Tech Blog of Stephen Souness

Introduction These days I consider myself to mainly be a developer, but with a solid background in getting services and apps operational. This post is intended to focus on some of the work that I have done so far in my career that I would consider as being more focussed on the operations side of technology-driven projects.  It can be read as background to my appreciation of the DevOps approach to developing and deploying applications. If you came to read about my medical history then that is also covered here: I've never had an operation. University days Personal hardware Back in the 90s PCs were still the dominant home computer, and as my brother was into electronics and electrical engineering I went down the path of assembling my first proper computers from components. The level of component that I'm referring to here is consumer-accessible ready-made modules rather than individual chips and circuit boards. I never took up a soldering iron in anger. So, when I had enough of...