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Apr 15, 2019
5 min

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 soci...

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Al DuPree

Apr 3, 2019
8 min

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 a...

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Al DuPree

Mar 22, 2019
7 min

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 ea...

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Al DuPree

Mar 11, 2019
3 min

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 w...

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Al DuPree

Mar 11, 2019
6 min

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 publis...

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Al DuPree

Mar 11, 2019
6 min

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 wor...

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