Octopus
Fair and Transparent: A deep dive into compensation at Octopus Deploy
Over 10 years, we've crafted a highly transparent, systematic approach to compensation where fairness and equity happen “by design."
Paul Stovell
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.
Octopus
Octopus milestones in 2024
Octopus passed 300 employees and A$100M in ARR. A snapshot of where we are in 2024.
DevEx Connect
Last week, Ethan Sumner announced the launch of DevEx Connect: DevEx Connect is a community-driven, independent research, analysis, and events organisation operating within the DevEx umbrella, which includes DevOps, SRE, Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, Cloud, and AI. Over the next 12 months, we plan to host a global DevEx Connect
Octopus
Octopus Deploy in 2021
2021 is the year we unfurled our tentacles - literally!
Customers as investors
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
Highly-measurable upside vs. immeasurable downside
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
Publishing the Octopus Handbook
We published a public handbook for our remote-first company.
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Octopus Deploy in 2020
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.
A new blog for 2020
Hello, is this thing on? It's a while since I wrote on this blog 😀
Why we terminated our partnership with Microsoft - Re: Next decade of open source
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
Re: Tyranny of NuGet
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
Introducing Service Bouncer
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.