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DevOps: Infrastructure practices

DevOps: Infrastructure practices

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DevOps: Infrastructure practices

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- Of course, the rest of the business didn't stand still when we were working on the next iteration of our product. We'd gotten our web printing portal up and running very quickly. It was still bare bones, but our time to market with an MVP was a third of what the company typically took. - Seeing our success, more projects wanted onto our emerging cloud platform. But this provided us with a new challenge. In operations, we were used to needing to get all the hardware procured, built, set up, and hardened before we let the apps team touch it, even for testing. Because we'd been burned too many times by the system being blamed for whatever was going wrong with the application. So, we were in the habit of making sure that everything was configured perfectly and only then letting them use it for anything. - But we needed to be able to deploy and test our new projects right now, not in six weeks. I talked to Earnest about refactoring, restructuring existing code without changing its…

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