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Steve Fenton
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🧷 Software Punk
🐙 Swabbie / Octonaut at #OctopusDeploy
✂️ Yak Stylist
🔬 DORA Community Guide
🛡 Deputy Head Boy (BPCS)
🏆 Microsoft MVP
🔁 #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps
👟 #Agile #Lean and #PlatformEngineering
🧠 Opinions were implanted by smarter people
A sleepy indoor #caturday for Luna. Sending purrs to all #CatsOfBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Whenever there a Cloudflare outage, I always suspect it's caused by this!
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Luna is relaxing this #caturday but still says hello to all the #CatsOfBluesky
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Heading to #DevOps London for some Platform Engineering fun (think Family Fortunes) and to meet lots of cool tech people!
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is wonderful!

youtu.be/8tCxOguhkTU?...
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Meanwhile in DevOps No.48

Downgrading for the upsell.

#ebooks #ereaders
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This chart highlights one of the findings of the Platform Engineering Pulse report. It illustrates two key aspects: producer and consumer perspectives of platform success, and mandatory versus optional adoption strategies.

Notice anything mind-melting?
November 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Back for Halloween! Meanwhile in HeckOps No.1

Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up...

#halloween #ai
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Get your hands on the free Platform Engineering Pulse report! Discover how organizations align with our community's views on #PlatformEngineering standards.

Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends.

octopus.com/publicat...
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Meanwhile in DevOps No.47

User-centric platforms.

Sadly based on our research!

#PlatformEngineering #DevOps
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Which answer would you pick in this poll?

Writing survey questions can be tough, but on this occasion answering is even tougher!
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The grand unveiling of the W3C logo took place in historical locations across the world this week, including Florence, Italy.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you have one of these, you don't get affected by DNS or AWS outages.
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Meanwhile in DevOps No.46

Changing the world.

#AI
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"The biggest predictor of Platform Engineering success is self-service."

— Steve Smith

From the talk, "I hired a platform product manager, but our platform is still less popular than Cheetos chapsticks."
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A quick tour of #FastFlowConf
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I'm being a swot at #FastFlowConf in the front row. Send your heckling ideas!
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Meanwhile in DevOps No.45

You build it, you run it!

#DevOps
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
When they told me they'd built Argo CD wizardry right into Octopus Deploy!
October 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is never gonna go, is it!!!
October 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Happy world Octopus day to all those who celebrate it, have 8 arms, and have a body filled with brain cells.

#Octopus #LifeAtOctopus
October 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Rob and I will be looking at the latest report from DORA: The State of AI-Assisted Software Development. Wednesday, October 8, 2025. Don't miss it.

Find out the highs and the hazards of using a technology that amplifies everything... good and bad!

#SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps #AI
September 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM