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
Over 10 years, we've crafted a highly transparent, systematic approach to compensation where fairness and equity happen “by design."
Octopus passed 300 employees and A$100M in ARR. A snapshot of where we are in 2024.
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
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.
We published a public handbook for our remote-first company.
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:
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.
Octopus
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.At the start of the year I wrote about how 2014 would be my year to focus on
Business of Software
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.Providing good customer support is the most important part of running a software business. When dealing with a
Octopus
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.Our team at Octopus has grown a lot this year, and we're going to be even
Software Engineering
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.In Octopus, we use RavenDB as our database [https://octopus.com/blog/how-we-use-ravendb] for almost everything. Over time,
Software Engineering
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.We use RavenDB in Octopus, and one of the features Raven promotes is the idea of Safe by
Projects
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.We use Tender [http://tenderapp.com] for most of the Octopus Deploy support [http://help.octopusdeploy.com]. I
Software Industry
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.StartupAUS published a report highlighting some of the issues that startup founders in Australia face. It's
Business of Software
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.There are many dimensions to a business: * Product * Support * Marketing * Sales * Operations * Partners * Vision At any given time,
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.In April 2006 I received a Microsoft MVP award [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Most_Valuable_Professional]
Business of Software
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.This post is part of a little series I've been writing about selling software. In this
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.I'm a developer by trade, and I've never had any interest in marketing. In
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.12 months ago I blogged about how I'd left LinkedIn [https://paulstovell.com/blog/cost-of-social-networks]. At