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Steve Fenton

Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a 8-time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.

The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

Steve FentonOctober 6, 2023 • 6 min read
Paved versus golden paths in Platform Engineering

Steve FentonSeptember 4, 2023 • 6 min read
Cloud-nomad architecture

Steve FentonJune 21, 2023 • 6 min read
Creating a high-performance DevOps toolchain

Steve FentonMay 17, 2023 • 4 min read
How to measure DevOps mean time to recovery (MTTR)

Steve FentonMay 15, 2023 • 10 min read
DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model

Steve FentonMarch 22, 2023 • 8 min read
Why are there so many definitions of lead time?

Steve FentonFebruary 20, 2023 • 5 min read
The key assumption of modern work culture

Steve FentonJanuary 25, 2023 • 7 min read
The new DevOps performance clusters

Steve FentonJanuary 18, 2023 • 9 min read
DevOps and Platform Engineering

Steve FentonJanuary 11, 2023 • 5 min read
DevOps versus SDLC

Steve FentonDecember 12, 2022 • 8 min read
Common mistakes in DevOps metrics

Steve FentonDecember 7, 2022 • 8 min read

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