Archives for December 2014
Month: December 2014
Webinar: Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads
As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses ...
Top 5 DevOps and Operations Challenges in 2015
DevOps and operations teams are under increasing pressure from tech-savvy, app-centric business users to collaboratively solve complex business problems with IT. Adding to the battle, the pursuit for the perfect synchrony between ...
Native support for Docker apps coming soon to Parallels
When I think of Parallels, the first thing that comes to mind is virtual machines. I have used Parallels for years as a means of running a virtualized instance of a Windows ...
How DevOps Eases The Holiday Shopping Experience
“I have been building retail software for 15-years,” says Harper Reed, CTO, Modest, CTO emeritus, Threadless, and former CTO, Obama for America. “With the advent of DevOps, development is now about how ...
Breaking Builds II – The Butler did it
As editor-in-chief here at DevOps.com and writing for several other publications I see more than my share of contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns (not to mention pitches from PR agencies), but ...
The Top Metrics You Need to Track to Improve Operational Performance
Living in a data-rich world is a blessing and a curse. Flexible monitoring systems, open APIs, and easy data visualization resources make it simple to graph anything you want, but too much ...
Software Defined Data Centers Enable True DevOps
I have been talking a lot recently about the bleeding edge technologies that are offloading the complexity of DevOps management, and software quality. My last post on service virtualization is the latest ...
Clearing through the app backlog clutter
Development and operations teams today are under more pressure than ever to develop apps the business needs to make its workforce productive, its partners connected to the resources they need, and to ...
Four strategies for supporting DevOps collaboration
As we've discussed before, the ever elusive DevOps culture doesn't form magically. Rather, it is fostered by building a collaborative environment. While there are many ways to skin the cat in terms ...
Organic engineering team a must for long term DevOps success
Last month I was out in Las Vegas at CA World. While there I had a chance for a one-on-one meeting with CA CEO, Michael Gregoire. In our discussion Gregoire told me ...
Tips to change culture (at least in your team).
DevOps is all about automation, enhancing the Application Lifecycle Management and culture change. In the last few years there have been tons of conferences and articles about the benefits of a cultural ...
Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
A question comes to mind in what exactly do we need to do to move forward with Continuous Delivery and Continuous deployment, How should we start or rather where we should start ...