Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, whose team has been operating PayPal ...
In the past five years business cycles have greatly accelerated, forcing companies to respond faster to customer needs and competitive demands. This trend has been driven by business adoption of consumer-oriented technologies like ...
With the advent of the cloud and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, developers are innovating faster than ever. But with this rapid pace comes risk. Companies quickly implement new apps to ...
The concepts of communication, collaboration, abstraction, automation and orchestration are cornerstones of the rapidly growing DevOps movement. At the same time reliance on virtualized infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service has exploded, making manual provisioning ...
Application Release Automation, or ARA, is the process of packaging and deploying applications (or updates to applications) in an automated, repeatable and consistent way. In today’s market landscape software has become a ...
Dr. James Brown stunned the British Science Festival by announcing a wonder pill that could reduce your weight, lower the risk of high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, depression, and anxiety. With everyone ...
In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, ...
The original ITIL framework definition was published in the 1980s, but contrary to many opinions, it has evolved since then, provided one takes a more flexible view. Fast forward to ITILv3, and ...
Bimodal IT is a Gartner concept created to help CIO’s understand that IT organizations need to support both traditional and agile modes of IT solution delivery and operation in order to make ...
Many enterprise organizations did not invest enough money into integration as they built their cloud or hybrid infrastructures. As if integrating on-premise systems and applications wasn’t tough enough, in today’s cloud era ...