Distributed Operations: How uShip Built a Culture of Code Ownership for Faster Feature Delivery The original all-hands-on-deck culture faltered during growth Raleigh Schickel, DevOps Manager, has seen uShip evolve from a small team with a few developers, to a larger company with a dev team size of 60 and growing. Initially, everyone was always on-call for their own code. But this culture of ownership changed as the company grew. “ As we hired more people, code ownership centralized, though not intentionally,” says Raleigh. “Developers started expecting Operations to be responsible for the running system, and started working on features and moving on.“ uShip is a continuous deployment shop and developers are empowered to deploy code at any time. As Operations became more centralized, it was

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