Steve Fenton

A Software Punk, author, programming-architect, pragmatist/abstractionist, and generalising-generalist. Fenton has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.

UK Joined on Mar 5, 2025 https://www.stevefenton.co.uk

Work

Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy

Steve Fenton

Sep 7

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.6: Change approvals

#software #cicd

3 min read

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Steve Fenton

Sep 3

AI Hasn’t Shifted The Bottleneck From Coding To Code Review

#ai #software #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 24

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.7: Modern multi-tenancy

#architecture

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 3

The Rego/OPA crucial policy pattern

#programming

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 30

The difference between a millrace and a waterfall

#programming #productivity #agile

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 27

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.5: Delivering database changes

#cicd #devops #database

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 20

Auto-close GitHub pull requests

#github #software

2 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 13

AI: You Asked for a Dog, They’re Selling You a Cheetah

#ai #programming #productivity

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 6

The thinking behind Millrace

#agile #resources #product

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 29

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.4: Mono, micro, mesco

#cicd #architecture #software #microservices

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 22

Generative AI: A model for acceptance

#ai

11 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 15

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.3: Branching strategies

#software #git

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 11

Gravity Applies To Robots

#ai #software

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 8

Why Octopus invests in developer experience

#devex #softwareengineering

7 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 1

Automatically update GitHub Action versions

#github #devops

1 min read

Steve Fenton

May 26

Harness engineering: The power of AI, guided by human intelligence

#ai #software

6 min read

Steve Fenton

May 18

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.2: Remaining deployable at all times

#automation #cicd #devops #softwareengineering

5 min read

Steve Fenton

May 12

How AI Makes You 56% Faster and 19% Slower

#ai #coding #productivity #tooling

7 min read

Steve Fenton

May 5

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.1: Continuous Delivery should be your top priority

#automation #cicd #devops #productivity

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 27

Running Astro in a preview container

#webdev #astro

2 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 20

Developer Productivity in the Age of AI: Why Your Past Predicts Your Future

#ai #programming #devex #cicd

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Apr 13

Setting GitHub as a trusted publisher for npm

#webdev #node #npm #github

2 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 31

Roll up your chair: How one small change sparked a DevOps revolution

#devops #software #culture

7 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 25

Modern developer experience has deep roots

#devex #software #culture

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 17

Snake Oil, Rituals, and Why We’re Wrong To Burn It All Down

#devops #agile #waterfall

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 9

We Don’t Trust AI (and That’s a Good Thing)

#ai

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Mar 2

How To Measure AI’s Organizational Impact

#ai #analytics

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Feb 27

Avoiding golden cages in Platform Engineering

#discuss #devops #management #softwareengineering

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Feb 17

It may not be Picasso, but it is Brunel

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Feb 5

Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do

#culture #leadership

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jan 27

Stop Force-Feeding AI to Your Developers

#ai #programming

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jan 20

The DORA 4 key metrics become 5

#devops #cicd

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Jan 13

Leveling up your deployment pipelines

#cicd #automation #devops

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jan 9

6 GitOps Practices That Actually Work

#gitops #devops

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Dec 18 '25

Platform Engineering’s patterns and anti-patterns

#platformengineering #devops

11 min read

Steve Fenton

Dec 8 '25

Assessing DevOps with Continuous Delivery statements

#continuousdelivery #cicd #devops

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Nov 24 '25

Vibe Coding: The Shadow IT Problem No One Saw Coming

#ai #vibecoding #software #programming

7 min read

Steve Fenton

Nov 18 '25

The top 5 features of internal developer platforms

#platformengineering #devops #idp

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Nov 11 '25

DevOps team structures

#devops #productivity #leadership

8 min read

Steve Fenton

Nov 3 '25

Your IDP needs DDD

#platformengineering #devops #ddd

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 28 '25

How organizations measure Platform Engineering

#platformengineering #devops #analytics

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 24 '25

Automation’s importance to Continuous Delivery

#devops #cicd #automation

8 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 13 '25

The difference between deployments and releases

#software #octopusdeploy #cicd

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Oct 8 '25

Why you should adopt Continuous Delivery

#cicd #agile #automation

7 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 29 '25

Common mistakes in DevOps metrics

#analytics #devops #monitoring

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 22 '25

On Fear of Friday Deployments

#cicd #software

2 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 16 '25

GitOps Gap: Few Use Declarative Configuration To Manage State

#programming #gitops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 9 '25

Measuring Platform Engineering with MONK metrics

#softwaredevelopment #platformengineering

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Sep 1 '25

Developer experience metrics

#devex #analytics #programming

3 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 26 '25

Improving culture with the capability culture cycle

11 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 20 '25

The GitOps maturity model

#gitops #cicd #kubernetes

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 11 '25

What is GitOps? A research-backed answer!

#gitops #softwareengineering #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Aug 4 '25

Work Is Water: Beat Developer Infinity By Paying Attention to Flow

#agile #workplace #productivity

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 29 '25

Comparing Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery

#agile #cicd

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 21 '25

Beyond ROWE: Why Results-Only Work Isn’t Always a Win

#workplace #culture

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 17 '25

What’s Missing With AI-Generated Code? Refactoring

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jul 8 '25

Developer Productivity: Why Some Incentives Fail

#softwaredevelopment #productivity #devops

4 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 30 '25

What Organizations Get Wrong With User-Centricity

#agile #softwaredevelopment #productmanagement

6 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 23 '25

Relax About Your DORA Metrics

#devops #analytics #programming #software

5 min read

Steve Fenton

Jun 16 '25

Speed Means Nothing Without Real Feedback

#agile #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

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