You may, like me, have become quite interested in Continuous Delivery and all of the associated ‘things’ - agile, devops, kanban but if, like me, you don’t work at the Google’s or Netflix’s of this world you may sometimes wonder “Where to start?” That conundrum can be made more difficult to fathom out if you spend the majority of your working time on operational issues. You become caught in a vicious cycle of wanting to improve things so you have less operational issues but the operational issues prevent you from devoting constructive time to improving things.

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 Hopefully you will have seen the recent press around a discovered security vulnerability that affects the Linux operating system or more specifically the BASH shell and systems that make use of that shell. Maybe you saw the pretty cool logo around recently. (Other logos have been floating around too but this is my fave.) BASH BASH (Bourne Again SHell) is a command processor. It is where you type commands you want to run and the shell takes what you type and interprets it and gives you back an output or does something.

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