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Thoughts On Recent Google Volatility - January 2024
30 Jan 2024 | original ↗

In the ever-evolving world of SEO, a crucial but often overlooked phenomenon is Keyword Cannibalization. This term may sound ominous, and rightly so, as it can significantly impact the visibility and ranking of your website on search engines like Google.

Thoughts On Recent Google Volatility - December 2023
18 Dec 2023 | original ↗

Updated on February 5 2024 Google has been very volatile in their search results recently. This website (valewood.org) has been impacted by that volatility where some days this site completely vanishes from the SERPs.

The Top Five Things I Learned About Search Engine Optimization In 2023
27 Nov 2023 | original ↗

As we are hurdling through the cosmos on this little tiny rock, spending time thinking about where you have been and subsequently where you are going is a valuable and powerful tool to have in your bag.

Cloudflare Workers Are Kind Of Terrible
10 Jun 2023 | original ↗

There, I said it. Someone needed to say it. Cloudflare Workers are kind of terrible, today, 11-09-2023. Specifically the deployment / publishing workflow, language support, and wrangler are all bad.

What Is Cultural Adoption In A DevOps Transformation - Part 3
19 Apr 2023 | original ↗

DevOps transformation has become a buzzword in the tech industry, and for good reason. It promises faster development and deployment, enhanced productivity, and efficient resource utilization.

What Is Cultural Adoption In A DevOps Transformation - Part 2
18 Apr 2023 | original ↗

DevOps has become a buzzword in the world of software development and IT operations. It's a methodology that emphasizes collaboration and communication between teams and departments to deliver software faster and more reliably.

What Is Cultural Adoption In A DevOps Transformation - Part 1
17 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Are you looking to improve your organization's software development and delivery process? DevOps may be the solution you need. However, it's not just about implementing new tools and technologies.

What Is A DevOps Transformation - Part 4
16 Apr 2023 | original ↗

In today's fast-paced world, businesses need to be agile and responsive to stay ahead of the competition. This is where DevOps comes in.

What Is A DevOps Transformation - Part 3
15 Apr 2023 | original ↗

DevOps transformation is a hot topic in the world of software development and IT. It's a process that requires collaboration, shared ownership, and Agile-inspired approaches to achieve continuous delivery of high-quality software.

What Is A DevOps Transformation - Part 2
14 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Are you looking to improve your software development process? Look no further than DevOps. DevOps is a collaborative and agile approach that focuses on continuous improvement and embraces new technologies and processes.

What Is A DevOps Transformation - Part 1
13 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Are you looking to improve your software development process? DevOps transformation may be the solution you need. DevOps involves a cultural shift towards collaboration, communication, and automation to release software faster and recover from issues more quickly.

Integrating DevOps And Big Data To Streamline Processes
31 Mar 2023 | original ↗

I strongly believe in the power of DevOps in streamlining the software development and delivery process. With the increasing importance of software in organizations across various industries, DevOps has become a crucial factor in ensuring customer satisfaction and business alignment.

Achieving Better Product Management With DevOps Practices
27 Mar 2023 | original ↗

By combining Agile methodologies, infrastructure automation, and continuous delivery, DevOps enables teams to deliver software with unparalleled quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.

The Key To Successful DevOps: Tracking The Right Metrics - Part 3
25 Mar 2023 | original ↗

It is impossible to overstate the importance of tracking DevOps metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). These indicators provide an objective measure of the effectiveness and efficiency of development and production, ensuring better end-user experiences.

The Key To Successful DevOps: Tracking The Right Metrics - Part 2
24 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Are you interested in improving your application deployment processes and delivering better end-user experiences? Look no further than DevOps, a methodology that blends development and operations teams to work collaboratively throughout the software development lifecycle.

The Key To Successful DevOps: Tracking The Right Metrics - Part 1
23 Mar 2023 | original ↗

I'm always excited to discuss the latest trends and best practices in software delivery, and one critical aspect of this topic is metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Transformative Leadership Through DevOps Culture
22 Mar 2023 | original ↗

As a DevOps evangelist, I cannot overemphasize the importance of continuous improvement in today's business environment. Agile methodologies, automation, and cloud computing are critical in enabling organizations to achieve their goals effectively.

