Gene Kim

@RealGeneKim

WSJ bestselling author: Unicorn Project! DevOps researcher/enthusiast. Coauthor: Phoenix Project, Accelerate. Host of The Idealcast. Tripwire founder. Clojure.

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Joined January 2009
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    5 Dec 2019

    Holy cow. The Unicorn Project is on the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists!!! #2 in Hardcover Business category! And astonishingly, it’s also #8 across all Non-Fiction E-Books!!! A DevOps book!! 🤯🤯🤯 🙏❤️🦄🌈 Paywall:

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  2. 10 hours ago

    I agree —  is awesome! But beware: macOS Big Sur not supported yet! Thanks for the email warning us not to upgrade. Bullet dodged! (Barely... :)

    . helps us to produce really great quality content with ease! In fact you can tell at which point we started using it, along with equipment upgrades. Catch up now wherever you get your podcasts or check us out on Spotify
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    Oct 22

    If you enjoy the Agile Engineering Podcast, check out 's with a constant stream of great guests and thought leaders from across the IT landscape! Check it out below!

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    Nov 6

    In this month's episode we talk about a lot of books! The first of which is The Phoenix Project from , and George Spafford. This is a great look at the theory of constraints with an IT lens.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    🙏🎉❤️🦄 Keep up the amazing work, — and PS: I owe you a reply... I promise I'll get back to you soon! Catch you soon!

    It's Monday (we think)! Let's look at the next book we mention in our latest episode of that's available right now! We also talk about The Unicorn Project by - the successor to The Phoenix Project, talking about the 5 ideals
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  6. 10 hours ago

    "A distributed system is the one that prevents you from working because of the failure of a machine that you had never heard of."

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  7. 10 hours ago

    Wow — this is what killed me at 1pm today. Couldn't start any programs, and rebooting just made it worse. Reason? Allegedly Gatekeeper service swamped by Big Sur update, and thus, programs couldn't start.

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    Is anyone’s Mac just not working 😂 like you haven’t even tried to update to Big Sur yet but for some reason things just are bricked in the past couple hours 😤
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    15 hours ago

    Statement from CISA (part of Trump DHS) and state officials says the election "was the most secure in American history," dismisses "unfounded claims," says in bold, "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

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    13 hours ago

    Gen. David W. Allvin formally received his fourth star today, fulfilling the last necessary step before he is elevated to vice chief of staff, the service’s second-ranking military position.

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    13 hours ago

    Possibly the most important subtweet in the history of this site.

    Election Infrastructure Subsector - SCC/GCC Joint Statement on the 2020 Election. TLDR: America, we have confidence in the security of your vote, you should, too.
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    14 hours ago

    working code > new code

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    13 hours ago

    oh hey there's a dope SRE book coming and I wrote a thing! I've seen a few of the essays and can't wait to see the rest 👀

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    Nov 11

    Because of the pandemic had to meet an increase in online demand -- including a 300% spike in traffic and 80% increase in orders. Makes me proud was part of their multi-cloud approach.

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  14. 20 hours ago

    I learned about origins of "point free programming" style, the value of constraining programs to further able ability to understand and reason about code, and how bubble sort can be done in O(n) time w/right hardware!

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  15. 20 hours ago

    Newton had to invent terms like mass, acceleration, inertia, and concept of vectors to fully succinctly describe so parsimoniously observable behaviors (and anomalies of previous beliefs). So neat to see how far functional programming has advanced — cc

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  16. 20 hours ago

    I loved him interpreting this seminal paper, highlighting how much his concepts have been Into modern functional programming, and how terms have been created for concepts Backus was describing. It reminds me of early drafts of Newton's Three Laws of Motion... (contd)

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  17. 20 hours ago

    I loved listening to podcast where he discusses, explains & interprets famous 1977 paper by Turing Award winner John Backus on functional programming: “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?” 2 hrs of super neat insights!

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  18. 20 hours ago

    For those who want more: Here's 's 2020 DevOps Enterprise London-Virtual presentation: And here's and presenting at 2020 DevOps Enterprise Vegas-Virtual:

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  19. 20 hours ago

    "Speed is a function of credibility. Credibility is a function of delivering. Credibility creates freedom of action." -David Silverman () cc It was so great interviewing them — I had so many insights from these discussions!

    Wow! Just about every minute of The Idealcast Episode 13 has important insights. You'll want to listen to Episode 11 first to get the full effect.
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    Nov 11

    Wow! Just about every minute of The Idealcast Episode 13 has important insights. You'll want to listen to Episode 11 first to get the full effect.

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    23 hours ago

    Refactoring a Loop That Was Trying Too Hard

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