Guide to Balancing Speed and Control in DevOps

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Jacob Martin

Jacob is a Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift with experience working in high scale distributed systems environments: building storage systems, service meshes, observability infrastructure, and developer experience workflows. He is Certified in Deep Learning Specialization. He has got a practical mindset of shipping, and building projects in as simple a way - but not simpler - as possible.
Jacob Martin

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