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Women in Tech: Pioneering Leadership in DevOps and Platform Engineering

The technology landscape has long been a domain of intense innovation and dynamic change. Yet, one of the most significant changes in recent years is the increasing visibility and impact of women in tech, especially in fields like DevOps and platform engineering. Names like Nicole Forsgren, Julia Evans, Bridget Kromhout, Nora Jones, and Dora Korpar, among others, have become synonymous with excellence and innovation in these domains.

The Trailblazers

In the world of DevOps and platform engineering, there are inspiring stories of female leaders like Nicole Forsgren, who have not only broken through gender barriers but have also excelled in their roles. 

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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Book Review]

The book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations' profitability and market share. DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. It is quite clear that DevOps practices bring lots of benefits to organizations adopting them. The research findings are also in line with my own experience of DevOps.

The findings of the research are presented in the first part of the book (a bit more than half of it).

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DevOps Radio: State of DevOps Needs the Cloud, True Commitment [Podcast]

Host Andre Pino returns to the DevOps Radio mic to talk to Dr. Nicole Forsgren, CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), during DevOps World | Jenkins World. Nicole brings strong developer content and amazing energy to the latest episode as she shares key stats from the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (of which CloudBees was a leading sponsor).

Before diving into the report, Dr. Forsgren describes her career path, from her start as a software engineer and acquiring her PhD, to joining Gene Kim and Jez Humble — both former Jenkins World keynotes and DevOps Radio alumnus — to launch DORA. The trio set out with the goal of sharing knowledge as a way for everyone to get better and to know what's possible when it comes to a DevOps transformation, which they've accomplished with the report, now in its fifth year.