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Alan Shimel

http://www.ashimmy.com
As Founder, CEO & Editor-in-chief of MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. Johns University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
DOES19 London

DOES19 London: Bridging the Communications Gap

At the cornerstone of any successful DevOps transformation is effective communication between all members in an organization, from the business leaders, IT leaders, middle management and out to each individual member on ...
DOES19 London Lessons Learned

DOES19 London: Sharing DevOps Lessons Learned

| devops adoption, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019, DevOps failures, DevOps lessons, DevOps successes, DOES19
There’s a long-held belief in the DevOps space, "If you’re not moving forward, you’re dying." But if you're a DevOps veteran, you know that one of the best ways to orient yourself ...
DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working

DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working

| cognitive load, cross-functional teams, devops culture, team management
In the IT space it feels like we collectively begin asking and ruminating on the same question all at once, chewing on all the possible answers and outcomes. Recently, one such question ...
Fugue

Cloud Security: Self-Healing Infrastructure With Fugue

| Cloud Security, devsecops, Fugue, self-healing infrastructure
Misconfiguration is the No. 1 cause for data breach in the cloud. Fugue helps to eliminate data breaches, as it fixes anything that gets drifted by providing baseline drift detection and automated ...
DevOps Dozen 2019 Nominations Are Now Open

DevOps Dozen 2019 Nominations Are Now Open

| awards, devops dozen, devopsdozen
The DevOps Dozen awards are back and now open for nominations. This fifth annual DevOps Dozen honors the best of the best—the leaders and innovators in the DevOps community. This year’s awards ...
DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier

DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier (BVSSH)

| better value, BVSSH, devops, devops culture, DevOps enterprise summit, DOES London 2019
One of the key themes for this year's DevOps Enterprise Summit in London was BV-S,S,H. It stands for Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier. It gets to the heart of what DevOps is ...
JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners

JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners

| devops culture, Digital Anarchist, Insight Partners, jfrog, JFrog swampUp 2019
Another great event we covered on the Digital Anarchist tour this summer was the JFrog swampUp event in San Francisco. Among the many great interviews we did at swampUp, one was with ...
DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve

DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve

| DOES London 2019, github, Repos, repositories
Think about it. could we have a DevOps or even agile without code repositories (repos)? Repos allow for version control, team collaboration, testing on check in and more. So much of what ...
burnout

DOES 2019: Understanding the Effects of Burnout

| burnout, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019, DOES London 2019, fatigue, stress, workplace
If you work in the IT field, cybersecurity, the startup world or any other high-pressure job, you or someone you know has probably suffered from burnout in one form or another. If ...
Armory DevOps Chat

DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery

| Armory, continuous delivery, devops chat, Spinnaker, VC funding
The tribe at Armory announced the company's $28m series B funding, led by Insight Partners. Armory enables continuous software delivery at enterprise scale, powered by Spinnaker. That is a crisp mission statement, ...