Archives for April 2015
Month: April 2015
Webinar: Scaling Web Applications with NGINX Load Balancing and Caching
Building out a web server is easy, but things get much more complicated as you add the load balancers and caching servers. Optimal configuration for these require considerable expertise in the area ...
Webinar: IT Decentralization: How to speed up your organization safely
New technology developments like DevOps, IaaS, and SaaS allow organizations to do more and make faster decisions with fewer staff and less budget. But, allowing anyone within an organization to deploy the technology ...
Why I’m Happy To Have DevOps Engineer In My Job Title
A recurring argument in the DevOps community is whether the word DevOps should exist within a job title. Most people close to DevOps think it’s a potentially harmful anti-pattern which indicates a ...
Q & A Cloud Security Alliance’s Jim Reavis on securing the IoT
Earlier this month at the RSA Conference 2015 the Cloud Security Alliance released security guidance for the Internet of Things (IoT). The guidance came out of the CSA’s Mobile Working Group — IoT ...
Webinar: Ship Faster without Breaking Everything
There’s a lot of noise in the market about what DevOps is and how to do it. Some might say that it’s more easily defined by what hasn’t been said about it. If ...
If you “code” your apps, why do you still “configure” your IT infrastructure?
Industry studies and market indicators show the exploding growth of the DevOps movement, and it’s for one simple reason – in today’s application driven economy, DevOps teams have proven that they can ...
Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development
DevOps encourages adoption of lean and agile development practices irrespective of platforms. However in most organizations mainframe and mobile/web development teams are functioning in siloes, resulting in a plethora of technology platforms ...
DevOps style performance monitoring for .NET
Editors note: This article represents the authors own opinions on the tools he mentions. We welcome others to join in the conversation about their opinions and experiences with these tools and similar ...
How machine learning could head off security quality failure
With so many players in the mix from operations to developers, from PMs to technical leads, to Q&A, most of their activities are automated. Systems record all their email, Wiki, and chat ...
Successful Failure
In software development, success is all about failure. That may sound as if we are carrying the "fail fast, fail hard" philosophy a little too far, but which would you rather have ...
Chevy and DevOps: What the Wi-Fi?
In DevOps: Rapid Feedback, Rapid Repair I’m sure you have seen it too. Chevy cars now come with wi-fi. How cool. I want that (and so would my kids). I can only imagine the ...
DevOps-in-Name-Only? Don’t do DOINO
Let's not be 'that' guy. And let's not be 'that' organization. You know, the one where "DevOps" is some magic pixie dust that we can sprinkle around, and then pat ourselves on the back ...