devopsy.kinsta.cloud State-of-the-Union
Well it’s already almost the end of January, well past the time when we still wish people Happy New Year. I think that now is a good time to post a “State-of-devopsy.kinsta.cloud 2016. Entering our 3rd year (we launched March, 2014), we are so grateful for all of the support we have received from the […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe and Bimodal IT
I had the pleasure of sitting down with IBM distinguished engineer Rosalind Radcliffe the other day to talk about bimodal IT, systems of engagement, variable speed DevOps and IBM’s upcoming InterConnect 2016 event. I have interviewed Rosalind many times over the last few years and it is always informative and interesting. I hope you find […]
John Willis on Kata Presentation at cdSummit SoCal
I didn’t really have a chance to report much on the DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal we held late last year. The event featured a full day of some great DevOps, CD/CI sessions. It was co-produced with CloudBees and IBM, with SauceLabs, Sonatype, Sumo Logic and JFrog joining as sponsors. For me, the highlight of the […]
JFrog, Puppet, Datical & Sendachi – Money Continues to Pour Into DevOps
The stock markets may be bearish, the price of oil is down the drain, but money continues to pour into the DevOps tools and solutions market. Just in the last few days 4 companies have announced significant new funding. Whether this is a last gasp before the doors slam shut, the tech industry thumbing their […]
Kicking Off InterConnect 2016
Our InterConnect 2016 coverage kicks off with online events Once again this year devopsy.kinsta.cloud will be providing extensive coverage of InterConnect. InterConnect 2016, features hundreds of sessions and tracks around DevOps. We think InterConnect offers more DevOps related tracks than any conference in the world. We are kicking off our InterConnect 2016 coverage with some […]
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays from devopsy.kinsta.cloud
We will be shutting down for the Christmas holiday tomorrow and will only publish lightly next week as we get ready to update the site for the new year. But we wanted to take a moment to share our holiday greetings card with you and wish you a year of continuous good cheer, good times […]
DevOps Chat: Mustafa Kapadia, IBM DevOps Transformation Workshop
I always enjoy listening and speaking with Mustafa Kapadia of IBM. Mustafa is one of the leaders of the IBM DevOps services team. As such he gets to work with dozens of different organizations in helping them on their DevOps journey. As a result Mustafa has amassed a ton of experience and knowledge on the […]
DevOps Chat: 7 habits of successful DevOps
I recently had a chance to speak again with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft about his experience in leading the transition for Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio online. In doing so, Sam and his team developed the 7 habits of successful DevOps. You can listen to my interview below or read along below that. Also […]
#DevOpsThanks, what are you thankful for
Here in the US this Thursday is our Thanksgiving holiday. Originally celebrated the 4th Thursday in November, it has expanded where most people also take off the following day, Friday, for a long weekend. In fact many schools here in the US close the entire week to celebrate this holiday commemorating the Pilgrims giving thanks […]
DOES 15 – The 7 habits of successful DevOps
Dipping back into the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 well, today’s feature is my talk with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft. Sam presented on the transformation he oversaw at Microsoft’s Visual Studio moving to Visual Studio Online. It is the story of COTS to SaaS and all of the pitfalls and idiot taxes Sam and team paid along […]
CA World 2015 wrap up
Just back to my room from the Sheryl Crow/Fall Out Boys concert that ended CA World 2015. It was a full two days of information and news showing how CA Technologies is evolving to remain relevant in the changing world of ITOps and Development. There was certainly lots of new things to report as CA […]
DOES 15 – Jason Josephy and Courtney Kissler, Nordstrom
Few verticals have seemed to embrace DevOps as quickly as the retail sector. Macys, Target, Nordstrom, WalMart and more have all demonstrated success adopting DevOps patterns and culture. We spoke to many of the folks from these retailers at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 15). Here is my interview with Jason Josephy and […]
DOES 2015 – Josh Corman, John Willis on Immutable Awesomeness
Continuing recapping my favorite sessions of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, here is Josh Corman and John Willis talking about Immutable Awesomeness. What is Immutable Awesomeness you ask? Have a listen to my interview with John and Josh and then listen into the actual session where they go over it. Just a couple of hints: 1. […]
DOES 15 – Jeffrey Snover on Windows Nano Server
One of my favorite presentations at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 was Jeffrey Snover of distinguished engineer at Microsoft talking about his 16 year quest to bring what is today called Windows Nano Server to market. Interestingly when I spoke with Gene Kim about what he thought were some of the best presentations of […]
DevOps Days Ohio
The Inaugural DevOps Days Ohio is being held on November 18th and 19th at Bluestone in Columbus Ohio (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-ohio/ ). From fledgling startups to established industry, the Midwest is home to a large, vibrant technology community. Ohio in particular has been a flurry of activity in the past several years, drawing attention from around the […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]
DOES 15 videos – Adrian Cockcroft
At this years DevOps Enterprise Summit we were very happy to partner with Gene Kim’s IT Revolution and Electric Cloud to conduct on site interviews with just about all of the speakers from this years conference, as well as many other attendees. All in all devopsy.kinsta.cloud conducted something like 86 video interviews over the 3 […]
PagerDuty acquires Event Enrichment HQ to speed incident resolution
Together PagerDuty and Event Enrichment HQ Integrate Event and Incident Management I had a chance to speak yesterday with CEO Alex Solomon, PagerDuty’s Product VP Jonathon Wilkinson and Ophir Ronen, Event Enrichment HQ Co-Founder and now Product Director at PagerDuty. They all believe that this is a significant move by PagerDuty to help overcome the desensitization that […]
Chef rolls out some tasty new dishes
Chef has announced some major additions to their lineup today. We will look at each of these but in total here is the news from Chef today: First of all the previously announced Chef Delivery is now in GA for everyone. Chef Delivery defines and manages the entire DevOps workflow. The diagram below is […]
DevOps Chat: Sunil Rajasekar, CTO of Lithium
Continuing our DevOps Chats, Leadership Series I recently sat down with Sunil Rajasekar, CTO of Lithium. As Chief Technology Officer, Sunil oversees core product, development and delivery of Lithium’s enterprise platform. Sunil is a seasoned technology executive who brings more than 15 successful years of enterprise, small business and consumer software experience. Prior to joining Lithium, […]
DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal
I know we have mentioned it before but we haven’t officially announced our DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal event on December 3rd in Los Angeles. The event co-produced with CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, IBM and devopsy.kinsta.cloud will take place from 9am to 6pm at: The Olympic Collection Banquet & Conference Center 11301 W. Olympic Blvd., […]
The DevOps Dozen
After over 2500 votes cast in the final round and almost 5000 votes in total we are very proud to present the winners of the inaugural DevOps Dozen awards. These companies were voted by you our readers as the top companies in the DevOps market. They are not companies that are necessarily using Devops internally […]
Live blogging DOES 2015
We will be live blogging from DOES 2015. Ericka Chickowski and Alan Shimel are live at the show in case you can’t be here yourself. Alan Shimel