Archives for March 2015
Month: March 2015
Overcoming Siebel Complexity to Achieve Agile and Continuous Deployments
Siebel releases are complex. Executing one well is difficult. Extracting databases, migrating SRF repositories, deploying non-repository items and managing all the planned and unplanned outages is no small feat. Oh yeah, and ...
Puppet Labs talks Docker and containerization
Last week Puppet Labs released a new version of Puppet Enterprise that brought forward a number of new features, including those to Puppet Node manager that helps automate the provisioning of infrastructure ...
Variable Speed DevOps: A Deep Dive
About 2 months ago I wrote an article on "Variable Speed DevOps". To be clear I first heard the term used by Carmen DeArdo, Director of Application Development at Nationwide. It was ...
Webinar: How Nationwide Insurance is Adopting DevOps for Variable Speed IT Systems
To drive towards faster innovation, and also ensure the stability of the core business, the need arises for what is being termed as “two-speed or variable speed IT.” While innovative Systems of ...
DevOps at REA Group
“DevOps is 100 years old, and probably invented by a British engineer in the 1920s,” according to Nigel Dalton, CIO at REA Group, the company behind realestate.com.au and other leading real estate ...
Reducing Incident Resolution Time
From raw incident count to response time, there are several key metrics that top Operations teams track to measure and improve their performance. One of the most popular metrics teams track for ...
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable ...
Making DevOps Work with External Contractors
On a recent ‘virtual panel’ session, many questions came in real-time from almost a thousand attendees around the globe. I’ll try to cover the most interesting questions in this column over coming ...
8 Signs of Docker Ecosystem Empire-Building
Docker's meteoric rise on the strength of the continuous delivery movement's thirst for containerization has been nothing short of remarkable. There's perhaps no bigger sign of Docker's uptake than in the build-up ...
Jez Humble Leads Next Round of Speakers Announced for DevOps Connect @ RSA Conference
The next round of speakers has been announced for the DevOps Connect: SecDevOps event at RSA Conference. Joining the previously announced group we are pleased to announce the following distinguished presenters added to ...
A Puzzle – Gradle or Maven
Build Tool Gradle vs Maven (or Both) The world of build tools evolved from simple compilation (gcc) to make files, then evolution of ant(+ivy) and Maven, now the latest build tool is ...
IBM’s Watson sits at the crossroads between DevOps and Big Data
While attending IBM InterConnect in late February I had an opportunity to sit in on a press conference. The focus of the press conference was primarily around IBM’s efforts related to hybrid ...