June 30, 2020

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Podcast: Andrew Clay Shafer on Three Economies the Wall of Confusion and the Origin of DevOps

Podcast: Andrew Clay Shafer on Three Economies the Wall of Confusion and the Origin of DevOps

Wes Reisz speaks with one of the people at the center of the creation of the idea of DevOps. Andrew Clay Shafer is the VP of Transformation at Red Hat where his role is about helping companies change their relationship with software in the cloud native ecosystem. On the podcast Shafer talks about the Three Economies, Wall of Confusion, and a bit about those first mentions of DevOps. By Andrew Clay

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Author: Andrew Clay Shafer

Date: 2020-11-03

URL: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/devops-origin-three-economics/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global

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