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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” Deployment frequency.

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The Patrol Method and Self Directed Agile Teams

The Agile Manager

As part of my research into method earlier this year, I picked up a 1959 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook. The early editions of the Boy Scouts of America's version of the Boy Scout Handbook were mostly written by the same person, William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt , and revised over many years. Each troop works out its own way."

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Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

Smashing Magazine

When it comes down to how WordPress is programmed, one thing is certain: it doesn’t follow the M odel- V iew- C ontroller (MVC) design pattern that many developers are familiar with. Before we delve deeper in the code, a couple more things about WordPress REST API. Working With WordPress REST API. on December 6th, 2016.

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