Thought leadership on Good Software Delivery, cloud and automation

3 Musketeers is a pattern popularized by Frederic L where you can Test, build, and deploy your apps from anywhere, the same way. Note: Frederic's website was preivously available via 3musketeers.io but is now https://3musketeersdev.netlify.app/ The key benifits include being able to have a mix of Linux, Mac, and …

Chris and Drew share their combined knowledge around developer experience, why (micro) feedback loops matter a whole lot, and present a live demo of a Cloud Native application working locally - complete with unit tests, end-to-end tests and smoke tests. Originally presented by Chris and Drew Optimizing for Developer …

I cover the basics of what an AWS Landing Zone (LZ) is and why we need them. Topics include best practices around building your own LZ, including approaches for value-focused LZs. I also share my lessons learned after years of building LZ’s in AWS, and dive into Cloud Guard rails that set you up for success …

This post is based on a repo I created to Visualize VSMs: https://github.com/drewkhoury/vsm How traditional value streams work Value-stream mapping on wikipedia. Each step is represented in a uniform fashion on the diagram. You can scan the diagram and find out that 6 days is the largest lead time, however this takes …

Good Software Delivery (GSD) is the term we use for the set of practices that help deliver, well, good software. There’s a focus on short feedback loops, a consistent developer experience, with more time spent delivering and less time spent on chores like workstation setup and debug. For context, I’ve previously …

This webinar walks you through many different features in Miro using a Miro board you can follow along with. We cover use of post-its, locking items, frames and presentations, voting, timers, zoom levels, and even kanban boards! Watch the video on YouTube Miro Masterclass or play the video below:

On Tuesday October 26, Contino’s Melissa Aydin, Head of TalentOps and James Strong, Cloud Native Director, along with our two teams of tech experts presented The Great Tech Debate of 2021. Based on their industry experience and work with our clients, our teams debated between four major topics, with timed answers and a …

Join Greg and I as we run through what it’s like to be a Technical Principal at Contino.

We all want to reduce toil and improve the developer experience (when starting new applications or joining the team). Developers have had to invest significant time in creating production-ready pipelines when building new products and configuring their workstations when joining teams. Their workstations may not run all …

AWS updates their services so quickly they literally have thousands of updates each year (1,284 the last time I checked): https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/ This blog will highlight some of my favorite AWS updates for 2021. AWS Network Firewall https://aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/ — A managed service …