Archives for April 2014
Month: April 2014
Some changes to DevOps.com
Well if you are reading this you are one of almost 40,000 unique visitors to DevOps.com in the last 6 or so weeks. In this relatively short time we have learned a ...
SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change
Security Automation By Example The Firewall Change Just when you thought DevOps was the new black, along comes SecDevOps. Yes folks, like most things in life, the new cool is already here ...
Does DevOps spell death for Line-of-Business (LOB) Applications?
Perhaps wrongly, "DevOps" has been associated with "new" and "that thing for the cool kids" and the "hipster developers". This is used both as an excuse and as a source of animosity ...
You have to crawl before you walk…
In previous posts I have explained what Security Policy Orchestration is, why DevOps folks should care, and how it can help facilitate the cultural change necessary for organizations to reap the long-term ...
DevOps storytime: MTTR vs. Goodheart’s Law
I am not a fan of metrics. Wait. That's not right. Let me try again. I am not a fan of singular metrics that stand by themselves. Nope. That’s still not right ...
Embracing a culture of continuous incident response
In a world of continuous development and rapid iteration combined with being connected online 24/7/365, you are bound to encounter threats. In fact, attackers use automated tools so you are under constant ...
DevOps makes coding more social, social coding makes better code
One of the main principles of DevOps is to break down silos. What’s more like a silo than the image of a lone developer, shutting himself off from the world in order ...
Gene Kim interviewed by JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava
Two members of the DevOps.com Board of Advisors, Gene Kim and Rajat Bhargava filmed an interview that is on YouTube and on JumpCloud's blog. We are putting it up here and hope ...
Security and DevOps showdown
George Hulme's article on proceeding with caution on DevOps implementation offers some advice from a few well known security experts. Article here vs. Alan Shimel says today's speed of business isn't compatible ...
DevOps: Security’s last best hope
Help us Obi Wan! The fact is that DevOps is security’s last best hope. The sooner the security industry realizes it the better it will be for everyone. I read George Hulme’s ...
DevOps: Caution Ahead
Despite the continued adoption of enterprise DevOps practices, some organizations, especially those in highly-regulated industries remain cautious about moving forward too quickly. “There’s no doubt that DevOps brings benefits for some organizations,” ...
DevOps developers; don’t be a DevGoof
There was a lot of brush back last week over Jeff Knupp's post about how DevOps is killing the developer. Frankly I wasn't shocked by Knupp's opinion that developers "are the dentists ...