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Al DuPree

Dec 13, 20215 min read

The Context of One Lifetime (Part 1 of 4)

You really need two lifetimes: one to learn how to live. The other to live what you've learned. I can remember a world map from my...

Al DuPree

Dec 2, 20214 min read

Some Thoughts on "the train" ...

I spent a couple of years working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (commonly referred to as NIST). I knew about NIST...

Al DuPree

Apr 15, 20195 min read

Context for Our Times

The kick off of the next presidential election has included conversations that have driven me to consider how we look at time in our...

Al DuPree

Apr 3, 20198 min read

The DevOps Entry Point: Context, Maturity, Then Metrics (Part 3)

In Parts 1 & 2 of this series we covered how we’ve arrived where we are when it comes to system deployment in the enterprise. We talked...

Al DuPree

Mar 22, 20197 min read

The DevOps Entry Point: Context, Maturity, Then Metrics (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series we covered how information technology practices were heavily influenced by the interests and the practices of...

Al DuPree

Mar 11, 20193 min read

Missing Words ...

It’s no secret: we are a nation divided. There’s lots of partisan rancor making the rounds. And there are some extremes on display that...

Al DuPree

Mar 11, 20196 min read

April in Paris (well almost ...)

(This was first published in Medium about a year ago. The recent ruckus over Ilhan Omar, made me think it might be appropriate to...

Al DuPree

Mar 11, 20196 min read

The DevOps Entry Point: Context, Maturity, Then Metrics (Part 1)

In 1859, Charles Dickens began his serial publication of A Tale of Two Cities, which starts out “It was the best of times, it was the...