Contributions
This lesson lists the amazing people who contributed to this course.
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The book this course is based on was a collaborative effort. Many helped shape this book through discussions, notes, and bug reports. I was swarmed with comments through DevOps20 Slack, messages, and emails. The conversations I had with the readers of the early editions of the book influenced the end result significantly. I’m grateful to have such a great community behind me. Thank you for helping me make this book great.
A few rose above the crowd.
Carlos Sanchez#
Carlos Sanchez was so kind as to contribute parts of the Choosing the Right Deployment Strategy chapter. He’s one of those people that you MUST follow on social media. His articles are excellent, and he is one of the most gifted speakers I’ve ever seen.
In his own words…
I have been working for over 15 years in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. In all this time I have been involved in Open Source, as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and contributing to a variety of popular projects such as Apache Maven or Jenkins. As I started playing with Kubernetes during its early days, I created the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and recently started the Progressive Delivery and Canary deployment implementation for Jenkins X.
Joost van der Griendt#
Joost van der Griendt is one of those people that embrace a challenge wholeheartedly. We worked together for the same customer and quickly established a great relationship. From there on, he started helping me with discussions and advice on the subjects I worked on. Later on, he began contributing to this book. At times he was so proactive and helpful that I could not keep up with his pull requests. Just when I would think I was done for the day, I’d see a new pull request with more questions, changes, additions, and corrections.
In his own words…
Joost started out as a Java backend developer but found himself fascinated by developer productivity through tools like Jenkins and Maven. Inspired by Viktor’s books and Workshops, he moved his attention to Docker, Cloud, and DevOps to the point where he joined CloudBees to help spread the knowledge.
Darin Pope#
Darin Pope was continually sending pull requests with corrections and suggestions. He made this book much clearer than it would be if I had to rely on my, often incorrect, assumptions of what readers expect. Without him, my broken English would be even more evident. Outside of the help with this book, together we co-host DevOps Paradox podcast. Please check it out.
In his own words…
I started out working with MultiValue database platforms in the late 80s. Since that time, I’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of great clients and companies using numerous technologies. Said differently, I’m old, and I’ve seen a lot. As we head into the new roaring 20s, I’m really looking forward to what the future holds, especially in the IoT space.
Eric Tavela#
Eric Tavela provided technical feedback to help keep the text up to date with the evolving Jenkins X platform.
In his own words…
Working in the field of software engineering for over 25 years, I’ve continually been trying to balance my knowledge of effective coding practices, delivery infrastructure and software development process. Nowadays that generally means Agile BDD of microservices deployed to Kubernetes; tomorrow, who can say? For however long I can keep up, I look forward to finding out.
