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Where the world meets DevOps

Martin J. Logan

https://devops.com
I am a long time technologist that is never happy with the status quo. I saw the value of devops before it was a term and continue to see that value as it becomes more and more the way top tech companies operate. I am a founding member of devops.com. I also wrote a book on fault tolerant, distributed systems written in the functional programming language Erlang (http://manning.com/logan).
How to Manage Risk, Regulation and Compliance Differently —and Better

How to Manage Risk, Regulation and Compliance Differently —and Better

| binary risk management, business outcomes, compliance, legal, perceived risk, Regulation, risk
During my career as a technology leader I have worked on PCI security, lawsuits, federal and state compliance, foreign market launches and acquisitions. All of these have regulatory, compliance and legal aspects ...
A Critical First Step in Bringing Dev and Ops Together

A Critical First Step in Bringing Dev and Ops Together

| agile methodology, devops, devops culture, devops process, Martin J. Logan, product development
We all want to deliver excellent software to our customers. We now have a greater awareness than ever before of the interconnectedness of all the activities required to do so. The agile ...
Enough with the DevOps already

Enough with the DevOps already

| devops, Martin J. Logan. devops definition
Ever say a word 10 times in a row and feel it start to lose its meaning? Try it, say the word “boat” ten times out loud and watch what happens – ...
DevOps Culture Hacks

DevOps Culture Hacks

| Cultural Change
Talk by Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins), Chairman and CEO of OpsCode Blogged live from DevOpsDays Boston 2011 by @martinjlogan Tricks for getting DevOps to work in your company, from the technical to the ...
Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey

Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey

| Amazon, AWS
This is a guest post by Aaron Klein from CloudCheckr We were heartened when AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March. This was an implicit acknowledgement of what many ...
DevOps - A Valentine's Day Fairy Tale

DevOps – A Valentine’s Day Fairy Tale

This is a guest post by Matt Watson from Stackify Once upon a time two people from different sides of the tracks met and fell in love. Never before had the two ...
Defining the Dev and the Ops in Devops

Defining the Dev and the Ops in Devops

This is a guest post by Matt Watson from Stackify So what does DevOps mean exactly? What is the Dev and what is the Ops in DevOps? The role of Operations can ...
Approaches to Application Release Automation

Approaches to Application Release Automation

| Chef, Configuration Management, Puppet, Release Automation
This is a guest post by Phil Cherry from Nolio A discussion of process-based, package-based, declarative, imperative and generic approaches to application release automation. Application Release Automation is a relatively new, but ...
The State of DevOps: Accelerating Adoption

The State of DevOps: Accelerating Adoption

By James Turnbull (@kartar), VP of Technology Operations, Puppet Labs Inc. A sysadmin’s time is too valuable to waste resolving conflicts between operations and development teams, working through problems that stronger collaboration ...
Fresh Stats Comparing Traditional IT and DevOps Oriented Productivity

Fresh Stats Comparing Traditional IT and DevOps Oriented Productivity

This is a guest post by Krishnan Badrinarayanan (@bkrishz), ZeroTurnaround The word “DevOps” has been thrown around quite a lot lately. Job boards are awash with requisitions for “DevOps Engineers” with varying ...