Should DevOps be Rebranded as “Platform Engineering”?

DevOps brings applications and product development closer to operations to shorten the feedback loop and speed up its processes. But what if we rebranded DevOps as “platform engineering”? This rebranding would be a more accurate description of what DevOps practitioners do, and it would help clarify the role of DevOps engineers. This post will explore the benefits of rebranding DevOps as “platform engineering” and discuss some possible objections. Please, join in the comments section below....

July 17, 2022 · 2 min · 312 words · Joel Zamboni

Keep Python for yourself

We often want to use Python utilities like black or newer pip versions. But we don’t necessarily contaminate our OS or other virtual environments. A suggestion is to use a virtual environment and load it on your login without changing your shell prompt (PS1). Here is how I do on my Ubuntu. First, you have to make sure you have the basic development packages and Python modules: sudo apt install -y \ build-essential \ python3-dev \ python3-pip \ python3-venv Then you can create your Python virtual environment...

October 24, 2021 · 1 min · 132 words · Joel Zamboni

The case for fewer environments

At Webera, we strive to build the underlying technology which supports innovation. Our team provides DevOps as a Service, a small group of two DevOps/SRE Engineers, a DevOps Architect, and a Scrum Master. A DevOps team’s objective is to help the developers get their code to the end-users as fast, safely, and stable as possible. We use automation, infrastructure as code, testing tools, vulnerability assessment, lots of monitoring software, pipelines, ticketing systems, office hours, and many other tools to perform this task....

March 22, 2021 · 3 min · 482 words · Joel Zamboni