Archives for December 2017
Month: December 2017
All Day DevOps, Viewed from the Outside
This year was my first All Day DevOps event. I loved it, as much as I was able to attend. I was especially interested in how DevOps worked with government, as I ...
The Value of Commercial Open Source
Adhering to the open source definition enables a large, passionate community to collaborate and share their work, insights and innovations on a given OSS project. Companies working in commercial open source add ...
The 5th Industrial Revolution: When It Will Happen and How
Industrial revolutions have always dominated and changed the world in a big way. The first one happened way back in 18th century, and the second industrial revolution occurred almost two centuries later, ...
Why One Second Matters for Today’s Application-Centric Businesses
A lot can happen in a second, especially if your business is digital. Google receives 68,000 search requests. Amazon averages $2,361 in sales. In this application-centric world, those are just examples of ...
What is an Agile IT Organization?
Agile IT is the new sexy. Don’t get me wrong. It has always been around. But with the rise of digital transformation, it has taken on a renewed urgency. For example, Domino's ...
Making Software Maintenance Cool Again with DevOps
What makes DevOps so important? Part of the answer lies in how DevOps encourages more appreciation for and investment in software maintenance. Traditionally, the IT industry has been like the construction industry ...
Outsourcing DevOps? Here’s What to Look For
DevOps synthesizes methods, processes and tools with the goal of improving your company’s velocity at which you deploy applications, which serves your customers better. Teams using DevOps best practices and tools to ...
HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise Empowers IT Administrators
Most of what passes for management of IT infrastructure often amounts to little more than a Word document describing how a system is configured. HashiCorp developed Terraform to enable IT organizations to ...
Are Your Web Applications Prepared for the Holidays?
Three best practices to secure your website for the coming retail boom The holidays are upon us, which means retailers are racing to launch new promotions, sales and other temporary web pages ...
Accommodating Different Processes in Enterprise Software Delivery
When an organization takes on a new initiative, it typically develops a procedure to optimize execution and limit blowback from the transition. Whether it’s the introduction of new processes, personnel, structures or ...
