How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery - #doxlon

With an ever-increasing array of tools and technologies claiming to 'enable DevOps', how do we know which tools to try or to choose? In-house, open source, or commercial? Ruby or shell? Dedicated or plugins? It transpires that highly collaborative practices such as DevOps and Continuous Delivery require new ways of assessing tools and technologies in order to avoid creating new silos. Matthew Skelton shares his recent experience of helping many different organisations to evaluate and select tools to facilitate DevOps; the recommendations may surprise you.

A talk given at DevOps Exchange (#doxlon) meetup group on 24th July 2014: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Exchange-London/events/194288152/

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