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Published inApr 2024
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Joel Kruger
Joel Kruger
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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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Faster and cheaper doesn’t always mean better

At some point in the evolution of DevOps, and seemingly out of nowhere, we have become a culture that cost-justifies everything. In doing so, we violate the classic axiom that you can only ever satisfy two of three constraints: scope (quality), time (speed), and cost (low cost). This is known as the project management triangle or the triple constraint, which suggests that any change in one of these three constraints will inevitably affect the others; you will have to pick two of them and compromise on the third. All too often, we introduce some new tool and attempt to persuade others about how it will speed things up, result in cost savings, or free up our time for more meaningful tasks. Then, we’d discover how this new tool could improve quality if we extended it by adding yet another new feature or capability with the promise that it would yield a more reliable process compared to the existing one:

Figure 9.1: A diagram of the triple constraint
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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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