Steve Fenton
@stevefenton.co.uk
🧷 Software Punk
🐙 Swabbie / Octonaut at #OctopusDeploy
✂️ Yak Stylist
🔬 DORA Community Guide
🛡 Deputy Head Boy (BPCS)
🏆 Microsoft MVP
🔁 #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps
👟 #Agile #Lean and #PlatformEngineering
🧠 Opinions were implanted by smarter people
🐙 Swabbie / Octonaut at #OctopusDeploy
✂️ Yak Stylist
🔬 DORA Community Guide
🛡 Deputy Head Boy (BPCS)
🏆 Microsoft MVP
🔁 #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps
👟 #Agile #Lean and #PlatformEngineering
🧠 Opinions were implanted by smarter people
A new episode has been added to the Chilling Deployment Tales; "Sixteen Hours".
"Every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment."
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
"Every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment."
www.youtube.com/watc...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
Chilling Deployment Tales: Sixteen Hours
The digital phantoms that haunted Global Mega Finance Corp were, on a good day, merely troublesome specters. Yet, every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment.
Extract from "Chilling Deployment
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November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A new episode has been added to the Chilling Deployment Tales; "Sixteen Hours".
"Every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment."
www.youtube.com/watc...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
"Every six months, with the grim predictability of a condemned man's last meal, a Thursday night would be chosen for the great ritual – the Deployment."
www.youtube.com/watc...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
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Tell me, people — what’s your favorite Argo CD feature? 🤔
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Tell me, people — what’s your favorite Argo CD feature? 🤔
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Luna is relaxing this #caturday but still says hello to all the #CatsOfBluesky
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Luna is relaxing this #caturday but still says hello to all the #CatsOfBluesky
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Imagine our house has been lifted by a hurricane and deposited in a strange land. The friendly people we meet tell us about a golden path, and off we go to see a wizard. We sing a little tune, because we don’t know the hazards awaiting us along the way.
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#PlatformEngineering
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#PlatformEngineering
Avoiding golden cages in Platform Engineering
How to stay on the golden path and avoid using golden cages, golden manacles, or other metaphorically golden objects of brute force.
stevefenton.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Imagine our house has been lifted by a hurricane and deposited in a strange land. The friendly people we meet tell us about a golden path, and off we go to see a wizard. We sing a little tune, because we don’t know the hazards awaiting us along the way.
stevefenton.co.uk/bl...
#PlatformEngineering
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#PlatformEngineering
No punches were pulled in the writing of this article.
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
Process Theater vs. Technical Excellence: A Recurring Software Crisis
How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No punches were pulled in the writing of this article.
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
Excited to share that my nomination, the State of AI-assisted Software Development, is a finalist for the 2025 #DevOpsDozenAwards! Your vote counts. Help choose the winners in 23 categories. Vote before New Year's Eve, at:
DevOps Dozen – The leaders, movers and shakers in DevOps
Announcing the 2025
DevOps Dozen Awards!
The DevOps Dozen awards are back for their tenth year and better than ever. We have reworked the awards program to reflect the trends and changes in our industry. There are two DevOps Dozen categories of awards totaling 24 awards:
Award Categories
Community
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November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Excited to share that my nomination, the State of AI-assisted Software Development, is a finalist for the 2025 #DevOpsDozenAwards! Your vote counts. Help choose the winners in 23 categories. Vote before New Year's Eve, at:
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November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap.
1/2
1/2
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I''m a finalist in the "Top #DevOps Community Evangelist" category of this year's DevOps Dozen awards hosted by @techstronggroup.bsky.social.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I''m a finalist in the "Top #DevOps Community Evangelist" category of this year's DevOps Dozen awards hosted by @techstronggroup.bsky.social.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Reposted by Steve Fenton
Reposted by Steve Fenton
The best horror comes from real life stories.
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
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#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Chilling Deployment Tales: The Hallowed Tablet
In the chill embrace of the pre-election twilight, the monolithic warehouse, a brutalist testament to an age of digital iron and binary steam, loomed against the bruised sky. Within its vast, unyielding shell, no outward sign betrayed the delicate sinews of technology that thrummed unseen, a modern
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November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The best horror comes from real life stories.
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know...
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
It may not be Picasso, but it is Brunel
A team using only Continuous Delivery will beat a team using only AI.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know...
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
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#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
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Amen.
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do
A fundamentally flawed approach to change
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Amen.
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do
A fundamentally flawed approach to change
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
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Welcome to Bluesky @clfleming.bsky.social 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Welcome to Bluesky @clfleming.bsky.social 🎉
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Once you've embraced software development as an iterative, goal-seeking process, it makes most sense to optimise your development process for LEARNING.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Once you've embraced software development as an iterative, goal-seeking process, it makes most sense to optimise your development process for LEARNING.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.