Enough with the DevOps already

April 1, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 0 Comments

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 – be sure you are a alone when you try this or you will get funny looks. When your done try it with the […]

DevOps Culture Hacks

January 27, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 2 Comments

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 social, taken from experiences at Amazon. Jesse Robbins was the “Master of Disaster for Amazon”. As an ops guy, he worked multiple 72 […]

Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey

January 27, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 0 Comments

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 have long known: AWS is complex and can be challenging for users to provision and control their AWS infrastructure effectively. We took the […]

DevOps – A Valentine’s Day Fairy Tale

January 27, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 0 Comments

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 people found another person who so perfectly complemented them. Society tried to keep them apart – “It’s just not how things are done,” […]

Defining the Dev and the Ops in Devops

January 26, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 4 Comments

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 mean a lot of things and even different things to different people. DevOps is becoming more and more popular but a lot of […]

Approaches to Application Release Automation

January 26, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 4 Comments

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 rapidly maturing area of IT. As with all new areas there is plenty of confusion around what Application Release Automation really is and […]

The State of DevOps: Accelerating Adoption

January 23, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 2 Comments

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 would solve, or performing routine tasks that can – and should – be automated. Working more collaboratively and freed from repetitive tasks, IT […]

Fresh Stats Comparing Traditional IT and DevOps Oriented Productivity

January 23, 2014 by Martin J. Logan 3 Comments

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 descriptions. What is DevOps, really? In order to better under what the fuss is all about, we surveyed 620 engineers to examine what […]