he is 400 times more likely to be sentenced to death compared to a white man found guilty of murdering a black woman.
I sometimes think about what the reaction would be if statistics showed that the German courts disproportionately often decided to sentence Jews to death?
Perhaps there are some things that could be improved within the penal system in the United States?
I live in Sweden and right now we are automating the service industry as well.
You order fast food from a touch screen, you buy your train tickets from a machine and the supermarket cashier is being replaced with a self-checkout.
Meanwhile I still have about 50+ working hours every week. I pay about 65% of the money I make in tax so the people that were laid off through service automation can receive unemployment benefits.
I think there is room for improvement within this economic system.
I used to ran a production database on top of drdb without any problem, active-passive fail-over HA-setup.
The major advantage is that no other specialized components (NAS/SAN/etc) is needed and you'll still have decent shared storage between the nodes.
Three nodes in such a cluster is highly recommended resolve/avoid any insane-in-the-split-brain scenarios, drdb-storage needs to be protected from split and can not help you to resolve it in the same way as a traditional NAS/SAN-lun.
We had to do some tuning to get the performance we needed, but this was a few years ago and the situation has probably improved since. Databases usually likes vm-dirty-* to be very low or 0.
As I recall, you numbers are correct, I was also invited to the IPO, but since I'm not an US citizen - the SEC made me jump through many hoops before I was allowed to buy something. I've never been much of an administrative minded person so I got bored halfway and never got around to buy any. I actually went through all of the doc-com bubble and y2k-mania without any substantial personal financial gain.
A few of my classmates from my university registered a funny domain name and made something that could be mistaken for a website, consisting mostly of static html-pages and sold that to some venture capitalists and they are still living of the capital from that sale.
So unlike you, I'm still kind of bitter about my missed VA-linux IPO....
You don't need to bother with old-school stuff like grsec, iptables, IDS, chrooted applications or any stack-protection technologies.
Get a WAF, audit your web-app source-code and use a pen-test tool regularly instead.
SQL-injections walk right in, through the front door. They stuff their pockets full of data and then leave the same way they came, unnoticed most of the time.
Someone who can do the proselytism, take initiatives to drive the adaption and at the same time be the go to guy for the technical knowledge needed for any new processes/tools.
We all agree that the old waterfall inspired way of working when the developers work on their own, throws a bunch of new code down a hatch for the ops guys to deploy and they both blame the other team when something don't work is less than desirable.
Maybe there are some startups that have the devops mindset already from the beginning and a few old companies that can get there on there own, but I think many need some help to get there. Perhaps they could hire someone to get them started?