Don Macvittie

I’ve made no secret of the fact that DevOps was a game-changing advance in how the business of IT was done. But people tend to get religious about the methodology and forget ...

I have written about “the right tool for the job” repeatedly. Because (again) we are absolutists in IT. My father was an antiques restorer that dabbled in flipping houses and was rather ...

Here we are in the second half of 2022 and the writing is on the wall. No matter how much budget you have had in the last few years, be it large ...

This late in the game, it seems stunning to me that I have to write this, but there are plenty of you who aren’t there yet—so let’s try a different approach. A ...

It’s funny how we in IT tend to be absolutists, shoving everything into the current bucket. XML was going to eliminate programming—even though it wasn’t even particularly good at data representation. NoCode ...

We have come a long way in a short time in IT, and are currently in a 'digestive' state, where we take a bit of a break and prepare for the next ...

We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago ...

We are tired. Information overload is a problem in the modern world. We hear instantly about events we never would have known about otherwise, or that we would have learned about months ...

I try not to write about ongoing work—if it is important enough to blog about then it is important enough to write about in the work product, and blog about something else ...

For a good long while, DevSecOps referred specifically to vendors like Veracode that did static application security scanning, dynamic application security scanning, software composition analysis and some form of runtime monitoring (usually ...