I'm a Brisbane-based software developer, and founder of Octopus Deploy, a DevOps software company. This is my personal blog where I write about my journey with Octopus and software development.
Growing up, my wife Sonia always wanted an MG, but her parents convinced her to save up and buy something "sensible". So this year, because we can, we decided to buy a lovely little 1962 MGA. When MGAs launched, they were quick, sporty, fun, and cheap. The spiritual
Octopus
Over 10 years, we've crafted a highly transparent, systematic approach to compensation where fairness and equity happen “by design."
Octopus
Octopus passed 300 employees and A$100M in ARR. A snapshot of where we are in 2024.
Octopus
2021 is the year we unfurled our tentacles - literally!
Octopus is a bootstrapped software company, and so there are no investors that have put money "into" the business. As a result, every dollar we've ever used to build our business has come from customers. There's something humbling and powerful about this. The fate
Business of Software
There's this pattern that emerges in engineering, marketing, and a lot of other things that we do. I suspect somebody has already named it - some law or maxim - but I've not seen it written somewhere. I describe it as the "highly-measurable upside vs.
Business of Software
We published a public handbook for our remote-first company.
Octopus
This post is a summary of Octopus Deploy as of May 2020. Our team, our customers, what we do, and how we see the DevOps automation world.
Hello, is this thing on? It's a while since I wrote on this blog 😀
Aaron Stanard published a blog post about The Next Decade of .NET Open Source [http://www.aaronstannard.com/next-decade-dotnet/]. It's a good summary of recent conversations and there's a lot to agree with in the post. In particular, I agree strongly with this point: > If
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.My old friend Mitch Denny (it's been a while!) wrote about the Tyranny of NuGet [http:
Projects
As a developer building Windows Services, the workflow of constantly stopping and starting services can be a bit annoying, especially if your solution consists of multiple services. ServiceBouncer [https://github.com/PaulStovell/ServiceBouncer] is a simple, open source tool that helps to streamline this workflow.