Aaron Nichols

Aaron works with startups and small companies to help their development organizations move faster. He is presently the senior Operations Engineer at a startup in Boulder working on implementation of Continuous Deployment, automated monitoring & configuration management.

DevOps
Aaron NicholsNovember 3rd, 2014
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Pairing with docker-spoon
Whether you pair or not I think this post is worth reading. Do you ever have needs like this? Ability…
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Software Development
Aaron NicholsMarch 25th, 2014
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Empathy in OSS – It’s Important
Spending nearly my entire working day (and many evenings) with Open Source projects I don’t maintain I have come to…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsNovember 26th, 2013
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Cargo Cult: Devops
We’ve been at this for a few years now, talking about DevOps & what it means to be a DevOps…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsSeptember 30th, 2013
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Why I Infracode
I’ve been involved in, and observed, some recent conversations which have me thinking about why I do what I do.…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsJanuary 29th, 2013
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Good & Bad Patterns in Development and Operations
As part of my role at a new company I’ve been asked to provide feedback about structuring Dev & Ops…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsJanuary 15th, 2013
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Continuous Deployment: Are You Afraid It Might Work?
I’ve been wondering for a few years now, why it’s so hard to get companies to prioritize the work that…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsJuly 2nd, 2012
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DevOps is Culture – so is a lot of other stuff
I hung out in an excellent discussion at DevopsDays driven by Spike Morelli around culture. The premise was that DevOps…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsJune 13th, 2012
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Why do we insist on consensus on the role of Ops?
I’ve seen so many threads over the last few weeks about who should do what, why, and what you should…
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DevOps
Aaron NicholsJune 8th, 2012
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Give your developers prod access – it’s trust
This isn’t a new idea and plenty of companies already do this. I had a discussion with a co-worker about…
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