Archives for July 2015
Month: July 2015

DevOps in a Hybrid Model
As enterprises have begun to demystify the value proposition around cloud adoption, several best practices, optimization techniques and delivery models have been described in the technical community around cloud enablement and large ...

DevOpsQA NJ Meetup – Containers with Joyent
DevOpsQA NJ just held our July Meetup on Containers with Casey Bisson from Joyent and Jeremy Rampon from Syncsort as speakers. The meetup was held at a new ROKITT location, a state-of-the-art ...

The Three “S’s” To A Successful App, Pt. 1
Developing your first app can be a daunting task. Many first-time developers may overlook, or over think, certain aspects of building their first app. Through scores of conversations and interactions with developers, ...

DevOps Dozen – Nominations are now open
To succeed in todays speed of business, app-centric world the old ways of doing business just don't work anymore. IT and development teams are being pulled, pushed, stretched and changed into new ...

Avoid the DevOps Tool Trap
Software development, at its most complex and dynamic is a full-court press of effort, knowledge, patience, and hard work. Anything that can reliably and cost-effectively reduce the huge number of tasks, redundancies, ...

Jut Operations Data Hub for DevOps
“You have to be able to ask questions of your data in real-time and then respond to the answers,” says Apurva Dave, VP of Marketing, Jut. Jut leverages live streaming, batch analytics, ...

The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps ...

Why DevOps for the database must include three way analysis
Deployment automation is critical to practicing effective DevOps. Without deployment automation, releases still require a lot of manual steps and processes. Processes and steps that aren't reliably repeatable, are prone to human ...

Proactive Monitoring
I think, most of the DevOps discussions are centered around testing the code change, packaging and deploying it in production in an automated fashion. However, stinging site-down issues would eventually force any ...

The Software BOM Squad
In my previous post, "When Good Code Goes Bad", I shared new research showing the average large development organization consumes over 15,000 known vulnerable and defective components annually. While we can't stop ...

#HugOps in Practice: Empathy Skills for DevOps
Get it together! Why is your service always down?!” We think we’re doing the whole DevOps thing right — new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and ...

When Good Code Goes Bad
Milk spoils. Iron rusts. And in software, good code goes bad. Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred. With software, those changes are not always ...