April is Rugged DevOps Month
Some of you may be aware that we have published a full blown media kit including an editorial calendar for the rest of 2015. For the month of April our focus is Rugged DevOps. It started yesterday with a great post by David Geer, Rugged DevOps: From Idea to Automation to Impact. It will continue all […]
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PacketZoom Announces Mobile Speed as a Service, Enabling Mobile Apps to Access Cloud Content Up to 10X Faster
First Round Capital, Baseline, Founders Collective and Tandem Capital Back Innovation Designed to Address Mobile Users’ ‘Need for Speed’ San Mateo, CA – April 6, 2015 – PacketZoom, pioneering Mobile Speed as a Service (MSaaS), today announced a completely re-envisioned platform that addresses mobile app users ‘need for speed.’ The service, designed specifically for mobile […]
Chef defines the DevOps workflow with Chef Delivery
At ChefCon today Chef made a major announcement unveiling Chef Delivery a “new DevOps workflow product that for the first time enables the continuous delivery of infrastructure, runtime environments – including containers – and applications.” Chef has examined the use success patterns of many of its thousands of customers to distill what they believe is […]
Variable Speed DevOps: A Deep Dive
About 2 months ago I wrote an article on “Variable Speed DevOps“. To be clear I first heard the term used by Carmen DeArdo, Director of Application Development at Nationwide. It was a response or play on the 2 Speed IT dilemma. In 2 Speed IT, emerging digital processes coexist with traditional ones. The implication […]
Jez Humble Leads Next Round of Speakers Announced for DevOps Connect @ RSA Conference
The next round of speakers has been announced for the DevOps Connect: SecDevOps event at RSA Conference. Joining the previously announced group we are pleased to announce the following distinguished presenters added to the agenda: Jez Humble of Chef and renowned author Jessica Devita of Microsoft Nick Galbreath of Signal Sciences Corp and formally of Etsy […]
DevOps Connect: SecDevOps, how to register if you already registered for RSA Conference
Several people have written asking us how to pre-register for the DevOps Connect: SecDevOps conference on the Monday of RSA Week at the Moscone Center. All registrations are handled by RSA. The event is free to anyone who has any RSA badge. So you can go register for an RSA expo pass and still attend […]
Shift Left: Can you be left out?
One of the most popular terms bandied about in DevOps is “shift left”. I was at a workshop last month at IBM InterConnect conducted by Sanjeev Sharma and Mustafa Kapadia. They put on a great workshop which was a preview of an exercise they perform in the field for clients. A central theme of their […]
The Docker whale swallows another one, Kitematic
Docker announced another acquisition yesterday, the 2nd one in the last two weeks. This time they have swallowed up Kitematic, a Canadian open source project that makes it setting up Docker on a Mac really easy, Like up and running in 5 minutes easy. I know some of you may be asking yourself, “I am […]
Happy Birthday devopsy.kinsta.cloud and what a year it’s been
They say it’s your birthday We’re gonna have a good time, I’m glad it’s your birthday Happy birthday to you Wow, a whole year. To paraphrase the Grateful Dead, what a strange trip it’s been. We launched devopsy.kinsta.cloud a year ago today with perhaps the naive notion that DevOps was going to really change the […]
The best of the first year of devopsy.kinsta.cloud
What were the highest ranked articles by views during the first year of devopsy.kinsta.cloud? We take a look at the top 10 with links back to the original files. What do you think? What were your favorite articles from devopsy.kinsta.cloud this past year? [seoslides embed_id=”e3bb125a894a” script_src=”https://devopsy.kinsta.cloud/embed-script/the-best-of-devops-coms-first-year/top-10-devops-com-articles/” overview_src=”https://devopsy.kinsta.cloud/slides/the-best-of-devops-coms-first-year/” site_src=”https://devopsy.kinsta.cloud” site_title=”devopsy.kinsta.cloud” title=”The Best of devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s First Year” […]
First wave of sessions and speakers announced for DevOps Connect: SecDevOps @ RSA Conference
As we previously announced there will be a DevOps Connect: SecDevOps @ RSA Conference this year at the Moscone Center. The event takes place Monday of RSA Conference week at the Moscone Center. The program committee for the event is headed up by Gene Kim and Josh Corman. Gene and Josh will be delivering the […]
HIRED to power devopsy.kinsta.cloud jobs page
We are pleased to announce that we are partnering with HIRED to power our jobs page. It has always been our hope that with devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s presence we would serve as a great place for employers and employees to find each other. While we have had a jobs board up and running for a while now, […]
Chef and Microsoft Cooking Up Something Big
Chef and Microsoft today announced a major upgrade to their partnership. After twelve months of work integrating Chef, it is thoroughly integrated not only into the Azure stack, but into the Windows stack as well . This will empower enterprises to work in Azure/hybrid cloud environments using Chef’s best in class capabilities to collaborate on […]
eHarmony finds its perfect match with PagerDuty and DevOps
Did you know that 4% of all marriages in the US are the result of people “finding their perfect match” on the eHarmony service? Keeping the systems that are making all of those matches up and doing it 24/7/365 is no easy task. Especially at peak load times like Valentine’s Day for instance. The pioneer […]
The DevOps Institute heralds the dawn of enterprise class DevOps training and certification
I am very proud to announce that today marks the launch of the DevOps Institute. Myself and the devopsy.kinsta.cloud team are partners in this joint venture with some very successful, experienced IT training professionals, Jayne Groll and Lisa Schwartz. The DevOps Institute (DOI) seeks to codify best practices in DevOps into repeatable training, education and […]
Gartner’s dirty dozen worst network security practices
The folks at Gartner recently published a research note authored by Andrew Lerner and Jeremy D’Hoinne that highlights their dirty dozen worst network security practices for 2015. This is based on their interviews with over 3000 customers. I would give you the link to the report but it is not publicly available. However if you […]
The real cost of downtime
Stephen Elliot and the IDC team recently released a report (registration required) sponsored by AppDynamics that examines the true cost of downtime and infrastructure failure, as well as DevOps adoption. The headline numbers are pretty eye-opening: For the Fortune 1000, the average total cost of unplanned application downtime per year is $1.25 billion to $2.5 […]
DEVOPS CONNECT: SECOPS EDITION SPOTLIGHTS THE INTERSECTION OF DEVOPS AND INFORMATION SECURITY
A daylong event highlighting the rapid of ascent of DevOps and its intersection with information security on April 20 – 24, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Boca Raton, FL – January 14, 2015 – devopsy.kinsta.cloud, where the world meets DevOps, today announced DevOps Connect: SecOps Edition, a daylong event highlighting the rapid of […]
Migrating to the Cloud? Some practical advice
Oh if the world was only Greenfields. If everything was new and we didn’t have to worry about legacy systems, what a wonderful world it would be. But that is not the way of it unfortunately. More times than not using the cloud for our applications and infrastructure means migrating some existing infrastructure from an […]
Variable Speed DevOps
I was lucky enough to be the host of a Google Hangout last week with some very smart folks who will be speaking at IBM InterConnect 2015. One of the topics that we discussed was Two-speed IT or as Carmen DeArdo of Nationwide called it, variable speed DevOps. What is meant by this term is […]
#ChuckNorrisDevOps Winners
In January we decided to kick the year off by running a contest asking readers to come up with the reasons why Chuck Norris doesn’t need DevOps. We had a lot of fun with this, thanks to everyone who participated! Here are the winners we picked: Most ReTweeted – @tknerr_de RT @tknerr_de: Why Chuck Norris […]