Dillon Courts

Platform Engineering Practice Lead
Dillon has been developing software for over a decade and has a passion for improving developer experience and software development efficiency. He specializes in DevOps practices, Cloud Native solutions, and Platform Engineering. In his free time Dillon enjoys playing sports, video games, board games, and spending time with his wife Alex, and 2 daughters.

    Internal Developer Portals — Backstage vs Port — Do You Really Need One?

    05.08.24 | Dillon Courts
    TLDR: This isn’t a hot take blog post. I spent some time evaluating the internal developer portal trend, as well as Backstage and Port. My conclusion on whether you need one… it depends on your organization.

    The State of Agile – It's Our Fault Too

    03.08.24 | Dillon Courts
    TL/DR: This article is for software developers who are frustrated with the state of agile, and I know that’s nearly all of us. We all need to take a look at what got us here, and what we can do about it.

    Top CI/CD Tools of 2020

    06.03.20 | Dillon Courts
    You’ve decided it is time to get on board the DevOps movement and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment of your applications. Or maybe you’ve been doing this for a while but are looking to explore a new tool.

    Case Study: Nonprofit Embraced DevOps To Establish A National Presence

    11.21.19 | Dillon Courts
    When thinking of how organizations implement DevOps, a church is generally not the first prospect that comes to mind. Callibrity worked with Crossroads, a Cincinnati based church organization, to help establish a national presence. Crossroads’ digital product team worked alongside Callibrity to create software solutions that can support Crossroads’ large and expanding user base. With the support of Callibrity, Crossroads embraced modern, scalable approaches such as DevOps from ideation to deploying code to production.

    The Origin and Key Principles of DevOps

    10.03.19 | Dillon Courts
    In Part 1 of this series we took a look at some common symptoms of organizations that could benefit from the adoption of DevOps principles. In this post we’ll dig a little deeper into DevOps and answer questions like: Where did DevOps originate? How does DevOps define itself? And what are some of DevOps core tenants?