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## Homepage

- [High-value insights](/content/site-root.html): High-value insights Skelton Thatcher publishes books from experienced practitioners in the software industry. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software: practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability Skelton Thatcher is now part of the Conflux Books family. Latest blog posts More blog posts... (250 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [2017/09/26/using-packer-create-windows-aws-amis-declarative-build-agents.html](/content/2017/09/26/using-packer-create-windows-aws-amis-declarative-build-agents.html) (1 words)
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- [2017/03/15/container-clustering-rancher-server-part-5-automating-deployment-aws-infrastructure-rancher-terraform.html](/content/2017/03/15/container-clustering-rancher-server-part-5-automating-deployment-aws-infrastructure-rancher-terraform.html) (1 words)
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- [2017/03/03/container-clustering-rancher-server-part-4-deploying-and-managing-containerised-gocd-continuous-delivery.html](/content/2017/03/03/container-clustering-rancher-server-part-4-deploying-and-managing-containerised-gocd-continuous-delivery.html) (1 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/07/13/artifactory-global-software-teams/index.html): This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability Artifactory is an excellent solution to the problem of package management and binary artefact distribution when teams are spread around the world. The caching and data replication features of… (1,498 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/2017/05/26/thoughtworks-tech-radar-vol-16-developer-experience-api-product-codescene-per-team-ci-tools-operability.html): This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability At the excellent Agile Manchester conference recently, I picked up a copy of the latest Technology Radar (Vol.16 - March 2017) from our friends at ThoughtWorks.  Several things in…, The document discusses the principles and practices of continuous delivery, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, automation, and DevOps in software development. It highlights the role of tool selection in enhancing team interactions and addresses challenges such as manual deployment and database drift. The document also references Conway's Law, illustrating how organizational structures influence system design and advocating for collaborative tools that facilitate communication and efficiency. - Download as a PDF or view online for free, For effective, modern, cloud-connected software systems we need to organize our teams in certain ways. Taking account of Conway’s Law, we look to match the team structures to the required software architecture, enabling or restricting communication and collaboration for the best outcomes. This talk will cover the basics of organization design, exploring a selection of key team topologies and how and when to use them in order to make the development and operation of your software systems as effective as possible. The talk is based on experience helping companies around the world with the design of their teams.
 
In summary, this talk will cover the basics of organization design, exploring a selection of key team topologies and how and when to use them in order to make the development and operation of your software systems as effective as possible.

Talk given at IPEXPO Manchester on 26 April 2017 - http://www.ipexpomanchester.com/Speakers/Matthew-Skelton - Download as a PDF or view online for free (1,147 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/2017/02/09/migrating-infrastructure-to-the-cloud-using-aws-and-chef.html): This is a guest post from Kamalika Majumder, an Independent Cloud and DevOps Consultant and founder of CloudKata (previously Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks). For the past seven odd years, she has been helping enterprise customers apply DevOps practices and culture in their organisations and have also been helping them go to Cloud securely with scale. You… (964 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/04/25/devops-windows-hosted-roundtable/index.html): This post was written by Chris O'Dell co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability Last night, our partners The Scale Factory hosted a roundtable discussion on the subject of DevOps on Windows.  As a co-author of the Continuous Delivery with Windows and .Net… (737 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/2017/06/19/rebelcon-monitoring-communication-security/index.html): This post was written by Chris O'Dell co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability RebelCon is a new one day, not for profit, conference in Cork, Ireland and I was lucky enough to have been selected to speak through their CFP… (987 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/10/18/build-run-developers-also-call/index.html): This post was written by Chris O'Dell co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability It's all about Feedback Loops The Continuous Delivery Pipeline is familiar to most developers.  It's a collaborative process built upon loops of feedback at every… (884 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/03/26/architectural-service-considerations-aws-multi-region-design-part-1-pilot-light.html): This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability The recent AWS service outage has renewed interest for enhanced resilience, particularly multi-region design. In this series of posts we explore considerations when designing and deploying multi-region architectures in AWS. Working knowledge of AWS is assumed,… (919 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/2017/10/12/the-benefits-of-using-gocd-deployment-pipelines-for-managing-terraform-environments.html): This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability Although an excellent tool for infrastructure orchestration, Terraform plans can quickly become complex and difficult to manage, especially when deploying to multiple environments. In this post we examine the benefits of abstracting away core… (650 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/10/05/auto-generated-infrastructure-graphs-terraform-plans.html): This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability Information visualisation is used for visually representing data to reinforce and enhance cognition. When deploying infrastructure as code, this visual perspective of resources and their relationships can prove useful, both at the design stage,… (544 words)
- [effective software operations](/content/2017/03/20/dzone-guide-devops-continuous-delivery-automation-volume-iv.html): Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability DZone has recently released the latest version of their free DevOps report: "The DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation, Volume IV", a collection of articles, reports and surveys by IT experts. DevOps does not need introductions anymore in 2017  - it… (356 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/2017/07/21/mobile-ops-tablet-terraform-termux/index.html): This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. Discover the acclaimed Team Guides for Software - practical books on operability, business metrics, testability, releasability As a core sys(ops)admin and long time proponent of flexible working I’m a big fan of mobile ops, and ever keen to push the boundaries. The laptop can unchain you from the desk (and… (606 words)
- [Effective Software Operations](/content/publications/index.html): Team Guides for Software Developing and running modern software systems requires teams of motivated and well-trained people; however, most IT books are written for the individual technologist. The Team Guide series from Skelton Thatcher Publications takes a team-first approach to software systems with the aim of empowering whole teams to build and operate software systems… (243 words)
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