---
title: "Rest in peace, Doug Reilly"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/24/rest-in-peace-doug-reilly.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/24/rest-in-peace-doug-reilly.html"
published: "2006-12-24T00:50:41"
updated: "2006-12-24T00:50:41"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Rest in peace , Doug. Cancer hit close this time, and I hope this is as close as it will ever get. Doug was an MVP and was fighting Cancer. He passed away not long ago."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Rest in peace, Doug Reilly

By Roy Osherove December 24, 2006 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 24, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Rest in peace](http://blog.programmingasp.net/), Doug.  Cancer hit close this time, and I hope this is as close as it will ever get. Doug was an MVP and was fighting Cancer. He passed away not long ago.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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