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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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The waterfall model

The waterfall model is a method for organizing the phases of a project in a linear, sequential order. This means that each phase builds on the deliverables of the one that came before it and corresponds to a different level of task specialization. This method is frequently used in a number of engineering design specializations. Since progress is made in mostly one direction (downwards, like a waterfall), this methodology is typically considered to be one of the least iterative and adaptable models in software development. The reason for this is that a team can only move forward in the waterfall process, never backward. This linear progression of immutable phases includes requirements gathering & analysis, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

The waterfall model was the very first kind of release management SDLC to be used in software development. The manufacturing and construction sectors are credited with being the birthplace...

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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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