DevOps Chat: CJ Paul, IBM, on DevOps, ITSM, Cloud and More
devopsy.kinsta.cloud editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sat down to speak with Dr. CJ Paul, Distinguished Engineer, DevOps Methods & Tools, IBM Cloud. CJ is someone we have interviewed previously on video at IBM InterConnect and is always a great source of information. In this interview Dr. Paul discussed DevOps, ITSM, Cloud, Bluemix, Bluemix Garage method and more. As […]
DevOps Chat: Michael Olson, Puppet, A Roadmap for DevOps Success
devopsy.kinsta.cloud editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sat down with Michael Olson, senior product marketing manager at Puppet, to discuss a number of topics including the recent DevOps Salary survey that Puppet released. Another topic of discussion was the webinar Puppet is sponsoring and Michael is taking part in Sept, 27 titled, “A Roadmap for DevOps Success.” This […]
2016 DevOps Dozen Nominations Are Open
I am happy to announce that the nomination phase of our 2016 DevOps Dozen awards are now open! As I wrote last week, we are doing things a little differently this year based on our experiences last year. Rather than just coming up with the 12 best companies in DevOps, instead we have selected a […]
Cisco DevNet: Cisco’s Window into DevOps
Again recapping some of the events and people I spoke to this summer, I wanted to report on a really great person I had the chance to chat with. Susie Wee is the VP & CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco Systems. Beyond that (as if that wasn’t enough), she also is the founder and lead […]
Damon Edwards and John Willis @ DOES London 2016
It was a very busy DevOps Summer 2016. Now that it is almost over, we wanted to bring you some of the highlights. One highlight certainly was the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in London, where Gene Kim assembled a great lineup of speakers. Two of my favorites were Damon Edwards and John Willis, and I […]
DevOps Dozen 2016 Coming Sept. 1
Last year our DevOps Dozen feature was one of our most popular activities at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Truth be told, we had never done anything like that before, and so we sort of fought our way through it in trying to come up the top 12 companies in the DevOps space. In hindsight it was really good, […]
Puppet 2016 State of DevOps Salary Report: Where the Jobs Are
Puppet has released its 2016 State of DevOps Salary Report,. The report is based on the over 4,600 responses to its State of DevOps survey by IT professionals all over the world. This year’s report answers the question every politician would like to be able to answer: Where are those good jobs? The answer is […]
DevOps Chat: Mark Nunnikhoven, Trend Micro on Hybrid Cloud
devopsy.kinsta.cloud sits down with Mark Nunnikhoven, VP Cloud Research at Trend Micro. We discuss hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud security, DevSecOps and more. Mark is very involved in research on the latest threats and trends in cloud security. This is a great interview that I think you will find very interesting. As usual, the transcript of […]
DevOps Chat: John Harris, LeftShift on DevOps Consulting and Continuous Testing
This episode of DevOps Chat has us speaking with John Harris of LeftShift IT. LeftShift is based in London, but has customers the world over. He speaks with us about DevOps consulting and continuous testing. John has some great insights to share that I think you will find interesting. Alan Shimel: Hi, everyone. Alan […]
DevOps Chat: Dave West, CEO Scrum.Org
I recently met Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org. While not one of the founders of Scrum.org, West is the CEO and product owner at Scrum.org. Dave and I spoke a bit what is happening with Scrum.org and how it interacts with DevOps. If you are interested in Agile, DevOps and Scrum, this is a good […]
The Big Shift: The State of Continuous Delivery
I wanted to call out a new report that we have just released here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. The State of Continuous Delivery: The Big Shift by George Hulme, contributing editor here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. In this report George takes a look at the current state of Continuous Delivery and how it is helping to transform software development […]
Jenkins World Speaker Gruver on the State of DevOps
Santa Clara, California, will be home to the biggest gathering of Jenkins users in the world Sept. 13-15. This year’s Jenkins World conference will feature Gary Gruver, DevOps expert and author of “Leading the Transformation.” We had a chance to connect with Gary and hear his thoughts on the state of DevOps, continuous delivery and […]
DevOps Chat: Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs
I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs. With so much being written and talked about the role of quality assurance (QA) and testing in a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) world, it is good to hear from someone like Steve who is an actual […]
DevOps Chat: GitHub Enterprise as a Hosted Service, with Jean-Louis Vignaud
I recently sat down with Jean-Louis Vignaud, program manager at IBM, about the new GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service that recently was rolled out on Bluemix. The GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service is a great option for enterprises that, due to compliance or other security requirements, cannot used a shared, public GitHub service. […]
From Pockets of DevOps to Dev-Biz-Sec-HR-QA-Sales-Everything-Ops, DOES London 2016
I am just recently back from London (again) where I attended Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016. To me the theme from this years show is that at so many large enterprises (or horses as Gene calls them), we are moving from the initial “pockets of DevOps” trials to full blown DevOps adoption across the […]
DevOps Chat: Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder of Sumo Logic
Christian Beedgen has years and years of experience in collecting large amounts of data and making it useful to Dev, Ops and security teams. I recently had a chance to sit down with Christian and talk about what is driving innovation in the data analysis market and how Sumo Logic is responding. While our conversation […]
Austin & Chef Give ChefConf 2016 That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling
I have written before about the DevOps community in Austin. It is one of the most welcoming and warm groups of people I have ever interacted with. Combine that with the HugOps operation of the friendly folks of Chef and you wind up with a great experience. That pretty much sums up ChefConf 2016 for […]
DevOps Chat: Sanjeev Sharma, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
I had a chance to speak with CTO of technical sales of DevOps for IBM right before the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I also interviewed Sanjeev at the DOES London event and that video will be available shortly, but I wanted to give you a preview of what he was speaking about in […]
DevOps Chat: Habitat by Chef with Julian Dunn
I had a chance to speak with Julian Dunn, product manager for Chef ahead of the upcoming ChefConf conference in Austin Texas next week. Julian and I spoke about Habitat, Chef’s new open source application automation project. Many in the industry are hailing Habitat as something really special. Our own Tony Bradley says it could […]
DevOps Chat: Nathen Harvey, Chef
I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Nathen Harvey of Chef. And I do mean catch up. As VP of community development, Nathen keeps up an amazing pace of visiting Chef communities around the world. In this role who better to understand what DevOps practitioners are seeing? Nathen and I spoke about several […]
Development Tools Sprawl and the Impact of Open Source: The Herding Kittens Survey
devopsy.kinsta.cloud and Automic partnered up to conduct a survey back in February and March of several hundred respondents regarding their use of development tools, their use of Open Source and their rate of change. The survey report entitled: Managing Your DevOps Tool Chest, The Complexity of Herding Kittens is available from Automic here (fyi, registration is required to […]
DevOps Chat: Gene Kim, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
I recently had a chance to sit down with author and researcher Gene Kim about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in London (DOES). This is the first DOES out of the US and Gene and team are planning to make it a great success. Below is the audio of our conversation and below that is […]
Jenkins Creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK) at DevOps Connect: CD Summit Dallas
I haven’t written much about some of the great content and sessions that have been held in our DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Roadshow. We have held them in Dallas, Chicago and Boston. Each event was different, but all featured some tip top speakers. One of the “regulars” at our events has been Kohsuke Kawaguchi or […]