Archives for October 2014
Month: October 2014
How to Enhance DevOps by Supporting the Work of the Build-Release Engineer
Support Through Freedom As we’ll see, supporting the work of the build-release engineer enhances DevOps by adding consistency, easing minds, and freeing DevOps teams to do more. To support the work of ...
Crossing IT’s Culture Divide
Someday, I would like to be a world traveler – to visit other countries, experience other cultures, sample other foods and see other sights. And while the thought of that journey is ...
Capacity planning isn’t dead, but it’s not about supply any more
DevOps, flexible cloud architectures and continuous delivery have all simplified a lot of equations in IT today, but there is one element that's grown infinitely more complex: capacity planning. With the ability ...
Scripts or Machine Images, What is the Best Way to bootstrap
Between the advent of handy tools, like Chef and Puppet, and virtual machine infrastructures, like VMWare and AWS, I feel like there has been a great debate about how to bootstrap machines. ...
DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your tools!
This is Part Three in a four-part series. In Part One, I focused on the critical first step of defining DevOps with a purpose by thinking about DevOps in the context of ...
The Human Factor in DevOps
DevOps is about pinpointing and eliminating bottlenecks in order to deploy code often—shortening the time-to-market and increasing quality and effectiveness. One of the most common bottlenecks in the release process is the ...
Cloud-Based Documentation at the Speed of DevOps
Welcome back to this (semi-)regular column where I attempt to answer questions about DevOps, especially in larger enterprises. This time I address a vexing issue facing many large enterprises – how to ...
Separation Anxiety & the Leap from Dated IT Approaches to DevOps
Never ASSUME! I assumed that the drag on moving from IT as we knew it to a DevOps approach (with its continuous software deployment and other advantages) was due to the separation ...
Mobility Means Enterprises Need to Get Lean with DevOps
When people say "mobile" most folks think "devices." Phones. Tablets. Phablets. Smart things. Wearables. But what we really ought to be talking about in most cases is apps. A McKinsey & Company ...
Webinar: What DevOps Need To Know About Web App Security
You’ve seen the headlines— With Global Presence Falls Victim to Hackers. These data breaches result in the theft of millions of names, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal data. Imagine the ...
Eight critical DevOps practices: innovate, deliver, repeat
DevOps has been garnering a lot of interest for some time. Discussions and debates on forums like DevOps.com are improving our collective understanding of the right approach and now we are seeing ...
4 themes to expect from DevOps Enterprise Conference
The next few weeks are busy ones for the DevOps conference circuit. In just a week, DevOps.com will kick off another one of its intimate Camp DevOps gatherings in Houston, with talks lined ...