Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
Rugged DevOps: Making Invisible Things Visible
You might already know them from theagileadmin.com, but let me introduce you to two of the leading minds in the Rugged DevOps movement: James Wickett and Ernest Mueller. Both James and Ernest are active leaders in the DevOps space, in addition to helping organize events such as DevOpsDays Austin and LASCON. Our conversation covered a […]
Intuit’s DevSecOps: War Games and Culture Hacking
If you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number of important topics including internal war games, culture hacking, gamification of Rugged DevOps and starting as a small team. There are 100 gold […]
The DevOps Equation: Agility + Empathy = Quality
I had the chance to catch up with Jeff Sussna (@JeffSussna), founder and principal of Ingineering.IT, ahead of his keynote address on continuous design, scheduled for DevOps Days Atlanta, April 26-27. He discussed the importance of designing for service, responding to the unexpected, and the importance of building empathy across teams. Derek Weeks (@weekstweets): Today I’m […]
Rugged DevOps: Less Capture the Flag, More Teamwork
At the recent DEVNEXUS conference in Atlanta, I caught up with Chris Corriere to talk about his experiences in the realm of Rugged DevOps. Chris is a DevOps Engineer at AutoTrader and a contributor here at DevOps.com. During our conversation, we discussed automation, culture and collaboration, and which thought leaders he is following. Chris also shared insights on […]
Getting Rugged DevOps Right
Two Perspectives Jack, an accomplished application security pro, tells me, “The developers won’t talk to us. It’s like we speak a different language. They are releasing new builds so fast, how could they check each one for security vulnerabilities? We can’t move as fast as they do.” Then in the next moment, Diane, a DevOps […]
DevOpsSec: Survival is Not Mandatory
Deming, the patron saint of DevOps once advised, “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” To survive, application development teams are constantly pressured to deliver software even faster. But fast is not enough. The best organizations realize that security, quality and integrity at velocity are mandatory for survival. Hence, DevOpsSec My aim […]
All Systems Fail*
Vince Lombardi once said, “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” But in today’s world of high velocity development and release practices, it’s also about how fast you can get up. Today, we are seeing more news about sites from major online retailers and service providers like HP, Target, PayPal […]
DevOpsSec: 1 in 16 Chances
The quantitative research summarized below, covering over 7,000 repositories across nearly 100 countries, highlights some of the challenges with quality at modern development velocities, especially important for DevOpsSec practices. By leveraging automation in your repository manager, you can improve application quality and reduce unplanned work while lowering exposure to risk. While this practice supports DevOpsSec initiatives, at […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity – a diversity of thought and contribution
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Boston Common
DevOps is coming, DevOps is coming! You could hear the rallying cry around the city of Boston on September 15th and 16th. This is when the DevOps Leadership Series crew headed up north to attend DevOps Days Boston. We first caught up with Beno Chapman (@BenoChapman), release engineering leader at Constant Contact. Beno shared, […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Accelerating Adoption
We are at an inflection point in the adoption of DevOps. Now is not the time to blink. DevOps was once thought to be a practice attainable by a select few. The early pioneers were the ones with arrows in their backs. For those who succeeded a new level of awesomeness was achieved and admiration […]
28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (Vol. 2)
People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
The Software BOM Squad
In my previous post, “When Good Code Goes Bad“, I shared new research showing the average large development organization consumes over 15,000 known vulnerable and defective components annually. While we can’t stop software from going bad, there are practices from traditional manufacturers that we can use to improve our ability to recall and fix the “bad” […]
When Good Code Goes Bad
Milk spoils. Iron rusts. And in software, good code goes bad. Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred. With software, those changes are not always obvious. Your 5,100 Binaries Went Bad There is no way to prevent software from “going bad”. As with all products, bugs and defects,are […]
The Cost to DevOps: 27 Mufflers
Imagine Imagine that you are designing the 2016 Range Rover line of sport utility vehicles. Like all gas powered vehicles, each one needs an exhaust muffler. Range Rover likely has narrowed in on a preferred provider of mufflers. But imagine what would happen if the designers and factory line workers could pick from any one […]
Rework is Choking Software
Rework is Hell “Software may be eating the world, but rework is choking software”, tweeted John Jeremiah (@j_jeremiah). To shed more light on what is choking software, new data was released last week in the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. In its discussion of application quality and integrity, the report revealed that the average […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps
This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some more industry thought leaders at the DevOpsDays DC event in our nation’s capital. This was the first major DevOps Days event to feature a large audience of government participants. It was an awesome event and is certainly going to be on my must-attend […]
7,600 Open Source Projects Per Company (and how it impacts DevOps)
That Supplier is Better For You Since releasing the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, there has been a lot of great discussion across the industry on best practices for managing the complexity introduced by the volume and velocity of the components used across your software supply chain. Today I want to focus on […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps (Part 2)
During my second day at DevOpsDays DC, I had the opportunity to catch up with a couple more industry thought leaders. First up, John Willis, (@botchagalupe) DevOps Days core organizer and co-author the upcoming “DevOps Cookbook”. In this episode of DevOps Leadership Series, John highlights his first introduction to DevOps and the journey it has taken […]
2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers they relied on, and the billions of software components that fueled their agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The facts I discovered and […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]