At the recent DevOpsDays Chicago event, Bridget Kromhout pointed out that there is no “pink-haired, exciting, thought-leadership conspiracy of hipster DevOps” – that we are all in this together. This resonated with me on a personal level, as I’ve gone through my own journey through this thing …

One year ago today, this little girl showed up:

She is the best little Fifi-bunny ever. Today she is one year old and we love her so very much.

Continuing my project of crowd-sourced blog topics, today’s suggestion was via @dutchface. I like it for two reasons: One, it’s an interesting topic. Two, it’s a list, and everyone knows that lists are good blog posts to do, because they are easy and everyone likes to read them.

1. Internet friends …