App Modernization Blog

First it is ironic that I am writing this post about Pivotal my old employer as a Googler . So please remember that these thoughts are my personal opinion only and NOT Google's.  Recently I got to legitimately reminisce about my early years at Pivotal.  Dojo A  dōjō  ( 道場 ,  Japanese pronunciation:  [doꜜː(d)ʑoː] [note 1] )  is a hall or place for immersive learning or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts, but has been seen increasingly in other fields, such as meditation and software development. The term literally means "place of the  Way " in Japanese. From my perspectives here are the 5 key tenets of the DOJO methodology.  Immersive Pair Programming- we used to call this -  I  do, We do , you do. The intent here is to teach them how to fish and not merely assist them or do it for them.  Pair programming resulted in both enablement and delivery.  Communication, feedback  and quick decisions. Run the team like a product team. There are typicall

Wondering if Google Cloud has you covered for all the 15 Devops Trends >? The answer is a resounding YES. In fact GCP pioneered some of the trends like Shift Left Security and was one of the first to bake in gitops style config and policy management practices in our multi-cloud platform Anthos.  Migrating to microservice will become a must - @GKE https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migrating-a-monolithic-app-to-microservices-gke Hybrid will become the deployment norm - @Anthos DataOps will boom - @GoogleFourKeys https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance Resilience testing will become mainstream - @AnthosServiceMesh https://cloud.google.com/solutions/scalable-and-resilient-apps GitOps will become a norm - @CloudBuild @Container Registry @CloudSourceRepositories @ApplicationManager @Anthos ConfigConnector   https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/gitops-cloud-build There will be more migrations to serve