Archive for July, 2011

Visualizing our Deployment Pipeline

Cross posted also here: http://techblog.outbrain.com/2011/08/visualizing-our-deployment-pipeline/ When large numbers start piling up, in order to make sense of them they need to be visualized. I still work as a consultant at outbrain about one day a week and most of the time I’m in charge of the deployment system last described here. The challenges encountered when developing the system are good challenges, [...]

The Three Axis of Software Management Complexity

The title sounds bombastic but hopefully the content is going to be trivial… For anyone who’s been doing software provisioning in a non trivial environment this post should only be calling names to things he may already know. Yesterday I was chatting with Nati Shalom and we were analyzing the difficulties of maintaining software for [...]