DevOps Chats: Simplifying Digital Adoption, With WalkMe
WalkMe recently announced a funding round of $90 million, bringing its total raised to over $300 million. But according to President and Co-founder of WalkMe Raphael Sweary, the real measure of WalkMe’s success is its annual recurring revenue being more than $100 million (which it is) and whether the company is helping its customers. WalkMe’s […]
5th Annual DevOps Dozen Awards: And the Winner Is …
We are pleased to announce the 2019 DevOps Dozen honorees. I would say DevOps Dozen winners, but truth be told every single one of the finalists in this year’s DevOps Dozen was a winner. When I launched the DevOps Dozen in 2015, I hoped they would grow to reflect and recognize the best of the […]
It’s Almost Here: Predict 2020 Virtual Summit
We’re a little less than two weeks away from Predict 2020 Virtual Summit, our annual online event during which we ponder the future of DevOps, serverless, cybersecurity, digital transformation and IT. This year’s event will be held Jan. 23, featuring an impressive lineup of industry luminaries offering up their visions for 2020 and beyond. Among […]
DevOps Unbound: How DevOps has Changed Testing Forever
DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead? Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Abel Wang from Microsoft, Tracy Miranda from CDF, Caroline Wong from Cobalt, Kurt Chase and Ben Simo from Tricentis to share a variety of perspectives on how testing fits into the ever-evolving world of DevOps. The video is below, followed by a transcript.
Predict 2020: What Will the New Year Bring?
With the holiday season upon us, our thoughts naturally turn to the next year and what it has in store for us. Will we come into more money? Will we find true happiness? Will there be better integration between DevOps and security? Will there be more Kubernetes instances? The first two may be a little […]
The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]
And the Builders Shall Inherit the Earth: The Democratization of IT
The democratization of IT is happening, and vendors need to recognize that if they want to survive Just back home from KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in San Diego, which can only be called a force of nature. I was joined there by more than 12,000 other folks to discuss, listen and learn about all things cloud-native and open. […]
2019 DevOps Dozen Finalists Announced
We are proud to announce the 2019 DevOps Dozen finalists. When we first launched five years ago, I hoped the DevOps Dozen would grow into an award that would honor the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space. This year, we have included three new categories: Best DevOps Practitioner of the Year, Best […]
DevOps Chat: Scaling Data Without Complexity with Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs the folks behind CockroachDB recently announced another round of funding as they continue their mission to allow you to scale your data without complexity. In this DevOps Chat, CEO of Cockroach Labs Spencer Kimball talks about about their plans and how Cockroach shall inherit the DB world. As usual, the streaming audio is […]
DevOps Chat: 2019 Accelerate Report with Dr. Nicole Forsgren
There are many interviews you do as part of the role as editor in chief of devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Then there are some that make it all worthwhile. Anytime I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, it makes all of the other things I do worthwhile. She has a clarity of vision borne from […]
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 their teams. Yet, so many times in organizational change, we see a monumental communication breakdowns occur. So it’s no surprise that every year […]
DOES19 London: Sharing DevOps Lessons Learned
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 to keep moving, regardless of where you’re at in your DevOps journey, is to listen to stories of others—both their successes and failures. […]
DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working
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 has begun popping up with more and more frequency: “How can we help teams, and especially product teams, be more effective?” While more […]
Cloud Security: Self-Healing Infrastructure With Fugue
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 remediation. Fugue is all about cloud security. It identifies security risks and compliance violations and ensures they’re never repeated. During this interview, Josh […]
DevOps Dozen 2019 Nominations Are Now Open
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 will include 12 categories, including three new ones, with a winner chosen from each. As in years past, the top four to six […]
DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier (BVSSH)
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 trying to do: Deliver better value, sooner, safer and it results in happier people and organizations. Gene Kim mentioned this several times on […]
JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners
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 my friend Thomas Krane, vice president at Insight Partners. Insight Partners is one of the leading investors in both DevOps and Cybersecurity growth […]
DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve
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 we do today around software development and DevOps is based on the repo. For a long time and even today, the repo was […]
DOES 2019: Understanding the Effects of Burnout
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 so, you already know that burnout is a real condition with significant consequences. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently recognized burnout […]
DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery
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, but beyond that Armory is bringing the open source Spinnaker to the enterprise market. As such, they are also helping the entire Spinnaker […]
JFrog swampUP: DevOps Culture Is a Powerful Force
The notion that culture is such an important part of DevOps and high-performing IT teams gets plenty of lip service, but not every organization really buys into it. In my years covering the DevOps space, I can count only a handful of companies that truly represent the epitome of “DevOps culture.” One of these companies […]
Kentik: Cloud Native Applications Need Network Analytics
Moving everything into the cloud seems to have taken the spotlight from the network. As the internet is ubiquitous, who worries about the networks? Kentik has a notion that in the age of cloud native, network analytics are as important as ever. In fact, network analytics may be more important than ever. I sat down […]
DevOps Chat: ‘War, Peace & IT’ With Marc Schwartz
Marc Schwartz is one of those rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec, but he also can analyze what works and doesn’t work and write it up in a way that helps others. His “A Seat at the Table” is still one of my favorite DevOps books. Marc’s new book is called, […]