Steve Fenton

A Software Punk, author, programming-architect, pragmatist/abstractionist, and generalising-generalist. Fenton has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.

UK Joined on Mar 5, 2025 https://www.stevefenton.co.uk

Work

Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy

Steve Fenton

Nov 3

Your IDP needs DDD

#platformengineering #devops #ddd

6 min read

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Steve Fenton

Oct 28

How organizations measure Platform Engineering

#platformengineering #devops #analytics

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 24

Automation’s importance to Continuous Delivery

#devops #cicd #automation

8 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 13

The difference between deployments and releases

#software #octopusdeploy #cicd

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 8

Why you should adopt Continuous Delivery

#cicd #agile #automation

7 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 29

Common mistakes in DevOps metrics

#analytics #devops #monitoring

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 22

On Fear of Friday Deployments

#cicd #software

2 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 16

GitOps Gap: Few Use Declarative Configuration To Manage State

#programming #gitops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 9

Measuring Platform Engineering with MONK metrics

#softwaredevelopment #platformengineering

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 1

Developer experience metrics

#devex #analytics #programming

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 26

Improving culture with the capability culture cycle

11 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 20

The GitOps maturity model

#gitops #cicd #kubernetes

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 11

What is GitOps? A research-backed answer!

#gitops #softwareengineering #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 4

Work Is Water: Beat Developer Infinity By Paying Attention to Flow

#agile #workplace #productivity

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 29

Comparing Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery

#agile #cicd

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 21

Beyond ROWE: Why Results-Only Work Isn’t Always a Win

#workplace #culture

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 17

What’s Missing With AI-Generated Code? Refactoring

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 8

Developer Productivity: Why Some Incentives Fail

#softwaredevelopment #productivity #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 30

What Organizations Get Wrong With User-Centricity

#agile #softwaredevelopment #productmanagement

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 23

Relax About Your DORA Metrics

#devops #analytics #programming #software

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 16

Speed Means Nothing Without Real Feedback

#agile #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 12

AI Won’t Fix Your Software Delivery Problems

#ai #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 9

Stop Blaming Regulation for Poor Software Delivery Performance

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 5

Go Ahead! Deploy on Friday!

#devops #agile #cicd

6 min read

Steve Fenton

May 27

The Doorway Effect and Developer Experience: Why It Matters

#devops #psychology #workplace

4 min read

Steve Fenton

May 20

8 Real-World Reasons To Adopt Platform Engineering

#platformengineering #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

May 15

Gatekeepers Limit Continuous Delivery’s Benefits

3 min read

Steve Fenton

May 8

GitOps Makes for Great DevEx, but Pragmatism Matters

#gitops #devex #cicd

4 min read

Steve Fenton

May 5

Elite Performance Is Wasted on Feature Factories

#devops #softwaredevelopment #agile

6 min read

Steve Fenton

May 1

Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong

#cloud #programming #devops

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 23

Two Ways to Reduce Bottlenecks with the Theory of Constraints

#agile #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 15

CI is not CD

#softwaredevelopment #agile #cicd

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 14

Is Your Product Manager Hurting Platform Engineering?

#platformengineering #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 28

How Measurement Elevation and Aggregation Change Behaviors

#programming #metrics #leadership

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 24

Why Maturity Models Are Fundamentally Broken

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 20

The Cost Dynamics of Multitenancy

#architecture

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 17

The Past, Present and Future of Multitenancy

#programming #architecture

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 7

DevOps Toolchains Beat Off-the-Shelf Platforms

#devops #cicd #programming

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 5

Westrum‘s Organizational Cultures Are Vital but Misunderstood

#devops #culture

4 min read

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