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What Is Resilience Engineering?
Admitting things will go wrong isn’t easy for anyone or any team. But modern engineering practices have moved beyond this fear, giving birth to a new practice in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) known as resilience engineering. Resilience engineering today isn’t thought of as a function. However, just as DevOps was a description of […]
Aug 21, 2020 · 3 minAll articles by Chris Riley
Showing 1–11Booz Allen Helps the GSA Put Your DevOps to Shame
Production Docker, automated workflows, open source projects and microservices are just some of the ways that Booz Allen is helping the General Services Administration (GSA) modernize its IT operations. And frankly, after talking to Nirmal Mehta, the lead architect on its recent project, I became a little embarrassed for you DevOps-born startups. In my circle […]
Version your infrastructure
Infrastructure is code, and like any code, you need to version it. Notice how that works: If it’s infrastructure, then it’s a fundamental part of the system; nothing’s going to work without it, which makes it valuable. So valuable that in full-stack deployments, it is part of the application. And if it’s code, then it […]
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable. Back in the days of waterfall development, documentation always seemed to be the unwanted stepchild — it was an afterthought, a theoretically necessary chore that frequently went undone. And there were understandable reasons for this. For one […]
Business Value of Log Analysis
The modern software delivery pipeline breaks the mold of traditional process and tool acquisition, but doesn’t warrant any less consideration. Measuring the impact of log analysis for your ops and dev teams (and the organization overall) is more of an exercise in measuring process improvement—not hard ROI. The soft ROI components of log analysis are: […]
Functional Testing for IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a bit more than a fun three letter acronym. And while internet connected devices have been around for a while, turning it into a practice is an important evolution. It allows the establishment of best practices, better integration into standard software development, and thus more robust applications, sometimes […]
Metrics for DevOps
Your organization is now committed to DevOps methodology. You’ve integrated development, operations, and QA, and you have moved drastically away from waterfall and into a fire hose of application development. How do you find out how well it works? How do you know if it’s working at all? Many net new DevOps organizations are surprised […]
Waterfall to Agile to DevOps: The State of Stagnant Evolution
DevOps is all the rage. The hot IT buzzword intended to heal the expanding divide between development and IT operations is being used to sell a range of services and solutions to struggling development shops and enterprises, even though DevOps can’t be sold – it’s a cultural shift that nurtures under a strong leadership. Prior […]
DevOps + IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is part marketing hype and partly a real movement. After low power WiFi chips have allowed small devices to connect to the web for a long time. Remember Eye-Fi founded in 2005? But there is no denying it is BIG. Service revenues rooted in micro-controller-based IoT are expected to reach […]
Walgreens reminds us to keep our database healthy
It’s clear that the super app you developed with your team, is really something, and it has high chance to be the “Bread and butter 3.0”, but are you prepared for the worst? There is a good chance that some combination of data, events and circumstances out of your control will eventually collude against you, […]
Meet Infrastructure as Code
Maybe you have already heard the terms “Programmable Infrastructure” and “Infrastructure as code”. But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it’s something you need to know. Most new lingo causes me to roll my eyes. But in this case, it’s not just new lingo, it’s an entirely new concept. Besides making […]