Press
14 pieces total. These are pieces by other authors (usually from journalistic outlets) that mention me directly, whether or not I’m directly quoted.
By no means is this intended to become a comprehensive list. I’ll tend primarily to include pieces that I perceive as meaningful in the context of my work, and I’m of course biased to include only those pieces that I consider favorable, or at least reasonably accurate and fair.
You may also be interested in my technical portfolio, my publications, and my presentations.
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Aspect Insights LivestreamThe Bazel modules mechanism for managing external dependencies (a.k.a. Bzlmod) is a marked improvement over the legacy WORKSPACE mechanism.
However, while support is growing, adopting Bzlmod for your own project often requires learning how to “hold it right.” It may also involve working around problems in your dependencies, or even contributing fixes upstream if possible.
I've done quite a bit of all of the above in the past few months, and I'm happy to share insights from my experience. Thanks to Alex Eagle of Aspect Build for hosting me on his livestream. A LinkedIn version of the livestream is available as well.
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Software at Scale Podcast
A conversation with Utsav Shah about automated testing adoption, culture change, and leadership. See my blog post about Software at Scale 53 for details. - »
O'Reilly Media
An edited version of the Google Testing Grouplet story from Chapter 10, "Enable Fast and Reliable Automated Testing", of The DevOps Handbook appears in Chapter 11, "SRE Patterns Loved by DevOps People Everywhere" as "Pattern 1: Birth of Automated Testing at Google". This was compiled by Gene Kim, one of the primary authors of The DevOps Handbook, by way of my appearance at DevOps Enterprise 2015. - »
Schibsted Tech Polska blog
A follow-up to my delivery of The Rainbow of Death at the first ever KRK Tech Talks Meetup hosted by Schibsted Tech Polska. Contains an excellent video of the talk. - »
Hexawise blog
An interview by John and Justing Hunter of Hexawise that covers many aspects of my testing and culture change journey, including much of what I recently spoke about in The Rainbow of Death. This blog post contains links to the full "Testing Smarter with Mike Bland" interview. - »
IT Revolution Press
Thanks to my appearance at DevOps Enterprise 2015, parts of my Google Testing Grouplet story now appear in this encyclopedic work by Gene Kim, et al. You'll find it in Chapter 10, "Enable Fast and Reliable Automated Testing", pp. 123-126; and Chapter 21, "Reserve Time to Create Organizational Learning and Improvement", subsection "Create Internal Consulting and Coaches to Spread Practices", pp. 306-307. - » IT Revolution
A blog post by Gene Kim highlighting the Google Testing Grouplet story in advance of the release of The DevOps Handbook. I pointed to this article in my "DevOps Handbook Case Study" blog post. - »
FedTech
A profile along with four of my colleagues. I have no idea what the hell they were thinking with those illustrations. - »
Christopher Newport University Voyages
A profile in my alma mater's alumni magazine. Note that the major accomplishment of 18F is not saving money, but improving the way the government works for the people. - »
Fusion
Earlier this year, Fusion’s director of engineering Daniel Bachhuber pinged our #tech channel in Slack: I knew where Daniel was going with this. - »
Federal Times
As part of its mission to make government websites more effective and accessible, the team at 18F published a content guide to help agencies write clearly, concisely and tailored for the web. - »
18F Blog
We’re proud to announce the release of our 18F Content Guide, a comprehensive handbook to help content creators on our team (and, we hope, elsewhere) create more direct, accessible, and compelling written works. - »
FedScoop
18F Guides is meant to be an orientation tool for new hires, but some also hope to use it as a blueprint for digital teams launching around government. - » FedScoop
The General Services Administration today launched a new Jekyll-based documentation platform called the Hub. What's that? FedScoop's assistant editor, Billy Mitchell, has the latest.