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Tech. Strong. Women. EP 3
In this episode of Tech. Strong. Women., guest Nicole Dove, head of security at Riot Games, discusses with hosts Charlene O’Hanlon and Tracy Bannon her non-traditional path into IT and ways in which females can unconsciously sabotage themselves, as well as the impact of a strong mentor, regardless of gender. The video is below followed […]
Sep 1, 2022 · 3 minAll articles by Charlene O'Hanlon
Showing 1–24Tips for Better Governance – Techstrong TV
David Williams, VP of Porduct Strategy at Quali, and Charlene discuss David’s top tips to better governance in DevOps. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with David Williams, who is the VP of product […]
Techstrong TV: Recruiting Developers with the Right Skills
The biggest challenge facing the software industry is recruiting developers with the right skills, according to a Reveal’s third annual “Top Software Development Challenges for 2022” survey. Jason Beres, SVP of Developer Tools at Infragistics, and Charlene discuss how organizations can address these and other challenges effectively. The video is below followed by a transcript […]
Techstrong TV: The Use of AI in Low-Code
In this talk, Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer of ServiceNow, talks about how low-code is accelerating organizations’ AI journeys and is expanding into new, scalable use cases as we move into a post-COVID-19 world. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recorded Voice: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. […]
Virtual Reality in the Workplace
Jonathan and Charlene discuss Moderne’s use of virtual reality—specifically, the Oculus VR system—as a collaboration tool for its disparate developer team and demonstrate how the groups works in the Workroom app. The video is above and a transcript of the conversation is below. Interviewer: This is Digital Anarchist. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Techstrong […]
Techstrong TV: Closing the Diversity Gap in Tech Careers
Charlene and Liliana discuss closing the gap in diversity in careers in tech. Learning to code can be a beneficial skill for traditionally underrepresented demographics, leading to more employment opportunities. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recorded Voice: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey everybody, welcome […]
The Benefits of Crowdsourced Testing
Charlene O’Hanlon and Rob Mason from Applause talk about how crowdsourced testing is a highly effective method for testing applications and its benefits to DevOps teams. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TechStrong TV. I’m O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with Mason with Applause. […]
Will Devs Return to the Office?
Charlene O’Hanlon and Michael Davis, CRO at Rollbar, discuss findings from a recent developer survey exploring how devs feel about the return to the workplace. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TechStrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m […]
Using Data Fabric for Real-Time Processing
Charlene O’Hanlon and Scott Gnau from InterSystems talk about silos in organizations and how data fabric enables organizations to process, transform, secure and orchestrate data from disparate sources in real-time. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tech Strong TV. […]
DevOps for Customer Experience
Charlene O’Hanlon and Amy Hudson of Cyara discuss the concept of DevOps for customer experience, which takes DevOps methodology and focuses it on CX software. But there are pitfalls DevOps teams face when dealing with customer experience software. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. […]
A New Language for Digital Transformation
Charlene O’Hanlon and Rich Nanda discuss a new Deloitte study, “A New Language for Digital Transformation,” which explores why so many transformations fail to deliver concrete impact. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon […]
Site Reliability Engineers to the DevOps Fore
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What is Continuous Delivery?
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Where Do SREs Go From Here?
Charlene O’Hanlon talks with Leo Vasiliou, director of product marketing at Catchpoint, about the results of a study the company fielded with VMWare Tanzu and DevOps Institute of nearly 300 site reliability engineers (SREs). This year’s report underscores the challenges of multi-cloud, calls out the underutilization of AIOps and shows a systemic shift in core […]
Best Practices for Modern IT Incident Management
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The Evolution of the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
Ambassador Insights: Value Stream Management
Value stream management is the next critical evolution for enterprises and organizations that want to further mature their efforts toward smart, efficient and effective software development and delivery. The need for ongoing software innovation and delivery is becoming a top priority for all businesses today, thanks to the new digital demands organizations are facing from […]
Helping Bring Balance, Diversity to the IT Workforce
It’s a fact: Minorities and women traditionally have been underrepresented in the IT space. According to the Brookings Institute, less than 7% of computing and math-related jobs are held by people who are Black and Latino. And while women are faring better, they still only represent about 30% of the workforce in computer and mathematical […]
Ambassador Insights: Cloud-Native
Cloud-native is a methodology and a mindset that’s been gaining traction in the DevOps and application development space as more organizations look to leverage the benefits of cloud infrastructure, including scalability. As with many other topics in the DevOps space, however, cloud-native isn’t easily definable; rather, it is loosely described by the technologies it utilizes, […]
Ambassador Insights: Enterprise Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has been on the minds of many organizations for a few years now, but since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year the need to transform IT infrastructures has taken on a sense of urgency. The rush to work from home coupled with the shift to online everything has pushed organizations to […]
DevSecOps Days Virtual Summit: The Best of Dev, Sec and Ops
We’re fresh off RSA Conference 2020 and the live version of DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days, a daylong event packed with industry experts speaking on all things Dev, Sec, Ops and variations of the three. It was highly successful in both attendance and knowledge-sharing, so once again we’ve taken the entire event virtual and bringing it […]
‘DevOps in the Multicloud World’ Virtual Summit Puts IBM Z in the Spotlight
Got mainframes on the mind? Wonder how you can unlock the value of the platform for mission critical workloads? Trying to figure out where IBM Z fits in an increasingly cloud native IT environment? Those questions and others will be discussed in an upcoming virtual summit that explores the role of IBM Z —within the […]
Deadline Extended! Get Your Tools Included in Our DevOps Tools Directory
We’ve extended the deadline for inclusion in the DevOps Tools Directory, due to the number of last-minute entries we’ve received so far. The new deadline is this Friday, Sept. 20, so don’t wait! The DevOps market is growing so fast that it’s getting difficult for us (and, I’m sure, you) to keep up with all […]