Defense Unicorns, A Podcast Pioneering Agile and DevOps with Andrew Clay Shafer
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May 23, 2023 Andrew Clay Shafer, a DevOps and Agile pioneer, shares insights from his journey at Airgonautic, focused on enhancing organizational workflows. He highlights the evolution of Agile and DevOps practices, emphasizing the need for tailored strategies over commercialized frameworks. Shafer discusses the crucial role of charismatic leadership in driving change, especially within the Department of Defense. He advocates for collaborative problem-solving and proactive questioning, showcasing how innovation can thrive when intelligent individuals work together.
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From Developer To Flow-Focused Founder
- Andrew Clay Shafer recounts moving from software development to focusing on helping people work better through a new company, Airgonautic.
- He explains the shift from vendor-driven tool agendas to being technology-agnostic and focusing on flow of work.
Applying XP To Infrastructure
- Shafer describes early work at Puppet and adopting XP practices like TDD and CI for infrastructure problems.
- He calls this approach 'agile infrastructure' and links it to fixing deployment mismatches between environments.
'Build It, Run It' Requires A Platform
- Shafer contrasts 'build it, you run it' at Amazon with teams already operating inside an API-driven infrastructure.
- He highlights the three-layer cake: infrastructure, platform, and software as the future some teams already lived.
