I think that professionals should not take forum comments personally. In my opinion, the concept of DevOps is a refinement of Agile methodology. Fifteen years ago, Agile was an opinion....

If amateur is too harsh, how about "hacker".

If you deploy to production from anywhere besides a version control tool, you are doing it wrong.

The proper term for a developer who doesn't use source control is "amateur".

I always find myself annoyed when IT professionals wish for magic dust that makes datetime data less complicated. I will point out the obvious fact that it is not until data...

There is a lot of excellent advice on this thread. My contribution is to caution against over-engineering and complexity. I have seen audit systems that were so full of data...

I don't write software because I love it. I do it because I can't help it. I can't believe that people pay me to do this stuff.

I wasn't specifying hardware, just a principle. I think that Steve's advice about heterogeneous systems is good, and you are looking for an application in your operation, security is a good one.

One of the implications of Steve's advice is that if you are a Windows shop, your firewall and external security solution should be based on Linux, and you should invest...

You are quite welcome. This query shows the sort order for all ASCII characters and is a little more useful--

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Thank you for your kind comments, guys.

Kyrilluk, great story. I can help a client get the right system for their organization. The client doesn't need to know IT, but what they must know are the details...