{"id":441,"date":"2014-11-07T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/?p=441"},"modified":"2014-11-07T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:34:57","slug":"why-differing-perspectives-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/2014\/11\/07\/why-differing-perspectives-are-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Differing Perspectives are Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/FeUTO.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, we were pushing to get a Ruby on Rails app deployed into AWS. \u00a0One firewall rule away, the developer put in a change request that he thought would get there and stepped out for a quick break. \u00a0Since we&#8217;re all sitting in the same room, some might think it overkill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/Room.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/Room-300x224.png\" alt=\"Cloud Central\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/Room-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/Room-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/Room.png 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have an information security professional embedded in our Cloud First team who has final authority over security-related decisions. \u00a0Reviewing the request, he didn&#8217;t feel comfortable with the nature of the change.<\/p>\n<p>When the developer returned, he and our InfoSec person discussed the nature of the change request. \u00a0It turns out what was being requested was valid, but the\u00a0there was a slight error in how it was written up.<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved, firewall rule processed, and boom &#8211; our app was in business.<\/p>\n<p>Having a team with broad perspectives is not only desirable, it is absolutely necessary for success. \u00a0And that is exactly the type of consideration that went into drawing members for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ndcloudfirst\">#NDCloudFirst<\/a> mission:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1-300x175.png\" alt=\"Augmented Team\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1-500x292.png 500w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2014\/11\/AugmentedTeam1.png 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, we were pushing to get a Ruby on Rails app deployed into AWS. \u00a0One firewall rule away, the developer put in a change request that he thought would get there and stepped out for a quick break. \u00a0Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/2014\/11\/07\/why-differing-perspectives-are-good\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}