Over 10 years, we've crafted a highly transparent, systematic approach to compensation where fairness and equity happen “by design." How much should you pay people? What should the difference be between juniors and seniors? Should all senio…
Octopus passed 300 employees and A$100M in ARR. A snapshot of where we are in 2024. In the last couple of months, we passed two incredible milestones: When new Octonauts join, and I meet them some weeks later, I consistently hear that Octon…
2021 is the year we unfurled our tentacles - literally! We had a huge year in 2021. Here are some of the highlights: At the end of 2020, Octopus was 77 people. We didn't hire many people in 2020, and our revenue had been growing a lot faste…
Octopus is a bootstrapped software company, and so there are no investors that have put money "into" the business. As a result, every dollar we've ever used to build our business has come from customers. There's something humbling and power…
There's this pattern that emerges in engineering, marketing, and a lot of other things that we do. I suspect somebody has already named it - some law or maxim - but I've not seen it written somewhere. I describe it as the "highly-measurable…
We published a public handbook for our remote-first company. We're a bit over 70 people at the moment, and plan to hire quite a bit more this year. To try to manage that growth a bit better, I spent the last couple of weeks working on a com…
This post is a summary of Octopus Deploy as of May 2020. Our team, our customers, what we do, and how we see the DevOps automation world. Since I wrote on this blog six years ago, so much has happened. Where do I even start? I think it migh…
Hello, is this thing on? It's a while since I wrote on this blog 😀 I wrote here fairly actively between 2010 and 2014, and I really enjoyed doing it - I use writing as a way to gain clarity and iron out my thoughts. As Octopus Deploy turne…
Hello, I'm Paul. I'm a software developer from Brisbane, Australia. This site is my personal blog, where I write mostly about software development, and my journey with Octopus Deploy, the software company where I'm the founder & CEO. I try
Aaron Stanard published a blog post about The Next Decade of .NET Open Source. It's a good summary of recent conversations and there's a lot to agree with in the post. In particular, I agree strongly with this point: If Autofac is genuinely…
My old friend Mitch Denny (it's been a while!) wrote about the Tyranny of NuGet. In addition to these two popular uses, NuGet is also used by the new PowerShell Package Management tools as one possible source/provider of packages, once agai…
Our team at Octopus has grown a lot this year, and we're going to be even bigger by the end of the year. Right now there are 7 of us (5 full-time). Next week, Damian will be starting, and in addition we're also actively hiring for four more…