The Integration Of DevOps Practices For Better Database Management
19 Mar 2023 | original ↗

DevOps has become essential in today's world and is playing a vital role in software development processes. It involves integrating all the stages of the development life cycle with Agile methodology to achieve faster delivery of new features, improving productivity and reducing delivery time.

The Importance Of Quality Assurance In DevOps
18 Mar 2023 | original ↗

DevOps culture and methodologies have taken the software development world by storm, prioritizing collaboration and creating efficient, automated processes that improve deployment speed and quality.

Collaborating For Success: The Essential Role Of Project Management In DevOps
17 Mar 2023 | original ↗

As the world of technology continues to evolve and become more complex, the role of project management has become even more critical.

Improving Culture And Collaboration With A DevOps Transformation
14 Mar 2023 | original ↗

In today's fast-moving market, businesses expect software delivery speed to keep up with the pace of change. DevOps is a strategy that enables organizations to meet this demand and deliver faster while maintaining quality.

What To Choose: TechOps Or DevOps?
13 Mar 2023 | original ↗

In the rapidly evolving world of software engineering, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest developments and trends.

Ansible Delegate_to | Execute Tasks On Specific Hosts
30 Jan 2023 | original ↗

When running ansible, you may find times that you are looking to have a different host run a task on behalf of your playbooks and this is where delegate_to comes in.

Convert Text File To YAML With Ansible
23 Jan 2023 | original ↗

I have previously written an article about file manipulation with with Ansible, specifically how to convert a text file to json.

How Can DevOps Teams Take Advantage Of Artificial Intelligence?
30 Dec 2022 | original ↗

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in technology these days. If you are building software that captures data, odds are that you are also training ai models to enhance that data.

How ChatGPT Can Speed Up DevOps By Writing Ansible
14 Dec 2022 | original ↗

Did you know that ChatGPT can help you write Ansible? ChatGPT utilizes the same OpenAI that GitHub Copilot uses to generate code on the fly in your favorite IDE or code editor.

DevOps Interview With ChatGPT
9 Dec 2022 | original ↗

ChatGPT is a chatbot built on top of OpenAI. Using information from various sources, OpenAI is a language-processing model which can ‘learn' from natural language and provides responses in a variety of different formats.

Helm: Kubernetes Cluster Unreachable
2 Dec 2022 | original ↗

Kubernetes, while fairly mature as a platform, is still considered an emerging technology in the business space. Due to this, lots of engineers are spending their free time trying to learn about Helm which can lead to some pretty frustrating errors.

DevOps Roll-up: November 2022
30 Nov 2022 | original ↗

Below is a list of DevOps articles/sites that I discovered over the past month and found interesting. Linux Troubleshooting This is an interesting tool that people can use to test out their Linux troubleshooting skills in a capture-the-flag-style event.

PurpleUrchin Crypto Mining With Free GitHub Actions
26 Oct 2022 | original ↗

Sysdig Threat Research Team has discovered PURPLEURCHIN, an elaborate crypto mining operation taking advantage of automated CI/CD services. Attackers have used millions of free compute cycles through services such as GitHub Actions, Heroku, and others, to run the operation.

How DevOps Can Improve Your Technology Stack
4 Sept 2022 | original ↗

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and operations to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of software delivery.

DevOps Roll-up: August 2022
31 Aug 2022 | original ↗

Below is a list of DevOps articles/sites that I discovered over the past month and found interesting. DevOps Roadmap First is a link to a DevOps roadmap.

How To Modify VMWare ESXi Guest Files With Ansible
27 Aug 2022 | original ↗

This post will help anyone who is attempting to use ansible to modify files on VMs running on ESXI via automation when Practicing DevOps.

How To Create ESXi VM With Ansible
25 Aug 2022 | original ↗

This post will help anyone who is attempting to use Ansible to create new VMs with automation when Practicing DevOps. I use this in my home lab to help stay current with new trends in DevOps.

Convert Text File To JSON With Ansible
24 Aug 2022 | original ↗

I was looking through Reddit today and saw an interesting question about how to manipulate files with Ansible. I took a few minutes to throw together an example of how to convert a relatively simple file, a list of strings broken up by new lines, and output it as JSON.

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