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Blockchain has become the enfant terrible of the tech world. As any conceptually new tech it poses more questions than it provides answers. But the buzz around it is more than justified. Beside the crypto-gold rush that’s definitely been the main hype-driver, this is a technology that provides a promise of a different, decentralized future. A promise of distributed, global trust based on science and technology — not on military force, geographical proximity or national identity. It remains to be proven if such trust is possible, but if it is — world economy is up for a total paradigm shift.

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(Practitioner’s Reflections on The DevOps Handbook) The Holy Wars of DevOps Yet another argument explodes online around the ‘true nature of DevOps’, around ‘what DevOps really means’ or around ‘what DevOps is not’. At each conference I attend we talk about DevOps culture, DevOps mindset and DevOps ways. All confirming one single truth – DevOps is a myth. Now don’t get me wrong – in no way is this a negation of its validity or importance. As Y.N.Harrari shows so eloquently in his book ‘Sapiens’ – myths were the forming power in the development of humankind. It is in fact our ability to collectively believe in these non-objective, imagined realities that allows us to collaborate at large scale, to coordinate our actions, to build pyramids, temples, cities and roads. There’s a Handbook! I am writing this while finishing the exceptionally well written “DevOps Handbook”. If you really want to know…

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