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Henry Been
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Henry Been

Henry Been has been working in IT for over ten years. He is an independent architect, developer, and trainer in a number of companies. With many of these companies, he has embarked on a journey implementing practices such as continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code, trunk-based development, and implementing feedback loops. Alongside his work, he creates online training courses for A Cloud Guru, and frequently speaks at meetups and conferences. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in 2019.
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Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag is an architect and trainer at 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft cloud. He has over 15 years' experience of providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During his career, he has worked on a variety of projects, ranging from cloud transformations to DevOps implementations. He loves to share his knowledge, which was also one of the reasons why he founded the Dutch Cloud meetup. Maik is a public speaker, writes blogs, and organizes events.
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Understanding continuous feedback

As explained in Chapter 1, Introduction to DevOps, DevOps is a cultural movement that tries to bring developers and operators closer together, to help them to deliver business value faster and more reliable. Feedback loops are an important element in doing this. In the previous chapter, we saw numerous feedback loops:

  • Developers can run unit tests on their local machine to verify that their changes did not break existing behaviors.
  • After source code check in, all unit tests are run again and a pipeline with more tests starts running.
  • Besides functional tests, security tests and dependency scans can be run.
  • After releasing, logs and metrics are gathered to determine whether the application is running smoothly.

All of this provides feedback on the technical quality of the work and now it is time to add one more feedback loop—a loop intended...

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Henry Been

Henry Been has been working in IT for over ten years. He is an independent architect, developer, and trainer in a number of companies. With many of these companies, he has embarked on a journey implementing practices such as continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code, trunk-based development, and implementing feedback loops. Alongside his work, he creates online training courses for A Cloud Guru, and frequently speaks at meetups and conferences. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in 2019.
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Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag is an architect and trainer at 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft cloud. He has over 15 years' experience of providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During his career, he has worked on a variety of projects, ranging from cloud transformations to DevOps implementations. He loves to share his knowledge, which was also one of the reasons why he founded the Dutch Cloud meetup. Maik is a public speaker, writes blogs, and organizes events.
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